Hi, I would advise against replacing GL_SELECT before swiss-cheese merge. There is enough changes in OpenGL code which makes merging very painful. Recoding GL_SELECT would make it even worse. With Wilkins help, we can get swiss cheese up and running (desktop only) before April.
Best, Alex On 2/24/2013 12:13 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are the notes of today's session in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders > > 1) 2.66 release review > > - Some showstoppers have been found already: > > - A change in how textures use alpha (option moved to Image block), required > a do-version patch which crashes for library linking in cases. > > - Compositor: File Output node missed socket input menu > > - Dynatopo crash in some cases. > > - We will check next sunday again, then do apply fixes on the release branch > and call for an 'a' build... > > - Important note: let's not do cleanups of code now please, except when > approved by all involved module owners! > > 2) Targets for 2.67 > > - Freestyle, no real news, but final review can start soon. > > - Sergey Sharybin worked on (motion tracking) Bundle Adjustment, should be in > svn soon. > > - Proposal for release planning: > > March 10 bcon2 (= targets are defined) > March 31 bcon3 (= targets are in svn) > April 14 bcon4 (= only fixes, test builds and/or RC) > April 21 bcon5 (= release imminent) > > 3) Other projects > > - Antonis Riakiotakis works on subsurf drawing speed improvement. > > - Ton Roosendaal suggested to work on replacing GL_SELECT (OpenGL select > feature, used for object mode). Too many problems are arising with it now. > Could be simply replaced with using back-buffer color codes. Alternative is > to do brute-force raycast tests. Might even work surprisingly fast. > > Thanks, > > -Ton- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands > > _______________________________________________ > 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
