Welcomes

Announcements

• The new blendfile compatibility policy has been implemented in main (future Blender 4.0). It will be backported to 3.6LTS and 3.3LTS in the coming weeks. It will make Blender 4.0 and later blendfiles only openable with Blender 3.6 or later.

Modules & Projects

• 2023-07-25 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting
• 2023-07-25 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2023-07-27 Animation & Rigging module meeting

New Features and Changes

User Interface

• Add menu items for weight/vertex paint operators (commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Various tweaks and text changes (commit, commit, commit) (Damien Picard, Campbell Barton, Germano Cavalcante)
• Spreadsheet
  • Only show scroll bars when necessary (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• File browser
  • Add proper warning when trying to list content of invalid library (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• 3D Viewport
  • Add walk navigation controls to adjust jump height interactively (commit) (Andras-Borsanyi)

Animation

• Default NLA duplucation hot keys to duplicate linked (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
• Disable NLA mapping if no NLA tracks are present (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Core

• Implement new blendfile compatibility handling (commit, commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Sculpt

• Remove dynamic topology “Smooth Shading” option (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Reduce overhead of PBVH drawing (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Speed up building PBVH when entering sculpt mode (commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)

Mesh

• Extract loose edges and vertices in two threads (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Keymap

• Use Alt-LMB for selection in vertex/weight paint modes (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Add/update selection mode shortcuts (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
• Simplify default keymap for paint modes (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
• Improve consistency for paint modes (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
• Restore mirror transform shortcut in weight paint mode (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Avoid 3D View transform inheritance (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Use alternative hotkeys for transform navigation (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
• Add experimental “Region Toggle Pie” preference (commit, commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)

Cycles

• Replace Sheen model in the Principled BSDF (commit, commit) (Lukas Stockner)
• Update Velvet BSDF to Sheen BSDF with new Microfiber sheen model (commit) (Lukas Stockner)

Grease Pencil V3

• Select frames by column (commit) (Amelie Fondevilla)
• Option to use tablet pressure for the eraser (commit) (Amelie Fondevilla)
• Keyframe on-click selection (commit) (Amelie Fondevilla)
• Stroke mode for the Eraser tool (commit) (Amelie)
• Add filtering for channels in the grease pencil dopesheet (commit) (Amelie)

Weekly Reports

• Aaron Carlisle
• Amélie Fondevilla
• Arnd Marijnissen
• Bastien Montagne
• Brad Clark
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Harley Acheson
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Lukas Stockner
• Lukas Tönne
• Miguel Pozo
• Nathan Vegdahl
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang
• Wu Yiming