[QGIS-Developer] [SoC] GSoC 2020 - Community Bonding Period Report

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 23:02, BELGACEM NEDJIMA <gb_nedjima at esi.dz> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> Here is my progress in the Google Summer of Code project:
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> Tasks done this week:
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> Reading the tessellation code used to generate triangles of building from polygons
> Experimented with the Qt3DExtras::QDiffuseMapMaterial and explored some alternatives. Unfortunately some of the alternatives are not available in the Qt version I use (Qt5.9).
> Tried compiling QGIS with different Qt versions.

Did you succeed here? If not, I'd encourage you to keep pushing for
this. It's highly likely the minimum Qt version will be raised for
QGIS 3.16.

> Added texture coordinates to the vertex buffer of QgsTessellatedPolygonGeometry.
> Got the basic functionality of texturing buildings using 1 texture image working for some vector layer projects.
> You can see the texture rendering in action here: screenshot

Looks awesome -- nice progress!!

Nyall