[Soc-2006-dev] SoC weekly reporting

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) This week:
- Added a useful tool to sculptmode that allows the brush to take
better advantage of Blender's textures. First, for imported images,
they can now be tiled across the model. Even better, procedural images
can now take 3D model coordinates as input, making it easy to add
random detail to a model with noisy textures, or more structured
detail (e.g. with the wood texture.)
- Large overhaul of the retopo paint system; basically, it's
implemented the correct way now, as an editmode tool, rather than a
tool that just puts its buttons in the editmode palettes. Among other
things, this means that undo/redo now works as expected.

b) Next week:
Hmm, is there a next week in the program? My plans for next week may
actually be happening in more like two or three weeks from now, but
basically, I want to get back in to the multires code and do some
major overhauling. I'm still playing with the design on paper, but I'm
pretty sure I want to cut back on the amount of data that is editable
for each level. For example, it makes sense to have topology, color,
smooth/solid, vertex groups, and UV coords be editable only on the
first level; higher levels would obviously still have an editable
shape, but many other controls would be locked, in some way. Editmode
would still be accessible, because tools like
grab/scale/rotate/shear/etc are still useful.

-Nicholas

On 8/18/06, Ben Batt <benbatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a) What I've done this week:
>     * Added the UV projection modifier.
>     * Added an option to enable/disable automatic (threshold-based)
> sharp edges in the Autosmooth modifier.
>     * Changed the Displace modifier to use a texture instead of a
> material for the
>  displacement input.
>     * Added limited texture coordinate support to the Displace
> modifier - Local, Global, Object and UV are supported.
>     * Added the foreachIDLink function to the modifier API, and added the
> corresponding modifiers_foreachIDLink function to BKE_modifier.h (this
> function is called when reading files & elsewhere to apply a function
> to all datablocks linked by modifiers).
>     * Fixed the modifier Apply button to bake all data to the mesh.
>     * Fixed the "Subsurf UV" option in the Subsurf modifier.
>     * Refactored and (slightly) optimised modifier stack code.
>
> b) What remains to be done
>     * Update modifier stack API documentation in the wiki.
>     * Attempt to fix the orco calculation problem outlined in the
> previous update.
>     * Fix an issue with the Displace modifier where UV coordinates do
> not map correctly.
>     * Further refactoring and optimisation.
>
> Artificer
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