Developer Meeting Notes: September 28, 2014
Ton Roosendaal shares the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders.
1) Release review
- Blender 2.72 RC is out! Check blender.org for download and the log.
- So far reviews and reports are OK, official release might happen on thursday.
2) Projects for 2.73
- Tamito Kajiyama: Freestyle memory optimization will go into 2.73 (BF-funded project result).
- Thomas Dinges proposes to make Cycles Default as target. He will make a proposal to the list here next week, to outline which work should have to be completed for it (IO mostly).
- Freestyle built-in SVG exporter would be a 2.73 target too.
- Dun Liang (randon)’s Windows IME support patch could also go into 2.73 – allow better Asian character input.
- Jeroen Bakker: compositor memory management is ready for final review. updated with all comments.
- Multiview is going to be a candidate, check the great doc from Dalai Felinto.
- FBX: there are two addons, the ‘experimental’ one has the latest work on it. Will get tested and improved for 2.73.
3) Other projects
- Joshua Leung shows preliminary support for editing (copying, moving/rotating/scaling, selecting) grease pencil strokes.
Could become target for next release, including fills. Work was inspired by Daniel Lara (Pepeland)! - Bastien Montagne has first working results for mesh transfer data, current (still heavy wip) code is here.
- Dalai Felinto and Benoit Bolsee had long sessions in Blender Institute about Game Engine work and possible Development Fund projects. No direct outcome can be mentioned yet, but at least they’ll carefully align work with the Viewport project.
- BTW: Campbell Barton and Sergey Sharybin will fly to Amsterdam on tuesday, to work in Blender Institute with Antonis, Lukas, and the rest of the Gooseberry film crew.
That’s it, back to work!
-Ton-
Will the new Nvidia 900 series be supported by cycles in 2.73?
What is the point of freestyle rendering in cycles? Seems like BI would be better for it and it is already developed so doing it for cycles as well seems like a waste of money. Please enlighten me folks.
you may want to combine realistic shadows with a good line rendering…
An example among many : a product rendering, with an outline on a part to explain something…
As nylnook said, you get the benefit of realistic shadows (realistic material definition) with stylized line rendering. I would imagine that, in time, Freestyle might will have its own shader node for Cycles usage.
You guys never heard about the Blender compositor, didn’t you? :)
hmmmm, nothing on scorpion81’s fracture modifier,heard a couple week’s ago it was up for review.any news on that front. love to see it get in, happy blending
” Hi,
I forgot to add the link to the wiki project page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
One of the targets is Martin Felke’s fracture modifier!
-Ton- ”
That was the content of a small follow-up mail from Ton, which is not being displayed here.
yea i saw that one, just wondering if it got reviewed or still on the list. no worries looking forward to it that’s all. great work to all :)