Earlier in the brush assets project, for mesh sculpting, grease pencil,
and curves sculpting, the toolbar brush icon used was changed to a
version with a green highlight. This commit reverts that change to use
the monochrome grey icon instead in each of these modes.
For Sculpt mode specifically, the Paint tool icon is kept as this green
version to differentiate the usages. In future releases, further changes
are planned for sculpting related brushes to better represent their
functionality.
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### Sculpt Mode Toolbar
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129934
Earlier merge from the release branch included dcfe9eed2f, which set the
hash to latest commit in the release branch. Here we want it to be the
latest commit in the main branch.
Since brush assets were merged, all sculpt and paint modes have a unified
"Brush" tool that is used for all brushes. Based on feedback, this mixes brush
types a bit too much, so some specific tools that use brushes should be brought
back. These brush types just behave very different from the main brush types,
and users expect them to be easily accessible from the toolbar. This also makes
them more discoverable and having tools that remember their last used brush can
be useful too (e.g. assigning shortcut to eraser tool to switch back to last
used eraser, rather than a specific eraser brush).
Note that further changes are planned, to get a true "best of both worlds"
design, where people can use a global brush library without having to worry
about tools, but brushes can also be accessed via tool categorization.
The new design works well with both mental models without being a compromise
in-between.
a79f9100a6 already brought back some tool for grease pencil draw mode, with this
commit the design is now applied to all sculpt & paint modes.
See PR for a list of tools that were brought back.
Design Task: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/128066
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128038
Customizable highlighting of editor edges that can be used to help
differentiate between areas, indicate active area, and/or help users
with visual impairment. Can be completely removed as well. This
replaces the active area header highlighting, which doesn't work for
transparent headers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116684
This adds a new type of zone to Geometry Nodes that allows executing some nodes
for each element in a geometry.
## Features
* The `Selection` input allows iterating over a subset of elements on the set
domain.
* Fields passed into the input node are available as single values inside of the
zone.
* The input geometry can be split up into separate (completely independent)
geometries for each element (on all domains except face corner).
* New attributes can be created on the input geometry by outputting a single
value from each iteration.
* New geometries can be generated in each iteration.
* All of these geometries are joined to form the final output.
* Attributes from the input geometry are propagated to the output
geometries.
## Evaluation
The evaluation strategy is similar to the one used for repeat zones. Namely, it
dynamically builds a `lazy_function::Graph` once it knows how many iterations
are necessary. It contains a separate node for each iteration. The inputs for
each iteration are hardcoded into the graph. The outputs of each iteration a
passed to a separate lazy-function that reduces all the values down to the final
outputs. This final output can have a huge number of inputs and that is not
ideal for multi-threading yet, but that can still be improved in the future.
## Performance
There is a non-neglilible amount of overhead for each iteration. The overhead is
way larger than the per-element overhead when just doing field evaluation.
Therefore, normal field evaluation should be preferred when possible. That can
partially still be optimized if there is only some number crunching going on in
the zone but that optimization is not implemented yet.
However, processing many small geometries (e.g. each hair of a character
separately) will likely **always be slower** than working on fewer larger
geoemtries. The additional flexibility you get by processing each element
separately comes at the cost that Blender can't optimize the operation as well.
For node groups that need to handle lots of geometry elements, we recommend
trying to design the node setup so that iteration over tiny sub-geometries is
not required.
An opposite point is true as well though. It can be faster to process more
medium sized geometries in parallel than fewer very large geometries because of
more multi-threading opportunities. The exact threshold between tiny, medium and
large geometries depends on a lot of factors though.
Overall, this initial version of the new zone does not implement all
optimization opportunities yet, but the points mentioned above will still hold
true later.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127331
This rename the `Cutter` tool's name, code and icon to `Trim`.
The legacy Grease Pencil code is unchanged.
This was discussed in the 2024-07-30 Grease Pencil Module Meeting.
Reasons for the change:
- Match the `Trim Stroke Ends` setting on brushes.
- Match the `stroke_trim` operator.
- Name is more clear and more commonly used.
- Frees the name for a future boolean cutting tool.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126452
Resizing of the Blender SVG logo to fit within an 1800 unit horizontal
maximum rather than being oversized. Makes it slightly smaller overall
but not sure anyone will notice.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127370
This error was introduced on 7dc3e8e04d
by the automatic script used (after my original PR code - !127194).
