Hi Cam, Checked on patch and forum reviews. Improvement could be like; - make drawtype option for empty 'Image', which will show new buttons - without image block linked, it just draws the 1x1 unit square in wire.
Matt's thoughts & doubts on BA are still very valid, but for both the analysis as conclusion I have a different approach. - Good UI and tools design should inherently follow internal architecture too. The patch has no beauty prize, but it doesn't conflict internally either. - In past decade we've been adding far too many features that either half or not really well integrated. These are the hardest to maintain and make Blender so complex. - In order to move on and keep Blender stable & in maintenance, we could stick to rule 'only add when internal design provides' and move all other stuff to a Blender 3 list or so. I'm well aware that the Blender design papers I did in '95 are quite ancient now, with shortcomings in design that hold us back in areas. So shortly after we survived 2.5 we better not start another massive redesign, but in the course of next year (2.6x series) we can definitely start collecting the key issues for an internal design upgrade. -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 8 May, 2011, at 6:05, Campbell Barton wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Dan Eicher <[email protected]> wrote: >> You can currently load up an image into the 3d viewport in either the >> foreground or background using the py-api. >> >> I wrote an operator a while back to test image.gl_load (or whatever >> it >> ended up being called) that did just that and it was pretty easy -- >> aside from all the opengl voodoo. >> >> You can even display it in 3d space as I (accidentally) found out >> while playing with artoolkit. >> >> Dan > > There is a patch for assigning images to empties. just updated it to > the current svn: > > http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=21740&group_id=9&atid=127 > > Screenshot: > http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/empty_object.png > > Blenderartist thread > http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-201290.html > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
