Dev:Source/Architecture

Code Documentation

Overview

• Blender Architecture Origins (2003)
• Diagram showing code layout
• Blender 2.5 design docs
• Anti-Features

Blend Files

• Blender File Reading
• Notes on SDNA
• Blender File Format

User Interface

• Architecture for Window Manager, Events, Handlers, Operators
• Area Manager
• Operators / Tutorial
• Notifiers and Updates / Notifiers
• Context
• Reports
• View2D API
• UI Layout Engine (File Code Guidelines)
• GL Buffer Swapping

Blender 2.8

• Dev:2.8/

Viewport 2.0

• Viewport 2.0 design.

Developer Checklists

These are checklists for developers to use when adding some common extensions to Blender. They are not hand-holding code tutorials, but rather, references for making sure you don't forget anything important. As such, they only cover the extensions which require changes in multiple places.

• META: Template for New Checklists

• Adding new ID Datablock
• Making a Datablock Animateable

• Adding a new Operator
• Adding a new Modal Operator (?)
• Adding a new keymap (for a particular context)
• Adding a new Context Entry

• Adding a new Modifier
• Adding a new Constraint
• Adding a new Node

• Adding a new Animation Channel type
• Adding a new FModifier (FCurve modifier)
• Adding a new Driver Variable Type

• Adding a new Editor
• Adding a new Region (to an existing editor)

• Adding a new circle select operator

• Adding new ToolSettings Property/Data
• Adding a new Theme Color

• Adding an Icon
• Adding a new Vector Icon

Data

• DNA Struct Guidelines
• Data API / RNA / Tasks / Extensions
• ID Property
• Dependency Graph / Implementation
• Naming Conventions for functions and structs

I/O

• COLLADA integration

Animation

• Animation System upgrade, "Animato".
• Inverse Kinematics

Modelling

Curves

• Curve Selection Tools
• Somes notes on Blender Curves
• Unicode for Font3D

Meshes

• DerivedMesh
• Vertex Groups
• Custom Element Data
• Edge Subdivision
• Sculpting Tools
• BMesh
• PBVH
• Bevel

Modifiers

• Modifier Stack
• CCGSubsurf

Transform

• Transform Architecture

System & Installation

• Installing Blender
• Installation directories and files

Physics

• Rigid Body Physics
• Softbodies
• Collisions / Collision Modifier
• Cloth

Rendering & Shading

• Blender Render Pipeline
• Transmissivity
• UV Unwrapping
• Cycles

Video Editing

• FFMpeg Integration
• Frameserver interface
• HDD-Audio interface
• Memory cache limitor

Generic Data Structures

• Two Way Linked Dynamic List (ListBase)

Math

• Math library conventions
• Color
• OpenColorIO

Sound

• Sound system