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BLENDER TODAY #185 World Blender Meet-up Day! March 19th

“Join World Blender Meetup Day 2022 on March 19th for 24 hours of online Blender talks and demos by artists, developers, and animators powered by the awesome community that makes Blender so great. http://bit.ly/WBMD2022. Want to present? http://bit.ly/JoinWBMD”

BLENDER 3.1 https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-1/ https://developer.blender.org/T95442 Tissue: Update to 3.52 https://developer.blender.org/rBAda9a50a46ed3e293146428a87a275a947a54b9fe https://developer.blender.org/T96241

GREASE PENCIL Improve multi-user gpencil data performance with modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rB7ca13eef7c3349b346b178b8f4ca64838d2f4ccf GPencil: Improve subdivision modifier https://developer.blender.org/D14218

CYCLES Cycles: show viewport hair settings when using Cycles https://developer.blender.org/D14290

GEOMETRY NODES Attributes: Implement CustomData interpolation for boolean data type https://developer.blender.org/rBeb326c7b402e4914e9a619b899a388be7668255b

NODES Nodes: Improve readability of selected node links https://developer.blender.org/D11930 Shader Nodes: added alpha mode selector to Image Texture node https://developer.blender.org/D14153 Shader Nodes: add Alpha output to Object Info node https://developer.blender.org/rB5b4ab896634fd118cb46740f6f90e45f96d550ac Curves: Port mesh to curve node to new data-block, 10x faster than 3.1 https://developer.blender.org/rB901a03725ed58166e5b2401dfadd7c1cb7e490a2 Curves: Port realize instances node to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rB6c6f591f909a02967daff87ab348601953f61670

PERFORMANCE PyAPI: optimize depsgraph use in PyDrivers https://developer.blender.org/rB73dc8c24e44ba8b462f88c1c629a84c98979ef41

UV UV: Edge selection support https://developer.blender.org/rBffaaa0bcbf477c30cf3665b9330bbbb767397169

UI Transform/UI: individualize the option to use snap per editor type UI: Drag & Drop to Properties Materials Panel https://developer.blender.org/D13549 UI: Enable the outliner to use the correct icon for each curve subtype https://developer.blender.org/D14093 Outliner: Display respective data-block icon in library overrides mode https://developer.blender.org/D14208 File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag https://developer.blender.org/D14228 UI: Fix Label alignment in top bar https://developer.blender.org/D13552 UI Papercut: Fix multi input socket outline and highlight https://developer.blender.org/D14192 Fix T94692: Show Cached OneDrive Thumbnails https://developer.blender.org/rBbd9f94e91720e6d2ce5308344e83c5a787351669 Search: Take word order into account in string search https://developer.blender.org/D14223

VSE VSE: Allow to create scene in strip properties

POTPOURRI Event System: drag events no longer default to the drag start location https://developer.blender.org/rBb8960267dd51f9108b3b49e9b762e6b4d35ae1dc Event System: key-press while dragging now activates drag first https://developer.blender.org/rB1f1dcf41d51a03150ee38f220c590f8715b11e88 Curve: sync active material with selection https://developer.blender.org/D14250 Curve: Improve NURBS knot generation modes https://developer.blender.org/rB0602852860dda7dfc0ea20c72e03b7f96c981f1a Group FCurves by bone name when importing from FBX or BVH https://developer.blender.org/D11269 C++ OBJ exporter needs presets and skip modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rB70720c42c21265d88e2182eebfe5d6544d197424 Fix T95531: Draw y axis values in Driver Editor https://developer.blender.org/rB6b8dde93b0ca898da16ff367d110f785e35e8981 Python: Add new annotation_pre & annotation_post handlers https://developer.blender.org/rB4ffe2fec169c67655aad6a866be3a949b4062108

Curves: add initial comb, grow and shrink brush https://developer.blender.org/rB10c11bb89736d19f06131378dc539fb225b9b562 Apple’s first implementation of Metal for EEVEE https://developer.blender.org/D14293