[Bf-committers] Normal Editing Tools (GSOC 2016)

[Stefan Büttner]

Hey there,

I am interested in the Normal Editing Tools project for GSOC 2016.
This topic has been discussed on blenderartists ([1], [2], [3]) and 
requested heavily in the past.
So, I stumbled over several add-ons ([4], [5]) and [Blend4web] [6] which 
address this topic already.
In order to collect additional material on the topic (implementations 
discussions, feature requests, etc.), I was wondering if you guys could 
provide me with more information that you found or know of.
Concerning feature ideas, I thought about looking at other software like 
[Softimage] [7], Maya or 3Ds Max in addition to the requests in various 
forum discussions.
Implementation-wise I read about [BMeshes] [8] but still need to 
understand how they integrate into blender (especially if it's the only 
mesh data structure).

Cheers,
Stefan

[1]: 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?284736-Normals-Editing-in-Blender 
"Discussion on Blenderartists, 2013-2015"
[2]: 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?251402-Addon-Recalc-Vertex-Normals 
"Add-on for Blender, 2012-2013"
[3]: 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?225925-Edit-vertex-normals-by-Phyton 
"2011"
[4]: https://github.com/isathar/Blender-Normal-Editing-Tools "Add-on for 
blender, Oct. 2015"
[5]: https://github.com/isathar/Blender_UDK_FBX_Tools
[6]: https://www.blend4web.com/en/article/131/ "Blend4Web Normal Editing 
Tools, June 2015"
[7]: https://youtu.be/iH3p8N7qbv8 "Example of Softimage Normal Editing 
features"
[8]: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Modeling/BMesh/Design 
"Design Notes of BMeshes"