HAIR STUFF! – Blender.Today LIVE #214

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00:00:00 Intro & Announcements
00:05:20 What’s New in Blender
01:13:32 Q&A

#b3d #BlenderToday
* Music by @Thaehan

POSE LIBRARY
Usability pass/redesign https://developer.blender.org/rBAc164c
changes to the panels in the Action Editor https://developer.blender.org/rBA2326a

NODES
Use checkbox for exposed boolean sockets https://developer.blender.org/D12816
new Interpolate Curves node https://developer.blender.org/rB85908e
show number of curve points in socket inspection tooltip

Add warning to set material node with no faces https://developer.blender.org/rB400f02
Adjust modifier UI to put field toggles on the right https://developer.blender.org/rB686254
Prefer evaluate at index value input in search https://developer.blender.org/rB917936
Rename node and socket for ”Group ID” convention https://developer.blender.org/rB203ab9

Node Wrangler: improve Add Principled Setup file matching logic https://developer.blender.org/rBAc0a67

Attributes: Autofill for attribute conversion operators https://developer.blender.org/rB587a1b

EEVEE
Nodes: Resolve performance bottleneck with mix node updates https://developer.blender.org/rBa3a60e
Eevee: Mark Properties on Samples Panel Animatable https://developer.blender.org/rB34fa36

BGL_Wrap: disable calls on non-opengl backends https://developer.blender.org/rBcac6b6

GREASE PENCIL
Build modifier add ”natural drawing” time https://developer.blender.org/D16759
Add offset(Location, Rotation, Scale) by Layer, Stroke and Material to Offset modifier https://developer.blender.org/rB7d712d
show brush size in Draw tool cursor https://developer.blender.org/rBa44c12
Use Material or Vertex Color for Brush cursor https://developer.blender.org/rBe1180b
Provide Option for Fill in Material Popover https://developer.blender.org/D17004
Add Vertex Opacity Overlay parameter in Sculpt https://developer.blender.org/rB1aff91
Allow interpolation to use breakdown keyframe as extremes https://developer.blender.org/rB56ae40

Storypencil: Support Audio files and UI refactor https://developer.blender.org/rBA6fcd1

UV
UV: support constrain-to-bounds for uv shear operator https://developer.blender.org/rB3d1594

ANIMATION
Animation: Graph Editor Ease operator https://developer.blender.org/rB76a686
NLA: Udating Blend-in and Blend-out values to clamp on NLA strip Transform https://developer.blender.org/rBfa67b8
Animation: Improve performance of Bake Action operator https://developer.blender.org/rB58c8c4
Animation: Make Bake Animation operator use preview range when enabled https://developer.blender.org/rBc47b69
Animation: Remove While Held Pose propagate option https://developer.blender.org/rB825f01

Object: Support converting curves object to mesh https://developer.blender.org/rB2752a8
Point Cloud: Support set origin and apply scale operators https://developer.blender.org/rBadb4dd
Cloth: share self and object collision BVH trees when possible https://developer.blender.org/rBa3ac91
Cloth: precompute barycentric coordinates for collision points https://developer.blender.org/rBe1df73

POTPOURRI
Images: add mirror extension type https://developer.blender.org/rBa501a2
Custom Properties: Add boolean type https://developer.blender.org/D12815
USD export: ensure edit mode changes are exported https://developer.blender.org/rBf8b115
OBJ: add split by objects/groups import options (T103839) https://developer.blender.org/rBb59982
BLI_path_util: support both forward and back slashes for WIN32 https://developer.blender.org/rBdb54b9
Python API: Add collection properties to MeshUVLoopLayer to access UV and the associated bool attributes https://developer.blender.org/rBa82c12
Add-ons: Exclude contrib for beta, rc and release builds. https://developer.blender.org/rBe8c786
Windows: Run blender-launcher.exe instead of blender.exe https://developer.blender.org/rB460f7e
macOS: Remove user notifications. https://developer.blender.org/rB3590e2
MacOS: Update Min Requirement to 10.15 https://developer.blender.org/rB597aec
Bump buildbot gcc version to 11 https://developer.blender.org/rB5c4d11

Sun Position: add Show Surface and Show Analemmas options https://developer.blender.org/rBA29a67

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