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User:Sergey/Foundation/2011
Weekly Reports for year 2011
Week 0: 29th August - 4th September
Week contract is started on. Actually, it was two days only.
- Bug-tracker work (~6hrs)
- Fix Insert Hook wrong index
- Crash while deleting objects in outliner too fast
- Tab width in texteditor ignored if used tabs as spaces
- Investigate some bugs but haven't found solutions (like bug with openmp on osx)
- Some documentation work to make life of linuxers easier (related on FFmpeg update) (~1hr).
- Motion tracking work (~4 hrs)
- Almost finished affine tracking patch. Not in SVN yet -- some tools have to be ported to deal with markers transformation. almost finished rotation 2D stabilization. Very minor issue remained.
Fixed: 3, Patches: 2 (uncommited) Unreported-Fixed 0.
Week 1: 5th - 11th September
First full week spend on BF work.
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #28503 Selecting a Grease Pencil from the Properties panel does not update 3D View
- Fix #28500 Reshape in multires modifier makes blender crash
- Fix #28423 Screw-modifier crash in cunjunction with subsurf modifier
- Patch for #28404 certain keyboard shortcuts are not shown.
- Fix #28524 Push/Pull Assert when using Operator Panel to Alter Distance value
- Fix #28551 Select similar by normals ignores z component of normal angles
- Fix #28545 User Preferences - System Tab - Reset All To Default Values on OpenGL Lights
- Fix #28590 Sculpt Overlay Texture in Viewport Glitched and Wrong icon for Overlay Option?
- Patches
- Finish re-implementing non-blocking grease pencil sessions started during GSoC, made them trunk-ready and commited.
- Splitted poly-line mode for grease pencil implemented in tomato project and commited,
- Fixed bug with missed last point of GP after conversion to bezier.
- Fixed "Save Game Engine As Runtime" addon for Linux.
- Branches work
- Reviewed i18n branch and helping Xiao with finishing work.
- Made correct fix for sculpting on non-multires mesh in BMesh branch.
- Motion tracking work
- Merged trunk into tomato in both of local Git repo and soc-2011-tomato SVN branch.
- Added python method MovieClip.tracking.tracs.add() to add new track (useful for importers).
- Implemented rotation 2D stabilization.
- Fix for pixel aspect and manual calibration.
- Fixed incorrect usage of sensor size when creating projection matrix for tracking structure.
Fixed: 8, Closed 11, Patches: 5, Unreported-Fixed: 2.
Week 2: 12th - 18th September
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #28613 SEGFAULT: When setting Best-Quality on a Bump Map in GLSL viewport
- Fix #28639 "FFT" is missing under Physics -> Smoke -> Domain -> Smoke High Resolution -> Noise Method
- Fix #28555 Save as Runtime addon not working in 2.59
- Fix #28663 All "unit" properties show a value of 0 (on WinXP&MinGW&scons)
- Patches
- Make Blender be compilable by release environment.
- Branches work
- Cleaned up i18n branch (soc-2011-garlic)
- Made i18n stuff use RNA when it's possible
- Fixed issues with 64bit windows and i18n branch
- Implemented partial translation and real-time language switching.
- Helped Campbell with reviewing weight painting branch (soc-2011-radish)
- Motion tracking work
- Do not disable track when tracking frame-by-frame and tracking threshold became bad.
- Show anchored image in track preview widget.
- Do not show search area for non-selected and disabled markers.
- Keep anchor constant position when sliding offset parameters in panel.
- Updated eigen to the very recent version.
- Implemented "Movie Distort" and "Movie Undistort" nodes
Fixed: 4, Closed 11, Patches: 4, Unreported-Fixed: 0.
