[Soc-2008-dev] Week 5 report

[André Pinto]

==== Week 5 ====

== this week ==
This week I developed (as planned) the SimpleDeform modifier
which allows to apply bend, taper and twist functions to objects.

== Next ==
Next week Ill improve the simpledeform..
add vertex weights, and a few more options to make them easier usable

If I have time ill start looking on code to do sphere cast.. so that I
can solve the problem of keptDist on shrinkwrap.

== issues ==
During this week I also had a few chats with members on #blendercoders
about the simpledeform and it seems the main problem is usability ..
like developping manipulators to control the modifier options, and
other easier configurable things.. tough since blender 2.5 is going to
be about UI, I am not developping any efforts on that area.

== schedule ==
last exam was this week (I hope :) )
Going to have more time from now on


2008/6/27 Kent Mein <kent.mein at gmail.com>:
>
> On Jun 27, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Davide Vercelli wrote:
>>
>> Next week
>> ---------
>> Last week I mentioned I wanted to distribute a couple of Python
>> scripts so that people could test environment maps and area lights.
>> But the scripts I've used so far are very hackish and Blender tends to
>> slow down a great deal when dealing with thousands of lights in 3d
>> view, especially oriented lights that require a lot of additional
>> drawing; so right now I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble to polish
>> them. As Kent suggested, it could be better to code some C code
>> directly, maybe improving it later. I think I'm going to change my
>> plans and will do this next week; support for specularity and diffuse
>> lighting will come afterwards.
>>
>
> I just wanted to point out I didn't say it has to be done in c.
> What's needed is a nice way for users to add/edit/modify these
> large numbers of lights.  If you think c is the way to go with it
> thats fine,
> if you think python works better though go with that.
>
> Also since you have your own tree, I say add them in now with maybe
> a readme.
> Don't feel bad about moving them later or removing
> them and replacing them with other code.
>
> Kent
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