Ten 2010 Google Summer Of Code Projects for Blender!

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Google is generously sponsoring 10 students to work on Blender this summer, here are the accepted students and proposals and their mentors.

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Student Project Name Mentor Name
Jason Wilkins 3D Sculpting tools Tom Musgrove
Joshua Leung Bullet Construction Toolkit Martin Poirier
Joerg Mueller Game Engine API Campbell Barton
Konrad Kleine Paint Tools upgrade Robert Holcomb
Leif Andersen Unit Tests Andrea Weikert
Mike Erwin Input device improvements Matt Ebb
Mitchell Stokes BE Shader work Dalai Felinto
Nicholas Bishop Multiresolution improvements Brecht Van Lommel
Nick Samarin Recast & Detour Benoit Bolsee
Rohith B V Quad remeshing Daniel Genrich

Link to eight of the proposals (You’ll need to cross reference these with the list above.)

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    • http://www.animationbytim.com/ Tim Formica [Room335]

      Sorry about the columns not lining up. I have yet to figure out how to do this in WordPress.

    • http://www.FreezingMoon.org Dread Knight

      @Tim, you could usually use allign left, center and right to get things to look nice I think :)

    • wysiwyg

      Cool! is Mitchell Stokes supposed to be BGE Shader Work?

    • http://www.createinside.com Morten Najbjerg

      Hey Tim

      Install this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ and enable the option for working with tables in the editor :) That should do the trick.

    • Nik

      Yea for Rohith’s Quad Remeshing! Can’t wait!

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      good luck :)

      awesomeness.

    • http://www.miikahweb.com/ MiikaH

      Too bad Jörg Müller was choosen to work for “Game Engine API”. :d I really wished either stereoscopic rendering or 3D audio baking to be implemented. Both really important and cool features imo.

    • Zagupi

      Can’t you already do stereoscopic rendering? I mean, with the compositor and all. Or was the summer project something more sophisticated?

    • Jcd

      Awesome with the recast/detour integration! This will really be a great upgrade to the BGE.

    • http://talesfromthecellar.com Mitch

      Sculpting, multires, and painting. Nice!

    • Le@ndro

      They all sound so grate! But I’m particularly drooling over the “Bullet Construction Toolkit”!!! Awesome add-ons…

    • Chris Larkee

      Tim, you don’t need another plugin for WordPress to get tables, just do a little HTML. Hit the “HTML” button in the post editor, and copy and paste this in there:

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    • Gryphon

      MiikaH said:

      “Too bad Jörg Müller was choosen to work for “Game Engine API”. :d I really wished either stereoscopic rendering or 3D audio baking to be implemented. Both really important and cool features imo.”

      As far as I can tell right now, Blender 2.5 doesn’t really have a Game Engine API. Somebody has to do it, and the sooner the better. I’d love to see the old features re-implemented before too many new features get added.

      I do feel your pain, though; his proposal for work on Blender’s audio system sounds great!

    • http://www.animationbytim.com/ Tim Formica [Room335]

      Thanks Chris.

    • Dane

      That bullet toolkit looks highly promising.
      Just the feature I have been hoping someone would add :-D

    • Zeropoint

      You know, what I would like to see is a really robust and intelligent Boolean modifier or script.

    • yuzukyo

      and yafray has 7 projects accepted ,include Blender 2.5 integration.

      http://www.yafaray.org/community/forum/viewforum.php?f=24&start=0

    • http://www.mindinsomnia.com Aussiedude

      Everyday, Blender just gets a little cooler! :3

    • Tom Telos

      Is anybody struck by the fact that there is not a single female here,
      neither students nor mentors ??

    • Marcus

      Jörg Müller really had several cool proposals, I wish we could clone him!

    • Marcus

      @ Jason Wilkins:
      Cool idea with the MESH DENSITY brush!

      I would like to see the DRY BRUSH from Mudbox also, which only effects raised parts of a mesh:

      http://www.creativeobserver.com/img/2329_autodesk_mudbox_2010_screenshot_lg.jpg

      Dry Brush videotut:
      http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/mudbox_drybrush.php

    • joeri67

      Ten? wauw. As a bonus for Google I clicked an ad link.

    • panypeces

      it’s a pity the project http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Shinjin/Gsoc2010/Proposal is not in the list :-(
      Good luck for those ten! :-)

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      Wow ? now that?s perspective! I think we often react in agreement or disagreement because of our emotions, but hearing another side, passionately presented, really makes us think!

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