Week 3: 19th - 25th September
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #28226 Selection highlighting is wrong when Solidify Modifier is used
- Fix #28722 Segfault when reading volumetric clouds example
- Fix #28489 Wacom Intuos 4 tablet doesn't work with outliner
- Fix #28695 path/beziercirlce defined surface dissapears when deleting subdv of path until toggling end point option
- Fix #28709 Attempt to fix #28709: change language to simplified Chinese: sequencer -> add image strip crashes Blender
- Fix #28602 sequencer segfaults on loading a video clip
- Fix #28717 import multiprocessing.synchronize fals on Ubuntu 11.04
- Patches
- Get rid of c++ in blenkernel and modifiers. Started working on getting rid of c++ in object editor.
- Sequencer: switching to preview mode works fine again
- Changed curve back/front fill option (now it's an enum)
- Fix for add hook/vertex parent for meshes
- Branches work
- Commited improved internationalization and localization to trunk
- Motion tracking work
- Working on building undistorted proxies
Fixed: 6, Closed 3, Patches: 4, Unreported-Fixed: 1.
Week 4: 26th September - 2nd October
- Bug-tracker work
- Patches
- Helped Benoit and Nick to finish cleaning-up code
- Abort on guarded memory manager errors if WITH_ASSERT_ABORT is set
- Fixes for run-time language switching
- Wrote readme for translators, updated font and fixed some other issues
- Fix crash when starting baking fluid when baking thread is already started
- Bump maps flip: now white means salience, black means concavity (patch by Morten, finished by me using tips fro mTon)
- Motion tracking work
- Fixed compilation error with collada enabled
- Fixed issues with grease pencil
- Added on-fly undistortion for clip
- Added option (internally) to use custom color for new grease pencil layer. Change default color for movie clip to pink.
- Lookup grids used for image distortion/undistortion are now caching
- Small code and UI cleanup, some smaller fixes
- Fixed incorrect behavior of clean-up operator in special cases
- Bundles and camera path should be displayed correct when there are several solved cameras in the same scene
- Added option to use clip from active camera as background in 3d viewport
- Merge Movie Distort and Movie Undistort nodes into one node
- Implemented proper distortion/undistortion for scaled images
Fixed: 4, Closed 2, Patches: 6, Unreported-Fixed: 1.
Week 5: 3d - 9th October
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #28780 Undo while painting image sequences issue
- Fix #27532 Undo test texture after painting gives black blocks
- Fix #27978 Problem exporting OGG Theora-Vorbis video (and other audio codecs)
- Fix #28805 Add mesh, align to view, un check align to view. not updating
- Fix #28819 Normal Maps appear inverted in GLSL shader and offline renderer (2.6rc1)
- Fix #28818 Error when trying to import obj
- Fix #28816 Error when importing obj file with texture due to api change
- General tasks
- Fix for unix python bundling: config-* directories didn't deleted
- Enabling JACK for linux buildbot.
- Update release builder environment and Linux RC build
- Initial review of dynamic paint patch, deeper review is needed
- Motion tracking work
- Overscan feature implementation. Plenty of work, some things aren't finished yet so not in svn.
- Solved movie distortion nodes threading issues, noticeable speedup on complex compositor setup.
Fixed: 7, Closed 8, Patches: 3.
Week 6: 10th - 16th October
- Bug-tracker work
- General tasks
- Split language menu into two columns
- RC2 build
- Motion tracking work
- Support for (un)distortion of images with overscan (not exposed into UI yet)
- Tweak for scale node to produce images with giver color and resolution
- Fixes for tracking job. Now transform can be started just after tracking job is finished
- Fixed movie clip cache drawing -- it used to draw both distorted and undistorted cached frames
- Undistort markers position in clip editor when using undistorted rendering
- Display proper image in track preview widget when using undistorted rendering
- Do not mark scoped as dirty when not in tracking mode (for speed-up)
- Added space_view3d.background_images.add() function to add new background image from scripts.
