Developer Meeting Notes

xrg · October 1, 2018, 5:29pm

Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-10-01

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s developer meeting.

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

1) Developers

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) is back to manage the bug tracker, which we’re
very happy about!

Sergey is on holidays for 3 weeks.

2) Blender 2.8

Cloth collision was rewritten to improve performance, stability, and
reliability.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.80/More_Features#Cloth
https://twitter.com/LucaRood/status/1044979412683436032

Grease Pencil gained new parameters for the instance modifier and a new shadow effect:
https://youtu.be/s_LrHKrhGtU
https://youtu.be/41rojcWBu1Q

The shrinkwrap modifier gained features to control which vertices get projected and how.
https://developer.blender.org/D3717
https://developer.blender.org/D3737

The 3D viewport got improvements for weight paint drawing, wireframe toggling, edit curve/surface drawing.

Pie menus are now used for snap, pivot and proportional editing.

Addons can now register tabs and panels in the sidebar in the 3D viewport, instead of the toolbar which is now for tools only.

A new Python API for material I/O based on shader nodes was added. This
is now used by the OBJ addon.

Multi-object editing for mesh and UVs is now basically complete.

The movie clip editor UI was updated to follow the new UI layout conventions.

Templates have been updated, mainly there is a new Sculpting template.

The new icon set designed by Andrzej Ambroz is almost ready to replacing the existing icons, mainly needs code support for color theming still.

Weekly Reports:
– Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018
– Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#September_24_-_28
– Campbell:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-293-september-24
– Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_90_:_24th_-_30th_Sept
– Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#September_24_-_28
– Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018