What did you do this week?

PLACEHOLDER

What is coming up next week?

PLACEHOLDER

Did you get stuck anywhere?

PLACEHOLDER

What did you do this week?

• Added the ability to have the ShowManager stored inside the Timeline. That way the user does not have to update and render the animations because it will be done internally.

• Added a record method to the Timeline that records the animation and saves it as either GIF or MP4 (requires OpenCV). This record functionality has the option to show/hide the PlaybackPanel which makes it better than recording the animation using a third-party software.

• Fixed some issues that Serge mentioned while reviewing PR #665

What is coming up next week?

• Instead of adding the ShowManager to the Timeline, doing it the other way around is a better choice and makes the code more readable.
• Add tests for the Timeline's record method.
• Add tests for the billboard actor to test consistency among different approaches..

Did you get stuck anywhere?

I didn't get stuck this week.

What did you do this week?

• Restructured tutorials to be more readable and more focused on a specific topic.
• Replaced the old animation introductory tutorial with a lot simpler one. And added tutorial to explain keyframes and interpolators.
• Simplified setting lighting uniforms for the geometry-based-billboard actor by getting the Scene from the actor using actor.GetConsumer(scene_idx).

What is coming up next week?

• Allow the Timeline to take the ShowManager as an argument to reduce the amount of code user has to write every time using FURY animations.'
• Fix some typos in the tutorials and write some info about Slerp.
• Find a way to fix the shader-callback problem of not being executed when the actor is out of the camera's frustum.

Did you get stuck anywhere?

I didn't get stuck this week.

What did you do this week?

• Fixed some issues in the hierarchical order animation support PR that we discussed during last week’s meeting (mostly naming issues).

• Explained the introductory tutorial a little. But it is not good suitable beginners. So, I will spend time improving tutorials this week.

• Added extrusion to vector_text to allow the z-scaling to be functional.

• Fixed lightColor0 being hard-set to (1, 1, 1). Instead, it’s now using the Scene to set the lighting uniforms.

What is coming up next week?

• Improve tutorials.

• Find out how to get the Scene from the actor instead of manually assigning it.

• If I have time, I will try implement recording animation as GIF or as a video.

Did you get stuck anywhere?

I didn’t get stuck this week.

What did you do this week?

• Implemented hierarchical order support for animations using matrices in this PR.

• Improved the API of a PartialActor by adding some methods to control the scales, positions and colors.

• Added a new example of using the new hierarchical feature to animate an arm robot.

• Improved vector_text a little by adding options to control its direction.

What is coming up next week?

• Finish the hierarchical order animation support PR.
• Explain tutorials in more detail. See this issue.
• Fix issues discovered by Serge in this review.
• Fix lightColor0 being hard-set to (1, 1, 1). Instead, find a way to get this property the same way other polygon-based actor gets it.
• Try to get PRs and issues mentioned above merged, closed or ready for a final review.

Did you get stuck anywhere?

I didn't get stuck this week.