GOODIES FOR EVERYONE - Blender.Today LIVE #187

Contribute to Blender's future by joining the Development Fund https://fund.blender.org #BlenderToday #b3d * Music by @Thaehan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5HYJTpconGuwC8g-l1QXLg -- BLENDER TODAY #187 Intel Arc Graphics | Rendering Cycles in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacIa9dqwSc blender.org/download https://www.blender.org/download/ Potential Blender 3.1.1 release https://developer.blender.org/T96241 CYCLES Cycles: Add Hydra render delegate https://developer.blender.org/rBd350976ba06d4ef93aa53fc4cd9da57be46ae924 https://developer.blender.org/D14398 https://developer.blender.org/T96731 Cycles: enable HIP for Vega and Vega II (Radeon 7) GPUs on Windows https://developer.blender.org/rBc46e58817cd72d1481967d32e3c6f47f42933d39 Cycles: don't write light passes for shadow catcher objects https://developer.blender.org/rB9ef400ddf74731057b7259b1ed449ad9f3ebd772 GEOMETRY NODES Geometry Nodes: Improve performance writing to vertex groups https://developer.blender