[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2019-02-18

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
25 February 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC.

1) New Features and Changes

The focus continues to be on bug fixing and refining Blender 2.80. About 80
bugs were fixed last week.

* Cycles OpenCL compilation times have been reduced, using multithreaded
compilation. (Jeroen Bakker, Lukas Stockner).
* Cycles animation denoising is now available as a Python operator, taking
one or more rendered frames as input and producing a denoised frame. There
is no user interface for this yet, that comes later. (Lukas Stockner,
Tangent Animation, Brecht Van Lommel).
* Eevee now supports rendering of image sequence and movies. (Brecht Van
Lommel)
* Eevee lights not have units in Watt. (Brecht Van Lommel)
* Wireframe drawing has had some further improvements in terms of quality,
and now also supports wide lines on macOS. (Clément Foucault)
* User interface layout tweaks for various panels. (William Reynish)
* Keymap: new preference for shortcuts to work both with tap and pie menu.
For example Z can be used to both toggle wireframe mode and open the
shading mode pie menu. (Campbell Barton)
* Keymap: Alt+N now flips normals in edit mode. (Campbell Barton)
* Simplify settings now have an option to globally disable high resolution
smoke volume drawing. (Sergey Sharybin)

2) Development

* More outliner visibility changes were discussed among developers and
designers.
https://developer.blender.org/T61578

3) Weekly Reports

* Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019#Week_278_-_01.2F05_to_01.2F11
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#February_11_-_15
* Campbell:
https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-312-february-11
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019#Week_110_:_11th_-_17th_Feb
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#February_11_-_15
* Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_20:_February_11_-_15
* Jeroen: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019
* Philipp:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2019#Calendar_Week_7_.28Feb_11th_-_Feb_15th.29
* Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#February_11_-_15
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_373:_11th_-_17th_February