- Added operator to set current clip in clip editor as background in 3d viewport
- Do not show reconstruction if camera hasn't got camera solver constraint
- Added button to convert tracking-related constraint to fcurves
- More safe implementation of delete proxy operator
- Added option to choose which method to use for feature detector: FAST or Moravec
- Split-up tracking-related changes from other changes for review by other devs (almost finished, but not published yet)
- Small improvements to FAST detector to deal better with score factor
- Added option to place detected markers only on outlined by grease pencil areas
Fixed: 3, Closed 11, Patches: 14.
Week 7: 17th - 23th October
- General tasks
- Regression tests, 2.60 release build
- Investigation work for several FFmpeg related issues. Got some patches, but looks like real fix requires deeper code refactor.
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #28942 Minimize stretch in UV editing has no continues grab
- Fix #28937 Text Editor Selection (Scroll Bar)
- Fix #28938 Black frames when composite output node even with disabled nodes
- Patch for #28935 Material display error VBO + Texture Solid + Modifier
- Patch for #28949 Can't render video to Flash
- Motion tracking work
- Allow offset from locked position
- Set background to camera axis only when setting it from operator in clip editor
- Initial implementation of graph view for movie tracking data
- Bunch of smaller changes for issues pointed by Brecht and Campbell on codereview page
- Basic editing tools for graph editor (not in svn yet, need to be discussed with Sebastian)
Fixed: 3, Closed 2, Patches: 4.
Weeks 8-9: 24th October - 6th November
Half time of this two weeks spent on moving to Amsterdam and back to visit Blender Conference 2011.
- Bug-tracker work
- Workaround #29009: Adding modifier deletes half existing mesh
- Fix #29124: Modifying mesh with mirror and solidify modifiers crashes blender
- Fix #29122: Curve Radius keyable from Outliner Datablock view but not Transform Radius field in 3D Viewport
- Fix #28935: Material display error VBO + Texture Solid + Modifier
- Fix #29005: Bezier/Surface Datablock switching bug?
- Fix #28998: sequence rendering with wrong progress bar
- Fix #29147: 'Rotation' flag of particle render settings does not push undo
- Fix #29139: Comp Group nodes don't retain name
- Fix #29155: Inconsistency with 0 and Del hotkeys
- Fix #29024: Logic Bricks allow same name for multiple bricks
- Fix #28865: Draw_bounds_type does not display Polyhedron or Capsule types
- Fix #29101: 2D Tilt on Bezier Curve Bug?
- Patches
- Backporting changes in general modules which were made during GSoC program and which are necessary for motion tracking be in trunk
- Fixed proxy generation from sequencer when running on OSX
- Merged movie cache implementation into trunk, cleaned up unused functions which were supposed to be used for caching images
- Upgraded Eigen and colamd libraries which are required for motion tracking
- Applied patch from Kalle-Samuli Riihikoski to fix [http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=29051&group_id=9&atid=498 #29051: Set Origin - Center: Bounds does not work
- Changed node sockets default values to deal better with artists workflow, patch by Sebastian König
- Merged configurable camera sensor size from tomato branch into tomato
- Motion tracking work
- Codereview issues cleanup
- Selectable tracking graph curves and curve knots
- Graph curve and curve knots can be deleted now
- Fixed wrong write when linking libraries (error is caused by hardcoded count of linkable ID blocks)
- Fixed for KLT tracker when using keyframe adjustment
- Fix for SAD tracking sliding marker
- Fixed crash when trying to track from frame where there's no keyframed markers to use for keyframed tracking
- Fixed jump when sliding movie clip with lock to selection enabled and nothing selected.
- Reset offset from locked position when adding new marker.
- Updated camera sensor size before merging to trunk
- Made behavior of tracks selection more consistent with other areas:
- Option to place markers for detected features across the whole frame, inside grease pencil areas or outside of grease pencil areas.
- Automated image sequence offset calculation for image input node and image editor
Fixed: 13, Patches: 15.
