[Bf-committers] New to blender development

[Campbell Barton]

@Ahmad,

I'd recommend dropping into into #blendercoders, for more specific
questions about blenders code, possible projects, or if you have any
troubles building.


@Knapp.
The background image controls always seemed cumbersome to me (no nice
way to transform or put in-front of anything).

Did you try Empty-Image display feature?

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/changelog_258#Empty_Images_Display:


IMHO background images are a bit of a dead-end, we can have
loc-scale-rot, front/back, flip-x/y but I don't think this gives a
really good user experience since really you just want to be able to
click and drag the image around too IMHO - which is what
empty-image-display allows.

Heres a more details about background display issues as I see it:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-201290.html



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is super cool.  BTW I was looking at that bit for blender and
> remembered my other dream requests. Background rotation, mirror image
> and perhaps scale in x or y (currently it does both together). To be
> clear I am totally happy to just get the Z stuff.
> Thanks and good luck.
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Ahmad Luqman <ahmad.luqman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, I will start looking into your request. And will let you know if I
>> face any issues.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ahmad Luqman <ahmad.luqman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I will like to contribute some of my time to doing development for
>>> blender.
>>> > I have some experience with C, C++, OpenGL and entry level experience
>>> with
>>> > DirectX. I had worked with one of the leading engineering CAD/CAM based
>>> > company (closed source) for a few years (5-6 years) though that
>>> experience
>>> > was mostly with the engineering business logic end and lesser with low
>>> end
>>> > graphics.
>>> >
>>> > I have downloaded, built and started looking into blender's code base and
>>> > also started taking tutorials from
>>> > http://cgcookie.com/blender/get-started-with-blender/. I have a full
>>> time
>>> > job so I can give 15-20 hours to this every week. *If anyone  is
>>> interested
>>> > in using some of my time, please let me know*, so that I can learn about
>>> the
>>> > internals along with helping. Otherwise I will try to pick an area for
>>> > myself.
>>> >
>>> > PS: I have a i7 based system with Nvidia 550GTX Ti graphic card running
>>> > Windows 7 x64 and building blender through MSVC + CMake for x64 platform.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Ahmad Luqman
>>>
>>> I have a project as a user that I want to see done that I think should
>>> be easy to do. I would like to be able to have the background image
>>> made so I can put it on top of the mesh as well as the way it
>>> currently is (under the mesh). It is just a z-stack shuffle so I bet
>>> it would be easy and get you into the code.
>>>
>>> If you need any help or pointers learning blender please ask me. I,
>>> "work", here as a helper mostly for beginners learning to make art
>>> with blender. I also have a 18 min vid that is a good intro overview
>>> of blender but you might already be past that.
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnbXpGWB4Q
>>>
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