Hi, I would like to report the status of the Freestyle branch.
In short, it is too early to merge the branch into the trunk because of its instability and a number of missing features. Recently I have been working mostly on stability improvements, and the branch is much more stable than it was in the past, but still a considerable amount of work is necessary. I wrote a blog article last month to summarize the things to do before the merge into the trunk: http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/new-to-do-list/ The list of to-do's and rough progress rates at the moment are as follows: 1. Stability issues 1.1 Bug fix regarding the view map creation (80%) 1.2 Bug fix regarding the Blender file loader (50%) 1.3 Orthographic camera (0%) 2. Missing features 2.1 Textured strokes (0%) 2.2 Transparent stroke colors (0%) 2.3 Z depth information (0%) 2.4 Stroke density information (0%) 2.5 Steerable view map (0%) 3. Improvements and new features 3.1 Freestyle Python API improvements (50%) 3.2 Better feature edge detection (0%) Barts suggested in his comment to the blog article above that less important features could be postponed until after the merge into the trunk. I agree with him and I would omit: (2.1) textured strokes; (2.2) transparent stroke colors; (2.5) steerable view map; and (3.2) better feature edge detection. It is difficult for me to draw a timeline for the merge due to limited time resources. The completion of the to-do's, even with the omission of the 4 items above, is unlikely before the end of March. With best regards, -- KAJIYAMA, Tamito <rd6t-k...@asahi-net.or.jp> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom M" <letter...@gmail.com> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers@blender.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:39 AM Subject: [Bf-committers] status of branches > Hi all just thought it might be interesting to get an update on the > status of some of the branches > > in particular I'm interested in how the following projects are > progressing, and anticipated timeline (if any) for merging to head > > Nurbana > BMesh > Lightpaint > Freestyle > > any others that I'm overlooking? > > Thanks, > > LetterRip _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers