To Do in June

Layered Materials

Throughout May I worked on the layered materials. I am still not finished with this stuff and it gets on my nerves a lot. But I hope to at least finish them in June. One of the reasons it takes so long is, that I create stupid implementation bugs or run into bugs I added previously and never noticed them.

Into that last category I also count the problems I created while implementing the layered materials or the materials in general. First I found out, that something was not working with transparent materials. That turned into a long hunt for problems.

I also started to implement a new shader useful mainly for layered materials. I want to be able to constrain a texture to a small part of uv-space. Currently the editor stuff is implemented, the renderers still detect it as an ordinary texture.

View Handling

One of the big issues I turned to in the last week of May was handling of views. The first thing I got working was to just switch to one of the natural views (front, back, left, right, top and bottom). Then I added the ability to store an arbitrary view and recall it for the scene.

Cat Model

I even managed to sometimes do a bit of modeling. I have started on a cat a while ago and sometimes I manage to just ignore all the problems, bugs and missing features and model a bit. I even managed to post some images.

Miscellaneous Fixes

While modeling I hit some problems I did fix. The first was to make the free edit modifier incremental at least for the one kind of modifier where it is most noticeable. Then I found out, that I had forgotten to implement a feature (splitting a face by splitting an edge) and added it. Then I looked to further speed up the free edit modifier, but didn't quite succeed.

Then I added a new way to align the camera to some selections in the free edit modifier. As the camera defines in what plane I can move points, it is very important to be able to do that.

I also had to fix the selections again. When I last made a change, I removed some code I no longer understood. It turned out to be important and wrong. Recently I had the impression something is still not entirely working.

Game

On the game I worked all month long on the tracks. It slowly gets a bit boring, I started with the track handling back in December. The details this month were again very boring, so look at them at your own risk:

1. Reorganizing some Code
2. Constraining the Car to the Track - 1
3. Constraining the Car to the Track - 2
4. Constraining the Car to the Track - 3

Strange Things

I am missing a category for doing strange things. In May it was measuring a cherry tree. I haven't even gotten around to listen to my recording and turn it into text and then use it.

Schedule for June:

Development - Editor/Raytracer - New Stuff

1. Finish the Skeleton handling.
2. Add some simple form of hair.
3. New operator for landscapes (short description)
4. Rewrite 'Add Edges'-modifier to make it possible to cut a face along a fragmented edge
5. Add moving constraints
6. Add timelines for better animation support (description)
7. Make the anivals exportable (description)
8. Chamfer modifier
9. Handle collisions of the cloth and the body
10. Parallax mapping
11. Layered Materials
12. Add Depth of Field (description)
13. Ward BRDFs
14. Packet Tracing
15. Parallel Tracing

Modeling

1. Texture the character and the pieces of cloth.
2. Add the skeleton to the character and the pieces of cloth.
3. Model a tank top.
4. Model some pants.
5. Model some shoes.
6. Model some skirt
7. Model hair for character.
8. Start on the second character.
9. Continue on the ship.
10. Continue on the Lab scene

Development - HTTPD

1. Add the handling of compression.
2. Do the benchmarks.
3. Add connection to postgreSQL.

Development - Modeler and HTTPD

1. Paper Doll System

Website

1. Create Wallpapers
2. Create Wallpaper page