[Bf-committers] opengl & glsl

[Ivan Sedo]

hola,
at first, I agree with you ...
I heard blender needs opengl coders ... I didn't think of it as to put
all current opengl stuff to the brand new 2.0 version, still I am more
familiar with 1.2 as with 2.0. I also didn't mean it as I put some code
here on next sunday :), I also meant it like long run - I hardly ever
start coding without planning ...

As for simple small steps I'd like to do:
- what about button for turning light on and off? I find it natural and
useful to add this ability (for tuning scene lighting), you don't need
to put color sliders to zero, you can preserve light settings
- and what about manipulators for camera? it is quite annoying to set
clipping, or focal point for camera with sliders ...

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:40 +0200, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's a lot of reasons why we stick to opengl 1.2 in Blender still...  
> we prefer to run at a lot of different 3d cards, and OpenGL isn't too  
> well supported cross platform. You'll also quicky enter Extension hell  
> here.
> We definitely should be ready once for a move to OpenGL 2.0, but I  
> don't see it as a short term project.
> 
> Best would be to study how we currently draw subsurfs, was just recoded  
> by Daniel. Maybe you can find methods for improvement here? Take small  
> steps, find something simple you like to work on first. And don't  
> forget that displace code only is in renderconverter/ module now.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
> 
> On 4 Apr, 2005, at 1:10, Ivan Sedo wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > today I made an announcement :) on #blendercoders that I have interests
> > to help with opengl and implementation glsl (for preview enhancement  
> > and
> > speedup - e.g. displacement mapping in 3d view ...), this is more  
> > likely
> > to happen (despite of my nurbana implementation, I still haven't seen
> > any nurbana code :) because I am already familiar with both opengl and
> > glsl. So please give me directions who to contact and so on ...
> >
> >
> > 				Ivan
> >
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