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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · 1d

There will be lots of improvements related to nodes in Blender 5.0. Please give them a try and report bugs. #b3d #GeometryNodes #devfund

Checkout the work-in-progress release notes, there's lots of cool stuff to discover!

developer.blender.org/docs/release...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · 1d

Blender 5.0 will come with support for volume grids in #GeometryNodes. There is a new blog post about it: code.blender.org/2025/10/volu...

#b3d #devfund

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Aug 10

Recently, I was thinking about how funding for donation based projects could be improved in general. After talking about it with a few people, it seemed like a good idea to share the thoughts more publicly. Have a look: jlucke.com/blog/relativ...

Rethinking Donations: Relative Giving and Relative Taking

A vision for a new effective funding platform for public benefit projects.

jlucke.com

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Aug 8

We just merged support for Bundles and Closures for #GeometryNodes. This simplifies building high level node group assets which remain very flexible. It also opens up many exciting future possibilities. See the blog post for more details. #b3d #devfund

code.blender.org/2025/08/bund...

Bundles and Closures — Blender Developers Blog

Introducing bundles and closures in Geometry Nodes in Blender 5.0.

code.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Aug 8

Blender 5.0 will come with new socket shape semantics, making them more compatible across different node tree types and allowing us to support lists and volume grids in #GeometryNodes in the future. #b3d #devfund

code.blender.org/2025/08/new-...

New Socket Shapes — Blender Developers Blog

Changing the meaning of socket shapes for Blender 5.0.

code.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Jul 25

There is a new blog post summarizing what we talked about in our recent #GeometryNodes workshop in Amsterdam. It covers various topics including dynamics, lists, curve mapping widgets, viewers, assets and more. #b3d #devfund

code.blender.org/2025/07/geom...

Geometry Nodes Workshop: July 2025 — Blender Developers Blog

Summary of what was discussed at the Geometry Nodes workshop in July 2025.

code.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Jul 16

The second post is about how I got into sourdough bread baking: jlucke.com/blog/my-brea...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Jul 16

I've started a blog to be able to share some projects I work on with my future self and curious others. It will mostly focus on stuff I do on my own time that might not be related to Blender. This site is still WIP, but two posts are up already.

jlucke.com/blog/persona...

Building my website

Sharing some insights into how I built my website.

jlucke.com

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Jun 23

You may also want to join our channel on Blender Chat: chat.blender.org#/room/#berli...

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/eVzdFKLhNVTr...

Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Jun 23

Next week Thursday (2025-07-03), 6-9 pm, we'll have our second Blender Meetup in Berlin this year. We'll meet in room MAR 0.007 of the TU Berlin (see link below). If you're interested in Blender, computer graphics and/or open source, feel free to drop by. #b3d

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 24

Commits:
* Move context path: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...
* Persistent table layouts: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...
* Column reordering: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...
* Column resizing: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

Spreadsheet: move context path to left side bar · 9ac3e44ce6

Previously, we were drawing the context path in the header of the spreadsheet. However, that had some problems: * When using a viewer that's somewhere deep in a node group, the viewer path wouldn't…

projects.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 24

We recently improved the spreadsheet in Blender in multiple ways:
* Context path moved to the side making space for menus.
* Columns can be resized/reordered.
* It remembers the order of columns.
* Supports horizontal scroll wheel.

#b3d #devfund #GeometryNodes

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 24

Commit: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

Nodes: auto-hide unused inputs if usage depends on menu · 5457cca3de

Previously, when a socket was detected to be unused, it was just grayed out. This patch adds support for automatically hiding unused sockets based on this convention: Menu inputs control visibility…

projects.blender.org

Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 24

Blender now automatically hides #GeometryNodes inputs if their usage depends on a menu input. This allows building higher level node groups without having to show all the inputs all the time. #b3d #devfund

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 19

We worked on improving the workflow for frame nodes in Blender. See the blog post below for more details. #GeometryNodes #b3d #devfund

code.blender.org/2025/05/fram...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 3

Group Defaults node: devtalk.blender.org/t/group-defa...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 3

Sticky Viewer nodes: devtalk.blender.org/t/sticky-vie...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 3

Context input nodes: devtalk.blender.org/t/context-in...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 3

Progress dialog for slow blocking operations: devtalk.blender.org/t/progress-d...

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 3

This week I wrote a couple of proposals for new Blender features. Feedback is welcome. See the thread below for individual links. #b3d #devfund

Also, the document on declarative systems in #GeometryNodes is available on the blog now:

Declarative Systems in Geometry Nodes — Blender Developers Blog

The future of building high level user-friendly procedural tools with Geometry Nodes.

code.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · May 1

I wrote a document describing how we want to make it possible to build high level and easy-to-use node group assets for physics simulations and more. #b3d #devfund #GeometryNodes

devtalk.blender.org/t/declarativ...

Declarative Systems in Geometry Nodes

Currently, one of our primary goals for Geometry Nodes is to get to a point where we can build high level and easy to use node group assets for physics simulations. Our general approach was described…

devtalk.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Apr 4

Commit: projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

Mesh: Add "free" custom normals · d3f84449ad

Add a "dumb vector" storage option for custom normals, with the "custom_normal" attribute. Adjust the mesh normals caching to provide this attribute if it's available, and add a geometry node to…

projects.blender.org

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Set Mesh Normal node has just been added to #GeometryNodes. It allows adding and modifying custom normals, opening up many new possibilities. #b3d #devfund

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Apr 3

In three weeks I'll be at the Everything Procedural conference with Simon Thommes. There, we'll also give a #GeometryNodes workshop. #b3d #EPC2025

Home - Everything Procedural Conference

EVERYTHING PROCEDURAL EPC2025 22-25 April 2025 CONFERENCE ON PROCEDURAL GENERATION FOR GAMES tickets Days Hours Minutes Seconds meet and share knowledge From Tuesday April 22 to Friday April 25 2025…

www.everythingprocedural.com

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Apr 3

Currently, when Geometry Nodes is reevaluated for whatever reason (some value changed), the new file contents will be loaded. Some improvements in that regard are still planned.

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