* A number-counter cursor is now used while sampling the curve
* Fixed some of the drawing errors with the paths. Unfortunately, when the armature is rotated, the path text is drawn in the wrong places still...
* Changed update callbacks for several armature properties to do proper depsgraph flushing instead of sending redraw notifiers
* Wrapped preview-range settings for Scene
* Fixed bug with 'parent-type' enum menu for Object parent-type. The problem here was that PARSKEL was used and is still used for both Armatures and Lattices, but the lattice entry would always override armatures entry. Now, when dynamically building the list to display, the function to add these is given the specific item to use, and has been made to stop after the first match has been added. Hopefully this doesn't break anything else...
* Insert Keyframes menu now only displays the 'active keyingset' entry when there are some KeyingSets.
* Moved the validation code for auto-blending/extend modes to NLA editor code, and included calls for this in many of the editing tools for NLA strips.
* Removed obsolete 'ID_IPO' entries from RNA-ID wrapping (these were commented out anyway).
* Auto-blending (blend in/out values get determined based on 'overlaps' of strips) now occurs after transforming strips. Where islands (continuous chains of strips) occur, only the ones on the ends of the islands will get or contribute to auto-blending.
* Extend modes (other than 'nothing') now get automatically determined (after transforms) so that moving strips will no-longer cause problems.
* Added a new option to hide influence curves in NLA. Also, made the line widths for these curves narrower, since the old setting was too ugly.
* Pose copy/paste buffer now gets freed on exit
An engine to use for output can now be selected an influences what
shows in the buttons window, only showing relevant data. The idea
behind this is to make it more clear what is supported where, make
the system more pluggable for external render/game engines, and save
space hiding stuff that is not relevant anyway.
* Top header now has an engine menu, to choose between the blender
render engine, game engine, and other future external engines.
* If the game engine is enabled, the buttons window should show
only properties that work in the game engine, and similarly for
the render engine.
* Moved panels from the logic space and game tabs to the physics,
scene and world tabs instead, and removed the game tab.
* Materials and textures tabs should eventually become game
specific too, to better show what is supported.
* Clean up File menu, added back recover last session op.
* .blend compress now behaves a bit different, previously
it would only respect the user preference. Now it saves
existing files the same way they are saved, and new files
following the user preference. The save operator has a
Compress toggle in the file browser left panels now.
* Add menu working again, some fixes to make these operators
work outside the 3d view were needed.
* Timeline menu removed, its contents will be moved to the
timeline header menus.
* Game menu can now start game, changed the start game op
to choose another 3d view if none is available.
* Render menu has a few items now.
* Help menu contains a few links again.
* Fix issue where it would automatically scroll when collapsing panels.
* Fix panel dragging not taking zoom level into account.
* Fix enum menu having too small default width in headers.
* Fix tooltips not showing shortcuts etc. if there was not tooltip
defined for the button.
* Fix some refresh issues with color ramps.
* Add a bit more space between columns in the layout engine.
* Make scrollers darker so they are less distracting, and highlight
instead of reverse shading when dragging.
* Buttons header: made tab buttons bigger, remove view menu,
replaced by RMB menu in main region.
* Timeline header: tweak button placement and alignment, added
a play reverse icon.
* Window type chooser menu: removed audio and scripts windows,
change console and logic icons.
* Node space: disable the channel region until it is used.
calling rna functions with the wrong argument type would raise an error like..
expected a string type
Added an error prefix so now the message is..
TypeError: UILayout.item_enumO(): error with argument 3, "value" - expected a string type
Particle point cache can now be loaded from external files.
- Activated by "external" checkbox in cache panel and giving proper folder path and file name identifier.
- External cache panel has controls for particle emission start, end, lifetime and random lifetime. These should be set according to the external data for correct playback.
- External files should be named "identifier_frame_index.bphys" or "identifier_frame.bphys" where:
* "identifier" is a freely choseable name.
* "frame" is the cached frame number.
** Six digits padded with zeros!, for example "000024".
* "index" can be used to tell caches with the same identifier apart.
