[Bf-committers] opengl rendering

[antont at kyperjokki.fi]

Greetings.

As some of you may have seen from the Orange blog, it is animatic time in 
here. We are rendering it with opengl, 'cause it's just a quick thing for 
adjusting timing, and the objects don't yet have material settings etc. 
anyhow.

There is the annoyance that there is no opengl rendering engine in the scene 
buttons, just the viewport-dependent opengl-to-image/videofile functionality 
in the 3d view. The problem with that is having to set the viewport manually 
to match the desired resolution etc. That is certainly doable, but we figured 
that for someone who knows opengl / ghost it's simple to add the support for 
actual rendering. It probably needs to create a new opengl context (with 
ghost?) and then .. something. 

As became evident, I'm not too familiar with that area, and it's not a 
showstopper for us, so i won't be doing it (soon) .. but if someone catches 
the ball, great! Animatics can be as complex as a a final film in terms of 
sequencing, and are for working with the timing, so having (near) real-time 
rendering (to videos that can be shown to producers etc) of them would be 
useful.

~Toni