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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Asking questions just shows you are
humble enough to succeed.<br>
<br>
Gavin Howard wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Ton,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorry, I didn't mean to claim that I spent the whole
week working on Attributes. I also said in my report that I got
the viewport render to restart if certain options were changed.
I put in a few other commits as well, and I also started my
design docs. I actually got more done this week than any other
week. :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">As for asking questions, I'll try to remember that.
My fear is that I will ask too many questions and annoy
developers or take too much of their time. However, point taken;
I will ask questions more freely.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If there is anything else I need to change/fix,
please let me know.</p>
<p dir="ltr">God Bless,<br>
Gavin Howard</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 13, 2013 9:21 AM, "Ton Roosendaal"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>>
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Hi Gavin,<br>
<br>
I don't think it's very convincing to claim you spent almost a
week on trying to figure out how a specific class works in
Cycles.<br>
<br>
If documentation (or code commenting) lacks in this area,
Brecht is 1 step away from you to ask.<br>
<br>
Also, if you encounter a problem that takes several days of
studying, try to reduce the topic into smaller ones, and
connect it to progressive steps of work you can do on it.<br>
<br>
The weekly report is not for asking help :) You can get help
any time!<br>
<br>
-Ton-<br>
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Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute<br>
Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands<br>
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On 12 Jul, 2013, at 7:15, Gavin Howard wrote:<br>
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> All,<br>
><br>
> My report is at:<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Gdh/GSoC-2013#Weekly_Report_.234:_Cycles_Motion_Blur"
target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Gdh/GSoC-2013#Weekly_Report_.234:_Cycles_Motion_Blur</a>.<br>
><br>
> The text is also below.<br>
><br>
> == Weekly Report #4: Cycles Motion Blur ==<br>
><br>
> 12 July 2013<br>
><br>
> ==== What I did this week ====<br>
><br>
> ''Yes!'' No major problems surfaced this week. After
thinking it<br>
> through, I think that the merging problem was because I
accidentally<br>
> had "clean whitespace" set on KDevelop. Even after I set
it back,<br>
> there were problems. There were no problems merging this
week, and<br>
> even if there had been, I have set up my system so I can
do conflict<br>
> resolution by hand.<br>
><br>
> This week, I spent a lot of my time going through Cycles'
Attributes<br>
> and family line of classes, trying to figure out ''what''
they do and<br>
> ''how'' they do it. And even with all of that time spent,
I am<br>
> stumped. I do know that the Attribute class has a vector
of chars. It<br>
> also returns a char pointer when it returns the data
contained in the<br>
> vector. The variable's name is "buffer", so I am assuming
that the<br>
> vector of chars can actually be turned into any type of
data. However,<br>
> assuming is never good.<br>
><br>
> At this point, I don't really know how I am going to
extend the<br>
> Attribute and family line of classes to hold vertex
blocks.<br>
><br>
> I did a couple of other things this week. First of all, I
added two<br>
> new fields to the Object class: a bool for whether the
object uses<br>
> deformation motion blur, and a uint for the number of
motion blur<br>
> steps. I also managed to add code to get the viewport
render to update<br>
> when those are changed. That made me especially happy
because it told<br>
> me that the functions I wrote to pull those out of
Blender both work.<br>
><br>
> I also started a design page on the wiki. As you can see
by going<br>
> there, I stopped adding information to the Attributes
section because,<br>
> quite frankly, I don't know what to do.<br>
><br>
> ==== What I will do next week ====<br>
><br>
> Figure out just what Attribute and family do. Then I will
add my<br>
> preliminary design to my design page (see above) and
begin work in<br>
> earnest.<br>
><br>
> ==== Questions ====<br>
><br>
> Can anyone explain in detail the Attributes and family
architecture?<br>
> How they do what they do?<br>
><br>
> Also, I was thinking about storing the mesh copies in the
Attributes,<br>
> and I think that exporting an odd number of meshes would
be different<br>
> from exporting an even number of meshes. However, I am
not completely<br>
> sure, considering that I don't know much about
Attributes. Still, it<br>
> seems to me that an even number of meshes would dictate
that we don't<br>
> even export the mesh at the "perfect" frame, while an odd
number would<br>
> be different.<br>
><br>
> -- Gavin Howard, 12 July 2013<br>
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