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

[Jakub Zolcik]

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. :-)
>>>>
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