[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report 12-13 Viewport FX III

[Jason Wilkins]

The last two weeks I had to take some personal time.  The original
situation was actually compounded by other developments, so where I
originally planned to take a week, I had to take more time.

I will submit my final GSoC report on Thursday and will be able to resume
work on the same day.  I've arranged the next school year so I can spend
time working on Blender.  I can commit to donating this time, since I have
currently have financial support.

Before I left I planned to prepare a series of patches that each made
logical progress towards completion of my work, could be evaluated one at a
time, and only depend on the previous patch.  I had a good work flow where
I would carefully make changes to the appropriate patch and then merge them
into the later dependent ones.  I need to take the time to learn arc since
it seems to automate parts of this process.

I submitted a patch containing an OpenGL binding that supports more
extentions in a way that makes it cleaner and also supports ES.  I did a
code review of this patch myself already when I found some time to work.

I also submitted a patch that contains code to make OpenGL problems easier
track by developers and easier to report by users.  This is just here
because the other code uses it a lot.

The next patch in the pipeline was going to be the first part of vertex
streaming.  It would implement a set of "standard" names for shader
variables (attributes and uniforms) much like the ones provided by legacy
GLSL.

Next would have been CPU matrix math in a style that makes it easier to
search/replace gl functions but use Blender's matrix code.

That is probably all I could have done week 12.  Last week I would have
completed the set of patches for the new vertex streaming code.  I'm not
completely sure how to divide it yet, but at least there would be a patch
for handling Vertex Array Objects (not to be confused with Vertex Buffer
Objects) and code that implements VBO writing that can replace Begin/End.

There are also several smaller patches I am ready to submit.  I'm going to
commit to getting these in one at a time until it's all done.

I really appreciate that I could take this time.  It has been really
rough.  If anybody wants to know more I'm open to talking about it.  I
think it would help me deal with it.
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