[Bf-committers] GSOC : OpenGL Rendering Performance improvement in the view port

[joe]

I'm not sure if a such a project is appropriate for SoC, unless the
person already has DerivedMesh experience.  Redoing the drawing code
to use vertex arrays or vbo's is a complex issue, and display lists
might be too easy (and limiting).

Plus, I'd really appreciate it if people stopped adding on to
DerivedMesh, so the amount of work needed to refactor it in the future
(which it badly needs) doesn't increase.

Aditya, great you want to work on this.  Since you mentioned you've
researched different shadow mapping methods, you might want to put
together a proposal for adding that, and maybe a few other things, to
our GLSL code (working on the GLSL code itself is fine).  That would
probably be better.

Joe

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Want <cwant at ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Aditya Vishwakarma wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am Aditya Vishwakarma, a student at NSIT, Delhi.
>>
>> I am willing to work on project "OpenGL Rendering Performance
>> improvement in the viewport." Whose description says "Blender currently
>> uses immediate mode for rendering, while vertex arrays, VBO's and
>> display lists could dramatically improve performance."
>>
>> I have done research work on improving shadowing techniques ( shadow
>> mapping ) and hence have a fair understanding of OpenGL and GLSL. I am
>> willing to apply my knowledge to above idea.
>>
>> If someone could please provide me the details of the above mentioned
>> projected.
>
> Hi there,
>
> You (the student) are supposed to come up with the details in
> your application proposal. Please check the links on our ideas page
> for examples of successful proposals from previous years.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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