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Developer Meeting Notes, January 20, 2013

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By on Blender Development

blender_logo_shinySome slight delays, but it looks like 2.66 is still on track for release mid-february.

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's session in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders

1) Blender 2.66 progress

  • Current projects and planning.
  • The Bullet branch is nearly finished, but needs some recode still for way how Groups are being handled.
  • PyNode branch review didn't make it last week due to flu.
  • Matcap work hasn't been finished last week either, integrating in a nice way is complicated. Sculpt code is also using different drawing.
  • Most of the time meeting spent on defining whether to extend this release cycle with 1 or 2 weeks or not. We settled on the following: Approved release targets/projects get until tuesday 22nd end of day to be added in trunk. We will try to stick to original planning, but if Bullet branch and/or Pynode gets in we can extend testing/fixing period (bcon3) with a week.
  • Translation code for for Python Add-on scripts will get added today
  • Rounded vertex-only bevel fix is coming soon, A complete new modifier implementation for Beveling becomes a 2.67 target.

2) Other projects

Nothing mentioned today.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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12 Comments

  1. Jester_v01 on

    New Bevel modifier - hallelujah. I do a lot of mechanical modelling and keep having problems with the current one. Keep up the good work!

    Reply
  4. Tom Telos on

    Groups? Did you say, Groups?

    As in, groups of objects, I was thinking.
    A couple of improvements that I'd love to see are:The ability to create a named, empty, group.A method, in the Blender Python API, to add (and remove)
    a named object to/from a named group, irrespective of who is active or selected.

    Reply
    • Tom Telos on

      Sorry; try that again:

      1.- The ability to create a named, empty, group.

      2.- A method, in the Blender Python API, to add (and remove)
          a named object to/from a named group,
          irrespective of who is active or selected.

      Reply
      • ideasman42 on

        myobj = bpy.data.objects["NamedObject"]
        group = bpy.data.groups.new(name="NamedGroup")
        group.objects.link(myobj)

        # and to remove
        group.objects.unlink(myobj)

        Reply
        • Tom Telos on

          Duly noted: thank you!

          Would you kindly insert that example
          into the Blender Python API Reference?

          Cheese! ^_^

          [Off to try that, NOW.]

          Reply

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