[Soc-2006-dev] SoC weekly reporting

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) This week:
- Improved the way the brush is draw: if sculpting isn't actually
happening, just draw the brush, don't redraw the whole window.
- Split the texture/color data in multires so that, if neither is
being used, memory usage is reduced
- Large reduction in memory usage when rendering a multires mesh
- Shortcut keys for changing multires level and for changing sculptmode brush
- Corrected loading/saving of partially-visible sculptmeshes
- Corrected undo/redo behaviour for multires
- Added depth-buffer caching for sculptmode - the advantage being that
depth doesn't keep building up, and keeps the surface of the mesh
smoother
- Modified sculptmode so that only modified faces are redrawn while
sculpting, rather than the entire mesh

b) Next week:
- More work to do on the last item listed above (partial redraw.)
- I have a couple more things to try and make sculpting even faster
(adaptive-sized point rendering, for one)
- More shortcuts needed for sculptmode/multires
- User feedback indicates that the partial-mesh-visibility tool is
somewhat unstable, needs fixing
- More memory-reduction improvements needed

-Nicholas

On 7/27/06, Ben Batt <benbatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a) What I've done this week:
>      * Added a first draft of the Autosmooth modifier.
>      * Worked on modifier stack performance, achieving some speedups
> (mostly in CustomData and CDDerivedMesh code).
>      * Refactored and tidied up modifier stack code in places.
>
> b) What I plan to do next week
>      * Continue work on the Autosmooth modifier, adding a "set smooth"
> option and support for user-defined sharp edges.
>      * Add a first draft of the Displace modifier.
>      * Continue optimisation and refactoring of modifier stack code.
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