Developer Meeting Notes

xrg · September 24, 2018, 5:03pm

Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-09-24

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s developer meeting.

Next meeting is Monday, 1 October 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

Templates were added, available from file > new and the splash screen. A new Sculpting template and some updates to the existing templates will follow.

The splash screen now has a quick setup panel when using Blender for the first time. For now the only setting is the keymap.

Driver evaluation of simple expressions is now done without Python. This was a bottleneck on heavy rigs and multicore systems. Spring rigs playback up to 40% faster.

The 3D viewport now has a dedicated wireframe mode, X-Ray is now less confusing, and Z key opens a shading pie menu.

Eevee gained support for the wireframe shading node.

Texture paint mode workflow for setting up image textures has been improved, now base color, specular, roughness, … texture can be added easily from the slots panel.

The Python GPU module for drawing got various updates.

The mesh Spin tool gizmo has been redesigned.

Curve radius can now be animated with shape keys.

1D infinite line force fields were added.

Select similar operators now work with multi-object editing.

The 3D viewport Add menu now has an entry to add an image empty directly from a file.

Weekly Reports:
– Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_262_-_09.2F15_to_09.2F21
– Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#September_17_-_21
– Campbell:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-292-september-17
– Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_89_:_17th_-_23th_Sept
– Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#Semptember_17_-_21
– Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018
– Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_355:_17th_-_23rd_September

2) Other Projects

Benoit visited the Blender Insitute last week to talk about interactive mode design. The plan is to first implement an interactive “physics sandbox” mode, where physics keeps running while you interact with objects the viewport. The second step then is implementing a logic nodes system. Benoit and Jacques will work on the design.