Meeting notes - 2018-06-15

General Forums Blender Development Discussion
1

Here are the two reports from this week. I think the great news is that we are really close to have Greasepencil merged in 2.8. And Jacques Lucke coming this week, can’t to see what will come out from his work during the week.

Code Quest #10 Weekly
15th June, 2018

The weekly wiki notes are currently on hault because of the wiki transition.

Here the highlights as presented by the contributors, as well as our week
special guest Lukas Stockner:

Dalai:

  • Helped with GreasePencil code post (on hold).
  • Started on splitting GreasePencil modifier stack, to be taken over by
    Antonio Vazquez.
  • Flexible header spacer separator.
  • Bug fixes.

Campbell:

  • Physical keyboard keymap.
  • Persistent floating panel.
  • UI (user interface) buttons polishing.
  • Bug fixes.

Sybren:

  • Alembic unittests.
  • Bugfix rigid bory world.
  • Started on fracture modifier merge implementation design.
  • BAT (Blender Asset Tracer) upgrade to support nested collections.

Sergey:

  • Bugfix particles flickering for production.
  • Multithread parent hair combing (children following suit).
  • Edit mesh selection much faster.

Brecht:

  • Pose animation performance boost
  • Collection visibility production issues.
  • UI and sorted bug fixes.
  • Cycles Ambient Occlusion node.
  • Patch review for Lukas (UDIM, …).

Jeroen:

  • Cleanup matcap UI
  • Remove Clay Engine.
  • Editmode “face” drawing improvements.
  • Anti-alias for workbench UI.

Clément:

  • Revert xInitthread fix (better fix coming soon, to solve performance
    issues on intel cards once and for all).
  • Centered flexible header spacer separator.
  • Fix MatCap for different field of view values.
  • Bug fixing (cached lightprobes still work in progress).

Lukas:

  • Auto-detect Cycles environment textures aspect ratio.
  • Colorspace support in Cycles.
  • UDIM (Universal Dimension) support for:
    – Viewport for EEVEE and Cycles, image editor, painting 2D.
    – Painting 3D (work in progress).
    – Pending: Baking, displacement.

Bastien:

  • Transform, painting, sculpting bug fixes.
  • G.main cleanup (we are under 100 now!)
  • Material override support.

Read more about Lukas and Brecht’s Cycles work this week:
https://code.blender.org/2018/06/cycles-mini-code-quest/

Watch a new video by Pablo about “Interface Improvements”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZufGqRP6Gc8

Regards,
Dalai

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s 9 UTC (10 CET) meeting in irc.freenode.net
#blendercoders. Reminder: meetings are on Mondays, next meeting is 25th
June 17 UTC (18 CET).

1) Blender 2.8

  • Ton Roosendaal presents the idea of opening the tracker in 1-2 weeks for
    reports that help coders (no support). Followed shortly by a merge to
    master before Beta (currently planned for August 10th).

  • Antonio Vazquez is working on the Grease Pencil modifier stack split with
    help from Dalai Felinto. This is currently one of the main show stoppers
    for the merge.

  • Brecht Van Lommel wrote about the Cycles development we had last week
    with Lukas Stockner:

  • And the code quest welcomes this week’s guest: Jacques Lucke.

2) Google Summer of Code

  • All students were contacted by Campbell Barton in regard to their wiki
    access. They should be able to write their weekly reports in the new wiki
    with no problems.

  • YimingWu asks about code review, where to upload patches?
    developer.blender.org is still the place for it, using arcanist (arc diff).
    The proceed is to assign developers to review, and poke them on IRC if they
    don’t review in time.

3) Others

  • Wiki is now read-only. The entire old wiki was archived:

  • Annecy report expected this week.

  • Campbell Barton removed trailing space from the source code:

X) Code quest links:

  • Weekly meeting notes - 2018-06-15
  • Videos:

Regards,
Dalai

3 Likes