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BLENDER TODAY #176

CYCLES

• decouple shadow paths from main path on GPU developer.blender.org/rB943e73
• bake transparent shadows for hair developer.blender.org/D12880
• more accurately count main paths for adding work tiles developer.blender.org/rB0c52ee
• make ambient occlusion pass take into account transparency again developer.blender.org/D12900
• add shadow path compaction for GPU rendering developer.blender.org/rBdf0046
• More accurate volume stack size calculation developer.blender.org/rBc4fa17
• change Position render pass to be not antialiased developer.blender.org/rB16a8d0
• add additive AO support through Fast GI settings developer.blender.org/rB757040
• Distance Scrambling - Sobol version developer.blender.org/rB366262
• Scrambling distance for the PMJ sampler Progressive Multi-Jittered developer.blender.org/rB82cf25

NODES

• Support volumes in the set material node developer.blender.org/rB348d7c
• Spreadsheet: Display geometry volume component grids developer.blender.org/D13049
• Add Selection Input to Resample Curves Node developer.blender.org/rBa7672c
• Add tooltips to primitive node inputs developer.blender.org/rB4e5537
• Selection outputs for cone and cylinder. developer.blender.org/D12831
• Add Length Output to Curve Parameter Node developer.blender.org/rB0c6b81
• Fix: Viewport stats not fully working for Geometry Nodes developer.blender.org/D12738

UI

• Use socket type info color to draw links developer.blender.org/rB980bc5
• Include node name for socket animation channels developer.blender.org/D13085
• Display disabled-hint when dragging material outside object mode developer.blender.org/rB5095e4
• Refactor how dragging onto text buttons works, fixing issues developer.blender.org/rBb73993
• VSE: Remove separator lines between rows developer.blender.org/rBb4af70

GREASE PENCIL

• New option to Merge All layers in active one developer.blender.org/rB556c71
• New option to export PDF full scene developer.blender.org/D13055
• Grease Pencil/Annotation: Use cached depth to perform depth testing operations developer.blender.org/D10894

RIGGING

• Rigify: Operators to copy and mirror parameters developer.blender.org/rBA4f2cf

VR

• XR Controller Support Step 5: Navigation developer.blender.org/rB3434a9
• VR: Default Actions, Controller Visualization developer.blender.org/rBA82391

POTPOURRI

• Knife: Preserve right click cancel functionality developer.blender.org/rB2c2d4b
• Thumbnails: refactor extraction to use one code-path for all platforms developer.blender.org/rBef9269
• Render: change view layer name convention to ViewLayer_001 to avoid OpenEXR issues developer.blender.org/rB9e9d00
• Render: use "_" as delimiter in AOV names to avoid issues with OpenEXR developer.blender.org/rB8e8932
• 2.93: Crash on system with a non-English locale developer.blender.org/T88877
• Fix T92575: Cycles black pixels when rendering with more than 65k samples developer.blender.org/rB0b0609
• Fix T92684: Cycles does not fall back to OIDN if OptiX is not available developer.blender.org/rB0ab1b1
• Fix T92800: (UI) Radial control values get wrong color assigned developer.blender.org/rBc64110