Comments on: Blender Developers Meeting Notes

By: aws357

aws357 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:37:45 +0000

For the physic, if I may add something : it would be interesting if people could set increase or decrease the number of timestep they wish to record (for the moment, bullet record only the default timestep to IPO)

Possible applications : ragdolls for slow motion animations. These need more timestep than the usual.
And for fast paced burly fight you don’t need as much details for the ragdolls, so you can skip some timestep…

Otherwise, I do like the way they imagine the scenario of Durian, if the animators and artists get all their features it will be a hell of a release for Blender… :)

By: Pustoolio

Pustoolio — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:16:07 +0000

@niecny – it is ridiculous to say something is going to be “exactly like” from a one sentence description.

By: ralmon

ralmon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:13:56 +0000

Ohh! Ohh! … I’m lost :-).

By: tyrant monkey

tyrant monkey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:10:34 +0000

lava chunks drop down from the sky….:-) so who is the warcraft fan?

By: young_voter

young_voter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:50:48 +0000

I’d rather see the line, ’so the dragon looks temptingly at the durian, the auroma filling the air, wanting to filling its stomach, before finding the girl’s parents’ three killers”.

By: Big Fan

Big Fan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:33:47 +0000

So would someone in the know like to nominate a % finished for 2.5 at this point please.
At one time Ton was giving reports about progress but this seems to have died out.

By: Robo3Dguy

Robo3Dguy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:25:51 +0000

Whoa lava chunks drop down from sky, come to life, to turn into glowing evil lava critters? Wow this will be cool!

Oh hey, from the features wishlist I see were getting rigid bodies integrated right into the physics section of Blender! No more recording to IPO!! YAY I’ve been waiting for this for a long time thanks devs!

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:01:14 +0000

“Shader that reacts to angle of mesh faces to each other”

Isn’t that the whole point of freestyle?

Any while these coding ‘gods’ are at it maybe they could spend the two minutes to add some comments to the shadeinput struct that describes what each setting is (along with its normal direction) so that non-deities can add their own custom shaders.

Not that I’m ungrateful for the hard work the devs are doing but seriously, two minutes to add something like “light vector — normal points from surface to light source”.

Ok, maybe I do sound ungrateful but that’s not the intent…

By: Month3d

Month3d — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:30:49 +0000

Sounds good, nice to see a 2.49b :) and I’m definitely looking forward to durian!

By: niecny

niecny — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:01:03 +0000

“Lava chunks drop down from sky, come to life, to turn into glowing evil lava critters.”

its exactly like the intro cinematic to the Warcraft III – http://www.gametrailers.com/video/trailer-1-warcraft-iii/3107