[Soc-2008-dev] Week 7 report

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) Previous week:
Turns out the approach I was trying to use to subdivide displacements
was way too complex to finish. I couldn't understand a line of code
five seconds after writing it, so eventually I scrapped all that and
tried something different, and it worked out much better, although it
needs some optimization. Subdividing a level now works properly, with
displacements subdivided as expected. I just committed these changes
today...

b) Next week:
Now that displacements can be subdivided one level, I need to
generalize it to work for more than one level, so that sculpting
levels other than the bottom and top levels can work. This will be the
last "major" feature; once this is working, the multires modifier
should be functional for actual use. (There are still three other
features needed to match the old multires however, those being
deleting lower levels and higher levels, and changing the subdivision
type (simple or catmull-clark.))

c) Other:
I am writing a more complete status update for the gsoc midterm; I'll
put that up on the wiki with some demonstrations (pictures and/or
videos, maybe a .blend) as soon as it's ready.

d) Schedule:
On schedule. Getting displacement subdivision working was kind of
grueling; I put in a lot of hours this week.

-Nicholas

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Davide Vercelli
<davide.vercelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Week 7
> ======
>
> This week
> ---------
> As expected and clearly stated last week, this week I had less time to
> dedicate to gsoc. Still, I added a small feature that, as far as I
> know, blender internal lacked so far: textured area lights, where by
> "textured" I don't mean they sort of project some textures on the
> scene, but they actually have varying color throughout their area.
> This is still pretty much work in progress though.
>
> (As a side note, I also visited Google London where I proudly wore my
> Blender t-shirt and where I'm pretty sure that I saw a couple of
> googlers editing a video using Blender...)
>
> Next week
> ---------
> Verifiable target: add support for all diffuse types. I have yet to
> look into the code, so some of them may turn out to be not easily
> boundable and thus not really "supported" in the end.
>
> Issues
> ------
> None.
>
> Schedule
> --------
> I think that I am on schedule.
> Please note that I expect july to be slower paced than august; this is
> because in the next few weeks I'll be leaving London after a lengthy
> stay and I need to wrap up several things (including packing,
> bureaucratic stuff, etc.).
>
> Davide
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