[Bf-committers] Blender Developers Meeting Minutes - May 27th

[Mike Erwin]

Hi all,

On the OpenGL topic, my main question is whether anyone working on Blender
2.8 needs Mac support in the next few months. Eventually we'll have
everything working cross platform with GL 3.2 core profile. But to get
started on that we can use 3.2 compatibility profile which works on Windows
and Linux but not Mac.

Git master and current/future Blender 2.7x releases will not be affected.
Just the blender2.8 branch which is the hub for future work.

A few months!? It's not just immediate mode drawing commands that need
replacement. Display lists also go away. Much built-in state and functions
are replaced by GLSL. In other words there's lots to do! And capable people
here that are itching to make progress.

After the meeting I locally bumped GL to 3.2 on Windows, upgraded built-in
shaders and code generator to GLSL 1.5, and scrapped some legacy code. If
nobody objects, that can all go into blender2.8 and not a sub-branch.

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, only a few topics to report on,
> some discussion about OpenGL that we better move to the mailing list.
>
> 1) Current Projects
>
> - Mike Erwin proposes to switch to OpenGL 3.2 minimum requirement in
> the 2.8x branch.
>   While meeting generally agrees on this, it breaks building on OSX
> for as long as we still use immediate mode,
>   so better move discussion to mailing list, since we better take care
> breaking platform support for too long on branches intended for
> everyone to collaborate on.
>
> - Kevin Dietrich is working on Alembic,
>   http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?399763
>
> 2) GSOC Updates
>
> - Thomas has Bindless Textures and Single Channel textures in master
>
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2016/Weekly_Reports/Preparations
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