[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - February 9, 2016

[Jacob Merrill]

I had a thought....

Can we have a scene modifier list?


for effects that apply to all objects in a scene?

I was thinking a good one would be Scene LOD Tesselator
and maybe something that makes a KD tree from the scene, and then moves all
models to a linked lib,
then as you move the camera, the KD tree pre loads, and loads in meshes.

(so you can have massive - full detail scenes - no proxies at 100% quality
without stuttering)
this is already possible in the game engine (including hardware geometry
instancing now in UPBGE :D)




On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Missed the first few minutes of today's meeting, wanted to clarify point
> 1).
>
> The migration to OpenGL 2.1 is in some sense complete. Lots of code was
> updated to reflect the new 2.1 baseline. There are fewer checks for
> functionality & fewer workarounds which should result in tiny speedups
> throughout. And (my favorite) ARB shaders for smoke were replaced by a
> *better* implementation in GLSL.
>
> Not everything is GLSL and VBOs yet, but those are not required for GL 2.1
> compliance. Still plenty to do for 2.78 :)
>
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net <
> > http://irc.freenode.net/> #blendercoders
> >
> >
> > 1) Targets for 2.77
> >
> > - Agreed to move to BCon4; bug fix commits only now.
> > - OpenGL migration from 1.4 to 2.1 is only unclear task left for 2.77
> >
> >
> > 2) Other projects
> >
> > - Regarding the 2.8 development branch, suggestions made to wait until
> > point of no return, only creating it once we really need it
> >
> > - Bastian discusses future of FBX in Blender via mailing list:
> > http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-gamedev/2016-February/000583.html
> >
> > - Suggestions made for adding a Dev Fund banner to the Windows Installer,
> > helping to bring more focus to the dev fund. JuicyFruit will
> >
> > - Discussions around this years GSOC came up, touching on what went wrong
> > last year and how to improve the application for this year. The main
> point
> > from Google was a better defined Ideas page
> >
> > - Nothing to add for 2.8 yet, planning proposals need to be written still
> > for code.blender.org
> >
> > - Ton asks how everyone likes the new meeting schedule. Most people like
> > it, although it’s a bit confusing, and some miss the weekly Sunday
> > meetings. However, it's more accessible for non-Euro devs.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
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