Blender Developer Notes: January 25, 2015
Ton Roosendaal shares the notes of the developers meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders. Be sure to read the update on the hair sim!
Ton Roosendaal writes:
Hi all,
Here are the notes from today’s 15h UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders
1) Blender 2.73a released
- Last week a bugfix update was released. All went smooth sofar.
2) Targets for 2.74
- Schedule updated, we’re now in “BCon2” – the targets have been defined.
- Some targets still need final confirmation, especially if we do an OpenGL viewport commit.
- Compositor now has more optimal memory management.
- One of the bigger Gooseberry targets made it to master last week, hair editing and sim!
3) Other projects
- No dependency graph news, but that’s coming soon!
- Meeting was quiet, we closed within 20 minutes. Back to code!
Thanks,
-Ton-
You know what would be a neat little feature in Blender eventually? An optional little prompt that gently appears periodically to remind you how long you’ve been at the computer.
Maybe it could have a random bunch of friendly and funny little prompt images, saying things like:
“Hey, wanna take a short break?”
“Desk-potato detected! Stretch your legs a while!”
“Hey, it’s lunchtime!”
and maybe after many hours,
“It’s been nine hours! How are you still alive?! Get some fresh air, for goodness sake!”
In fact you can do something like this using other program on the computer, I really do not remember the name, but I’ve seen it around…
It is possible to create an addon, but frankly this is a very specific need and useless.
There are so many more important things.
Oh, it’s a novelty, for sure. Just throwing this out as one of those at-one’s-leisure developments. Not essential at all. If anything, I’m just sorta putting this one out more lightheartedly.
Also, wasn’t so much looking for the core development for this one. Indeed, there are far more important things on the core agenda. Though, I do see from time to time folks taking a little side-development. A small little add-on could definitely do the job. But again, it’s no big deal.
hair!!!!!!!! :D between this and the cube surfer particle mesher, its been a good week!