Pepper Branch Merged to Trunk

As of rev 39791, the GSoC pepper branch, including 3D Audio, Animation system polish, motion capture, BGE Animation an Collada improvements have been merged into trunk. Congrats and thanks to Joshua Lueng, Jörg Müller, Benjamin Cook, Mitchel Stokes, Prabhath Jayathilake and their mentors for their contributiuons!

@Graphicall writes:

Since r39791 Pepper branch has been merged to trunk!! Congrats to 3D Audio, Animation System, Motion Capture, BGE Anim and Collada projects!

Builds can already be found on Graphicall with the new additions.

SoC – New Blender UV tools

UV mapping can at the best of times be a daunting experience, and as such is one of the areas in Blender that is being developed as part of the GSoC. Some very handy and convenient improvements are being made to the current UV tool-set and there are many more to come. Here are two preview videos from separate blender branches on the UV tool-set and its development.

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