https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/082b6087-219f-417a-aa38-d161b2216bef With special guest: Thomas Dinges, Blender Developer Community Coordinator! Support Blender by joining the Development Fund at fund.blender.org #BlenderToday #b3d Music by @Thaehan youtube.com/channel/UC5HYJTpconGuwC8g-l1QXLg, -- 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 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:29:43 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.blender.org https://video.blender.org/lazy-static/avatars/83e44c73-9c22-453c-a454-c4efe225fd4d.png https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/082b6087-219f-417a-aa38-d161b2216bef All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.blender.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.