Developer Meeting Notes, April 14, 2013

Bart · April 14, 2013

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Ton Roosendaal writes:

Hi all,
Here’s notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders
1) Blender 2.67 status

Tamito Kajiyama: migration of FreeStyle went smooth, all bugs that were reported have been handled. Next is getting all the docs in wiki and a nice release log page. Yes, we want more demo files!

Sergey Sharybin fixed the issue in Motion Tracking as mentioned in last week’s minutes, where reconstruction was not always giving same results.

Brecht van Lommel is still fixing SSS, working on better fall-off function now.

Stuart Broadfoot worked on hair minimum pixel size, should go to svn soon.

Lukas Toenne: nodes have a new Add menu and associated panels in the toolbar now, to better control ordering, make it use proper operators and allow nice features in future.

Ton Roosendaal will add Blender Internal 3d viewport preview in svn, but hidden behind the debug menu.

Campbell Barton is working on debug-color visualization for 3D print toolbox still.

If all goes fine, next week meeting we can move to the final pre-release stage, make testbuild or release candidate!
2) Other projects

GSoC starts in 8 days.

NumPy could be included in Blender as module now. Sergey coordinates with the other platform maintainers.
Laters,
-Ton-

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

12 responses

prf3D

14 April 2013 at 21:29

Thanks soooo much for NumPy!!!!! :)

supergra
15 April 2013 at 00:19
Including Numpy will save me hours of work compiling and linking it into every Blender distribution, every time a new version comes in.
It will save people who use my scripts, which rely on Numpy, a tremendous amount of confusion and setup time.
It will encourage people to write faster, better scripts for Blender.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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1. xerula
  15 April 2013 at 03:27
  I really hope this can happen soon. I too have lost many days of my life trying to compile / link numpy for different Blender versions, machines and OSes. Thanks guys…
  **holds breath**
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  1. 4museman
    15 April 2013 at 20:59
    Sounds good! Could this be of help in dealing with Blender Python API restriction of being unable to store dictionaries or lists of strings within Blend files?
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DimitrisC

14 April 2013 at 21:52

Ton Roosendal will add Blender Internal 3d viewport preview in svn, but hidden behind the debug menu.
Is this like the Ctrl+P thingy on 2.4x?

cekuhnen
15 April 2013 at 15:21
Maybe somewhat – it borrows from rendered preview from Cycles and it seems to be extremely fast – not sure if this is GPU accelerated.
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bassam

14 April 2013 at 22:45

It is more like the preview render in cycles in terms of how it functions.

Arnaud Couturier
14 April 2013 at 23:11
I didn’t get it from the description either…
That would be awesome !
I use BI and I often miss that realtime preview in the viewport, to get a feeling of the shapes in (almost) final quality rendering.
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1. jsaffari
  15 April 2013 at 11:08
  I think This option after release 2.5x remove but Ton will create
  for new interface .
  in cycle render can see preview but it’s for cycles
  1.set render Cycles render
  2.set viewport shading to rendering
  Not:
  material that create for object most create in Cycle mode
  for more info go to
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles
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cmo
15 April 2013 at 13:00
I hope being in the debug will be temporary. I use cycles more, but BI is still useful and I’ve been missing the viewport preview.
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