[Bf-committers] Blender developer weekly meeting notes - May 26, 2013; Leap Motion

Jürgen Herrmann shadowrom at me.com
Sat Jun 1 08:04:45 CEST 2013


I think I misunderstood ;)
I thought you tried to build blender with MSVC 2012 ...

Am 31.05.2013 um 23:18 schrieb Jakub Zolcik <j.zolcik at allblue.pl>:

> When I now look at what I wrote, I see I might have been "a little bit" 
> unclear (or don't know about something?).
> 
> I was trying to compile Python Wrapper for Leap Motion on Win7 x64.
> 
> Kuba
> 
> W dniu 2013-05-31 22:46, Jürgen Herrmann pisze:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> do you use the vc11 libs from svn and CMake for building?
>> Scons doesn't work yet, I had no time to change the scripts for MSVC 2012 compatibility yet.
>> 
>> /Jürgen
>> 
>> Am 31.05.2013 um 21:13 schrieb Jakub Zolcik <j.zolcik at allblue.pl>:
>> 
>>> Finally got mine too.
>>> 
>>> Did anyone succesfully compiled python wrapper that works with Blender
>>> for Windows (7) 64bit? I am having some issues with Visual Studio 2012...
>>> 
>>> Has there been some discussion about coordinating Leap Motion
>>> integration to Blender? After playing with it a little bit I have some
>>> more thoughts about the subject.
>>> 
>>> Kuba
>>> 
>>> W dniu 2013-05-26 22:34, Sean Olson pisze:
>>>> Got mine too.  I agree it could work well with gestures combined with Pie
>>>> Menus - I was thinking along similar lines.  Imagine something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> Hold a number of fingers up, this will activate a set pie - (So for
>>>> instance,  hold two fingers out like horizontal bunny ears and it will
>>>> activate pie #2) - then swipe in the direction of the menu you want to
>>>> select.  So, if you wanted to select the NE Pie of Piemenu #5 you would
>>>> would just lay your hand out flat and swipe in a diagonal up direction.
>>>>  (The number of pies could be increased a lot by using binary with your
>>>> fingers as digits, but I think this might get way too confusing).
>>>> 
>>>> View navigation could be fun too - I find the precision was a bit
>>>> frustrating with free control (I had trouble positioning a cube in test
>>>> apps), but jumping into orthogonal views could work.  Imagine this - Make a
>>>> fist (track palm) and move it vertical up to go into bottom view, vertical
>>>> down to go into top view, left to go into right view, and right to go into
>>>> left view, push forward like a punch to go into back view and pull to go
>>>> into front.  Could work nicely.  (I described the objects versus object in
>>>> opposite terms because then it feels like you are actually "throwing the
>>>> object in the correct direction", you "push" the front of the object to the
>>>> left in order to see the right side of the object).
>>>> 
>>>> Also, there is some good series of articles here on integrating leap into
>>>> 3d programs and what works/what does not - worth a good read.  Might help
>>>> save some time in experiments that just don't work at all.
>>>> http://goo.gl/7qlTt
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for weathering my brainstorms,
>>>> -Sean
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jakub Żółcik <j.zolcik at allblue.pl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Haven't even got shipping tracking link to mine yet :(
>>>>> 
>>>>> As I was expecting Leap Motion won't do any good for modeling I got a
>>>>> little bit different idea. When I will get mine I will try to develop
>>>>> set of gestures that will allow replacing keyboard when using blender
>>>>> and enable view control. I think it will be especially efficient with
>>>>> pie menus. What do you think?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jakub Zolcik
>>>>> 
>>>>> W dniu 2013-05-26 20:40, Jonathan Williamson pisze:
>>>>>> I got mine as well. It's definitely different and takes a bit of getting
>>>>>> use to. I think it shows a lot of promise for cool presentation tools,
>>>>> but
>>>>>> not so much for productive tools.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jonathan Williamson
>>>>>> http://cgcookie.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> - Leap Motion device seed has started, we wait a bit for it to arrive
>>>>>>> everywhere. There's a developer from Leap who already added support for
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> BGE, he will be connecting with us soonish.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Got mine last week. They sent it fed-X! I live in Germany. Been
>>>>>>> playing with it a little bit. It is rather fun but also hard to
>>>>>>> control so far. I am not put off by the hardness. The mouse was a pain
>>>>>>> when I started with it too. Had to keep picking it up and sometimes it
>>>>>>> ran off the desk. :-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Douglas E Knapp
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