[Bf-committers] Blender IRC meeting

[Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com]

Raytracing Instances as default?

Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com



2011/4/3 Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com>:
> On start.blend:
>
> 1) Addons:
> 1.1) "Copy Attributes Menu"
> - not much for the object properties, but more for the Tex Face copy
> options. If people are against the Ctrl+C menu by default we should at
> least (imho) to branch it out and take the TexFace copy out of the
> script. I do want to remove TexFace to 2.58, but in the mean time we
> need a workflow to copy face options over and the addon is what we
> have afaik.
>
> 1.2) "Export Blender Player"
>
> 2) User Preferences:
> 2.1) Can we have "Emulate 3 Button Mouse" on by default?
> Not only it makes it work like In 2.49, but also makes people with no
> scrollwheel happy (e.g. OSX and mousepad in laptops) and people that
> doesn't like to press the MMB all the time (e.g. me ;)
>
> 2.2) Can "Tab as Spaces" be off by default?
> A "polemic" one. I know why we have it on (pep8 *argh*), but really? I
> still think that a Text Editor shouldn't assume we want to add spaces
> instead of tabs.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dalai
> (too bad the meetings are at 7am local time :/ otherwise I would bring
> those points there)
>
>
> 2011/4/3 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There's two add-ons candidate to be included for 2.47 (bevel,
>> looptools).
>> Campbell would check on it, if that fits well we better have it in RC2
>> though. Will wait for his advice before calling the next build.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>>
>> On 3 Apr, 2011, at 18:33, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> 1) 2.57
>>>
>>> - Startup.blend changes: discussed were two defaults:
>>>
>>> Continuous grab: disable as default factory setting. Reasoning: it's
>>> jerky on slow redraws, on fast mouse moves it's losing offset, on
>>> small areas annoying, on headers annoying too (move up or down).
>>> People who like it or already use if have in their startup anyway, but
>>> the regular bugreports about it show it's not a good default.
>>>
>>> Open Image thumbnails for image browse: currently still disabled. It
>>> will crash Blender on any corrupt file in a directory, without
>>> feedback what's wrong. Andrea would like to see it default though,
>>> several bugs have been fixed here and it's more stable than in 2.56.
>>>
>>> - Startup issue: when we move to 2.57, the startup.blend, scripts and
>>> other config files are not read. Users have to manually copy it
>>> over... can we find a nice way to help migrating it? For example
>>> option in the splash to allow this...
>>>
>>> - Meeting agreed on doing another RC (2). We can do final release
>>> within a week then. Ton will send builders official request later
>>> today.
>>>
>>> - Jens Verwiebe is also available for OSX test builds, to assist
>>> Damien.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) other projects
>>>
>>> - The new buildbot progresses well, for Linux it now even builds
>>> binaries similar to releases. Brecht will help getting a system in
>>> Blender Institute to make builds.
>>> http://builder.blender.org/
>>>
>>> 3) GSoC
>>>
>>> Students can still apply until friday April 8, 1900 UTC. Don't wait
>>> too long!
>>>
>>> -Ton-
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org
>>> www.blender.org
>>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The
>>> Netherlands
>>>
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