Re: [Bf-committers] Bullet physics update

2011-03-13 Thread Terry Wallwork
On 12/03/11 20:41, Erwin Coumans wrote: Hi, I just committed the latest Bullet 2.78/trunk version in Blender/extern/bullet2 and also added those few lines that enables the export of .bullet files using BGE python script command PhysicsConstraints.exportBulletFile(char* fileName) I

[Bf-committers] What we do it for...

2011-03-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi all, I'm getting regularly wonderful emails from users, professionals, universities, and so on. For some theason I was a while silent when reading the below mail. So I'll share it with you. Whenever we discuss big plans, conquering the world, making films, it's always good to look back

Re: [Bf-committers] Bullet physics update

2011-03-13 Thread François T .
dummy question, but this update still needs BGE to run the simulation right ? is the capsule feature is there now ? I have seen some video on youtube with it. cheers F 2011/3/12 Erwin Coumans erwin.coum...@gmail.com Hi, I just committed the latest Bullet 2.78/trunk version in

Re: [Bf-committers] What we do it for...

2011-03-13 Thread Thomas Dinges
Hey Ton, this is a really nice e-mail. Seeing that Blender is used by people all over the world, with different social background, poor or rich is great! Thanks for sharing the mail! It's the reason why we donate time and energy into free software. Because it's for everyone. :) Thomas Am

Re: [Bf-committers] What we do it for...

2011-03-13 Thread Dalai Felinto
I keep saying that we need to move for a unicode friend font, but people don't listen to it. I'm sure our Japanese friend would love it :p But seriously, it's a really nice message passed along. I'm sure people have different motivations, but there is likely a common ground. It's not about the

[Bf-committers] Todo wiki cleanup

2011-03-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, I've cleaned most of the wiki todo list, where possible marked issues as 2.5 target and as general todo. Items marked as 2.5 target we will work on during april/may still. Could the various maintainers of Blender code check this as well, prioritize and categorize. Or remove items when

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi. Will 2.57 have a stable API? Yes. But depends on definition of stable too. Is a matter of documenting it well. Most of it can be called stable and frozen, some parts might need bug fixes, and some parts are in WIP or unfinished. -Ton-

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi, I think we should make major modifications to the release cycle, to avoid problems that we've been having with 2.5 and also releases before that. In my opinion a migration schedule for new features as we have done before does not work, because it's unpredictable when developers will be

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi Brecht, I strongly believe we should switch to short, fixed release cycles, and be much more strict in only accepting functionality in trunk that is reviewed and can be stabilized in a short time. Fully agree! :) -Ton-

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Martin Poirier
Double thumbs up from my end also. There's a lot to be said about stricter discipline for commits to trunk. Martin --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org wrote: From: Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond To: bf-blender

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Tobias Kummer
+1 Here, sounds very reasonable! On 03/13/2011 03:52 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: Hi, I think we should make major modifications to the release cycle, to avoid problems that we've been having with 2.5 and also releases before that. In my opinion a migration schedule for new features as we

Re: [Bf-committers] Roadmap for 2.5x - 2.6x - beyond

2011-03-13 Thread Thomas Dinges
Hey, I completely agree with that and be happy that you bring it up now. :) This 8 weeks release schedule sounds good and doable. Our main problem was never the amount of new features, it was good testing and quality. Hopefully this will improve with such a new system. Very strong +1 Am

[Bf-committers] Blender developer IRC meeting, March 13 2011

2011-03-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi all, 1) Blender 2.5 project - All signs still positive for 2.57 out of beta release within 2-3 weeks. - Meeting confirms we'll need RC builds, preferably a week before official release. - Ton suggests to already make 'official' test builds this week. Having regular builds for testing

[Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi all, In the meeting Ton proposed to do official automated builds, that are built and uploaded every day or every few hours. These should effectively be the same as release builds, and could even be used as official releases. To start, some questions for platform maintainers: * Do you have

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
Hi there, as the maintainer of GraphicAll's Instant Builds(tm) I'd like to share my experience: IT'S AWFUL!!! kidding apart, if you guys want to setup an autobuild system it probably needs a smart way for it to report when builds fail. I've thought of checking what was the revision that broke it

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread Erwin Coumans
Blender used Thinderbox back in the NaN days. What happened to that? Is Hans Lambermont still around for advice? Thanks, Erwin Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com zan...@gmail.com wrote: Tinderbox ___

[Bf-committers] Latex Formulas in BlenderWiki

2011-03-13 Thread mindrones
Hi, quick mail to say that in wiki it is now possible to write formulas using latex, see: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide/Formulas We've made this in the hope that developers will be more comfortable documenting algorithms used in blender :) Regards, Luca

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread Ρυακιωτάκης Αντώνης
If that does happen you should expect A LOT more traffic since people will often download the latest version. Seeing, however how often compatibility changed between recent releases I think that most professionals will stick to 'official' releases. +1 on the automated notifier for broken builds.

Re: [Bf-committers] Updated Camera patch

2011-03-13 Thread Troy Sobotka
@Mats Holmberg / @Francois T et al: Is there a way we can establish a set of tests to definitively test this patch? Obviously matching a scene to real world units against a test photograph is a possible option here, but I'm wondering if there is something else we can do? Sincerely, TJS

[Bf-committers] Frame Rate: Time Remapping

2011-03-13 Thread Troy Sobotka
Whilst mucking about retiming, I noticed that I was unable to get any sort of output shift on frame input to output ratio using the Time Remapping Old and New values. Has anyone tested it recently and gotten it to work? If so, what dark alchemy did you invoke? Sincerely, TJS

[Bf-committers] Adjustable outline width patch

2011-03-13 Thread Jacob F.
Was told on #blendercoders that patch review was undergoing changes, so I'll post this small patch here. See http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=211495 and http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=26495group_id=9atid=127

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread jonathan d p ferguson
hi. +1 I'm very pleased to see a step in this direction. I did automated builds of blender for a while at my former job. Without a continuous integration framework, however, the automated builds were not as useful as I (and a few others) had imagined. Graphicall has been providing a good way

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi, First let me say, doing the whole continuous integration web service thing is not what I signed up for. It's valuable, but someone else will have to volunteer for that. Mainly my motivation is getting good reference builds for bug reporting, and finding and solving build and installation

Re: [Bf-committers] Official Automated Builds

2011-03-13 Thread pete larabell
I can do automated builds for FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386, and soon amd64. As of Friday python32 for BSD/amd64 was still a link to python31, but BSD/i386 has proper python32. I can also have a system in place to detect build failures. If BF does go the VirtualBox route (which I'd prefer since that

[Bf-committers] Wiki log of API changes.

2011-03-13 Thread Campbell Barton
Since the last fairly big API changes with registration I've been trying not to make API breakages. Matt requested we log API which may break scripts so script authors don't need to trawl through commit logs to find out what updates they need to make. This was the plan all along but being in beta

Re: [Bf-committers] Wiki log of API changes.

2011-03-13 Thread Matt Ebb
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Campbell Barton ideasma...@gmail.com wrote: Now things are more stable I started a wiki for this:  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Py/API/Updates Thank you *very* much, this will be a big help! cheers Matt