Outcomes of the Sept 2011 MORSE Hackathon

A GUI for MORSE

• First version of a GUI for MORSE. It currently allows for appending any kind of components into the current scene.
• Debugging of DTM mesh creation plugin - Ported to Blender 2.59/Python 3.2
• WIP: merge it with new GUI for component importation

MORSE Components

• New infrared sensor, based on SICK code
• New property (vertical_flip) for cameras

MORSE Multinode API

• Definition of a multinode API (HLA/sockets)
• Lot of doc has been produced, including tutorials/test

MORSE Builder API

• Support for multi-node configuration from a builder script
• More doc!

MORSE general

• Removed the need for middleware empties
• Removed the need for modifier empties (WIP: to be tested)

Organization of the MORSE documentation

• Main documentation page has been completely revamped. Should be much more user friendly.
• New page "What is MORSE?" with a summary of MORSE features
• Lots of updated doc. Even more remain to be done (including diagrams)

MORSE launch script

• It's ow possible to open and start a fullscreen simulation with morse run.

• Plus a couple of other minor fix.
• WIP: This should enable soon automated testing of MORSE (and possibly other software using MORSE for simulation)

• Added a simple wrapper to be used as shebang in MORSE builder scripts: Add #! /usr/bin/env morseexec to your scripts!

Human-robot integration

• Imported a new human model from TUM, with much better interaction (grab/place object, correct camera movements, etc)

Support for kinematics chain in the Collada exporter

• Contact established with Alexei Zakharov for the importer/exporter for Collada 1.5, based on OpenCollada, with support for Blender 2.59. WIP. github:zakharov/blenderColladaKinematics