Attendees  Brecht Van Lommel (Blender) William Leeson (Blender) Jeroen Bakker (Blender) Kévin Dietrich (Blender) Patrick Mours (NVIDIA) Brian Savery (AMD) Sergen Eren (Tangent)   Notes  Cycles  A new developer joined the Cycles team this weeked: William Leeson (leesonw). Welcome! He brings a lot of experience in rendering systems, in ray-tracing, realtime and 2D rendering. He’ll work with Brecht on general Cycles and rendering development. Cycles X: basic volume absorption works again, and the ...

Hi all,  I have been working on some improvements to the Blender OpenSubdiv implementation, and I am sharing some builds for anyone who would like to try it out, test it, and make sure it’s all working good. Please note that the work is not finished yet.  There are 3 main features:  GPU acceleration  This only happens if the modifier is the last in the stack. Although performance is improved, there is still one expensive operation which is done on the CPU, work is being done to port it to the GP...