Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 16 January 2023

Sculpt

• Add support for pivot points to curves sculpt (commit) (Joseph Eagar)

Geometry Nodes

• Reorganize geometry nodes add node menu (commit, commit) (Dalai Felinto)
• Add a selection input to the store named attribute node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
• Only allow geometry nodes modifier for curves and point cloud (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• User interface
  • Rename Interpolate Domain and Field at Index nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Only set soft range for modifier properties (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Performance
  • Slightly decrease field evaluation overhead (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Core

• Mesh
  • Move UV layers to generic attributes (commit) (Martijn Versteegh)
  • Move positions to a generic attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Move sharp edge flag to generic attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add boolean custom property type (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Reduce CPU use while idle (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Import/Export

OBJ: add split by objects/groups import options (T103839) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)

User Interface

• Include ‘drag-’ prefix in the short-cut text for menu items (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Improve wording of node operator descriptions (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Improve CJK Font Preview Differentiation (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Assets

Grease Pencil

• Add “natural drawing” time feature to Build modifier (commit) (Marc Chehab)