[Bf-committers] [GSoC 2016] Sculpting Tools

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Jiang Cecil <cecil.ini.jiang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Kairong Jiang. I'm a third-year undergraduate student of
> Zhejiang University and I major in computer science. I have been working
> under professor Yue Chen on a VTK-based program and I'm interested in
> making better sculpting tools for blender as my GSoC 2016 project.
>
> I have been trying the existing sculpting tools of blender and reading some
> of the source codes concerning sculpting to make sense of how they work. I
> think it wouldn't be too hard to implement the tools proposed on the ideas
> page once I figured out how sculpting was done in blender. That is the data
> structures of vertices and meshes, and the procedures to manipulate them. I
> could really need someone to tell me which specific code those procedures
> are implemented so that I can look into it.

Hi Jiang,

For sculpt logic check on:

- https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/editors/sculpt_paint/sculpt.c

And for internal structures:

- https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/pbvh.c
- https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/pbvh_bmesh.c
- https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/bmesh/bmesh.h

> As for the three sculpting tools proposed on the  ideas page, I can think
> of some intuitive and naive methods to implement them, but I wonder if
> there are some better ways. Also it would be nice if someone can tell me
> whether there are researches on implementing such tools or implementations
> in other 3D modeling softwares and where I can learn about them.
>
> I tried to use IRC a couple of days ago but I found it confusing that I
> have no idea who I should talk to on this topic. I would be appreciated if
> anyone could offer me some guidance and discuss further with me about the
> details of the project.
>
> Thanks,
> Kairong Jiang
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