On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 1) Current projects > > - Campbell Barton has a patch in the tracker to place background > images with empty objects. > > - Meeting shortly discussed progress in particle branch, which > involves node-based particle editing too. > > 2) Blender 2.5x topics > > - Janne Karhu proposed to make pointcache baking (like for particles) > threaded, but he was getting thread issues with scene drawing, mostly > due to an ancient global variable. > > Meeting then went into review of how threaded render works in general, > which is not stable yet. Brecht reminded that there's a "Debug" test > 101 for it (CTRL+ALT+D, set to 101), which copies the entire database > (but there's issues with Images still). > Ton confirms this needs further research, and is defintely a 2.5 target. > > - Andrea Weikert noticed 'noise depth' on Perlin-noise based textures > had a too low maximum setting. Will be fixed. Example: > http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=6856 > > - Campbell mentions there are too many "Blender doesn't start" bug > reports. He suspects gfx cards to be the issue, and proposes to get a > couple of different cards to configure systems at home with. > > - Nathan Letwory suspects that (for Windows) a "doesn't start" bug is > also related to failing installer issues. The installer doesn't handle > priviledged vs nonpriviliged files well, and there are problems with > installation path finding code. > Maybe we should drop the installer, and just provide a > register_blender.bat or install.bat? > > - Campbell and Thomas Dinges will look into removing unused files from > svn. > > - Campbell proposes to ditch old Makefiles, Ton protests, but will > test Cmake in due time. Andrea mentions Cmake to MSVC has a nasty bug, > creating directories for every C file. > > - Question: is anyone even supporting Irix for 2.5x? > > -Ton-
Re: CMake/MSVC bug, this is just how we group files, fixed r32939. Andrea, can you double check this is ok?. All I had to go by were image search screen-shots on see what is a typical layout is :). -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
