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Roadmap
What's on and what's next in Blender.
Ongoing Projects
NODES & PHYSICS
Modal Node Tools
Extend geometry node tools to allow creating interactive operators.
GREASE PENCIL
Selection Tools & Basic stroke manipulation in Draw Mode
Selection & basic manipulation tools in Draw Mode.
EEVEE
Material Lighting Nodes
Add tooling for non-photorealistic surface shading that reacts to multiple lights.
NODES & PHYSICS
Fluid Simulation
Build a FLIP (Fluid-Implicit Particle) fluid system in geometry nodes.
TEXTURING
Texture Layers, Painting, & Baking
Improve material and texture authoring, with a high level user interface for painting, layered procedural effects and baking.
I/O
Collection Import
Bring Blender lib linking closer to importing data from other formats, plus allow more flexibility in the loading process.
RENDERING
OpenPBR Surface Shader
Support OpenPBR Surface for interoperability, and upgrade Principled BSDF with matching features.
On Hold
CORE
Dynamic Overrides
A simple and efficient way to override property values of any data-block, linked or local.
Upcoming Projects
COMPOSITOR
Per-sample Compositing
Eliminate jagged edges and technical artifacts in post-processing.
COMPOSITOR
Multi-stage Compositor
Allow attaching post-processing effects directly to individual objects or materials.
Completed Projects
VIDEO SEQUENCER
Compositor Modifier
Implement a compositor modifier in the Video Sequencer.
P.S. Performance improvement is still ongoing.
STANDALONE PRODUCT
Blender Asset Tracer v.2
More stable version, better compatibility with future versions of Blender.
XR
Vulkan OpenXR Interop
Improve the performance when using Virtual Reality with the Vulkan Backend.
EEVEE
GPU Shader Compilation Optimisation
Cut initial shader compilation time in half on some platforms.
Grease Pencil
Fills and Holes
Move to a new tool-based workflow for creating fills and allow fills to have holes.
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Tracy Frame Profiler Support
Integrate a frame profiler aiding both evaluation of new feature performances and profiling of the overall Blender codebase.
GREASE PENCIL
New Bucket Fill Algorithm
Fix existing limitations and issues of Grease Pencil Bucket Fill.
GREASE PENCIL
Textured Brushes
Update Grease Pencil materials to increase quality and performance of textured brushes.
EEVEE
Improve Instancing Performance
Implement Draw Module instancing optimizations support for EEVEE.
EEVEE
Improve Raytracing – AO Pipeline
Fix critical issues and make raytracing implementation more robust.
CYCLES
Texture Cache
Use many high resolution textures with little memory, by loading only tiles at mipmap levels that are needed.
Blender Lab
Check out more projects under the Lab activities, the innovation space within the Blender project.
Note that Lab activities are not part of the current Blender roadmap, and do not have a release timeline or target.
