[Bf-committers] Geometry in Compositor or Quadrangulation???

[Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com]

Indeed! :) *but!* there are other uses for having a geometry node in
the compositor like bringing geometry normals, vectors, alphas and
what not and all interactive (no need for regular render). It's what
other compositors do to integrate the 3D view with the compositor. We
can see this as a step of integration. What do you think Matt?

cheers

Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com



On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:19 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Id be happy to make it a REAL
>> comp system that gets done somewhere else (VSE?) but im not a comp.
>> guy myself and didnt/dont understand where people WANT it done. If
>> someone...
>
> Maybe there was a misunderstanding here. Yes, in the compositor,
> editable interactively in the viewer where your footage is displayed
> is exactly where this sort of functionality should be. It's pretty
> shocking that there's even a discussion about this!
>
> Now whether the current code base supports implementing this cleanly
> and easily or not is a separate issue. Currently there's no kind of
> generic manipulator system to let you interact with nodes via an image
> viewer (like what you'd find in any other compositor), and I think
> that's a pretty strong pre-requisite for doing this properly. Having
> said that though, it's not really a blocker for coding the spline
> rasterisation in a comp node, you can easily get that working
> independently with a crappy/hacked up ui to specify the spline points.
> However having a proper means of interaction *is* a blocker for having
> a finshed, usable tool that should go in any released version.
>
> Matt
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