[Bf-committers] Blender irc meeting minutes, 22 april 2012

[Nicholas Rishel]

I believe your modifier is more similar to the Freestyle render engine
project: http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/

I believe Howard's modifier is meant as a way to generate geometry along
existing edges and vertices as though it were wire frame.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Yasuhiro Fujii
<y-fujii at mimosa-pudica.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm also working on the new modifier to render lines similar to Howard
> Trickey's.
> http://mimosa-pudica.net/tmp/lineart.png
> The main purpose of my modifier is to render cartoon-like
> (edge|border|silhouette) lines.
> Does Howard Trickey's modifier have the same goals?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 1) Blender 2.63 Release Candidate
> >
> > - Testing is in progress still, a bit more testing is always good.
> Campbell Barton reports that the showstoppers in BMesh were handled now.
> >
> > - Release log in progress:
> >  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.63
> >
> > - Todo for everyone: docs, docs docs!
> >
> > - Pablo Vazquez will migrate this to wiki: (with permission of author)
> >
> http://gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/04/20/Blender-BMesh-in-action%E2%80%A6-what%E2%80%99s-so-special-about-ngons-anyways.aspx
> >
> > - Brecht van Lommel updates the cycles doc in wiki
> >
> > - Thomas Dinges will help with the download page on blender.org, and
> will try to find time to move release page to blender.org as well.
> Brecht/Sergey are backup for this.
> >
> > - Release Ahoy might happen this wednesday!
> >
> > 2) Other projects
> >
> > - Antonis Ryakiotakis proposes to add ming64 support for building
> Blender, he will maintain that.
> >
> > - Sergey Sharybin worked on a more advanced keying node; with better
> color formulas and sampling, and optional marker/tracker support for
> advanced gradient detection.
> >
> > - Howard Trickey shows his new modifier to render wireframes:
> >  http://halley.cc/paste/outline-modifier-tests-1.png
> >
> > - lukas Toenne did node work; frame node, node edit features (coloring)
> >  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Phonybone/FrameUpgrade
> >  http://www.pasteall.org/31131/diff
> >
> > - Ton Roosendaal mentions an urgent need for a new web team. Will do
> call soon. In the meantime he proposes to add a new header to the existing
> site, like http://thewooddesign.com/blender/samplehome/ (but with less
> nervous transitions :).
> >
> > 3) Google Summer of Code
> >
> > Tomorrow students will get contacted by Google about their proposals! We
> then will present the names on this list and make a new exciting salad bowl
> or so :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
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