The SVG had the same attributes added twice.
The issue was technically introduced on
ffa802da7ac09273a34903438550e0966c4063dc (which is not in main but part
of the code which was merged).
Changes to the icons used for document and folder when in thumbnail
view in File Browser. A bit more detail, less chunky, more in tune
with OS versions. Better match for the recent increased fidelity of
the "type" icons that are shown in their centers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126760
In order to recolor icons based on themes, some svg icons have specific
ID names. These names are currently of the pattern "blender.some_name".
However, although CSS ID names are allowed to contain a period in them,
these are problematic as selectors. This is because #tagname.something
looks like a combination of ID and class name. Although these can be
escaped like #tagname\.something that is a pain. This PR replaces the
periods with underscores.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126709
Right-clicking on an edge between editors, the "Screen Area Options"
menu has a number of items including for Area Join. When docking is
NOT enabled this gives the prior behavior of interactive join where
you can change direction and requires Enter to confirm. If docking
is enabled then there are instead instant join options but now with
a specific icon for each direction.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126616
#125625 moved the File Browser Thumbnail type icon location from the
bottom-left of the thumbnail extent to the bottom-left of the item
bounds. This does the same for the indication of offline and for
shortcut. This adds a new icon for shortcut instead of current use of
ICON_LOOP_FORWARDS, which doesn't look right. The new icon looks like
the Mac Alias arrow, but this also works fine for other platforms.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126469
Show the autokeying indicator (record button) on the Timeline header in
red when enabled. With a white outline on dark theme, or with a black
outline on light theme. The red color is user changeable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126344
For the times we need to obtain the bitmap of an SVG icon, send these
through the new theme coloring callback if they are multi-color. This
removes some code duplication by adding a new function that gets an
imBuf from SVG Icon. This allows, for "About" logo, Dialog icons, and
file system icons the optional ability to use a single SVG source file
that works as both monochrome (themed by text color) or multicolor with
internal parts themed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126215
Allow color SVG icons to have their fill colors modified by theme
colors using a callback. This is done just before rasterization so
only happens once per requested size, before these are cached for
reuse.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125146
We have a number of event icons, used on the Status Bar, to indicate
mouse actions. It is currently difficult to align these nicely because
they vary in width and design. This PR makes them all the same design
width and aligned to the left edge. This removes a need to add negative
spacing before any of them and only requires space after some of them.
This also adds a new one to indicate "double left click" as my current
use of this looks a bit sus. This also adds a "mouse wheel scroll"
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125731
Some icons have some extra paths, some have groups in an order that
overlaps badly, some using shapes instead of paths, some curves with
shapes that fill incorrectly. Just some basic cleanup.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125622
This icon can be used when refering to a "geometry set" which can contain
potentially multiple geometries of different types (such as mesh, volume, etc.).
It was designed by Simon Thommes as part of #125293.
Since 7b0ea0f1b4, brushes use the asset system and previews are stored
in the asset source blend files. The bundled ones are part of the
essentials asset library, see
`release/datafiles/assets/publis/brushes/essentials_brushes.blend`.
Note that this doesn't remove the toolbar icons for these brushes yet.
Initially reviewed in (but this commit contains further changes missing
in the PR):
https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123842
Our icon sources currently include two versions of the Blender logo,
the official one and one that is modified to align better to our
smallest pixel grid. But with our recent change to SVG icons, and
alignment tweaks to the official version this can be used in all
cases. This PR does so, removes BLENDER_LARGE, and also slightly
tweaks FILE_BACKUP and FILE_BLEND to use the official form.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124179
See blender/blender-assets@c02a78249c.
The essentials asset library now features the bundled brushes as brush assets.
This is in preparation for the brush assets project merge, see #116337.
There's no real reason to wait with merging these, even if merging the rest of
the assets project may take a few days still. These brush assets will not show
up in the asset browser yet, since brush assets are still considered an
experimental feature in the main branch.
Slight changes to the sizing and placement of the Blender logo within
its icon bounds. Perfect alignment to grid for top of the horizontal
bar, bottom, and right edges. Could allow use down to about 32x32.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124120
