Blender 2.8 Viewport Development
Introduction Blender 2.8 original design brought to the conversation a workflow-based usability mantra. Within those constraints we went over the ideal pipeline for a few well defined workflows. Here is an excerpt from a recent viewport development design document which is still valid for this...
Summer of Code 2016 – Results
This years Google Summer of Code is over, and the students improved Blender in many areas. Here you can find a summary of the results. Thanks to Google for having us in this years GSoC! Beziers Curve Editing (João Araújo) João worked on Blenders Beziers...
Logging from Python code in Blender
In this article we take a look at using logging inside Blender. When things take an unexpected turn, which they always do, it is great to know what is going on behind all the nice GUIs and user-friendly operators. Python’s standard library with a very...
An In-Depth Look at How B-Bones Work – Including Details of the New Bendy Bones
Here’s a breakdown of how the B-Bones in Blender work (including the new Bendy Bones stuff that I’ve just committed to master – also see the other post in this series, which focusses more on the features themselves). I’m writing these notes up mainly so...
Inside the Blender Cloud addon
In the first week of May we released the Blender Cloud addon. This addon provides an interface to browse the texture library of the Blender Cloud, download textures, and load them into the current scene. In this article we describe some of the more interesting...
Proposal for Caching, Nodes and Physics Development in Blender 2.8
The work-in-progress proposal for the Blender 2.8 version plans for caching, nodes and physics is progressing steadily. If you are an experienced artists or coder or just want to have a sneak-peek, you can download a recent version from the link at the bottom. Feedback...
New Cycles Benchmark
Blender Institute prepared six Blender files for testing Cycles rendering with CPU/GPU, using various settings and design styles but based on actual production setups. On the links below you can inspect the spreadsheet with results, and load the .blend file collection. The goal is to have an overview of systems that...
Updated 01/16 – Test Build – Live Reloading & Relocating Of Libraries
So, finally got something that seems to be kind of working in id-remap branch (see also the associated design task), and hence made some test builds available (updated 2016/01/16, see log below). WARNING: Those builds are highly experimental, do not use them in production, nor...
2.8 project developer kickoff meeting notes
At the 2015 blender conference the attending developers sat down to discus things we as a group wanted the 2.8 project to be a software engineering perspective. The things discussed below are intended to become effective with the 2.8 project and any changes in supported...
Debugging Python code with PyCharm
During the Ask a Developer session at the Blender Conference last weekend, there was a request for easy debugging of Python code. Fortunately, with PyCharm or Eclipse/PyDev, this is quite easy. Personally I use PyCharm, but the process should be pretty similar for Eclipse/PyDev. Besides...
Current Asset Project Status & Plans
This article tries to summarize the more complete design doc and presents current state of the “Asset Project” in Blender. Core Concepts The main idea of current work is to keep Blender’s library system and build asset management over it, using “Asset Engines”, which will...
The Custom Manipulator Project (Widget Project)
It seems like it’s still unclear what the widget project actually is and what it means, so it’s really time to make things a bit more clear. Especially, to justify why this project is important for the Blender user interface. Sidenote: Since I’m currently...
