Disclaimer: The BF have not confirmed that these are the final proposals yet. I remember that there were some last minute changes last year…
Tool development - Antonis Riakiotakis (Mentor: Sergey Sharybin)
This project aims to add various tools to blender, related to texturing workflow. Tools include rake brushes for texture paint, separate alpha masks for texture paint, maintain image tool, isomap based unwrapping.
FBX Importer - Alexander Gessler (Mentor: LetterRip)
FBX is a powerful file format most commonly used to interchange data between Autodesk ™ products. With its highly-developed pipeline it offers a very efficient way of dealing with scene data, unfortunately, being proprietary to Autodesk and by design accessible only by a SDK, support in the Open Source world is rare. My proposal is to implement a FBX importer for the Open Asset Import Library (assimp) and to embed assimp into Blender, which will ultimatively give Blender FBX import support.
Developing of modeling Tools: Bevel, Bridge, Boolean. - Alexander Mokhov (Mentor: Howard Trickey)
This project devoted to developing and improving of some modeling tools for Blender.
Mesh smoothing based on curvature flow operator in a diffusion equation. - Alexander Pinzon Fernandez (Mentor: Daneil Genrich)
Computer graphics objects reconstructed from real world contain undesirable noise. A Mesh smoothing removes undesirable noise while still preserving desirable geometric and shape of the original model. This project improving the mesh smoothing tools in blender, based on curvature flow operator in a diffusion equation.
OpenGL Mobile Compatibility and Android Port - Alexandr Kuznetsov (Mentor: Ton Roosendaal)
This project aims to made OpenGL slightly faster and compatible with OpenGL ES in order to port Blender Player to Android. This would include port of libs, ghost and build infrastructure. At the end Blender Games can be played on Android.
New tesselator + “nice triangles” - Andrei Simionescu (Mentor: Campbell Barton)
The idea is to build a new tessellation tool to replace the old scanfill one. The new tesselator should be fast, first of all, but also handle degeneracies, handle non-planer polygons, deal with the general case of polygons containing other polygons. Post-processing the tessellation/triangulation to make “nice” triangles/quads/etc. as a basis for an improved ‘Beautify’ tool.
Viewport FX - Jason Wilkins (Mentor: Ton Roosendaal)
Improve the performance, flexibility, and customization of the 3D view port.
User Interface Tasklist
Jorge Rodriguez (Mentor: Thomas Dinges)
I will be working on a list of improvements to Blender’s operators and user interface. Some of these items come from the Blender Wiki and bug tracker and some come from my own observations. I will be focusing on usability and user interface.
Precision Modeling Tools - Luke Frisken (Mentor: Martin Poirier)
Add several new, and more flexible snapping and constraint modes to Blender. Eventually work towards incorporating these features into several more tools such as knife and loop cut. Addition of several new tools such as a extrude by rail, and a pen tool which makes extensive use of snapping/constraint modes.
Smoke Simulator Improvements - MiikaH (Mentor: Daniel Genrich)
The goal of this project is to improve Blender’s smoke simulator with various new features to allow creation of even more realistic visual effects.
BGE Converter Improvements - Mitchell Stokes (Mentor: Dalai Felinto)
Various converter improvements such as saving out converted data to disk and allowing for asynchronous level loading.
Multitouch Framework - Nicholas Rishel (Mentor: Mike Erwin)
Extending recognition for multitouch input for SDL for the purpose of navigation, and a framework for future additions. As envisioned, the immediate result would serve as a compliment to a stylus. This would prepare Blender for the incoming Slate form factor machines (see Samsung Series 7 Slate and Asus Eee EP121), and potentially ease ports to Android touch devices.
Improve COLLADA constrained animations and Morph animation support. - Phabtar (Mentor: LetterRip)
This project will be to Improve the COLLADA im/export functions of constrained animations, including Baked IK animations and IK chain animations. Also the project will attempt to implement Morph constraint animations in COLLADA.
Adding Subsurface Scattering to Cycles - Roger Wilco (Mentor: Brecht Van Lommel)
Subsurface Scattering (SSS) describes how light penetrates a surface and exits at some other point. This makes the surface look translucent and is required to make things like skin or milk, which are naturally translucent, look realistic.
Bullet Integration - Sergej Reich (Mentor: Aligorith)
This project aims at continuing the work done by Joshua Leung for the Google Summer of Code 2010, integrating the bullet physics library natively into blender so users don’t have to go through the clumsy process of running their simulations inside blenders game engine
Adapting the Hive system for the Blender Game Engine - Spencer Alves (Mentor: Benoit Bolsee)
This project aims to make a more accessible, efficient, and useful editor for logic systems in the Blender Game Engine by integrating the Hive systems project into Blender.
