blender wishlist

The project london wishlist

This is a list of items that the production team of www.projectlondonmovie.com would like to see in blender.
I will update the list if there is any news or development... or new requests!

Compositing/video editing

1. Camera motion tracking in blender (is under development, but should be mentioned)

Rendering/Animation

1. The ability to set a directory/filename in a blend, where a copy of every render (not animation) will be auto saved along with a timestamp, to keep track of progress.
and to give an example here's a script that does it: http://www.alienhelpdesk.com/python_scripts/autosave_render

2. The ability to set rotations of bones in the ipo editor as Rotx/y/z in degrees in stead of it using a quaternion value, which is just too strange to be practical.

Particles

1. This is something I've always considered a pipe dream, I suppose, but then again, I've thought that before. :P  I would love to be able to do some sort of volumetric mist/cloud/smoke thing, with emphasis on the clouds. The movie has quite a bit of "cloud flying", and being able to do some of that in Blender would be rad. (Ian)

Rigging

1. A built in pivot constraint. A script version can be found here: http://www.alienhelpdesk.com/python_scripts/pivot_constraint

Interface/General editing

1. Python constraints showing up in the script constraint's menu without needing to be loaded in a text editor (just being present in the script folder should be enough)

2. Now that we can add custom alignments it would be nice if we could align our current selection to the current alignment.

3. Also concerning the alignments, it would be great if it was a bit simpler to create a very temporary alignment, one that doesn't show up in a box, or is just a "temp" which is replaceable with a shortcut. Cause now it's a lot of.. create... select... edit something... remove. You tend to have the floating panel open all the time, even though you don't use an actual list of set points.