[Bf-committers] Google Summer Of Code: UV - Tools

[Phil Gosch]

Hey everybody!

My name is Phil Gosch, I'm from Graz University of Technology and I'm 
interested in the "UV Editing Tools" GSOC project.
I'd be very happy to realize this project and wanted to get some 
help/tipps or hints beforehand, that's why I'm writing this mail.

About me: I'm a long time Blender user and active member of the Blender 
community. Besides university I'm working as a 3D/Technical Artist 
freelancer, where I'm mostly doing illustrations, visualizations 
including custom tool development and gameart/gamedev. You can have a 
look at my portfolio at my homepage [0] or at my Blender Network profile 
[1].

As someone who uses Blender as his main tool on a daily basis I know the 
UV Editor (and its shortcomings) and because of that fact I not only 
think I'm fitting for this project but I also have a great personal 
interest in improving these tools. I'm no complete stranger to Blender 
core coding, I already had some of my patches applied to trunk a few 
years ago. Of course the codebase is changing all the time, that's why 
I'm already getting familiar with the codebase again. I already compiled 
the newest Blender version and I'm spending my free time reading  
uvedit_*.c files. ;)

I think the outline presented at the ideas page [2] makes sense, however 
while writing my proposal I found that I liked the idea of trying to 
convert some of the useful UV python scripts I'm using to C code (I'm 
sure people have lots of scripts they use which I don't even know 
about). So if you use a python addon for the UV tools and would like me 
to consider it for inclusion into my proposal, please let me know by 
answering to this mail. :)

If any of the potential mentors (Bastien, Campbell, Howard) have some 
useful input I'd be very thankful! Also if anyone could have a look at 
my proposal before submitting that would be great! It's not finished 
yet, but you can poke me anytime on IRC/blendercoders, I'm always 
lurking there. My IRC nick is "saphires".

Best wishes,
Phil

[0] http://www.saphirestudio.at/
[1] https://www.blendernetwork.org/phil-gosch
[2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016/Ideas

PS: Sorry if this mail shows up twice, there was an error when I first 
tried sending it

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pixel-pusher at saphirestudio.at