Developer Meeting Notes, January 20, 2013

Bart · January 21, 2013

Some 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-

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

Jester_v01

21 January 2013 at 14:08

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

Brian Lockett

21 January 2013 at 14:57

Beveling getting some love in 2.67! Great! Good work, guys!

Hakki Riza

21 January 2013 at 17:50

I see Ton Roosendaal is not very busy those days, he left empty “2) other projects”…

Psy-Fi
22 January 2013 at 01:13
Would matcaps and pie menus satiate your featurelust?
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Tom Telos

21 January 2013 at 21:56

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.

Tom Telos
21 January 2013 at 22:00
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.
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1. ideasman42
  22 January 2013 at 21:52
  myobj = bpy.data.objects[“NamedObject”]
  group = bpy.data.groups.new(name=”NamedGroup”)
  group.objects.link(myobj)
  # and to remove
  group.objects.unlink(myobj)
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  1. Tom Telos
    23 January 2013 at 01:01
    Duly noted: thank you!
    Would you kindly insert that example
    into the Blender Python API Reference?
    Cheese! ^_^
    [Off to try that, NOW.]
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