COPY PASTE Blender Today LIVE #224

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 * Animation: Allow NLA strips to be horizontally shuffled Attributes * Attributes: Add 2D integer vector attribute type Custom Data * Custom Data: support implicit sharing for custom data layers Cycles * Optimize Blender curves attribute extraction * Optimize Blender point cloud attribute extraction * Optimize extraction of Blender attributes * Refactored GPU denoising code * Upgrade to new Embree 4 while staying compatible with Embree 3 * bump version to * Avoid overhead from RNA when extracting mesh data Fix * Fix #106440: EEVEE: World lighting does not affect volumetrics Geometry * Geometry: Use implicit sharing for curve and mesh offsets * Mesh: Replace MPoly struct with offset indices Geometry Nodes * Geometry Nodes: avoid last buffer copy in Blur Attribute node IDManagement * IDManagement: Extend ID remapping code. Image * Image: Use OpenImageIO for loading and saving a variety of image formats ImageEngine * ImageEngine: Improve Performance and Quality. Nodes * Nodes: Move data-block default values with link drag search * Nodes: Add dropdown to select group socket subtype Python * Python: Support multiple custom script directories in Preferences * Python: `` context manager * Python API: Add function to create links to virtual sockets Realtime Compositor * Map UV node * Fog Glow Glare node * Displace node * Z Combine node Sculpt * Sculpt: updated Mask and Face Set menu operators Texture Paint * Texture Paint: always respect edit mode hiding Transform * Transform: improve visualization when dragging Gizmos UI * Sculpt Paint tool defaults * Quick tooltip showing tab name for Properties editor tabs * Allow Clipboard Copy/Paste Images * Color Picker Positioning * Add slash character support to fuzzy search initials mode * Allow Float Kerning for Text Objects * Tooltips for Assets * Fix disconnected and non-clickable checkbox labels in popovers * enable string properties for alt-click buttons for multiple objects * Text Object International Case Change * Region polling support UV * add overlapping island support for uv packing * support for non-square bitmaps in uv packer, alpaca_rotate * improve layout efficiency of uv packing when rotation enabled Viewport * DRW: Selection Occlusion