[Bf-committers] Shader?

[Roger Wickes]

hey Chris! Sounds great,what you are trying to do. I wrote this tutorial http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Camera_Mapping which explains projecting a photograph onto an object. Hope it helps.

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----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Cherrett <stuff at trackingsolutions.ca>
To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:34:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Shader?

Antonio Martos wrote:
> My apologies if this is not the right list for this question, feel 
> free to send me to the right one.
>
> I'm working in a photogrammetry tool core that at this moment of 
> development requires some user interface to edit meshes and manipulate 
> them.
> The idea is to build an interactive modeling tool assisted by real 
> photographs as source, using GLSL pixel shaders and forcing some 
> constraints so the user can accurate model and texture objects in a 3D 
> editor easily. The last part is still not done.
>
> I think that it is better to try to integrate this into a mature 3D 
> software like Blender instead of trying to reinvent the wheel 
> rewriting a full user interface, but I'd like to know in advance it 
> this is possible before involving too much.
>
> My question is:
> Is it possible (and easy) to build and use custom "pixel shaders" 
> (GLSL shaders, the better) inside Blender *editor* so photographs are 
> projected onto the 3D model as textures, but using some special 
> transformations, in real time, while being edited? Performance is 
> quite important.
>
> Can you give me some advice where to start looking for? Is there 
> somebody in the development team that might be interested in helping 
> with this?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
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This might be a start:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/UVProject_Modifier
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