[Bf-committers] Camera Guides

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Cam,

Checked on patch and forum reviews. Improvement could be like;
- make drawtype option for empty 'Image', which will show new buttons
- without image block linked, it just draws the 1x1 unit square in wire.

Matt's thoughts & doubts on BA are still very valid, but for both the  
analysis as conclusion I have a different approach.

- Good UI and tools design should inherently follow internal  
architecture too. The patch has no beauty prize, but it doesn't  
conflict internally either.
- In past decade we've been adding far too many features that either  
half or not really well integrated. These are the hardest to maintain  
and make Blender so complex.
- In order to move on and keep Blender stable & in maintenance, we  
could stick to rule 'only add when internal design provides' and move  
all other stuff to a Blender 3 list or so.

I'm well aware that the Blender design papers I did in '95 are quite  
ancient now, with shortcomings in design that hold us back in areas.  
So shortly after we survived 2.5 we better not start another massive  
redesign, but in the course of next year (2.6x series) we can  
definitely start collecting the key issues for an internal design  
upgrade.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 8 May, 2011, at 6:05, Campbell Barton wrote:

> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Dan Eicher <dan at trollwerks.org> wrote:
>> You can currently load up an image into the 3d viewport in either the
>> foreground or background using the py-api.
>>
>> I wrote an operator a while back to test image.gl_load (or whatever  
>> it
>> ended up being called) that did just that and it was pretty easy --
>> aside from all the opengl voodoo.
>>
>> You can even display it in 3d space as I (accidentally) found out
>> while playing with artoolkit.
>>
>> Dan
>
> There is a patch for assigning images to empties. just updated it to
> the current svn:
>  http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=21740&group_id=9&atid=127
>
> Screenshot:
>  http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/empty_object.png
>
> Blenderartist thread
>  http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-201290.html
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