Blender Development

Blender Developer Notes: May 10, 2015

Bart ·

Ton shares the notes of the developers meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders.

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

1) Release targets for 2.75

  • The AMD patch (splitting OpenCL kernels for Cycles) is in. Kudos for Sergey Sharybin who spent quite some time on getting this to work with the rest of the Cycles code.
  • There is a limited set of AMD graphics cards that will work with this, Thomas Dinges
    volunteers to collect statistics the for release log on this.
  • Sergey still likes to add the Dependency Graph code in master. It won’t affect Blender much, but it should be done before we have an official “BCon3” (test/fix period).
  • Another last minute feature gets a quick review now, custom icons/previews might make it.
  • Current projects and planning.
  • This Wednesday it’s the strict BCon3. No new stuff anymore!

2) Other projects

  • Mike Erwin had some OpenGL Viewport tests to share (improved ways to draw wires).
  • Kevin Ditrich is working on OpenVDB: here and here. Kevin will be in contact with Sergey (Cyles) and Lukas (caching, pipeline) to make sure things fit in future designs too.

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.
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