[Bf-committers] Blender 2.8x - support and core development goals

[Jeroen Bakker]

Hi all,

The upcoming year I would like to focus around the next areas:
- Image/UV Editor
- Texture Painting
- LookDev
- OpenCL
- AMD/Intel GPU support
- Compositor

It is not clear how much time I can spend in the short term because of
holidays, trainings and the actual schedule of Blender 2.81. I will be
working on preparing bigger designs and refactoring for next releases. Of
course if there are small improvements that come from these designs it can
be added to 2.81.
*Designs*
- Image/UV Editor
- Texture Painting
- Current LookDev/Rendered draw type modes
*Refactorings*
- camera background image: there are many issues related to the compositing
of the background images in the viewport (alpha/depth compositing,
transformation matrices)
- Preparing the image/uv editor to be drawn by the draw manager/GPU modules.
- Force workbench for Vertex/Weight painting (we already do this for
texture painting https://developer.blender.org/D5190 )
*Features*
- Adding similar options we have for LookDev to cycles like the world HDRI
chooser. For 2.81 I would like to start small as there are many ideas, but
need to be designed and agreed upon.
- Multilayered MatCap drawing (https://developer.blender.org/D5335). This
will need a call for content as the current matcaps don't use this feature,
but would benefit from it if they do.

Greetings,
Jeroen

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:54 AM William Reynish <billrey at me.com> wrote:

> On the UI front, here are my thoughts and priorities:
>
> First, I feel like we have some things that are unfinished, which should
> be high priority to get done ASAP:
>
> Mainly things like:
>
>   - Dragging on a selected item should move all selected items (
> https://developer.blender.org/T57918)
>         Currently we only support the Node Editor for this. Being able to
> drag your selected elements around is such a basic thing which we left
> unfinished, that I think we should try and do this asap
>
>   - Tools & gizmos
>         ‘Simple’ gizmos for more tools (
> https://developer.blender.org/T66304)
>         Interactive Create Object tools (Pablo Dobarro started on this.
> https://developer.blender.org/T57210)
>         Inside-the-camera gizmo (https://developer.blender.org/T57234)
>
>   - Themes
>         We never included additional themes for 2.80. Not super important
> but we promised to do it. I will assist picking them and testing them
> again.
>
>
>
> Additionally, I expect we will do some of these UI-related merges:
>   - Outliner GSOC (https://developer.blender.org/D5388)
>   - File Browser UI (https://developer.blender.org/T62971)
>   - Text Editor UI (https://developer.blender.org/D5028)
>
> Also many other patches related to the Sequencer UI etc.
>
> I also expect to assist with UI layout and feedback for things like LANPR
> and other new features.
>
>
>
> Other things I really hope we could do for this release:
>   - Multi-Object Properties Editing (https://developer.blender.org/D4948)
>   - Checkbox Aligmnet tweaks (https://developer.blender.org/T65965)
>   - Toolbar for the Sequencer (patch already done by Campbell)
>   - Toolbar for the Clip Editor (https://developer.blender.org/T57846)
>   - Convert NLA sidebar to Python, so we can start to make this
> 2.8-compliant.
>
>
>
> Bigger design-tasks & projects:
>
>   - Asset Browser (https://developer.blender.org/T54642)
>         Since this will be a key core part of Blender’s UI and workflow,
> we should really get started with this, so this project doesn’t keep
> slipping forever. At the very least we should have a plan for how to proceed
>   - Everything Nodes. I expect to continue working on the Everything Nodes
> design task, with input mainly from Brecht and Jacques Lucke, and others (
> https://developer.blender.org/T67088)
>   - Drag & drop support for UI elements (
> https://developer.blender.org/T67893)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 26 Jul 2019, at 08.00, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > Which areas would you like to focus on in the next few months? Which
> > code improvements, performance, stability, new features in those areas
> > would you work on first [1]?
> >
> > Finally which bigger new features are you confident would make it in
> > the 2.81 release, and which are the ones that might happen? These are
> > particularly important so we can allocate more time for code review
> > early in the release cycle and work together to assess their
> > feasibility.
> >
> > That should empower us to set priorities and keep our ongoing
> > development on track. The original goal of a more strict 2-3 month
> > release cycle is still on the table, and it is up to us to set dates
> > the deliverables. As long as we are working in the right priorities,
> > and strive for quality, which specific features land in 2.81 are
> > secondary.
> >
> > I'm away for Siggraph (28-1) so there is no need to rush to reply to
> this.
> >
> > [1] - Please update the module page to reflect this -
> > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Modules /
> > https://developer.blender.org/T63725
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dalai
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