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Thanks for the tip, but I'm fairly sure this is what the code does now in 2.5x, evaluating the texture at two other points in the tangent plane. In 2.4x bump mapping wasn't working well at all, and for procedural textures it was indeed using the gradient of the 3D function to compute the normal.

Try reporting it in the bug tracker, with a .blend file and packed image.
http://www.blender.org/development/report-a-bug/

About keeping the point density constant, that will probably have little effect for Blender. The ABF and LSCM algorithms that it uses are in theory independent of the specific topology, and should generate basically the same unwrap for the same shape even if it has a different layout of vertices and...

You shouldn't have to download GLEW, it's included in the source in extern/glew. I'm not sure why it would fail compiling in this case. Can you build with this flag, to see if glew is included for linking, and paste the output here?

scons BF_QUIET=0

The purpose of faceorig is to make sure the ray doesn't intersect the face it was emitted from. I think it is fine to add that extra check for the existence of faceorig, it just isn't there because it wasn't needed yet.

This is basically the forum for developers. Though most discussion really happens on the #blendercoders irc channel and the bf-committers mailing list. The coordinates are transformed by the camera matrix (but not including the perspective matrix, only rotation and translation). Why it is done I'm n...

I don't think this would be a very important optimization, especially taking into account materials adds too much complexity for the average speed gain. The proper solution is really to make baking tile based. Similarly for rendering doing the most complex tiles first only sidesteps the problem that...

Yes, you have the permission to use images posted on the peach website. Check the text at the top of this page, it has details about the copyright:
http://peach.blender.org/index.php/about/

Rotations in general are not order independent, not just Euler angles. Blender definitely has functions to work with quaternions, and quaternions are used in various places. But you need to define what "applying two rotations at the same time" means in your case, since that could be done in differen...

I think the kind of automatic code conversion you are thinking of is far beyond the capabilities of even state of the art computer algorithms. Some development environments have code refactoring tools, but they do very specific, small changes. I'm afraid that there isn't really another solution than...

That alone makes sense. Perhaps that's a good place to start. As a whole and how it compares to Orange doesn't make sense to me. In Orange, there wasn't a focus on FITTING IN to the existing piplines of CG film making in my opinion. The focus seemed more to be CREATING a pipeline with Blender. That...

There are two project files that need to be compiled, first compile the one in intern/make/msvc_6_0, which will put MEM_guardedalloc.h in the right place, then compile the other.

LetterRip, are you sure it is MSVCR71.dll, sounds like the wrong version to me, since Visual Studio 2005 is number 8?

My guess is you need the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)", as linked to on the download page:

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

There is only a call for the open movie project right now. The open game project starts later, and it is my understanding that more of the specifics have to be worked out before they do a call for participation.

There is no documentation or tutorial, LSCM unwrapping basically sets up and solves the numerical system from the paper. The unwrapping code implemented there does not spit the mesh into charts automatically, so if you need that, you might want to look at the lightmap uvpack or smart projections pyt...