Developer meeting 5 August, 2019. Announcements
* SIGGRAPH 2019 was a huge success, everyone wants to help out (dev fund) and start using Blender * Blender 2.80 was the last release where we officially support 32 bit Windows and Linux builds. For Blender 2.81 there will be only 64 bit builds. details: https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2019-August/050124.html New Features and Changes * Alembic support for import and export of custom loop normals. (Sybren Stüvel) * Video export support for the Opus audio codec and WebM container format. (Sybren Stüvel) * Sculpt and paint brushes can now use built-in falloff functions rather than a custom curve, for better quality results for brushes like grab. (Pablo Dobarro) * Cycles: faster multithreaded compilation of many shaders. (Lukas Stockner) * Materials: new operator for removing unused material slots. (Lukas Stockner) * Text editor: - Layout reorganization of sidebar and menus. (William Reynish, Peter Fog) - New operator to toggle comment and uncomment, shortcut Ctrl /. (Campbell Barton) * Animation: new Copy As New Driver context menu option to streamline creating drivers that copy the value of a different property. (Alexander Gavrilov) * Preferences: new option for viewport rotation sensitivity, and better behavior for high DPI screens. (Campbell Barton) Projects * NVIDIA contributed an Optix backend for Cycles, to take advantage of hardware-accelerated ray tracing in RTX cards. The next step is for Cycles developers to review the code. Blog post: https://code.blender.org/2019/07/accelerating-cycles-using-nvidia-rtx/. - the review ticket was being used for tech support (how to git and build): please refrain from doing so in the future) * Features from sculpt branch are being submitted and reviewed one by one * Sequencer prefetching patch is updated For Developers * There is a new developer CMake configuration, which enables options for faster builds, error checks and tests. We recommended developers to use this. https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2019-August/050125.html * Windows builds now have "Just My Code" stepping by default in debug builds. This is for C++ code (Ray Molenkamp) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/ * As a reminder a slight change in release stabilizing branch is in the planning for 2.81. This is still quite a few weeks out. A proposal will be submitted in the coming few weeks for that. (Nathan Letwory) Weekly Reports * Bastien https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019#Week_307_-_07.2F27_to_08.2F02 * Brecht https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#July_29_-_August_2 * Campbell https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-337-july-29 * Clément https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019 * Germano https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Manowii/Reports/2019#Week_5:_29th_July_-_2nd_August * Jacques https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_44:_July_29_-_02 * Jeroen https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019 * Nathan https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JesterKing/Reports/2019#July_29_-_August_9 * Sebastian https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#Jul_29_-_Aug_02 * Sergey https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_396:_29th_July_-_4th_August * Sybren https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sybren/Reports/2019#July_29_-_Aug_4 Next meeting will be on 2019-08-12, 09:00 UTC. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
