[Bf-committers] yafpatch attempt...

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Alfredo,

Thanks! I've checked on the patch and I'm fine with it. There are some  
details I'd like to check on later, like the new dupli define and the  
Panels. But easiest for us would be when you commit this yourself to  
the bf-blender tree. My proposal is to give both you and Jandro cvs  
write access, so that you can keep the code up to date, and maintain  
the yafray exporter independently as 'owner' of the code.

The simple guidelines we have for bf-blender project members:

- don't commit in code you don't "own" without getting feedback from  
the owner and/or one of the admins (Martin (Theeth), Matt (broken_),  
Michel and me).
- bug fixes are typically always welcome! Check on the tracker  
regularly.
- try to restrict commits to what has been discussed on the mailinglist  
and/or the weekly irc meetings, to make sure it matches the scheduled  
projects and proposed release cycle.
- adapt to the coding style of code you commit in. Check on proper  
usage of tabs.
- include in cvs logs always readable information at release log level.

-Ton-


On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 03:03 Europe/Amsterdam, Alfredo de Greef  
wrote:

> While not in any way finished, I wanted to at least
> try to submit a patch for the _very_ alpha yafray
> export.
> I don't have any experience with creating or
> submitting patches, so it could all be wrong as well.
> The patch is for Blender, created from today's cvs
> from within the blender directory. However, since
> there are two new files, I had to include the files
> separately, the -N or --new-file flag doesn't work.
>
> As far as I understand from Ton, if the patch is over
> 10k I should mail a link instead of mailing it
> directly to the list, so here it is:
> http://www.stormpages.com/eeshlo/yaftest/ybpatch.html
>
> It could very well be possible that some may not be
> able to download the patch at all, stormpages seems to
> be a very problematic site, but I have nothing else at
> the moment, maybe tomorrow on the yafray site.
>
> Now for the files, yafray_Render.cpp should go in
> /blender/source/blender/src and yafray_Render.h should
> go in /blender/source/blender/include
>
> The patch itself is quite useless at the moment, since
> you need a new yafray release to be able to really use
> it. It could very well be possible to use an older
> yafray version, but the render will not be quite
> correct as far as the textures/materials is concerned,
> yafray will not recognize most of the xml tags, but
> probably still render the meshes itself correctly.
> You do need a correctly installed yafray, it is just
> temporary xml export, no plugin is used yet. It might
> even crash without yafray if you try to render with
> the yafray button enabled (or if yafray is not in the
> system path, yafray is called with a simple system()
> call), which is not a good thing of course, there
> should be some type of checking to correct this, but
> had no time yet.
> If you get it all to compile and running, first thing
> to do after blender starts up, is set the YFexport
> directory in the 'file paths' section of the
> user-defaults section. Then save with ctrl-u. This
> directory must exist, but shouldn't cause problems if
> it doesn't exist (hopefully..), it will just display
> an error message in the console.
>
> Don't expect anything spectacular, although it might
> seem it has been in development for almost a year, I
> only have been able to work on this and the yafray
> additions for about three to four months total,
> missing five months because of illness and hardware
> problems.
>
> Anyway, I don't really expect anyone to get this
> working yet, so apologies in advance if this post is
> totally useless. I probably should do it all
> differently as far as submitting the patch is
> concerned, I just wanted to release something already,
> before the year ends.
>
> Alfredo
>
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