Dev:2.8/

The 2.8 Workflow Project

Here we gather documentation related to the 2.8 workflow project. The Blender 2.8 project was officially announced on July 2015.

Development

• Work takes place on the blender2.8 branch.
• Changes that happen to make Blender unstable should be developed in separate branches until they stabilize.
• Functionalities will be temporarily disabled and brought back one by one once they comply to the new design.
• From April to June in 2018 the core developers are together in Amsterdam for the code quest (weekly reports).

Note for users: please do play with the blender2.8 branch. However be aware that saving files in blender2.8 may make them incompatible with Blender 2.79 (or even new versions of Blender 2.80).

Backward compatibility

There are many changes in the 2.8 series that make it incompatible with previous Blender releases. Visit the 2.7x migration page for more details.

On-Going Task Forces

• Multi-object mode support.
• Dependency graph operators.

Design Documents

The 2.8 project also gives us a good chance to rework and expand our code documentation. We highly recommend developers to make use out of this. Artists are more than welcome to help too, though.

• Blender 2.8 Design Document
• 2.8 UI Workshop Write-up
• Data design proposal, how DNA, Scenes, Layers, Engines an Viewports can work together.
• Custom Manipulators
• Draw Manager Possibilities
• Scene Organization and Workspaces

Projects

Projects for 2.8 also have a place to write down information that is not directly considered 'documentation' (ToDo lists, open questions, notes, ...). Link to them from here!

• Assets
• Depsgraph
• Layers and Collections
• Modifiers
• OpenGL Refactoring
• Overrides
• Particles Rewrite
• Viewport
• Workflow
• Python

Outreach

Throughout the Blender 2.8 project, the Blender developer blog has been centralizing the public outreach of the development status, and the evolution of the discussions. Let's keep'em coming!

• Blender 2.8 Highlights
• EEVEE F.A.Q.
• Outliner Improvements in Blender 2.8
• Blender 2.8 Xmas Report
• Drawing 2D Animation in Blender 2.8
• Blender 2.8 Design Document
• View Layers and Collections
• Modifiers in Grease Pencil 2.8
• Grease Pencil 2.8 sneak peek
• Viewport: Past, present and future
• Blender 2.8 Workflow Video
• Eevee roadmap
• Improving Alembic support in 2.79 and 2.8
• Dependency graph proposal
• Viewport project - plan of action
• Highlights of workflow workshop
• Blender 2.8 project status
• Layers and beyond
• Asset management and pipeline
• Blender 2.8 viewport development
• Proposal for caching, nodes and physics
• The 2.8 project for developers
• Blender 2.8 - the workflow release

Proposals

Users are invited to create proposals and submit them here.