"A slightly late Christmas present for the Animators out there :-)"
This tool allows animators to store frequently used poses in an action, and be able to label those poses to help them retrieve them later. In a way, it acts as a glorified clipboard for poses.
One of the cool features with this is the ability to select which stored pose to use interactively in the 3d-view. Once a few poses have been stored in the PoseLib, simply use the "Ctrl L" hotkey to start previewing. Use the Mousewheel or the Page Up/Down keys to change poses, and confirm/cancel the preview in the same way as you do for transforms.
Usage Notes:
* Each Armature may get its own PoseLib. PoseLibs are simply actions with extra data, so they can get relinked.
* Manually editing actions used as PoseLibs is not a good idea, as some data may not be able to be found. Tools to automagically find poses in an action could be investigated...
* PoseLib will only apply/retrieve poses to/from selected bones
* A basic UI for this can be found in the "Links and Materials" panel. Most of the PoseLib tools are presented there.
Useful Hotkeys (also found in Pose->PoseLib menu):
* Ctrl L - interactively preview poses
* Shift L - add a new pose or replace an existing pose in the PoseLib with the current pose
* Ctrl Shift L - rename an existing pose in the PoseLib
* Alt L - remove a pose from the poselib.c
Cleaned up bad level calls for multires; moved most of multires functions to blenkern, where they should have been in the first place. Functionality of the tool is unchanged.
Adding special hotkey (MMB) to reverse the direction of the warp.
Normal input is 0..360 mapped to the horizontal position of the mouse on the 3D view (the 3D view becomes a sort of giant horizontal slider), pressing MMB reverses the value to 0..-360 and back if you press it again.
I've used MMB mostly because it's unused in Warp, easily accessible and already used to switches mode for Shear (shear x/y).
Indirectly suggested by a user question on ba.
Applying Stephan Kassemeyer's patch (#6750) to add a curve modifier for sculpting.
A few changes from the patch:
* The default curve is closer to the old behavior
* Fixed loading files already saved in sculpt mode
* Changed the interface; split the brush texture controls off into a third sculpt tab, and put the curve (and curve reset) into the Brush tab.
-- Peach request (from wiki feature request list) --
When translating a bone using Auto-IK, you can now use the ScrollWheel on the Mouse or the Page Up/Down keys to adjust the chain length.
Notes:
* Up decreases the length, while Down increases it.
* The previously used chain-length is stored per scene
* Currently, it might be too sensitive. Also, it would help to have some kind of indication of the current chain-length somewhere...
* The chain length specified this way determines the MAXIMUM chain length possible for all chains (if 0, then the default chain-length is used). Chains are clamped to have a chain length which does not exceed the default chain length. This restriction may be removed following further feedback...
This commit introduces two (currently only one is actually functional) new features for working with armatures.
* Bone Merging (Alt-M)
It is now possible to select a bunch of linked bones and "merge" them together. Currently, there's only one option to merge bones that are selected and linked to each other in a chain.
* Add Bone Between Joints (FKEY)
This allows you to select a few joints, and have a bone created between them. Currently, this is not yet functional (but the code is there)
This code adds a basic and simple skeleton generator.
Examples and links are in the wiki, docs will come eventually: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Theeth/skeletor
In a nutshell, select a vertex at the top of the head and press "Generate Skeleton". UI Panel is in the Editing buttons in Edit Mode, tooltips and semi-useful.
[#7660] Solaris 10 x86 support (Makefiles)
Hopefully it will not mess up anything for anyone else. I removed
some hardcoded static libs and made NAN_*_LIB definitions so they could be
overridden, to allow greater flexability.
Let me know if there are any problems/questions.
Kent
* [Peach Request] AutoIK now respects axis locking (rotation locks).
- Temporary DOF-Locks are turned on for those bones that are part of an AutoIK chain while transforming. These locks get cleared after transforming.
- This works for all bones except the root bone of the chain, which doesn't seem to be able to be locked.
* Limit Location constraint can now optionally affect Translations too (i.e. NKEY panel values won't change).
- LimitRot,LimitScale support (for their respective transforms) will be done at a later date
- This only works if the constraint is using World/Local space (the other spaces are not supported yet).
- I've added a temporary button in the LimitLoc panel to enable this option (it is disabled by default). This button will be properly assigned a place in that panel sometime.
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- Fix crash in particle transform with the particle system not editable.
- Particle child distribution and caching is now multithreaded.
- Child particles now have a separate Render Amount next to the existing
Amount. The render amount particles are now only distributed and cached
at render time, which should make editing with child particles faster.
- Two new options for diffuse strand shading:
- Surface Diffuse: computes the strand normal taking the normal at
the surface into account.
- Blending Distance: the distance in Blender units over which to
blend in the normal at the surface.
- Special strand rendering for more memory efficient and faster hair and
grass. This is a work in progress, and has a number of known issues,
don't report bugs to me for this feature yet.
More info:
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/particles/
Added a new function which specially caters for auto-recalculation of paths after updates (such as keyframing).
