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BLENDER TODAY #221

Changelog

Cycles

• Cycles: adjust resolution divider to achieve a more usable viewport - Alaska

EEVEE Next

• EEVEE Next: IrradianceCache surfels debug display - Miguel Pozo
• EEVEE-Next: Spherical Harmonics Library - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE-Next: Deferred Pipeline - Clément Foucault

File Browser

• File Browser: Make full file name label draggable - Julian Eisel

Image

• Image: Add OIIO support APIs - Jesse Yurkovich

Measure Tool

• Measure Tool: reduce snap overhead - Germano Cavalcante

Mesh

• Mesh: Parallelize extraction of UV maps - Hans Goudey
• Mesh: Remove unnecessary mesh position copying - Tuan N
• Mesh: Optimize BMesh to Mesh conversion with UV maps - Hans Goudey

Nodes

• Nodes: SDF Volume nodes milestone 1 - Erik Abrahamsson

PLY

• PLY: optimize new exporter (2x faster) - Aras Pranckevicius
• PLY: Improve robustness and performance of the new PLY importer - Aras Pranckevicius

Python API

• Python API: implement ViewLayer.aovs.remove - Nischay-Raj

Refactor

• Refactor: U.dpi_fac - U.scale_factor - Harley Acheson

Subdivision

• Subdivision: remove info message that GPU subdivision being used - Brecht Van Lommel

UI

• UI: align tab labels towards panels - guishe
• UI: Increase the size of the "Open Recent" list - Harley Acheson
• UI: Add scroll to sidebar tabs - guishe

VSE

• VSE: Update text of text strip after each typed character - Richard Antalik