===Week 5 report===<br>==This week==<br>*Improved stuff on the test-script (theeth fast-reviewed it and gave some nice clues)<br>*Fixed bugs that were found last week by the test-script<br>*Added documentation on wiki <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jaguarandi/SummerOfCode2009">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jaguarandi/SummerOfCode2009</a><br>
*Started selection on test scenes and identified a few test cases (<a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jaguarandi/SummerOfCode2009/TestScenes">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jaguarandi/SummerOfCode2009/TestScenes</a>) <= althought I still don't have the scenes to test those.<br>
Anyone is welcome to contribute for scenes that match the described setups.<br><br>==Next Week==<br>*add counters/statistics on render code and look on metadata/stamp export <br>*get other machine ready to run tests<br>*gather more scenes<br>
<br>==Questions==<br>=1=<br>I am getting lost on the render pipeline (or at least losing time on reading it), can anyone give me clues on:<br>*Where should I export counters from raytree build and from each raytrace call?<br>
*Where does the shading code starts (and in what way can I better isolate raytrace and raytree creation time from the other processing time)?<br>*Where can I merge counters from each thread?<br><br>=2=<br>I have spend some time trying to setup the test system on an ssh account (that runs on Xeon3.2, a quad core.. since testing on my eeepc or my desktop would just be too slow).<br>
<br>Altought I have quite a few limited space on that account, so I need to compile on other machine and move to there. I am having some troubles with that.. for missing libs. This would be fixed by having all libs static..<br>
But do all libs have WITH_BF_STATICblabla options?<br>Including the libgettext ?<br>How can I create a blender with the least or even zero dependencies?<br><br>=3=<br>About the bug I reported on SUN lights..<br>there are 2 options:<br>
*make the new code behave wrong like old render code<br> *just have it fixed<br>Anyway this isn't a priority atm.. so it can be address later.<br><br>=4=<br>I dont exactly have any show-off until now...<br>Appart from instance-support (there was already a bn post on that)<br>
Speedup is still not done and very inconclusive atm since I haven't tested any real-case.<br>I can hand-craft a scene to show speedup (like 13x times faster :p).. but that doens't counts.<br><br>==Schedule==<br>I am on schedule (or maybe 1 week ahead).. and by the midterm I will have all issues sorted out and be fully ready to start the optimization part, as the first part was:<br>
*raytrace recode (instance deliverable is done)<br> *test-script and test-environ (close to be ready)<br><br>I must get more ahead of schedule, for the break in end of july.<br>I already have dates for that 20july to 31july.<br>
<br>*my last exam is day 29 june. At last!<br>