Blender Development

Developer Meeting Notes: September 21, 2014

Bart ·

Thomas Dinges shares the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders.

Hi everyone,

Here are the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders.

1) Blender 2.72 release

  • It looks like we are ready for the Release Candidate soon, probably Tuesday or Wednesday.
  • We need the splash screen for the RC still, Ton can you check on this please?
  • The Bug tracker has 138 open reports atm, but no showstoppers. Developers: If a crucial issue still comes up, assign it to Blender Regressions project. Also please check on your assigned reports.
  • 2.72 Release logs are almost ready, mainly the summary is missing. Help is welcome here. :)

2) Current projects

  • Bastien mentions work on transfer data from one mesh to others (like vgroups, shapekeys, smooth faces, UVs, etc.).
  • Antony is working on custom widget API, that will allow operators and code to add custom widgets to the interface.
  • Levon Hudson is working on a mesh cache sequence modifier for e.g. realflow mesh and particles, objs. Should be available as a patch in the coming weeks.
  • Campbell works on editmesh select-similar face-regions, a tool to select face-islands with matching topology.

Thanks,
Thomas

Mesh cache sequence modifier screenshot
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.
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