Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 11 September 2023

Geometry Nodes

• Add Skip input to Simulation Output node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Cover node group selector for asset modifiers (commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Improved defaults when creating new device (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Expose sharp edge standing with builtin nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)

User Interface

• Object Modifiers
  • Extend add modifier menu with geometry node group assets (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Add shortcut for “Add Modifier” menu in property editor (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Add separator after “Empty Modifier” in add modifier menu (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Rename “Empty Modifier” to “Geometry Nodes” (commit) (Dalai Felinto)
  • Tweaks to modifier choices menu (commit, commit) (Hans Goudey, Pablo Vazquez)
• Assist looking in menus (use in 3D view, node, modifier add menus) (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Replace macOS software icon (commit, commit) (Francesco Siddi)
• Add canvas picker to color modes in 3D Viewport (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Use asset icon for “Mark Asset” in menus (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Add “Open Latest” to File Context menu (commit) (dshot92)
• Show a brief pulse when displaying stories within the standing bar (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Cover widget emboss if inside colour is totally clear (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Enable “New Window” Whereas in Maximized Space (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Mesh

• Further optimize topology map creation (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Animation

• Scale Average slider for Graph Editor (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
• Optimize Graph Editor deal with drawing (commit, commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
• Transfer Snapping to Scene (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
• Bone collections
  • Present bone assortment panel when armature is pinned (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Add bone assortment customized properties sub-panel (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Person interface
  • Rename “Bake Curve” to “Keys to Samples” (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Preserve icons aligned when curves are baked (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
• Apply new DualQuat scale dealing with to constraints and crazyspace to armatures (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)

Curve

• Curve Pen Tool
  • Only select the knot when picking vertices (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • Set the choice for extruded bezier vertices (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Function on handles when the knot is chosen (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Snap

• Support occlusion of ‘In Front’ objects (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)

EEVEE Next

• Volume lighting integration improvements (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
• Add clamp choices for irradiance volumes (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Python API

• Expose the ‘needs resync’ status of libraries (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• Bone Collections
  • Take away RNA entry to bone teams (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Add bone.collections.clear() RNA perform (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • add bonecollection.bones RNA assortment property (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Rename Armature show_group_colors to show_bone_colors (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)