[Soc-2008-dev] Week 9 report

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) Previous week:
* Got all levels updating properly, so sculpting on any multires level
works now.
* Fixed the multires modifier Apply operation, works without crashing now
* Fixed copying multires meshes, so displacements aren't lost
* Fixed rendering multires meshes
* Fixed joining multires meshes.
* Added a Reshape feature to multires, that copies vertex coordinates
from a regular mesh to the current multires level, should improve
interoperability with other 3D software
* Improved memory usage a bit
* Started removing old multires code

b) Next week:
First thing is fixing undo in sculptmode. Unfortunately, this will
have to be a bit of a hack, since sculpting operates on DerivedMesh
data, which is temporary (non-SDNA) data.

I also still need to write the code to load old multires. This is a
little tricky, because the old format doesn't quite map one-to-one
with the new format.

c) Other:
At some point, we'll need to start worrying about performance. The
current speed of adding levels and updating levels is abysmal, and I'm
not sure that can be fixed with CCGSubsurf. (CCGSubsurf is quite fast
for editmode operations, but that's not as important for typical use
of multires meshes.) However, I'm going to try and get everything else
working before diving into the performance issues.

d) Schedule:
OK.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, André Pinto <andresusanopinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Week 9
> ======
>
> This week
> ---------
> After "playing" a lot with shrinkwrap and discussing with a few
> artists and coders..
>
> The "remove faces" and "merge points" options were removed form
> shrinkwrap. Users gave some feedback on that option not being very
> usefull and actually creating bad meshs topologys.. being it easier
> for the user to adjust a few vertexs.
>
> Well removing that option from shrinkwrap made it turn on a deformOnly
> modifier.. and then I coded the right part for allowing to be
> aplicable on curves and surfaces.. and also it allows to apply mutires
> modifier on top of shrinkwrap (some users gave a negative feedback
> when this wasnt possible).
>
> (This is shrinkwrap cloth modelling using options remove vertexs and
> merge vertexs.. it makes bad topology and its better to fix the shape
> instead of a simple projecting a plane)
> http://www.vimeo.com/1383279
>
> Next week
> ---------
> I wont be home next week and I wont have access to any computer or
> internet. I also wont be able to be present at this sunday irc
> meeting.
> (Mentor is aware of it).
>
> But for the nexts weeks I am working on finishing the "TODO"s and
> making stuff in a more "finish" state like documentation and fixing
> stuff.
>
> I still have some features I would to implement (and that I developed
> some code this week..) but they are not working yet:
>  *Make shrinkwrap work as a contraint (so its aplicable on an object
> coordinates and on emptys)
>
>
> Issues
> ------
> Some issues with constraint code..  I was told Aligorith is the right
> person to ask (currently waiting him to be online)
>
> Schedule
> --------
> I got behind this week.. with almost no code released :S
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