[Bf-gamedev] GSOC proposal? ES rasterizer + Raspberry Pi

[Jason Wilkins]

There is a branch that runs on ES already (viewport fx).  The game engine
was running on the compatibility layer that's in viewport fx in the Swiss
cheese branch, but I didn't port the game engine over to the viewport fx
branch (too many merge conflicts in an area I don't know enough about yet).
 I don't anticipate it being a lot of work when I do port it.

On Thursday, March 13, 2014, Jacob Merrill <blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would this allow blender to run on a Parallela?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','arnaud at sphaero.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was wondering if a proposal like the following would be suitable for
>> GSOC? I've followed a template found on wiki.blender.org
>>
>> Any comments/feedback?
>>
>> Rg,
>>
>> Arnaud.
>>
>> Name
>>
>>      Arnaud Loonstra
>>
>> Email / IRC / WWW
>>
>>      Email: arnaud at z25.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','arnaud at z25.org');>
>>      IRC: sphaero_z25
>>      WWW: http://www.z25.org / http://www.sphaero.org
>>      GIT: http://github.com/sphaero
>>
>> Additional Contact Info
>>
>> Phone: later
>>
>> Physical Address:
>>      Concordiastraat 67a
>>      3551EM Utrecht
>>      The Netherlands
>>
>> Synopsis
>>
>>      OpenGL ES Rasterizer for Game Engine. Raspberry PI support for
>>      game engine.
>>
>> Benefits to Blender
>>
>>      With an OpenGL ES Rasterizer the game engine can target embedded
>> hardware like the Raspberry PI or Beagleboard. Also the ES rasterizer is
>> a first requirement for getting support for Android.
>>
>> Deliverables
>>
>>      The blenderplayer will run on the Raspberry PI based using standard
>> openGLES. Standard .blend files run natively.
>>
>> Project Details
>>
>>      A more detailed description.
>>
>> Project Schedule
>>
>>      I'm not sure how much work this will require but the work can
>>      be  based on the previous attempt to port the Blenderplayer
>>      to Android.
>>      * researching the current openGL rasterizer
>>      * setting up a dev environment solely focused on the Blenderplayer
>>      * Initial openGLES porting on x86(_64)
>>      * Initial ARM porting
>>      * Full openGL ES ARM port
>>      * porting shaders
>>      * wrapping up/finalizing documentation
>>
>>      I do expect to be on vacation for 3 weeks. But this will only
>>      mean I can't be online fulltime.
>>
>> Bio
>>
>>      I'm Arnaud Loonstra currently doing a Master study in Media
>> Technology at the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science
>> (LIACS). I've been involved in Blender since around 2000 and since the
>> 2.5 release this has progressed to working with the source of Blender as
>> well. Many example projects from the Z25 Foundation I have done with
>> Blender. I'm mostly interested in realtime applications with Blender
>> therefore my focus is on the Game Engine. In the past I've written a
>> Blenderplayer for the Raspberry PI using OpenFrameworks. I have
>> submitted some minor bug reports and patches to Blender (GE) but nothing
>> really substantive. I'm an experienced C and Python programmer although
>> I'll admit that openGL ES is an area I've only recently touched upon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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