Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 13 February 2023

Geometry Nodes

• Edges to Face Groups node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Viewport drag and drop for geometry nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Use clean normals in Distribute Factors on Faces node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Add possibility to cover enter in modifier (commit, (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Efficiency
  • Enhance parallelization in Delete/Separate Geometry node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Curves

• Initial surface collision for curves sculpt mode (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Edit mode
  • Add choose choose operator (commit) (Falk David)
  • Add lasso, circle, and field choice (commit, commit) (Falk David)
  • Add choose linked operator (commit) (Falk David)

User Interface

• Add default shortcut to toggle overlays in all space-types (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Disguise trackball gizmo whereas dragging (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
• Make textual content wording and ordering constant (commit) (Josh Maros)

Cycles

• Metal
  • Optimize subsurface intersection queries (commit) (Michael Jones)
  • Use native atomics for sooner shader sorting (commit) (Michael Jones)
  • Allow MetalRT opt-in for AMD/Navi2 GPUs (commit) (Michael Jones)

EEVEE Next

• Initial implementation of virtual shadow maps (commit, commit) (Clément Foucault)

Mesh

• Performance
  • Fix a serious subdivision surface performance hit when mixing CPU & GPU. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
  • Keep away from copying positions in object mode modifier stack (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Python API

• Measure modifier execution time and provide Python access (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Add bpy.utils.manual_locale_code() (commit) (Campbell Barton)