[Bf-committers] water painting

[Robert Wenzlaff]

On Friday 26 November 2004 00:53, Campbell J Barton wrote:
> Feel free to answer yes to this but,,,
>
> if this was coded into blender would you mind?
>
> I dont think Id use it, but it may attract artists-

I would mind.  Stuff like this at best belongs as a post-process plugin.

Blender is already 350,000+ lines of code.  It's hard enough to find things, 
and the slightest changes can already have dependancy ripples that break 
things. 

Anything that has a very limited application should be externalized.  We can 
debate whether the "of limited use" line should be drawn at needed by 30%, 
40%,  or 50% of the users, but it's pretty clear that this is well on the 
other side of 10%.

   If you are only interested in this particular effect, this can actually 
already be done by writing a sequence editor plugin.  If you wish to 
spearhead a post-processor plug-in development effort, and use this as your 
first test case, be my guest. 

In any case this should probably be moved to just [BF-funboard].
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