Week 10: 7th - 13th November
- General tasks
- Merge Tomato branch into trunk, some related on merge things like cleaning code, fixing issues with mingw
- Re-setup buildbot/release environment to deal with tomatoes/cycles well
- Boost/OpenImageIO libraries for Linux 32/64bits
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #29174: Vertex normals temporarily incorrect after deleting a face
- Fix #29200: Camera Tracking Solver
- Fix #29198: Problem with text interface when you enable the International fonts
- Fix #29201: movie clip editor - right click crashes blender
- Workaround #29205: Crash while using Edge Split modifier (while rotating vertices in edit mode with edge split viewable)
- Patch for #29202: Crash - VSE Cross strip probably leads to this (took some time to investigate, but it's a fault from our side, so want this be fixed after some further testing)
- Patch for #29165: Arrow keys not working correct in Compositing Node Editor
- Motion tracking work
- Helped Keir to finish refine camera intrinsics patch
- Clean-up interface and make it more clear (because of feedback in ML)
Fixed: 6, Closed: 13, Patches: 4.
Week 11: 14th - 20th November
- General tasks
- Written documentation for tools and options in clip editor (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Motion_Tracking)
- Bug-tracker work
- Fix #29240: multi-res bake broken in 2.60
- Fix #29245: BuilderBot can't build anymore
- Fix #29165: Arrow keys not working correct in Compositing Node Editor
- Fix #29253: 3D Manipulator: "Active Element" not supported for curves
- Fix #29202: Crash - VSE Cross strip probably leads to this
- Fix #29260: Missing "Extend" parameter for Border Select
- Fix #29321: Video does not display, gets frozen or flickers
- Patches
- Fix crash in multires baker
- Speedup of multires baker
- Workaround for half-transparent windows when running blender-softwaregl
- Added methods new and remove to scene.render.layers
- Rename bgpic.add() to bgpic.new() and add bgpic.remove()
- Motion tracking work
- Finished and commited to trunk Keir's patch for camera intrinsics refining
- Cleanup of the interface
- Set floor failed to make camera be in positive Z half-space if it was parented to other object
- Multiply all camera matrices by inverted first reconstructed camera matrix
- Camera solving fixed incorrect warnings about failure of solving some frames
Fixed: 7, Closed: 2, Patches: 10.
Week 12: 21th - 27th November
- General tasks
- Prepared 2.61 beta build
- Helping people in tracker, reviewing old reports, assigning bugs to developers
- Patches
- Patch #29394: Error in VIEW3D_MT_EDIT_CURVE menu
- Added method clear to most of collections which supports new/remove
- Fixed threading issue when tracking several tracks
- Last part of camera tracking names cleanup: bundles -> 3d markers
- Camera tracking fixes
- Bug-tracker work
- #29369 bpy.data.curves.new(name= "test" , type = 'SURFACE') does not create a surface
- #29306 Alt+N, Enter In Image View Does closes the dialog without executing.
- #29384 Mesh without polygons + Modifier crashes when switching to sculpt mode
- #29367 Vertex parent regression
- #29364 Shade Smooth button is misssing in curve object tools.
- #29358 Feature "trackness" property misnamed
- #29295 Problem with Alpha Channel video in Sequencer and textures
- #29322 'Active Clip' not saving after appending.
- #29321 Video does not display, gets frozen or flickers
- Partial fix #29255 Object invisible and weird polygons appearance
- Camera tracking work
- Tweaks in convert tracking constraint to f-curves operator
- Fixed incorrect memory access on distoritons more than 128 pixels
- Fixes in some operators
- Moved camera solved into job and improved camera solver reporting (in tomato branch)
Fixed: 9, Patches: 7, Closed 5.
Week 13: 28th November - 4th December
- Patches (with big changes only)
- Improved mesh validation function
- Refactor of VBO code to deal with multiple textures
- Fixes for multiresolution baker
- Bug-tracker work
- #29469 Latest motion tracking not working.
