[Bf-committers] Compositing View Port Proposal

[Jason Wilkins]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com> wrote:
> With all the major stuff you've done for sculpt, what I meant was "if
> anyone can tackle a tough problem, it's you." Sorry for being unclear!

I think I understood this is what you meant, but I'm not invincible by
any stretch.  It is good to make sure something is achievable in the
limited time available.

> So for instance the 3D view, would you issue one call like "3D view,
> draw thyself", then composite widgets & overlays on top of that based
> on a script? Or does it go deeper into how the 3D view is actually
> drawn? Or am I missing the point entirely?

This looks like a reasonable summary.  I do not think it really "goes
deeper" except, for example, you might be able to support something
like deferred lighting eventually.  I say "eventually" because my goal
at this point is not to provide a full game engine like capability
like you'd see in Unreal or Unity.

Honestly, this is to just to be able to do a couple of things I want
to do for sculpt, but which actually fall into the category of view
port drawing :)

> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jason Wilkins
> <jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Fox <mfoxdogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh yes it is more then a mess, its a nightmare, I am trying to add view
>>> tessellation option to the view port, and im having one hell of a hard
>>> time. we defiantly need an cleaning out
>>
>> I'm curious what you are trying to do.
>>
>> To answer Mike's question about if I can handle this, yes, I am rather
>> confident.  The fancy view port could be written along side the
>> existing one where it can grow features until it replaces the old one.
>>  That is also good for A-B switching.
>>
>> Although I want to emphasis generality and programmability, which are
>> sometimes evil tar-pits, I can start with a very domain specific set
>> of pieces and replace those with more general pieces as time allows.
>>
>> In other words, as long as I don't try to jump straight to absolute
>> best implementation right away I'll be fine.  I think this is
>> something that can be made to approach "perfection" over multiple
>> iterations instead of something I get stuck in over my head.
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