2024-11-12 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting

Check the overview thread for more information about the meeting.

Present

  • Jacques Lucke
  • Simon Thommes
  • Hans Goudey
  • Mattias
  • Drew Medina

Since the Last Meeting

Meeting Topics

  • User Documentation
    • Lots of documentation still missing for the release.
    • Gizmos are documented from the “gizmo user” perspective first rather than from the perspective of creating gizmos.
  • Subpanels
    • Everyone thinks this is reasonable, Simon will set aside some time to test this.
  • Clip By Plane
    • The plan looks good. It’s important that only the “clipped” faces are triangulated though.
    • The plan is to fill the edge loop holes with a separate node. Theoretically performance could be better by combining these two topology changing operations, but for now it’s better to have them separate.
    • What about the use case of making multiple slices of one mesh?
      • There’s probably quite a bit of optimization potential if the node were to handle this.
      • It’s not clear how the functionality would be exposed though.
      • Starting with the simple single-plane input.
    • Later we could add a feature to only output the edges.
  • Hair simulation project planning
    • Jacques made a very basic prototype PBD solver to improve the basic understanding of it.
    • It probably makes more sense to have a video meeting more often.
    • Jacques will work on asset embedding first, Hans will work on socket shapes.
  • Quality project
    • We’ll mostly plan to go over old bugs during December.
    • Hans has some refactors planned as well.
  • Triangulate rewrite
    • This is mostly just sitting there now, with edge deduplication implemented.
    • It would be nice to move forward with that, Jacques can take a look at the PR.
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