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

[Jürgen Herrmann]

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. :-)
>>>>> 
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