This is great. Especially if you have to combine objects to append multiobject models into a scene. I'm all for this and hope it comes out with v. 2.41.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ed Halley</b> <<a href="mailto:ed@halley.cc">ed@halley.cc</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>[Sorry for the crosspost-- I don't know how much overlap there is<br>between these list groups.]<br><br>
Ed Halley wrote:<br>> My draft proposal for DupliMats in detail:<br>> <a href="http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Requests/DupliMats">http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Requests/DupliMats</a><br><br>After I proposed this feature on the bf-funboard list, I decided to
<br>learn my way around the Blender codebase. I've actually gotten 80% of<br>the solution coded, and need about 10% more to be "feature complete" as<br>I envisioned it. The rest is testing and refinement and performance
<br>tuning, though it seems quite usable now (except for long animations).<br><br>A test render is also posted onto the wiki now:<br> <a href="http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Image:Diverse-diffuse-color.jpg">http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Image:Diverse-diffuse-color.jpg
</a><br><br>Because this is a moderately-sized core feature with a lot of potential<br>uses, I would like to have a discussion with some of the core coders<br>about the methodology and the remaining concerns before handing it over.
<br>My biggest fear is that I'm somehow making unseen breakage in the<br>struct ID chains or something equally bone-headed.<br><br>Also worth discussing is whether anyone objects to the general concept,<br>the feature's limitations according to this implementation, whether it
<br>will conflict with other planned concepts, or even the term 'DupliMats.'<br>I really want this kind of feature in Blender, but I want others to<br>see the value in it also, so my patches are ultimately adopted mainstream.
<br><br>This was quite a tour of the codebase, to reassure myself that makesdna<br>works as advertised, to try three or four times to come up with a<br>hashing method that works in animations and isn't a complete hack job,
<br>and to develop the user interface to something even simpler than<br>proposed. I look forward to further refining the feature with the team.<br><br>(I know this isn't meant for 2.40 which is nearing a roll-out. I had
<br>always considered this for 2.41 or 2.42 or whatever the next release<br>would be called.)<br><br>--<br>[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]<br>_______________________________________________<br>Bf-funboard mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bf-funboard@projects.blender.org">
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