An update on the progress of Blender 2.67 targets: PyNodes, Freestyle, 2D paint and Pie Menus.
Ton Roosendaal writes:
1) Blender 2.67 targets
- Lukas Toenne is ready with PyNodes, should go in svn tomorrow.
- Freestyle: Tamito Kajiyama addressed the comments from Campbell Barton already. Sergey Sharybin will start reviewing FreeStyle tomorrow. Looks like also this will go in svn this week! Freestyle code review in progress. Freestyle doc in progress.
- Ton Roosendaal still has Pie Menus on his list, should be possible within 2 weeks.
- Antonis Ryakiotakis is progressing on work on 2D painting.
- Meeting shortly discussed new icons for Paint strokes, there's proposals in BlenderArtists forums. No decision yet, more experimentation with design/style (to match our current icons) is welcome.
- Other release targets are all on-going, no news!
2) Other projects
- Alex Kuznetsov worked a bit on his OpenGL brach, together with Jason Wilkins work it could be merged... still needs more time though (or involvement of more people).
- We still use MSVC 2008 for releases, which is old and slow (especially compared to new gcc). Mingw for Windows does have a faster binary, but fails for parts still (like OSL, OpenMP). Anyone reading this with Microsoft connections, to seed a dozen of licenses to the online developer team?
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Thanks for the update! Freestyle going in SVN is awesome! :D
Why not migrate to MSVC 2012 Express? It supports OpenMP out of the box and is free...
Alright, answered the question to myself ;-)
NVidias Cuda does not support VC++ 2012 yet, boost libs have some problems with the compiler and many more reasons ...
Life could be so easy :-D
I've been making some progress on getting blender to build in vs2012. As you've said, boost has some issues (so far it's been the use of both the tr1 and the other shared pointer implementation in cycles and openimagio causing multiple classes to be defined in the same namespace).
After fixing that it seems one of the other 3rd party libs has either found a bug in the compiler or it's includes are going round in circles.
Unfortunately I've got other stuff need to do so I just jumping in a doing half an hour before having to stop.
It should be interesting to see if the auto-vectoriser does any magic when I get it to compile fully.
My Brother is a programmer for Microsoft. What version of MSVC are you looking for?
You should try to contact Ton directy via email. You can find a contact adress in the blender Fundation site.
Big big thanks to the Devs. I'm sure that 2.67 is gonna be awesome!
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