Dev:Ref/Requests/Long term goals

2006 - potential goals for siggraph

Documentation and Training

• Published Manual?
• Scripted Tutorial system (see unified tool API and refactor)
• Migration Guides?
• Blender Education System?
• Pipeline Integration Guides?
• Training DVD set?
• Certification of compatibility with 3rd party training materials?
• Translations?
• Site Layout?
• Orange DVD

UI, GHOST, and Customization

• Pen Tablet and Spaceball support
• International Keyboards
• Custom Keybindings and Keybinding Presets (and keybinding review)
• Custom Buttons and button layouts
• Custom Menus
• XML based layout?
• Review of layout (switch to vertical toolbars? menu layout)
• Terminology review (switch to standardized terminology?)
• have backwards compatibility layouts

Transforms

• Snapping Framework (probably for SIGGRAPH)
• Tool pipeline framework (snapping will be a PoC) longer term
• (Also see Sketchup inferencing tools)

Mesh Editing

• Unified Tool API and ToolPiping
• Selection Framework?
• NGons
• Multiresolution mesh?
• sculpting support (also see sharpconstruct, and python sculpting tools)
• Object creation rewrite
• Standard Toolset (Beveling, Connect)
• Advanced Toolset?
• Dimensioning?

UV Mapping

• UV mapping to use editmesh?

Animation

Misc

• Editable Ghosts?
• Interactive Physics?
• Motion Capture related? (ie blending of source data, or ability to directly use mocap)
• transfer of data between assets?
• 'Facerobot'?

Simulation

• Unified method for interaction of systems?

Cloth

• zaz and genscher cloth work

Fluids

• distributed?
• Smoke?
• Fire?

Texturing

Materials

• Material Presets
• Material libraries
• genetic generation of material variations

Painting and Image Manipulation

• Projection of viewport for using external 2D painting

Shaders

• Volumetric Shaders?

Rendering

• Tangent space normal maps?
• micropolys?
• progressive rendering?

integrated external renderers

• Yafray?
• Renderman compliant?
• Others?

Compositing & Sequencing

• Optical Flow/Matchmoving?
• SIOX?

GameEngine

• Pluginable Game engines
• Ogre for live display?

Pipeline Mangement

• Import and Export tool quality, speed, and support
• Subversion Integration?
• mixed xml and binary format for versioning system?
• Pipeline convenience (forced unique naming system)?

Cross platform

• OpenGL issues (SiS, ATI)
• Mac Intel
• Win 64
• Portables?