BLENDER EXTENSIONS PLATFORM - Blender.Today LIVE #208

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-- CHANGELOG - BLENDER TODAY #208

20 Years of Blender Open Source! https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1580582619414409224

Volkswagen joins Blender Development Fund! https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1580903182427095041 BCON22 Live Podcast https://conference.blender.org Blender Extensions Platform - https://code.blender.org/2022/10/blender-extensions-platform/

CYCLES

• Cycles: Add "Bake from Camera" option https://developer.blender.org/D15921
• Cycles: Enable MNEE on Metal (macOS higher than 13) https://developer.blender.org/rBba67a3

PERFORMANCE

• Curves: Multithread position vertex buffer extraction https://developer.blender.org/rB98aa72

• BLI: Unroll vector loops for better performance on GCC https://developer.blender.org/rBd2f0cb

• Mesh: Multithread some boolean domain interpolation logic https://developer.blender.org/rB3d209d

• Armature Modifier: skip non-deforming vertices in Multi-Modifier mode. https://developer.blender.org/rBf43c2d

• Draw: Add missing TBB define to draw module https://developer.blender.org/rB6c4210

• Sculpt: Raise pbvh leaf_limit to 400 for dyntopo https://developer.blender.org/rB53d937

• Sculpt: Clean up Dyntopo's original triangle api https://developer.blender.org/rB7f133b

UI

• Sculpt: Auto-masking UI improvements https://developer.blender.org/D16145
• 3D View: depth sort candidates in the selection menu https://developer.blender.org/rB47d3e7
• Outliner: Use row background color for elements count indicator https://developer.blender.org/rBa5d3b6
• UI: New modifier Icons Envelope and Outline https://developer.blender.org/rB6942f0
• UI: show the windowing environment in the "About" splash https://developer.blender.org/rBa24f11
• Animation: Update tooltips to be more readable https://developer.blender.org/rBda6d6f
• Nodes: Add "Legacy" to legacy node UI names, skip in search https://developer.blender.org/rBa1bc05

GEOMETRY NODES

• Attribute Node: support accessing attributes of View Layer and Scene. https://developer.blender.org/rBf61ff2

• Attribute Node: access geometry node instance attributes https://developer.blender.org/rB2f7234

• Geometry Nodes: new Sample UV Surface node https://developer.blender.org/rBe65598

• Geometry Nodes: Set Curve Normal https://developer.blender.org/rB748fda

• Geometry Nodes: Rename Control Point Neighbors Node https://developer.blender.org/rBc3b6e3

• Geometry Nodes: Change order of outputs in topology nodes https://developer.blender.org/rB248def

• Geometry Nodes: Add soft min for points node radius input https://developer.blender.org/rBf9a10e

• Node: Add blend modes to Mix node link drag search https://developer.blender.org/rBf5e1a2

• Nodes: Change Mix node link drag weighting https://developer.blender.org/rBa376c4

• Nodes: Duplicate Linked operator + User Preference option for Node Tree https://developer.blender.org/rB6beeba

COMPOSITOR

• Realtime Compositor: Implement variable size bokeh blur https://developer.blender.org/rB50943f
• Realtime Compositor: Keep interpolation in Scale node https://developer.blender.org/rB1a9480

UV

• UV: add grid shape source to the uv editor, and add new "pixel" option https://developer.blender.org/rBb7deca

GREASE PENCIL

• GPencil: New Fill Extend lines adjust with MMB https://developer.blender.org/rBbf8507

IO

• IO: support Presets in Alembic, Collada, OBJ, STL, USD importers https://developer.blender.org/rB25b745
• OBJ: add global scale factor import setting https://developer.blender.org/rB42b1a7

POTPOURRI

• Point Cloud: Support applying modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rBb3e6a2
• Linux: enable WAYLAND by default https://developer.blender.org/rBf9ab22
• Preferences: support loading factory settings only for app-templates https://developer.blender.org/rB781d03
• Curve: increase max of order U/V https://developer.blender.org/rB6fac4b
• Images: remove option to choose between BW/RGB/RGBA for multilayer EXR save https://developer.blender.org/rB42f406
• Support environment variables to override USER & SYSTEM resource paths https://developer.blender.org/rBbf4926
• Beginning of automated SVG regression test https://developer.blender.org/rBL63059

FIXES

• Fix T100699: Older preferences from 2.93 wont load https://developer.blender.org/rBfabf4e
• Fix T90782: add uv pack option to specify margin as a fraction https://developer.blender.org/rBc2256b
• Fix T101746: Node copy and paste changes multi-input socket order https://developer.blender.org/rB6c4b72 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRi--yRR-IY