[Bf-interface] Blender UI Meeting Notes - April 9 2016

[Julian Eisel]

Noticed we already have a page for the viewport project
(https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Viewport). Please use that
one instead :)

On 9 April 2016 at 21:20, Julian Eisel <eiseljulian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net
> <http://irc.freenode.net/> <http://irc.freenode.net/
> <http://irc.freenode.net/>> #blenderui.
>
> This meeting was about the viewport only:
> * More design work and better communication still needed!
> * Paweł Łyczkowski and Julian Eisel will join the team for UI design,
> Julian will also help with UI code. More help welcome!
> * We quickly set up a page for sharing viewport design docs [1]. Will
> hopefully be filled with more content soon ;)
> * Question: What is going to be node-based? Everything? Only
> materials? What about matcaps, viewport compositing effects (SSAO,
> depth of field), Wireframes, ...? The only thing that's certainly
> going to be node-based is materials.
> * Antony Riakiotakis worked on a 'viewport-from-scratch' prototype
> last year. Work will continue on that as a base, proposal is to move
> it to a 2.8 branch soon (depends on general 2.8 planning [2]).
>
> [1] https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Viewport_Project
> [2] https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2016-April/047205.html
>
> We'll schedule the next meeting via this mailing list whenever there's
> a need for one.
>
> Cheers,
> - Julian -