Currently, all that differs between this and pose_calculate_path, is that it only recalculates for bones with paths. Also, it only updates what it needs to (minimum frame range affected).
Warning: WIP commit (hopefully it compiles ok)
Bugfixes:
* "Clear Paths" change from last commit wasn't complete yet. Now it REALLY only clears the paths of the selected bones
* Button layout in "Armature Visualisation" panel has been reorganised a bit to better present the options (clearer separation between Display and Calculation buttons)
New Stuff (Yay!):
* Paths of active bones now draw more visibly than those of unselected bones. This makes it easier to identify the path that is taken by the bone
* The part of path on the current frame is now drawn in green (the same shade that is used for the current-frame line in the Animation Editors). This nicely blends between the black and blue parts of the path (before and after current frame, respectively), and looks much nicer.
* The colour of the current-frame marker in the Animation Editors and the 3D-View, are now theme-colours. This is needed to make the previous option work.
in EditButtons, panel "Links and Materials", there's now a browse button
to directly assign a material to selected faces. It does:
- check if material was already in one of the 'slots' of the object
- if so, then use this as index to assign
- if not, then add a new slot, and assign the new index
-> Constraint Influence Ipo now can be local, linked to constraint itself
You enable this in the IpoWindow header, with the Action icon to the left
of the Ipo Type menu. The button tooltips give the clue as well.
Tech note: the Ipo now can get directly linked to a constraint, and is
being called during regular pose constraint solving.
Actions (and drivers in actions) are being calculated *before* pose
constraint solving. Result of actions then is written in bones, which
then solves the entire pose.
This means you can have a driver on both the constraint, as on the action
channel for the constraint! Not that I'm going to debug that easily :)
Additional fix: Joshua added a copy/paste IpoCurve feature, but he broke
the functionality to be able to paste in an empty ipo channel. That now
works again
Object panels were using object_data_is_libdata, which meant linked obdata could not have object settings changed.
curve2tree
- option to face leaves up or down
- random pitch and roll options
- place 2 leaves on a point for denser leaves
- random seed entry so you can get reproducible results
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- Fix for child particles disappearing with right mouse drag translation.
- Added partial cache updates for selection, should make it a bit faster.
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Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite
of the Blender particle system. This includes:
- Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types.
- Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics.
- Various particle visualisation and rendering types.
- Vertex group and texture control for various properties.
- Interpolated child particles from parents.
- Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. .
- Explode modifier.
- Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types.
.. and lots of other things, some more info is here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewritehttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc
The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle
systems are being converted to the new system, but will require
tweaking to get them looking the same as before.
Point Cache
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The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching
on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system.
See the Cache API section on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint
Documentation
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These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help
for this is appreciated.
- [#6112] is this an extrusion bug?
When extruding, x-mirror was giving weird behavior since the extruded vertice could match with their non-extruded counterpart on the other side.
The solution is to disable x-mirror (with a transform context flag, like disabling PET) in that case.
- External constraint setup calls (BIF_*) didn't setup some internal structs properly.
For the user, this resulted in some transform (extrude particularly) showing a full 3d vector in the header instead of a scalar along the constraint axis (this messed up num input a bit too, you could type values in unused axis).
This is much nicer than subdivision by angle but is somewhat less intuitive for users.
Added Bucket arc iterator, removing a lot of weird duplicated code in skeleton generator.
- Seperated StripData into
StripData
TStripData
where StripData holds only image-filenames and TStripData holds
the working information needed for ImBuf caching.
=> Large drop in memory usage, if you used a lot of movie and meta strips.
=> Fixed bugs in "duplicate" on the way (imbufs where copied around without
taking reference counting seriously...)
=> Code is much cleaner now
- Added defines for TStripData->ok
Finally figured out, what the magic values ment and named them properly :)
- Got rid of Sequence->curelem.
Reason: very bad idea(tm) for multi threading with more than one render
thread. Still not there, but this was a real show stopper on the way.
Adding symetry detection (right now, only primary symetries and only used to determine bone orientation).
Fixing bugs (infinite loops) in length based subdivisions.
Adding number of post processing passes parameter
Tree From Curve,
- report error when nurbs or poly curves are used.
- don't throw errors when >4 branch's per segment are used. also try deal with this better. though no nice solution exists.
- default speed is 10x slower then before.
* bugfix: calling imagebrowser with relative path results in non-existing dir
* cleanup: removed unneeded BIF_filelist_appenddir function
* added check for valid relative base when activating imagebrowser (like in filebrowser)
* made stamp filename optional
* renamed weightpaint "Filter" to "Blur"
* made the defailt weightpaint opacity 1.0 rather then 0.2 so when you select 1.0 weight you can paint it with without multiple clicks.
with many points (think treetrunk), it would be nice to take into account distance on the path when doing the curve interpolation.
Also moved added undo call's that were missing for 2 of the other curve specials.
Peach Request:
Now the Action and NLA editors have the "Extend" transform mode first seen in the Sequence Editor. Just use the EKEY to start transforming.
It works like Grab, except it only moves the keyframes/side of NLA-strip that was on the same side of the current-frame marker as the mouse was when transform started.
