Google Summer of Code honours 10 Blender projects

Bart · April 23, 2016

An integrated liquid/smoke simulator, Cycles optimizations, new sculpting tools, Cycles denoising, improved bezier curves, layer management, motion tracking and UV tools? Sounds to me like Blender has hit the jackpot now that Google supports 10 amazing Summer of Code projects!

Which projects are you most excited about?

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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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John Hamilton

23 April 2016 at 10:26

nothing for the bge :( Great to see blender with so many projects in google summer of code

Todor

23 April 2016 at 12:28

Does anyone know what UV tools will be added?

Mike Erwin
23 April 2016 at 17:12
Each GSoC project will have a public wiki page with the proposed work and progress throughout the summer. So more info about the UV tools will be up soon.
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Gottfried Hofmann
23 April 2016 at 17:25
Here you can find the complete proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TEj95pZuE83tB0HuYWwCqlKRHOP6ErA6BkR1818FUho/edit#heading=h.cwph7x82wy9v
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SaphireS
23 April 2016 at 22:13
Hey! I’m the guy working on UV Tools.
The main improvements will be done to UV Packing, to make it not waste that much space, support pinning and overlapping parts etc.
Then there will be smaller features like a Rip tool for UVs and improvements to existing tools.
I already added the proposal to the wiki here:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:SaphireS/gsoc2016/proposal
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ranqiz

23 April 2016 at 12:37

We need at last much better physics simulations (Fluid, Smoke, Particles, Rigid Body destruction etc) not BGE. Now You can’t think about Blender as a serious film/animation production tool. We have great Motion Tracker, but We can’t make great effects. Because We don’t. B-Fund should even make a special donation and announce it. I know We can donate when We like. But if there will be a donation only focused on physics simulation it can really push it.

NoviceInDisguise

23 April 2016 at 15:14

I am most excited for Cycles denoising by far.

23 April 2016 at 18:17

I love this! There is do many cool things coming on!

cat

23 April 2016 at 21:13

Subdivide with axis select/deselect! One of these summers anyway.

Brian Lockett

23 April 2016 at 22:15

I’m glad to see some items on this list, though it’s only a jackpot if they get finished.

So, good luck to those endeavoring this summer. ;)

Andy

24 April 2016 at 09:16

You have no idea how happy I am to hear they’re finally updating layers. Is it just for the 3D viewport or will this extend to the bone layers and render passes too?

BigPilot

24 April 2016 at 11:43

Let’s see how many of these project make the finish line because in the past many GSoC projects were funded but never amounted to anything.

Pullup

24 April 2016 at 17:07

Clearly, for me it’s the denoiser, having a decent one is the key for rendering animation without a renderfarm needed! I tested the experimental branch with the denoiser included, the result is already there and very promising (to see how awesome it can be, just look at pixar renderman’s denoiser !!!).
Also pretty happy to see a Package Manager Proposal for addons and of course the Layer Manager (haaa the layer manager… ;) )

Arie Kachler

27 April 2016 at 03:22

Yesssss!!! GSoC back for Blender!

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