[Bf-committers] Patch 35559 submitted, Fix possible very slow startup time for OpenCL renderer

2013-05-29 Thread Doug Gale
This patch implements a context and program cache for OpenCL. The OpenCL renderer can have very slow startup time in some implementations. For example, Intel CPU OpenCL takes 9 seconds to startup even when loading a cached program binary on a Core I7 990x Extreme Edition. This startup time

Re: [Bf-committers] Ptex status?

2013-05-29 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, There's been experiments, but nothing tangible. You consider to work on it? -Ton- Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam

[Bf-committers] Question about libcarve simplification function...

2013-05-29 Thread Alex Pilafian
Hi all, My name is Alex. My company is using the Carve library for several different tasks (pertaining to 3d computational geometry) in our application. In this particular instance, we're trying to use carve::mesh::MeshSimplifier#eliminateShortEdges to modify a meshSet that we have. We pass it a

[Bf-committers] Blender 2.67b release AHOY!

2013-05-29 Thread Campbell Barton
Lets hope this is the last 2.67 release :) Information for platform maintainers: tag: blender-2.67b-release tag revision: 57123 addons revision: 4542 locale revision: 1888 To avoid doing a full checkout of svn. # first ensure no local changes svn revert -R . # check for no additional source

[Bf-committers] Git svn wisdom for newcomers

2013-05-29 Thread Antony Riakiotakis
Hi, Since the topic has emerged and since it's gsoc time, I thought I'd post my two cents on using git along with svn (unfortunately only available on linux currently). These are meant as an introduction to people who may want to try out git svn but a good reading on git basics is strongly

Re: [Bf-committers] Git svn wisdom for newcomers

2013-05-29 Thread Dalai Felinto
It's good to remember that the official page is outdated, so it's good to have new info like yours: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Git unfortunately only available on linux currently. It works in OSX too (arguably linux, anyways, just to be clear). The other