Extract
- Cycles denoiser enum.
- Extensions user preferences UI.
- Node operator poll message from new node function.
Improve
- Split "(Enabled|Disabled) on startup, overriding the preference."
into two messages.
Disambiguate
- "Add" when describing the action of adding something should use the
Operator context.
- "Dimensions", in noise textures.
- "Transform" as a noun, the matrix transform type of Geometry Nodes,
as opposed to the verb to move things in space.
- "Parent" as a noun or verb (the parent of an object, to parent an
object to another).
Some issues reported by Satoshi Yamasaki, deathblood, and Gabriel Gazzán.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122969
This patch removes the Auto Render option from the compositor. This is
done for the following reason:
- The option didn't really work except in the case of transforming an
object. So it wasn't really reliable.
- It made little sense to use since the introduction of the Viewport
Compositor.
- It had a number of UX issues, including the fact that it can't be used
with animation playback, and the fact that rendering can get in the
way of the UI depending on the preferences for temporary editors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123132
Add timeline version of tweak tool to timeline+preview mixed view.
This was removed in 8c53a18c48. Previously tools combined keymaps for
both preview and timeline, but in combined view preview operators were
disabled.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122992
The following operations have been removed for system repositories:
- Installing from disk.
- Uninstall extensions.
- Delete files (when removing the repository).
Also change the operator to remove a repository so the option to
remove files is now a boolean instead of an enum. While a dynamic
enum can be made to work, this option is logically a boolean.
Using unified paint settings for the draw tools as multiple issues.
As an artist, it is expected that changing a draw brush will change
its settings. Sharing the radius between draw brushes only leads
to frustration of having to change the radius back and forth.
Instead, we don't use unified paint settings for the tools in draw
mode and always use the settings on the brush.
Resolves#122157.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122886
The buttons to upgrade or sync extensions called extension
operators via bpy.app.handlers, requiring awkward glue-code
which didn't show error reports in to the user.
Remove these operators and call the upgrade & sync operators directly.
Support for "System" extensions as an alternative to the current
"User" extensions repository.
The purpose of this change is to support bundling extensions for
offline work or in environments where users setting up thier own
extensions isn't desirable, see #122512.
Details:
The default "System" repository on Linux will for example use:
- `/usr/share/blender/4.2/extensions/{system}` For system installs.
- `./4.2/extensions/{system}` For portable installs.
- Blender's default startup now has a "System" repository
which users or administrators may populate.
- Repositories can select between User/System paths,
setting a custom path overrides overrides this setting.
- Add "BLENDER_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS" (matching "BLENDER_LOCAL_EXTENSIONS").
Ref !122832
A few of the recently added submenus are not included in the list of builtin
menus, so node assets under those catalog names will generate redundant submenus.
Fixes same issue as b49c84276c for newly added nested menus.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122855
Since import images as mesh planes operator was added recently in core
Blender, it is now easy to also support converting image empties to mesh
planes by reusing the same code.
This results in a fast workflow where you can use Blender's drag & drop
& align feature for reference images, and quickly turn them into meshes
without registering second file handler and clicking anything before
import is finished.
Ref !122546
This is the first commit of the several required to support
subprocess-based parallel compilation on OpenGL.
This provides the base API and implementation, and exposes the max
subprocesses setting on the UI, but it's not used by any code yet.
More information and the rest of the code can be found in #121925.
This one includes:
- A new `GPU_shader_batch` API that allows requesting the compilation
of multiple shaders at once, allowing GPU backed to compile them in
parallel and asynchronously without blocking the Blender UI.
- A virtual `ShaderCompiler` class that backends can use to add their
own implementation.
- A `ShaderCompilerGeneric` class that implements synchronous/blocking
compilation of batches for backends that don't have their own
implementation yet.
- A `GLShaderCompiler` that supports parallel compilation using
subprocesses.
- A new `BLI_subprocess` API, including IPC (required for the
`GLShaderCompiler` implementation).
- The implementation of the subprocess program in
`GPU_compilation_subprocess`.
- A new `Max Shader Compilation Subprocesses` option in
`Preferences > System > Memory & Limits` to enable parallel shader
compilation and the max number of subprocesses to allocate (each
subprocess has a relatively high memory footprint).
Implementation Overview:
There's a single `GLShaderCompiler` shared by all OpenGL contexts.
This class stores a pool of up to `GCaps.max_parallel_compilations`
subprocesses that can be used for compilation.
Each subprocess has a shared memory pool used for sending the shader
source code from the main Blender process and for receiving the already
compiled shader binary from the subprocess. This is synchronized using
a series of shared semaphores.
The subprocesses maintain a shader cache on disk inside a
`BLENDER_SHADER_CACHE` folder at the OS temporary folder.
Shaders that fail to compile are tried to be compiled again locally for
proper error reports.
Hanged subprocesses are currently detected using a timeout of 30s.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122232
Previously, the "Simplify" option was a world space distance threshold.
This meant that zooming in and out of the view changed the way
this option behaved. There were complaints from artists about this.
This change improves two things:
* The simplify algorithm uses the screen space coordinates rather than the
3D positions.
* The UI setting is in pixels making it much easier to tweak (no need
for values in the 1e-4 range).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122719
The "active_file" context member as a way to get the active asset should be
avoided, in favor of "asset". This moves us away from the file browser backend
as basis of the asset system,
Add an overlay option to automatically display a label on reroute nodes.
This automatic label is propagated through chained reroute nodes and
is based on the explicit label of linked reroute nodes.
The automatic label is dimmed to distinguish it from manually set ones.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113368
Light redesign of the extension/add-on list item.
The last time this layout was updated was in Blender 2.5, when text was
usually left-aligned, and add-ons preferences weren't streamlined yet.
The goal is to keep a familiar look, while making some improvements to
organization such as group actions (install/uninstall, buttons to external sources
like website, documentation, report a bug).
Detail images available in the pull request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122726
Split `bpy.types.LightProbe` into specialized subclasses.
- Rename all grid_* to remove the prefix in the RNA and limit access to
volume probe.
- Parallax and other sphere probe only properties should be limited to
sphere probe.
- `visibility` properties are deprecated (to be removed in a future
Blender version)
Ref #113976
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122353
- `bpy.types.Material.blend_method` aliases `bpy.types.Material.surface_render_method`.
'Opaque' and 'Alpha Clip' maps to deferred.
- Renamed `show_transparent_back` to `use_transparency_overlap`
- Renamed `use_screen_refraction` to `use_raytrace_refraction`
- Deprecate `use_sss_translucency` and `use_sss_translucency`
Related to: #113976
**NOTE**
The light probe changes will be done in a different patch.
Both patches should land just before we remove EEVEE Legacy
from the code-base.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122297
This handles the transition to EEVEE-Next (now EEVEE).
This removes some things that make no sense to keep
even for compatibility.
- Scene.eevee.light_cache_data
- Scene Light cache operators
- Scene Light cache RNA properties
The remaining legacy properties will be removed later
on to avoid python API breakage.
We keep the identifier of EEVEE-Next as `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT`
to avoid addons being incorrectly silently made compatible
with the EEVEE-Next where the Python API is different.
This renaming should be done in 5.0 release.
Thank you EEVEE-Legacy, you served us well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122433
