Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-06-25

xrg · June 25, 2018, 10:31pm

Apologies if these got posted already, but I didn’t see them.

Blender Developers Meeting Notes - 2018-06-25

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s 17 UTC (18 CET) meeting in irc.freenode.net
#blendercoders.

Note: Next meeting is yet to be announced.

Blender 2.8 projects (and code quest wrap).

Dalai Felinto will send the 2.8 wrap and planning mail after meeting. It includes a proposal for the upcoming Blender 2.8 milestones (alpha, beta and release candidate, final Python API, bug tracker re-open).

Antonio Vazquez reported grease-pencil progress. The split of modifier stack is complete, there is a pending issue with the anti-alias, but overall he’s spending his time on small fixes and polishing. The main pending topic is still the annotation system.

Pablo Vazquez and William Reynish have a proposal for the annotation system. William will post it on developer.blender.org. This is the final show stopper for the grease pencil merge, so the UI/UX, grease pencil and development teams should agree on it sooner than later.

Google Summer of Code

Nothing discussed here, no student needed assistance or had any decision to be announced.

Other topics

Ton Roosendaal proposes to find a better frequency and time for the meetings. Perhaps a monthly meeting, and have talks and discussions on devtalk.blender.org. Specially for the sub teams. The monthly meeting could then be called “module team lead meeting”. For now we put the next meeting on hold and wait until a decision is reached.

Code quest links:

Weekly meetings notes - 2018-06-22: https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-June/049487.html

Videos
– Interface Improvements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZufGqRP6Gc8
– Better AO in Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1tYZLy6czA
– Collection Visibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0wIK379fxw
– Everything nodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQi2BqlQtnI

Regards,
Dalai

blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto
www.dalaifelinto.com

Code Quest #11 Weekly

22nd June, 2018

This is the second to last week. It may also be the last code quest report we post.
Here are the highlights as presented by the contributors, as well as our week special guest Jacques Luke:

Dalai:
– Started the planning for the upcoming months.
– Outliner elements aggregation with count indicator.

Pablo:
– User interface patches in collaboration with William Reynish.
– Interface Improvements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZufGqRP6Gc8
– Better AO in Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1tYZLy6czA
– Collection Visibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0wIK379fxw
– Everything nodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQi2BqlQtnI

Clément:
– Lightprobe cache (will commit this week).

Bastien:
– Bug fixes (painting, transformations).
– Brought G.main down to 40 (we started with 400).
– DerivedMesh to Mesh cleaning (still tons to do).

Jacques:
– Mockup of interactive, drivers and particles nodes.
– See the “Everything nodes” video above for a glimpse of his work.

Brecht:
– “Localview”
– Cycles and performance related bug fixes.

Jeroen:
– Mesh readability.
– Polishing.

Campbell:
– Decorators dragging support.
– User interface cleanup (edit translation option removed from context menu).
– Sub-space type final changes.
– Even handling and double-clicks glitches fixed.
– Finished workspaces (Lock Object Modes).
– Python driver with basic numbers.

Sybren:
– DerivedMesh to Mesh work for rigid bodies.
– Design for right body system, to be finished and published.

Sergey:
– Improvements in copy-on-write performance (modifiers were recalculated often).
– Final bugfix for flickering in production files.

Best regards,
Dalai

blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto
www.dalaifelinto.com