This works by tricking the depsgraph into giving us a smaller list of objects to evaluate, with all the necessary objects + their dependencies at the start of the list.
On any complicated setup where non-object parameters need to be referred to (i.e. by drivers) to affect an object's transform, these optimisations will fail and the old (slower) method is still the best way (modify the ifdef and comment out the optimise depsgraph call to do so). However, we'll assume that these aren't too common in real productions, so things should be fine with these fixes. If there really is a need for both, then global options to control these things could follow.
* Removed dynamic linking libTIFF code and change it to static linking
(built into the blender executable). Dynamic linking made things a
fair bit more complicated and wasn't working at all before on OS X -
the dylib didn't exist and wasn't being copied. Since TIFF is more heavily
depended upon now in Blender, it makes sense to make it less 'optional'
and more in line with other libraries.
I've updated both CMake and scons, and CMake on OS X/64bit works fine.
It's now up to other platform/build system maintainers to enable this for
their respective platforms (Campbell will check it for linux). For windows,
and non-64bit osx, we need static libtiff libraries in /lib.
I've added options WITH_TIFF for CMake and WITH_BF_TIFF for scons,
so if blender won't build because of this, you should be able to disable
these options until your build system has been updated.
* Bonus feature: while doing this, I added support for loading 16bit and 32bit
per channel TIFFs - they get converted to Blender's float buffers. Handy for
zbrush displacement maps!
[#22310] Duplicate Does Not Propogate SimpleDeform's VGroup
[#22321] duplicating object with smoke settings doesnt duplicate smoke settings
^ Genscher, you may want to check that but I thought it was pretty straightforward.
Always pack DispList into one block for deformation modifiers and
create DerivedMesh for all curve objects passed to get_dm. This would
fix problems with modifiers when they're creating dm for
additional information (as it's made in shrinkwrap for normals).
Small additional code cleanup in curve_calc_modifiers_post().
there are some cases (i.e. Constraint Actuator) where the same DNA property is being used by different RNAs with different ranges.
It's easy to change (reset the values to their default in the set func of the constrant type rna).
Not sure it's necessary though.
tile cache code in imbuf, but it is not hooked up to the render engine.
Imbuf module: some small refactoring and removing a lot of unused or old code
(about 6.5k lines).
* Added a ImFileType struct with callbacks to make adding an file format type,
or making changes to the API easier.
* Move imbuf init/exit code into IMB_init()/IMB_exit() functions.
* Increased mipmap levels from 10 to 20, you run into this limit already with
a 2k image.
* Removed hamx, amiga, anim5 format support.
* Removed colormap saving, only simple colormap code now for reading tga.
* Removed gen_dynlibtiff.py, editing this is almost as much work as just
editing the code directly.
* Functions removed that were only used for sequencer plugin API:
IMB_anim_nextpic, IMB_clever_double, IMB_antialias, IMB_gamwarp,
IMB_scalefieldImBuf, IMB_scalefastfieldImBuf, IMB_onethird, IMB_halflace,
IMB_dit0, IMB_dit2, IMB_cspace
* Write metadata info into OpenEXR images. Can be viewed with the command
line utility 'exrheader'
For the image tile cache code, see this page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Imaging/ImageTileCache
While I was looking in outliner.c, made some changes to let extra passes display
there such as environment (commented out before due to a previous limitation).
Also changed outliner object visbility/selectability/renderability toggles to use
RNA buttons so you can insert keyframes with RMB menu etc.
- effector list wasnt NULL'd on copying a particle system
- copying an object would initialize the cloth modifier, then copy it, witout freeing its effector weights created in cloth_init().
- link now brings up a search box so when there are 100's of groups its less annoying.
- utility functions for id-enums so only local objects can be displayed in a search list (used for group_link)
- renamed operator properties from typle to scene, group, action etc.
Condition for this to work (.blend file must be saved) was poorly communicated
in the UI (printfs are no good for this - ideally should use reports). Tweaked this a bit.
