Check the overview thread for more information about the meeting.
Present
- Jacques Lucke
- Simon Thommes
- Hans Goudey
- Drew Medina
- Dalai Felinto
- Lukas Tönne
- Sean Christofferson
- Nrd Kraft
- Mattias F
- Iliya Katueshenock
Since the Last Meeting
Meeting Topics
- Hair dynamics prototyping schedule
- Generally we want to find the right tradeoff between prototyping and built-in C++ nodes compared to building features with building block nodes and node groups.
- Lukas has been working on a node-based solver demo on the side. He gave a demo in the meeting.
- As a next step for the project we’ll plan to implement a prototype with built-in nodes.
- Simon will share files we can use for more realistic use cases, one with geometry nodes hair and another with the old particle system
- String Key Count and LineSelect nodes
- The building block nodes seem reasonable for various use cases.
- It’s not a good solution for complex parsing like building an AST. It doesn’t have to solve those problems though.
- The node and socket naming needs a pass for consistency.
- The implementation needs a fair amount of work, for example to not reimplement UTF8 parsing.
- The problem of linear time complexity scanning string character code points can be solved more generally later if necessary.
- Find in String should output a count, rather than having a separate node for counts.
- To be clear this node is handling non-overlapping matches.
- Rename “Token” to Search.
- Versioning for deprecation of nodes (e.g.
Align Euler to Vector
)
- We didn’t do versioning in the past to improve forward compatibility.
- List them on the compatibility page in the release notes.
- In the future, when deprecating nodes and other features, we should be clear when they will be removed.
- Bundle/Closure experimental feature
- Jacques wants to ship the bundle & closure branch as an experimental feature sooner rather than later.
- Nodes: support optionally deriving reroute names from origin sockets
- The property should be displayed in the sidebar too
- It would be nice to remove the “Node” icon to the left of the label string button if possible.
- Simon questions whether the options need to be displayed in the node label popup.
- Bug report: Field sockets are not drawing in Mac
- Hans mentioned that the drawing of sockets was separated from keyframes. The bug was probably caused by this.
Need Help
- Auto-label for the Warning node based on the type (similar to the Math node).
- Sean seemed interested on this.