[Bf-committers] gameengine status

[Erwin Coumans]

Hi,

Game Engine has the choice of 2 physics engines, either Bullet or
Sumo/Solid. Bullet doesn't use Solid.

I haven't had the time to write up a longer status yet.

It is recommended to enable _both_ for next release. Bullet has not been
integrated completely, so some sensors and actuators are not working yet. If
I get the opportunity I will add the missing bits (touch,collision sensor
etc)

Once those missing bits are added, we can think of removing Solid/Sumo. This
will take a bit of time, so not for coming release. However I think the
current state is already useful enough to release, so please enable both.

Erwin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ton Roosendaal" <ton at blender.org>
To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at projects.blender.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:18 PM
Subject: [Bf-committers] Meeting topics of past month


> Hi,
>
> It's september, summer holiday is over, so hopefully we can get back to
> weekly summarizing the results of irc sessions on this list again. :)
> Here's notes I gathered from the past month.
>
> *** Move to Python 2.4
> - Windows and Linux releases will get a static 2.4 Python lib
> - FreeBSD/Irix/Sun will probably stick to static 2.3
> - OSX will distribute both;
>    - 10.2 OSX: will stick to have a static Python 2.3
>    - 10.3/4 OSX: will get 2 versions, for 2.3 and 2.4 Python frameworks
> (dynamic)
>
> It's not something that deserves the beauty prize, but probably the
> best we can do... :)
>
> *** Game engine project
> - The game engine has new physics (Bullet library, developed by Erwin),
> which still uses Solid for collisions. We really need docs & demos
> about this work still, for example for using the physics engine to
> create animated objects.
> - Erwin; can you summarize the engine todos or plans for the engine
> future?
> - What's the status on Crystal Space integration?
> - What's the status on project Girona (by Jordi Rovira)?
>
> *** Make/Scons issues
> - We need more attention from the various platform maintainers for the
> makefiles or scons issues related to compiling Blender (and engine
> especially). Suggested is to find an official Windows cygwin &
> free-msvc platform maintainer.
> - Makefiles still use old NAN names, Kent volunteered to look into this
> - The game player Web Plug-in will be disabled as default compile target
>
> *** Google Summer of Code
> - The IK library project has been moved over to bf-blender
> - Decisions on integrating the other projects are pending reviews
> still. All finished projects (7 out of 10) seem to be good candidates
> for integration.
> - Officially the students are finished now. Mentors are preparing the
> review docs for Google.
>
> *** Tuhopuu3 admin
> - Chris Want will withdraw as CVS moderator for Tuhopuu end of this
> month. (<sob>We'll miss him, he did a great job!)
> - We need to validate & extract the work there to include in bf-blender
> still (Ton will work with Matt on his part).
> - Chris Want suggests to use the Google project method for an
> experimental tree, where each cvs writer gets an own Branch, and
> becomes responsible for merging changes him/herself.
>
> *** Subversion to replace CVS?
> - Some discussions happened on this topic, nothing clear here... will
> require more investigating and reviews of what impact would be. Ton
> suggested to wait with a decision on this until Blender Foundation has
> budget again to pay an expert on upgrading the projects website
> (GForge) to  the latest release. Might be in october or november.
> http://wiki.blender.org/bin/view.pl/Blenderdev/SVNMigration
>
> *** Current projects; animation recode
> - Review currently is needed on the new IK features, like how to
> present it in UI etc.
> - Next development steps will involve Action and NLA editing
> - Python API for bones/armatures/poses needs to be rewritten still
>
> *** Current projects; Mesh Subdivsion tools
> - Johnny still seeks for help with the subdivide-smooth
> - UI access to the new tools need to be evaluated, Wkey menu is too
> crowded now
>
> *** Current projects; Modifier system
> - Work on this has nearly completed now, although new features can be
> added a lot still
> - Main todo is release docs & demos
>
> *** Current projects, other;
> - OpenEXR, what's the status?
> - new 3D Text editing; can we get a cool doc too? :)
> - Rendering in Blender should get support for UV (or ST whatever)
> tangent vectors, this will make normal mapping much nicer, and enable
> anisotropic shading.
> - Any dev here switched to 64 bits already? We get more and more
> requests for official 64 bits builds.
>
> *** Patches
> - There's a whole load of patches in the tracker waiting to be reviewed
> still....
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?atid=127&group_id=9&func=browse
>
> *** 2.4 Release targets
> - It's about time to define the targets for the Blender 2.4 release.
> Would suit nice if we can release that around Blender Conference (Oct
> 14).
> - My proposal; for today's meeting try to agree on a tentative target
> list, with target candidates (tracker, SoC project) assigned to devs to
> further evaluate on.
>
>
> -Ton-
>
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