[Bf-committers] OpenSubdiv status

Jeffrey italic.rendezvous at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 18:39:44 CEST 2015


And a big thank you from me, as well! Is there a particular place you 
want us to file reports or just on the bug tracker like normal?

On 08/04/2015 05:56 AM, Johnny Matthews wrote:
> I think David sums it up well. Sergey, once again great work.
>
> And to all the developers who have been busting their tails on Blender
> these last few years, you have gone so far beyond anyone's expectations.
> Thank you all!
>
> Johnny Matthews
> johnny.matthews at gmail.com
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:50 AM David Fenner <d4vidfenner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sergey... you rock. Simple as that.
>>
>> How is it that you can work on such difficult projects at the same time and
>> get them done?? (Cycles, kernel split, depsgraph refractor, opensubdiv...)
>>
>> Congratulations for being such an awesome, smart and hardworking brain.
>>
>> 2015-08-04 8:18 GMT-04:00 Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to give a quick update on OpenSubdiv project.
>>>
>>> It is becoming quite close to the point when we can enable it for the
>>> buildbot builds. Mainly only technical TODOs are remained:
>>>
>>> * Update OpenSubdiv library on the platforms (some crucial for us fixes
>>> were merged to upstream, meaning we can now switch from my branch to
>>> official OpenSubdiv repo).
>>> * Make sure Blender is still compilable with OpenSubdiv enabled with
>> CMake
>>> and SCons.
>>> * Enable OpenSubdiv and enjoy.
>>>
>>> Surely there are some known limitations which we can't easily solve from
>>> our side, but OpenSubdiv team is helping us a lot  making the stoppers
>>> solved for us. Since OpenSubdiv became a modifier option now it should be
>>> pretty safe (in terms, there should be no regressions for existing files
>>> for until OpenSubdiv is explicitly enabled for some objects).
>>>
>>> So in the next couple of days i'll be solving this last stoppers and will
>>> enable OpenSubdiv around Thursday.
>>>
>>> I also started to update documentation which i started working on like an
>>> year ago or so [1]. Still some work is needed on that page, but think
>>> majority of the information is in there.
>>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/OpenSubdiv
>>>
>>> --
>>> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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