Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 24 April 2023

• Nathan Vegdahl joins the team in Amsterdam to work on the Animation 2025 project as part of the Animation & Rigging module team.

Mesh

• Subdivision
  • Tag result mesh with no loose edges or vertices (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Cache loose vertices (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Move edges to a generic attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Geometry Nodes

• New Index of Nearest node (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)
• Improve performance by reducing copying with implicit sharing in several nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Reduce overhead in lazy function evaluator (commit, commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Slightly optimize mesh to curve node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Avoid last buffer copy in Blur Attribute node (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)

User Interface

• Text object
  • Operators to move cursor to the top or bottom (commit) (Damien Picard)
  • Add Text selection operator (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Make it possible to add shortcuts to UI operators (commit) (Richard Antalik)
• Assets
  • Do not show blank read-only metadata (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Nodes
  • Change the name of Invert nodes to Invert Color (commit) (zanqdo)

Video Sequence Editor

• Add sound strip retiming support (commit) (Richard Antalik)

EEVEE/Viewport

• Increase concurrent shader compilation threads (commit) (Jason Fielder)
• Use more optimal GPU curve/hair evaluation method (commit) (Jason Fielder)
• Resolve high memory pressure on EEVEE render (commit) (Jason Fielder)
• Realtime Compositor
  • Implement ID Mask node (commit) (Omar Emara)

User Interface

• Add OS file operations within file browser (Windows only) (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add open files to system recent files (macOS) (commit) (Ankit Meel)

Animation

• Add parent space alignment option to the transform orientation gizmo (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
• Make properties from motion path library overrideable (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Grease Pencil

• Several Weight Paint additions (commit) (Sietse Brouwer)

Cycles

• Re-enable AMD GPU binaries on Windows (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Add hardware raytracing support to oneAPI device (commit, commit, commit) (Nikita Sirgienko, Xavier Hallade)

Curves

• Optimize edit mode selection draw extraction (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Core

• Rework ID swap code to properly handle embedded ID pointers (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• Performance
  • Ignore large mesh arrays in library override code (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Sculpt

• Update Mask and Face Set menu operators (commit) (Patrick Foley)

Python API

• Expose background drawing argument for GPUOffScreen.draw_view3d (commit) (Yuntoko)