[Bf-committers] irc meeting minutes, may 24

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

sunday May 25, 16-18 CEST (-6 US east, -9 US west)
irc.freenode.net, #bendercoders

Special OSX session

1. general osx blender experiences,
2. python
3. ghost
4. uv editor
5. audio
6. 3delight and external render
7. Tracker bugs

---- General experience

- blender could be faster for OSX. It seems that Aqua reserves quite  
some of the 3d card opengl power. Nevertheless, putting the screen gfx  
at 12 bits (System Preferences -> Displays -> thousands of colours)  
makes it run quite some faster. Should be put in the readme!
- running blender full screen (window-less) still gives a proper  
cursor, and could be used as a preference setting for OSX. We'll have  
to solve the render-window output then. (see feature proposal below)
- suggestion for new startup of Blender: at 1024x768 if the screen is  
equal/larger than that, otherwise screen size (with subtraction of  
space for top menu and dock).
- most annyong bug: the flickering of vertex paint, face-select and the  
kind

----- ghost
- kattkieru points to the Allegro Game library, The binaries generated  
by it can be run from the command line and they get keyboard / mouse  
input, unlike blender does now. Ghost coders could look at Allegro  
window handling, to copy that to blender as well.

--- quicktime codecs & saving in blender
- phase mentions that the quicktime outputcodec dialog freezes blender

--- UV editing bug
Ton volunteers to look at this again... keep tuned!

----- feature proposal
New render output option: an old concept was to add a third display  
option that uses the current ImageWindow for displaying a render in  
process. It can work like a fileselect, with the current active window  
changing temporally, and returning to old state with ESC or toggling  
display with F11. Added benefits are zooming and panning.
Disadvantage is lose of color depth (12 or 15 bits) since it is double  
buffered.
Coders interested in programming this, can contact Ton for hints & tips  
for a good integration.

------ rest of meeting topics
Unfortunately the attendants were OSX users, and not experienced OSX  
coders. This is still a call for participation of more people. Not only  
for integration, but also to upgrade the docs for how to get it  
compiling, making a tarball with external libs available, etc.

Next meeting: tomorrow, 16-18h CEST (-6  NY, -9 LA, +8 Sydney)

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation ton@blender.org