NEW OPEN MOVIE - Blender Today LIVE #228

Changelog and Q&A BlenderToday is a weekly live show highlighting the latest news in Blender development, the community, and Q&A. Streaming from the Blender HQ in Amsterdam since 2018, hosted by Pablo Vazquez. Support Blender by joining the Development Fund #b3d #BlenderToday * Music by  @Thaehan --- Animation * Update NLA “TAB“ tweak mode to be full stack evaluation Asset Views * Asset Views: Decrease default preview cache size Core * Write mesh and movieclip with new format Cycles * enable HIP-RT for AMD hardware ray-tracing * oneAPI: enable hardware raytracing by default * Merge Anisotropic BSDF node into Glossy BSDF node EEVEE * EEVEE: Add Transparent Render-Pass option Fix Geometry Nodes * Make simulation caching optional * Implement simulation subframe mixing * Extrude: Skip topology map with no edge attributes * Keep loose vert/edge tags for extrude and split edges * Slightly optimize mesh to curve node * Add Sample Volume node * Change “Separate Components“ node output order to match Spreadsheet * Remove realize instances legacy behavior * Add ’Signed Distance’ input node Introduce utm_source=blender to urls pointing to * Introduce utm_source=blender to urls pointing to Mesh * Move bevel weight to generic attribute * Remove deprecated face/vert custom data API * Remove sculpt vertex colors from RNA API * Reduce custom normal calculation memory usage * Tag no loose verts and edges when converting from BMesh Nodes * Nodes: Remove deprecated useless width_hidden property Realtime Compositor * Convert Color Space node * Plane Track Deform node * Denoise node Sculpt Fixes Transform * Transform: support navigation while transforming in 3D view USD Export * USD Export: New Curves/Hair Support * USD export: option to add a root prim. UV * Use correct uv packing method when all/none islands are pinned. * Fix uv packing problem with rotate and scale line-search * Fix overlap problem during uv packing with scale locked islands * Fix packing problem with locked-position and large island count * Improve correctness of uv packer * During packing, add progress bar and ability to cancel * Simplify packer, improving performance, efficiency and fixing bugs VSE * VSE: Add go to current frame operator to view menu * VSE: Smooth transition for retiming tool WM * WM: make all blend file paths absolute & normalized on read/write