Hi all, Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday, 4 March 18:00 CET / 17:00 UTC.
1) New Features and Changes The focus continues to be on bugfixing and polishing 2.80, with about 75 bugs fixed last week. * Wireframe display mode now supports object and random coloring of the wireframes. (Clément Foucault) * Subdivision surface animation playback performance was significantly improved. This is still done on the CPU, but multithreaded and caching topology that does not change between frames. (Sergey Sharybin) * Peak memory usage when loading large .blend files was reduced, particularly when using only parts of a linked library. (Campbell Barton) * The transform adjust operation panel was simplified, so it's easier to edit values when using constraints. (Campbell Barton) * In the timeline, Ctrl + Home/End now set the start/end frame. (Campbell Barton) * Editor corner was improved with a larger hit zone and new cursors to show the operation. (Harley Acheson) * Cycles OpenCL kernel compilation was further optimized. For our tests scenes times are now within the 15s - 21s range, down from 55s - 210s a few weeks ago. In some cases render time is also reduced. (Jeroen Bakker) 2) Development * 2.8 homestretch workshop planned in April, to get developers together in Amsterdam and discuss user feedback, designs and planning for 2.80 and beyond. https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2019-February/049852.html 3) Weekly Reports * Bastien: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019#Week_284_-_02.2F16_to_02.2F22 * Brecht: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#February_18_-_22 * Campbell: https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-313-february-18 * Clément: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019 * Dalai: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#February_18_-_22 * Jacques: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_21:_February_18_-_22 * Jeroen: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019#Week_201908:_2019.2F02.2F18_-_2019.2F02.2F24 * Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#February_18_-_22 * Sergey: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_374:_18th_-_24th_February _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
