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

[Jason Wilkins]

When I sent this I was't really aware of how quickly things would move.
 The "complications" I mentioned were that my aunt was diagnosed with
advanced stage cancer.  What the doctors said would be weeks turned out to
be days.  She's gone (along with my grandmother who I got to visit in June,
and passed a couple of weeks ago).

I'm just too wiped out to focus on getting my final report done yesterday
(Thursday) like I indicated.

I can't wait to get home.

On Monday, August 18, 2014, Jason Wilkins <jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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