- #27328 Undoing an operation while baking fluids freezes Blender
- #29443 Outliner buttons hover on shrink
- #29434 Cone collision bounds is on the wrong axis
- #26410 VBO & multitexture doesnt work
- #29255 Object invisible and weird polygons appearance
- #29414 2.61 test build: Illegal instruction on Intel Celeron 1200 (Gnu/Linux)
- #29452 Blender 2.61beta fails to launch on linux (undefined symbol)
- Motion tracking work
- Recent changes made in tomato cleaned up and moved into trunk (related on solving in job)
- SAD tracker now supports patterns with any size
- Tracking settings are now per-track and can be choosed from rpeset menu
Fixed: 8, Patches: 6, Closed 22.
Week 14: 4th - 11th December
- Patches
- Fix for select similar vertices operator
- Mesh drawing optimization and fixes
- Fixed crash when movie clip curves region is opened and clip is getting unlinked
- Fix for movie clips weren't remapped properly on file save
- Fix crash when trying to track disabled track.
- Bug-tracker work
- Motion tracking work
- Merged hybrid tracker from tomato branch
- Bilinear filtering for preview widget
- Some smaller bugfixes
- Finished implementation of object tracking
Fixed: 5, Patches: 6, Closed 6.
Week 15: 12th - 18th December
- General tasks
- All tasks related on 2.61 release (preparing builds, checking for stoppers)
- Review of doublecountoring patch
- Review of UV tools patch
- Updated carve_booleans branch to newest trunk and switch it to Boost library (if it's available)
- Contacted with developers of Carve library and Intel to receive help from their side
- Bug-tracker work
- #29615 Crash during undo after toggling "Float buffer" in image paint mode
- #29603 Mode switch on linked objects
- #29600 Hook actions wrong Tool Shelf adjust
- #29599 Side of Active tool not working in Faces/Edges
- #29577 repeat curve duplication not working in 2.60(as well as 2.61rc1)
- #29574 Strange crash using translated Blender
- #29558 Selecting similar edges doesn't work
- #29516 Twist brush giving crazy results
- Motion tracking work
- Fixes for current stuff in tomato
- Improvements for object tracking
- Fixed crash related on OpenMP and OSX
Fixed: 8, Patches: 7, Closed 10.
Week 16: 19th - 25th December
- General development
- Merged trunk into nurbana branch, so now it might be at least compiled
- Get rid of hardcoded structure definition in DM drawing callbacks
- Do not show "Modify" modifiers group for curve objects
- Fixed annoying crash when using russian interface (permanently happens on windows with 2.61 release, not sure if it's critical enough)
- Translation context for RNA properties
- Made carve_booleans branch almost usable by triangulating non-planar faces
- Bug-tracker work
- Motion tracking work
- Scale object itself when setting scale in object tracking mode
- Configurable scale for object solution
- Various fixes for scene orientation for witness cameras workflow
Fixed: 3, Patches: 7, Closed 6.
Week 17: 26th December - 1st January
- General development
- Upgrades FFmpeg and OpenAL libraries on windows which fixed some crashes
- Add FFmpeg libraries versions to system-info.txt
- Upgrades of software on build environment to fix OpenMP issue. Not fully finished yet
- Bug-tracker work
- #29729 Blender crashes when camera solving with a disabled marker
- #29718 anchored stroke with image-texture --- strange behaviour
- #29707 Sequencer presets corrupt audio scene settings
- #29697 Hang during fluid domain bake if a particular frame is set on the timeline.
- #29696 Crash on exit of edit mode after deleting contents of fluid domain
- #29692 3D Scene is Rendering Bright in the VSE
- #29688 Timecode is not used in tracking
- #29687 Normal bake from multires gives distorted results.
- #29494 Problem loading translations at Blender's startup (fixed in much better way than in previous week)
- #27815 Troubles with AVCHD video format
- Motion tracking work
- Merged current stuff from branch to trunk (object tracking and some fixes/improvements)
Fixed: 10, Patches: 4, Closed 12.