[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes, February 9, 2014

[Bassam Kurdali]

+0001 ;)
Oh one more thing:
The current system relies heavily on groups + proxies for overrides.

Among the current limitations of the system right now is that there is
no way to make an instance 'unique' with flexibility: cycles has some
tricks for shaders, but animation is copied to all instances.

While this is good for rendering huge scenes, it is a limitation for
doing e.g. crowds- could be part of the discussion as well, at least on
how to make such things possible.

Cheers
Bassam
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 16:37 -0200, Pablo Vazquez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the Gooseberry meeting:
> >
> > Is this a good time to finally revisit the proxy system as well?  I.e.
> > making it useful for all object types and data, not just Armatures.
> >
> 
> +9999!
> 
> 
> > We had discussed at the time changing it to some kind of "RNA
> > layering" system, where linked data could have its RNA values locally
> > overridden.  We were essentially doing that on Sintel for simulation
> > anyway, just via Python scripts.
> >
> 
> For simulation and pretty much everywhere. Changing Scales from a wounded
> dragon to a healthy one is just a matter of a couple py lines. If something
> like this could have a better user experience and control, it would be huge.
> 
> 
> >
> > --Nathan
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net#blendercoders.
> > >
> > > 1) Work on upcoming 2.70 release
> > >
> > > - Planning for release didn't change:
> > >  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
> > >
> > > - Image Editor panels are being reshuffled now:
> > >   https://developer.blender.org/T38371
> > >
> > > - Crucial bugs to be done are now listed in a special page:
> > > https://developer.blender.org/project/view/35/
> > >
> > > - Showstopper bug is for Windows with non-Ascii character file paths
> > (like Japanese).
> > > https://developer.blender.org/T35176
> > > Campbell Barton and Tamito Kajiyama will check on it.
> > >
> > > - Note! Python scripters who added toolbar buttons should check and/or
> > update scripts, because of news tabs there. Connect Campbell if you need
> > help.
> > >
> > > - Sketchfab will submit an add-on to be included in release, using the
> > 'commercial services' deal we've reviewed and accepted last August. It
> > still needs to be reviewed though.
> > >
> > > 2) Other projects
> > >
> > > - Ton Roosendaal wrote a report of the developer meeting in Blender
> > Institute, to map out issues for the next film project:
> > > http://gooseberry.blender.org/developer-meeting-pipeline-and-tools/
> > >
> > > - Lukas Toenne started to work on a cleanup compositor code, will be
> > online this week.
> > >
> > > - After the meeting, there was a discussion on the status of NPR render
> > in Blender, and the 'BEER' project from Bong Wee Kwong.
> > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:LightBWK
> > >
> > > A new mailing list has been added to discuss work on Blender's NPR
> > render future:
> > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-npr
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Ton-
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> > > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> > > Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> > >
> > >
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