[Bf-committers] OpenGL Profiles Project?

[Knapp]

Might start by doing a hardware poll among the users. Perhaps on the
Blender.org site and also a few of the other bigger blender sites. I
would bet that you could find a much narrower design goal that way.

I will start out here. Nvidia Gforce 7600 GS. A nice card for blender
but I am hoping to update soon.


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
> Pretty much, I've heard the idea of 'OpenGL profiles' mentioned relating to blender for a long time, usually mentioned as a solution for the issue of differing support of openGL features across cards, whether due to age or just incompatibility. The issue is often "how can we move to more current/advanced openGL features without disrupting support on older cards?".
>
> So afaik rather than having to write exceptions and checks in every bit of openGL code, you could define a few base level targets, define some standard levels of support across the range of most basic to most advanced, and try to assign the current session a profile based on auto-detecting hardware. Then the various GL related code would work depending on those defined profiles - eg. advanced profiles would use more advanced GL features and there could be fallback code paths for more basic profiles. Users could then also manually set their profile in preferences - i.e. if the auto-detected one doesn't work well for them.
>
> cheers
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> On 05/10/2010, at 02:04 , Michael Matthews wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Are anymore folks able to confirm ideasman42's expalanation?  I have to be
>> able to get the project approved very soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Michael Matthews
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Michael Matthews <erobererunc at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Campball,
>>>
>>> Thank you, that was helpful.  I will be looking into this this weekend to
>>> try to come up with a proposal.  Obviously if anyone else would like to
>>> chime in with more details, and specific proposals that they've thought up
>>> for this in the past, that would very helpful, as well!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> ~MM
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Michael, the project is still open, Its normally best for the
>>>> developers who will review the patch to reply to these mails, Brecht
>>>> or Ton -.
>>>> But since they are not, Ill try :).
>>>>
>>>> To me its not totally clear what OpenGL profiles would cover, some
>>>> things come to mind.
>>>>
>>>> - Currently we have the GPUGlobal struct which is initialized by
>>>> GPU_extensions_init, would this be extended to detect more features?,
>>>> maximum offscreen buffer size for eg?
>>>> - Make use of more advanced opengl features but allow fallbacks? like
>>>> FSAA which we have disabled code for... or turning VBO's on if the
>>>> hardware supports it for eg.
>>>> - User selectable profiles, allow user to select a profile that draws
>>>> faster on low end hardware or force a profile if their hardware is not
>>>> recognized.
>>>>
>>>> You also ask about getting help, existing developers can help out with
>>>> specific issues but first it would be good to see ideas from you as to
>>>> how you intend to do this.
>>>> Once you have some proposal its easier to make changes so you can go
>>>> ahead with the project.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Michael Matthews <erobererunc at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Anyone out there?  As I said, this is for a class, and I have a due date
>>>> for
>>>>> when I need to submit this proposal, and I'd like to know more about
>>>> what it
>>>>> is before I propose it. =)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Michael Matthews <
>>>> erobererunc at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am looking for some help on one of the projects that is mentioned on
>>>> the
>>>>>> open projects page.  Is anyone willing to give any details on the
>>>> OpenGL
>>>>>> profiles project?  This is the description that is given on the
>>>> projects
>>>>>> page:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/project-openings/
>>>>>> *develop an abstraction layer for "OpenGL Profiles", to wrap specific
>>>>>> calls needing exceptions for specific platforms *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this project still available?  Does anybody already have an idea of
>>>> how
>>>>>> to complete that task, and would like to share that knowledge?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for me, I am looking to fulfill a college Masters course open source
>>>>>> project requirement, and I would love to do something with Blender.  I
>>>>>> discussed options on the IRC channel and this project seemed like the
>>>> best
>>>>>> option, but I'm open to other suggestions.  Thank you for any help that
>>>> is
>>>>>> available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> ~MM
>>>>>>
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