Blender Developers meeting notes, January 15, 2017

Bart · January 16, 2017

Notes from today’s 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.

Ton writes:

1) Blender 2.79 targets

The release target list is filling up.

We need to confirm most targets still, depends reviews and approval by module owners.

Luca Rood finished the new “Surface deform modifier“.

Joey Ferwerda has a Development Fund grant to work a month on bug tracker triaging and cleanup.

A detailed mesh with blue thingies, bound to a simplified mesh with a cloth simulation.

2) Blender 2.8 project

Bastien Montagne asks again for quick review by Brecht or Sergey of the initial ‘Override’ work.

Julian Eisel finished the foundation work for the main integration of workspaces (needs review).

Fracture modifier team will write a doc with requirements for new depsgraph, to make
sure things align well.

The palette proposal: Grease Pencil will use current Blender palette system.
3) GSoC 2017
Time to apply again for Google Summer of Code. Application starts next week, I will handle it.
Laters,
-Ton-

Author Bart

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Tom SF Haines

16 January 2017 at 11:01

Loving the possibilities of this new surface deform modifier – used with the shrink-wrap modifier (on the deforming mesh) it should be great for detailing work, particularly greebling curvy spaceships:-)

Bart
16 January 2017 at 11:07
It seems very similar to Rich Colburn’s ‘Surface Follow’ script: https://www.blendernation.com/2017/01/03/surface-follow-script-now-available/
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1. Tom SF Haines
  16 January 2017 at 15:35
  Exactly the same as far as I can tell! And when I saw that plugin my first thought was ‘can it please be a modifier’ – need the ability to combine it’s behaviour with the others. It’s an idea that has been on my ‘want’ list for a long time, so much so I considered implementing it myself, but I never have the time:-/
  We should place bets on how long it will take for someone to make a chain mail tutorial once it’s in master;-) Could also be used as an inverted variant of using the mesh deform modifier to rig a character as well. It might be possible to get a skin stretch effect if Luca adds vertex groups to the modifier with weighting, so you can have several of them shrink wrapping to different internal surfaces but influencing the same appearance mesh.
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