Dev:WeeklyMeetingAgenda/2005-03-27th

1) Transform (+ manipulator widgets) - A long debate proved the Manipulators need more design time on keybinding setup, Ton will keep track of ideas and come up with a proposal that hopefully fits all. - Martin P will update his transform wiki todo list since most of the targets have been accomplished.

Remaining todo: - Add creasing to the new transform (Martin) - Remove the old code and defines (Ton) - Then everyone else do testing - Review of the MMB & widget conventions, including constraints

2) HEmesh - HEmesh (Half Edge Mesh a new data structure) is now ready for committing to Tuhopuu - congratulations Joe Edgar.

3a) Patches: turntable (John Aughey) Patch approved, if: - it will have axis correction for switching from trackball view to turntable view - it prevents 'slanting' while rotating a lot. Seems to be not a problem with current implementation

3b) Patches: animated views (John Aughey) This patch animates the view changes that are done view the NumPAD. Gave mixed reviews in the meeting about usablitily or need to include in bf-blender. John will make a proposal for adding to Tuhopuu first, and add CTRLKEY with Numpad as a hotkey to activate.

4) Creasing bug Daniel Dunbar has a fix that prevents 'spikes' on certain creasing situations. This might break compatibility with older Blender releases, provided the artists used the spikes as a feature! Ton agreed that it's a real bug, and can be fixed even with losing 'compatibility'.

5) Subsurf work, drawobject recode Daniel Dunbar is cleaning drawobject.c, making a more flexible API and switching it to use his new faster subsurf code. Docs & proposal is in separate mail to this list.

6) Scons Some issues with scons - our scons script uses an undocumented feature, which should be reworked so it isn't used. Also the include files are re-used excessively. Lukep & Stivs will work on this. We could use more volunteers for maintaining the Scons files. It is python based, and is 'easy work'!