Blender developer meeting minutes, June 20, 2010

Bart · June 21, 2010

The weekly update from the heart of the Blender Development community.

1) Current Projects

Lukas Tönne requested a branch for his physics work

Ton noted that for the Durian they would do a “post-mortem” with the artists, to clearly document the shortcomings they felt were blocking us, and particle issues will be among the areas discussed. jahka + Lukas could talk with the Durian artists while they are here to get better first hand knowldege of the issues.

GSOC

Ton mentioned that he would like to see GSoC coders hanging around irc a bit more often – so for those of you GSoCers who are not regularly visiting the Blender channel, please consider doing so.

Also it was noted that meeting times are especially good for finding various members of the team if you have questions/need help.

Here are the weekly status reports from the students:

Konrad Wilhelm Kleine – Paint Tools upgrade
Nick Samarin – Recast and Detour (Pathfindind and AI for GE)
Rohith B.V. – Quad Dominant Remeshing
Joerg Mueller – GE API improvements
Leif Andersen – Testing framework
Mitchell Stokes – GLSL shader improvements
Jason Wilkins – Sculpting Brushes improvements
Nicholas Bishop – Multires Improvements
Mike Erwin – Input Device improvements
Joshua Leung – Physics tools

3) 2.5x

Tom reports that on the sculpting front – all tools are finally usable! and hopefully ready for review midweek If the install stuff is settled, we’re ready for beta and then we can go with double energy back to bugs Plan is to check again next weekend and if all goes well then define beta build in that week

Tom noted that if at all possible he would like workflow for paint texturing fixed before release currently it takes about 30 steps to setup and begin texturing, with almost garunteed mistake. Which could be turned into a 2-4 step process with little chance of error. Ton asked that Tom make a document describing the current process and how he would recommend things be simplified.

4) Durian

Things still progress nicely, the coding work is winding to an end which will allow more attention to be turned to pure bug fixing.

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.

15 responses

Wiktor

21 June 2010 at 07:05

What about the B-mesh and its developer’s involvement in Durian? Any chance we will see n-gons inside blender sooner than later?

tools

21 June 2010 at 07:24

screw ngons!!! I just want bevel and the bridge tool back :(

bat3a

21 June 2010 at 07:26

//What about the B-mesh and its developer’s involvement in Durian? Any chance we will see n-gons inside blender sooner than later?//

i’ll gladly second that :)

stenosis

21 June 2010 at 08:04

@ tools: bevel and bridge is build on ngons :P

Appleseed007

21 June 2010 at 08:31

Hiya Guys

Did someone mention Bevel?

Not had a chance to check it out but you might want to look at this build:

http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=1441

Specifically:

external add-ons
Bevel (add-on menu : View3D – EditMode – Specials)

Happy Blending.

Laters

konan

21 June 2010 at 09:31

Me too,
N-Gons and Bevel tool!! Where is the bevel tool in 2.5x?

Reaction

21 June 2010 at 10:53

There only seems to be the simple Bevel modifier, but I don’t understand why that doesn’t have a ‘levels’ control…

Dread Knight

21 June 2010 at 12:10

Yeah, painting in blender (2.5) has an ultra lame workflow indeed. Looking forward to see that stuff simplified and making more sense.

For example, if you paint in the 3d viewport, which no other viewports opened, you need to have an uv/image editor in order to undo or save the texture, which is lame.

@tools: dude, don’t ever say ‘screw n-gons’ because that’s one of the most important features blender could get… and it’s due for years already. Seems you don’t really know what you’re talking about, as others mentioned.

kos

21 June 2010 at 12:33

Personally i am most worried about sugestion of marking render API unstable for 2.5. I hope this will not happen. IMO it would be a huge drawback not only for all the dev teams putting efforts in integration of external renderers but also for many users who are willing to use these renderers.

Mitch

21 June 2010 at 12:56

I’m not so interested in n-gons, per se, but the tools that are coming with the bmesh framework look great –based on the demos I’ve seen. But I think I heard at some point that bmesh will be after 2.5. Not sure, though.