Bug 779895

Summary:	media-gfx/blender - misleading description for openvdb USE flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Taylor C. Richberger <richbergert>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Adrian <agrigo2001>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	darkdefende, kripton, proxy-maint, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Taylor C. Richberger 2021-04-03 16:16:03 UTC

The Blender openvdb use flag has a description of "Add GPU preview rendering. Only works with nVidia cards."  This may be true (I haven't tried that either way), but openvdb is also used for the voxel remesher functionality, which will work regardless of graphics card.  The use flag description gives the impression that the openvdb use flag is useless for non-nvidia cards, and makes it a bit confusing when searching for why the voxel remesher gives an error (with no extra error detail at all) instead of running.

This should probably have a more accurate description, like "Enable openvdb for volumetric processing, like the voxel remesher.  Also enable GPU preview rendering for Nvidia cards."

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-08-04 02:15:10 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c7552a07805374e974429492a59f354523dd04aa

commit c7552a07805374e974429492a59f354523dd04aa
Author:     Sebastian Parborg <darkdefende@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2021-06-28 15:26:31 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-08-04 02:14:59 +0000

    media-gfx/blender: Tweak openvdb useflag description
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/779895
    
    Signed-off-by: Sebastian Parborg <darkdefende@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 media-gfx/blender/metadata.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)