Blender Git Commits

EEVEE: Screen Space Reflection: Improve contact reflections

This patch helps the case of intricate reflections where the
ray does not travel far before intersecting the geometry.

In these cases there could be false negative exclusion of the ray
caused by the backface rejection threshold.

EEVEE: Screen Space Raytrace: Fix unreported banding artifacts

The artifact manifested as lines of different values caused by faillure to
trace the depth buffer correctly.

Adding a ad-hoc value to the step size to mitigate the issue.

Merge branch 'blender-v2.91-release'

Fix T81896: Outliner missing redraw after "Set Parent (Without Inverse)"

Outliners listener (outliner_main_region_listener) needs ND_PARENT
notifier to redraw, the parenting operator only spawned ND_TRANSFORM
(which doesnt do a redraw).

Maniphest Tasks: T81896

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9295

Merge branch 'blender-v2.91-release'

Fix T81926: Sculpt: Box Mask operator (from menu and shortcut) does
nothing

Caused by rB6faa765af895.

Since above commit, we have to use paint.mask_box_gesture instead now.

Maniphest Tasks: T81926

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9300

Merge branch 'blender-v2.91-release'

Fix T81929: Sculpt: Mask operators missing drawing update on meshes with
shapekeys/modifiers

This was failing for all mask filters (sharpen, grow, invert, clear,
shrink, contrast, smooth) and mask gestures (box, lasso).
Also have to recalc shading, use SCULPT_tag_update_overlays for this.

ref D8956

Maniphest Tasks: T81929

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9302

GPencil: Subdivide Cyclic section of strokes in modifier

When use subdivision modifier, the close section of the stroke must be subdivided too.

GPencil: Bake mesh animation for selected keyframes only

This new option allows to bake the animation of the selected frames and not the full range of keyframes.

Cycles: multithreaded export of geometry

This improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many
mesh, hair and volume objects. Sync time speedups in benchmarks:

barbershop 5.2x
bmw 1.3x
fishycat 1.5x
koro 1.0x
sponza 3.0x
victor 1.4x
wdas_cloud 0.9x

Implementation by Nicolas Lelong, and Jagannadhan Ravi (AMD).

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9258

Revert "2.91 splashscreen"

In master Blender still uses the dev fund splashscreen
This reverts commit 1b577d0d6d4f6517ae2a22edd92a0c4cff4b2255.

UI: Allow changing the active side of line gestures

Line gesture use always the right side of the line as active (the area
of the mesh that is going to be modified) by default.
This adds the ability to change the active side when the line gesture is
active by pressing the F key.
This allows more freedom to position the line after starting the
gestures, as it won't be required to cancel the operation or undo if the
line was used in the wrong direction.

Reviewed By: Severin

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9301

Merge branch 'blender-v2.91-release'

2.91 splashscreen

To bring more attention for beta we now change the splashscreen during
bcon3.

Credit: Robin Tran - artstation.com/robin_tran

Merge branch 'blender-v2.91-release'

Bump subversion to 2.91.9 for bcon3 BETA

Bump version to 2.92 alpha

UI: Allow changing the active side of line gestures

Line gesture use always the right side of the line as active (the area
of the mesh that is going to be modified) by default.
This adds the ability to change the active side when the line gesture is
active by pressing the F key.
This allows more freedom to position the line after starting the
gestures, as it won't be required to cancel the operation or undo if the
line was used in the wrong direction.

Reviewed By: Severin

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9301

Fix T81901: Use the 2.90 scrape brush preset as default

The new preset I made for 2.91 is way more controllable with lower
strength values and does not have the accumulate bug, but until the
brush management is in place to ship multiple versions of the brush,
probably most people expect something closer to the old version to be
the default.

Reviewed By: sergey

Maniphest Tasks: T81901

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9289