Dev:2.5/Source

• Status (updated June 7, 2010)
• Todo & Testing
• Roadmap

Approved Documents

Design

• Blender 2.5x project focus
• Blender UI paradigms
• UI Design Rules
• Terminology and Language
• Window Manager and Editor Reviews
• Properties and auto-layout
• Evolution of Blender UI, by William Reynish, pdf
• UI Layout Engine (design rules)
• UI Layout Engine (layout guidelines)
• Blender 2.5x Python API Introduction
• Blender 2.5x Python API Reference
• Blender code layout diagram

Implementation

• Architecture for Window Manager, Events, Handlers, Operators
• Area Manager
• Operators / Tutorial
• Notifiers and Updates / Notifiers
• Data API / RNA / Tasks / Extensions / Defining Properties
• Naming Conventions for functions and structs
• Animation System upgrade, "Animato".
• Context
• Reports
• View2D API
• UI Layout Engine (File Code Guidelines)
• GL Buffer Swapping
• Paint BVH
• Internationalization

Proposals

Design

• Dimensioning
• 2.50 UI design proposal / Discussion
• File Browser
• Library Browser
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Output Formats GUI
• Import/Export Formats
• RNA Name Cleanup

Implementation

• Python 2.5 API, Python3.1 Update
• Python 2.5 API Proposal --Ideasman42 03:16, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• Python 2.5 API Discussion
• Python/RNA API
• Python/Mathutils
• Globals and Bad Calls
• UI Layout Engine (tech specs)
  
• Resource File Paths
• Drag and Drop

Amsterdam "Winter Camp" workshop

• Report, agenda and discussion topics
  
• Technical Topics / ToDo

Discussions / evaluations

• Render API feedback
• Meeting Minutes December 23rd 2007
• Ghost Refactoring - Jean Luc
• Event System Refactoring - Simon Clitherow
• Buttons Information Architecture - Matt Ebb
• Icon Redesign - Matt Ebb
• User-editable help and documentation system

Not For 2.5

• Module Organization Proposal
• Multilayer Data Design - Hamed Zaghaghi
• Network Editing - Wray Bowling

Tools for Building Blender

No changes from current toolset. See the blender.org website. Also Nathan has a cheat sheet. For windows, install Visual studio, python, and subversion (Tortoise is a great svn client). If you install VS Express, you might need the Windows SDK (v6.1 or so) The current build system that is supported is CMake.