Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Proposals/2.50 and beyond goals

Disclaimer: A lot of the topics listed below are not even work in progress yet, so don't get too excited.

Interface

• Outliner
  • More access to all properties
• Layer Manager
  • Much more robust (see patch?)
• Sane layout and naming for UI controls and menus
• Custom bindings for keys/toolbars/menus/buttons
• Drag and drop everywhere
• Font preview/selection tools (patch exists)
• More obvious plugin and scripts folder access
• Allow platform native file dialog
• Better i18n support (UTF-8 and BIDI)

SDS Modeling

• NGons
• Nondestructive editing/workflow
• Procedural primitives?
• Modifier nodes
• ShrinkWrap modifier (GSoC)

Sculpting

• Higher polycounts
• Editable base mesh (SoC)

Retopologizing

• See Topogun
• See Zbrush

NURBS

• Finish NURBS library

UV-unwrapping

• Standard editmesh tools available for UV editing

Texturing

• Painting
  • Mirroring
  • Multiple Undo (done in Apricot branch)
  • More robust and unified paint system (in other words different paint modes should be consistent with each other)
• Image based
• Procedural
• Projection painting
• Node texture system

Rigging

• Spline IK
• Asset transfer

Animating

• Option of Euler rotations input/visualization for all input locations that use quats
• Fix Z rotation glitch that happens at 360 degrees for curves
• Everything Keyable
• Retargeting of animation data to other assets/asset transfer
• Motion capture tools
• NLA System rethink

Fluids

• Integration of control of fluids via particles.

Rendering

• BVH partitioning
• Lightcuts (GSoC)
• Freestyle (GSoC)
• Volumetrics (being developed)
• Zeroconfiguration automatic addition of rendernodes
• Renderer API

Import/Export

• Full Collada support
• Full FBX support
• Full pointcache support

Game Engine

• Allow other game engines to be 'pluggable'

Sound

• Upgrade sound (SoC)

Digital Asset Management Integration

• SVN
• MySQL?

Python scripting

• Improving Python Editing (GSoC)