Re: [Bf-committers] Proposal to Change Mathutils Vectors

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Hale
Thanks for the reply Stephen. This certainly is a difficult topic to handle, on the one hand we have the mathematically correct implementation which would see only the use of homogeneous coordinates for translations and perspective projections and on the other we have the current/proposed implemen

Re: [Bf-committers] Proposal to Change Mathutils Vectors

2011-12-03 Thread Stephen Swaney
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:47:36PM +1100, Andrew Hale wrote: > > I've written a proposal to change the current handling of transfomations of > vectors and remove the use cases for 4D vectors. The proposal can be found > here: > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:TrumanBlending#Proposal:_Four_D

Re: [Bf-committers] Proposal to improve the File Selector Box for import/export and open/save

2011-12-03 Thread Alexandr Kuznetsov
Hi. This sounds very interesting and it is a good idea to me, but I really dislike the fact of adding another right panel. It seems to be waste of space, especially on small monitors. Windows has second preview panel in explorer, but I always close it because takes up a lot space. Maybe later, whe

[Bf-committers] Proposal to improve the File Selector Box for import/export and open/save

2011-12-03 Thread Gaia Clary
Hi. I found it is very common to overlook the Properties section during export or import or even when loading/saving another blend file. The properties settings are often burried somewhere outside of the screen on the lower left side of the file selection window. I propose to move the special

Re: [Bf-committers] Cycles branch still relevant?

2011-12-03 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
The cycles branch is already merged into trunk, there's no point in building it anymore, new features and fixes are going to trunk now. Brecht. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I know that cycles will be going into trunk at some point but I > decided to go ahead and do an sv

Re: [Bf-committers] Occlusion Query based selection

2011-12-03 Thread Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης
Hi brecht, quickie answer and update for builders\testers(forgot to include some fill rate optimization in the first patch posted here): use the patch here http://www.pasteall.org/26958/diff instead. About interference: the updated patch above turns off writing to the color buffer (since it doesn'

[Bf-committers] Cycles branch still relevant?

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Shaw
I know that cycles will be going into trunk at some point but I decided to go ahead and do an svn up of cycles one last time. Besides pulling in some new bundled libraries, it also appears to be missing several includes. I added the following after one by one after several attempts at building:

Re: [Bf-committers] Occlusion Query based selection

2011-12-03 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi, Yes, it would be good to avoid GL_SELECT when possible. Making a common interface that can use a different method depending on the graphics card support seems the way to go. Regarding occlusion queries, is there any way around counting the number of queries needed in advance? It seems like th

[Bf-committers] Occlusion Query based selection

2011-12-03 Thread Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης
Hi, recently I have become aware of a user complaint http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?238426-why-is-gl_select-still-used-to-select-objects-in-Blender about slow selection. This is not a new issue and stems from the fact that selection uses glRenderMode(GL_SELECT) under the hood. Th

Re: [Bf-committers] Proposal to Change Mathutils Vectors

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Hale
Hi Dahlia, This proposal will not effect quaternions, I agree, they are far too useful! It only applies to 4D vectors. Thanks for the response, Andrew On 12/3/11, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > Would removing 4d vectors affect quaternions? I've not looked at the > implementation but I do use quaternio