Report week 5
Some words about this month (June)
It has been a month now since I started, and it’s time to explain a bit how it went. When I was coding I always felt confident about what I was doing, but I struggled on planification and finding the right approach. That was not really intense due to this school period, but I managed not to be late.
Communication have not been hard I can say, and blender chat really helped me some times. One quick lesson I learnt is that I should always think twice before asking others, because in most cases I could find a solution by myself a soon as I formulate a comprehensive question.
My class finished at the middle of the week, so I was able to work much more at the end of the week and fully do the AOV optimisation.
I did:
- add AOV support for every non shader nodes (still some issues and limitations)
- learn more about thread memory sharing (locking, mutex, …)
- fix a lot of issues coming from this addition (deadlock between thread, passes management)
- update tag for the ui to redraw the nodes when the preview render is progressing
Todo next week:
- fix a bug about AOV that wont render when nothing is connected to the
Surface Outputof the material - finish AOV implementation : background scene
- maybe move the previewing stuff to make it listen to the events (node modified, preview enabled…) (discussion needed with the mentor)
- if times left : make some plans for the UI/UX touches : very important to do because the user will need to be able to use it correctly in order to try it.
Approximative time spent on XCode: 10.5hrs.