Hey everybody! My name is Phil Gosch, I'm from Graz University of Technology and I'm interested in the "UV Editing Tools" GSOC project. I'd be very happy to realize this project and wanted to get some help/tipps or hints beforehand, that's why I'm writing this mail.
About me: I'm a long time Blender user and active member of the Blender community. Besides university I'm working as a 3D/Technical Artist freelancer, where I'm mostly doing illustrations, visualizations including custom tool development and gameart/gamedev. You can have a look at my portfolio at my homepage [0] or at my Blender Network profile [1]. As someone who uses Blender as his main tool on a daily basis I know the UV Editor (and its shortcomings) and because of that fact I not only think I'm fitting for this project but I also have a great personal interest in improving these tools. I'm no complete stranger to Blender core coding, I already had some of my patches applied to trunk a few years ago. Of course the codebase is changing all the time, that's why I'm already getting familiar with the codebase again. I already compiled the newest Blender version and I'm spending my free time reading uvedit_*.c files. ;) I think the outline presented at the ideas page [2] makes sense, however while writing my proposal I found that I liked the idea of trying to convert some of the useful UV python scripts I'm using to C code (I'm sure people have lots of scripts they use which I don't even know about). So if you use a python addon for the UV tools and would like me to consider it for inclusion into my proposal, please let me know by answering to this mail. :) If any of the potential mentors (Bastien, Campbell, Howard) have some useful input I'd be very thankful! Also if anyone could have a look at my proposal before submitting that would be great! It's not finished yet, but you can poke me anytime on IRC/blendercoders, I'm always lurking there. My IRC nick is "saphires". Best wishes, Phil [0] http://www.saphirestudio.at/ [1] https://www.blendernetwork.org/phil-gosch [2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016/Ideas PS: Sorry if this mail shows up twice, there was an error when I first tried sending it -- pixel-pusher at saphirestudio.at _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
