Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-09-03

xrg · September 3, 2018, 6:10pm

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s developer meeting.

Next meeting is Monday, 10 September 10:00 CEST (8:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

Work continues towards beta, main focus is on working through the many to do items and bug reports.

Luca added new Cloth angular bending model, see
https://developer.blender.org/T56596

Grease Pencil now has an armature modifier.

Weekly Reports
– Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_259_-\_08.2F25_to_08.2F31
– Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#August_27_-\_31
– Campbell:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-288-august-20
– Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_86_:27th_-\_2nd_Sept
– Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#August_27_-\_31
– Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_352:\_27th_August_-_2nd_September

2) Other Projects

Library upgrade for Windows and Linux buildbot/releases is completed.

macOS and install_deps script to be handled by Arto and Bastien respectively.

Cycles got to BVH8 support to speed up ray tracing on modern CPUs, contributed by Intel.