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BLENDER TODAY #201

Blender 3.3 LTS Beta! - https://www.artstation.com/krynski Blender 3.4 Alpha!

CURVES

• Curves: enable density brush when first entering curves sculpt mode
• UI: Sort tools in curves sculpting mode https://developer.blender.org/rB1e55b5

UV

• UV: Add options for uv select similar in island mode https://developer.blender.org/rBa58146

GEOMETRY NODES

• Geometry Nodes: Shortest Paths nodes https://developer.blender.org/D15274

• Geometry Nodes: Rename "Field on Domain" to "Interpolate Domain" https://developer.blender.org/rBea4b1d

• Nodes: Allow using escape key to exit node resizing

COMPOSITOR

• Realtime Compositor: Add needed GPU module changes https://developer.blender.org/rBb639e6

UI

• BLF: New Font Stack for Better Language Coverage https://developer.blender.org/D15235

• I18n: make presets translatable https://developer.blender.org/rB3239ce

• I18n: make Grease Pencil modifiers and shader FX translatable https://developer.blender.org/rB1875c5

• I18n: make newly added constraints' names translatable https://developer.blender.org/rB543b47

• default N-panel open for animation editors https://developer.blender.org/rBb08c53

• Eevee: Add support of rendering curves with cryptomatte https://developer.blender.org/rBe9586b

• deps: FFmpeg vpx/aom-av1 updates https://developer.blender.org/rBaa788b

• Fix T98367: Light group passes do not work when shadow catcher is used https://developer.blender.org/rB83d412

• Fix T99976: Animated visibility not rendering properly in viewport https://developer.blender.org/rB4dd409

I/O

• Fix T100017: OBJ: new importer does not import vertices that aren't part of any face https://developer.blender.org/rBc85740
• Fix T99532: New OBJ importer in some cases fails to import faces https://developer.blender.org/rBf11dc5
• Fix T100075: OBJ import: images loaded multiple times instead of being reused https://developer.blender.org/rBbea528
• Fix T100076: OBJ import: new importer doesn't use //relative/image/paths https://developer.blender.org/rBe2be6b

ADD-ONS

• Fix T97724: Node Wrangler: better align nodes on texture setup https://developer.blender.org/D15031
• Fix T84451: Node Wrangler: change label from Swap Outputs to Swap Links https://developer.blender.org/rBA3ec8a
• Fix T96194: Node Wrangler: use enabled sockets for lazy mix https://developer.blender.org/rBAe7ce7
• Fix T83719: Node Wrangler: broken node outline when fast connecting https://developer.blender.org/rBAa2285
• Node Wrangler: use utility function to populate switch menu https://developer.blender.org/rBAc27fd
• Update power sequencer to work with Blender 3.3 https://developer.blender.org/rBAf2df9
• Add camera rigs: use bone subtarget for DOF https://developer.blender.org/rBA88028
• Many ported to new GPU module:
  • Archimesh, MeasureIt, Power Sequencer, Math Vis, VR Scene Inspection, Scatter Objects, etc