Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 27 February 2023

Let’s welcome two builders, beginning fulltime this wednesday, March 1:

• Lukas Tönne joins the Nodes & Physics module.
• Harley Acheson joins the triaging workforce and also will assist the UI module.

Geometry Nodes

• Blender 3.6 initial planning proposal
  • Simulation Nodes
  • Node Group Operators
  • Node Group Usability Duties
  • Attribute Paint/Edit
• Verify the meeting notes for the targets breakdown.
• The work can be carried over because the common Nodes & Physics improvement.
  • The communication channels will all be integrated into the Nodes & Physics.

Animation

• Paste Keys in Graph Editor with value offset (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
• Add Slider operators to hotkey menu (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

EEVEE & Viewport

• Metal
  • Improve AMD EEVEE Performance (commit) (Jason Fielder)
  • Allow Metallic as default gpu backend (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Patch GPencil shader for metallic help (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

USD

• Add support for exporting to USDZ (commit, commit) (Bastien Montagne, Charles Wardlaw, Sonny Campbell)

User Interface

• Widen search boxes when necessary (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add shade selector to Bone Teams record (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Add record hover highlighting (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Correctly cancel dragging on escape or right-click (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Gizmos: Help scaling of sunshine gizmos with zero dimension (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
• Home windows: Auto-Elevate and -Focus Home windows on Hover (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Node editor
  • Permit including a number of search gadgets per kind in add menu (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Numerous fixes and enhancements for translation (commit, commit, commit) (Damien Picard)

Video Sequence Editor

• Add retiming tool (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Geometry Nodes

• Remove unnecessary position copying in delete node (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Curves

• Avoid unnecessary allocation when calculating offsets (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Edit mode
  • Add cursor snapping help (commit) (Falk David)

Cycles

• Add NanoVDB support for Metal on Apple Silicon (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Mesh

• Slightly improve subdivision surface performance (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Exchange vertex merging algorithm utilized by mirror and array modifiers (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)

Sculpt

• Add trim orientation to sculpt box trim UI (commit) (Joseph Eagar)
• Implement mesh filter cancel (commit) (Joseph Eagar)

Python API

• Add scissor functions to gpu.state (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)