** Two digits starting from zero.
** The index and the underscore before are optional. If no index is present the index number in ui should be set to -1.
- Cache file format is pure floating point numbers (in binary, not text!) with each particle's data one after the other with the following data members:
* 3 floats: particle's location vector
* 3 floats: particle's velocity vector (per second)
* 4 floats: particle's rotation quaternion
* 3 floats: particle's angular velocity vector (per second)
* 1 float: frame of the actual data (this can be non-integer for particles that are born or die between two integer frames, but otherwise should be the same as the "frame" in the file name)
- Cache files don't have to exist for each frame.
* Frames without actual data are interpolated from surrounding frames that have data (extrapolation is not supported).
- Cache file formats with extended (or reduced even) data members are in future plans for easier usage.
- Current code only does particles, don't yet know if it's applicable to cloth or sb.
- Known issue: endianness can't yet be handled in any way.
Other changes:
New hard limits for many particle parameters. Some examples:
- Maximum amount of particles: 10M particles :) And before you all go and crash your Blender trying this out remember that this limit is only for those freaks who really have the machine power to handle it. 10M particles alone take around 2.2 Gb of memory / disk space in saved file and each cached frame takes around 0.5 Gb of memory / disk space depending on cache mode.
* Known issue: To actually use this many particles they most likely need to be allocated in parts as taking hold of a 2.2Gb chunk of memory at once is probably not ok with any operating system.
- Maximum amount of children: 100k children/particle (1T childparticles here we come :D)
- Kink frequency: -100k to 100k half-rotations (really strange the previous limit was only from zero upwards)
- Path draw steps: 10 (power of 2 remember)
- Path render steps: 20 (power of 2 also!! If over 1M segments doesn't get you smooth paths then I think nothing will!)
This adds a RenderEngine type to RNA, which can be subclassed
in python (c++ will follow once we support subclassing there).
It's very basic, but plugs into the pipeline nicely. Two example
scripts:
http://www.pasteall.org/6635/pythonhttp://www.pasteall.org/6636/python
Issues:
* Render runs in a separate thread, and there is unrestricted
access, so it's possible to crash blender with unsafe access.
* Save buffers and full sample are not supported yet.
* ID blocks can now get RNA properties defined from python, e.g.:
bpy.types.Scene.BoolProperty(..)
* RNA structs/functions/properties can now get pointers duplicated
(mostly strings), since we can't point to some static string then.
* Added ExtensionRNA struct to add into *Type structs for subclassing,
is a bit more compact than defining the 4 variables each time.
Only disadvantage is it requires including RNA in more places.
* Windows fixes for texture filter & bump patches, thanks
Jean-Michel Soler for noting.
* Added sqrtf/sinf/fabsf/... fallback #ifdefs in BLI_arithb.h,
those should be safe to use now. Replacing the double for the
float version throughout the code can be done once, but would
need proper testing.
Patch by Alfredo de Greef. Considerably improves the quality of bump
mapping, and texture filtering for displacement and warp too. Mainly
this is achieved by getting the texture derivatives just right in
various cases, many thanks to Alfredo for figuring this one out, works
great.
This is enabled by default now, but disabled still for existing
textures to preserve backwards compatibility. Can be enabled with
the "New Bump" option in the material texture slot in the outliner.
Also, I made the range for the normal factor a bit smaller since this
gives stronger effects, but note that you can still type in larger
values than the slider allows.
Patch by Alfredo de Greef with high quality image texture filters.
This adds 3 new filters:
* SAT: Summed Area Tables. This is like mipmaps, but using somewhat
more memory avoids some artifacts.
* EWA: Ellipitical Weighted Average, anisotropic filter.
* FELINE: Fast elliptical lines for anisotropic texture mapping.
The one change I made to this was to try to fix an alpha/premul
problem, hopefully I didn't break anything, it looks compatible
with the existing filter now for me.
* Buttons in header now use operators too. The paste-flipped button needs attention though, since the flipped argument isn't set yet
* Assigned Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-Shift-V to Copy/Paste/Paste-Flipped respectively for now.
* Auto-Keying for this doesn't work again yet. On todo for later...
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* Also, new armatures now get the flag to show custom bone colours enabled by default.
* World and Lamp previews now working here too.
* Experiment with list template, showing only icons. Unfortunately
texture icon render crashes combined with preview render so it
shows all icons the same.
* Influence panels updated, with slider for each option. The values
are still linked though, will fix that later.
* Image texture controls a bit more complete, still WIP.
* Color ramp back.
* Added a new UI Template for the 3-colour picker used to visualise + select the custom colours for a bone group.
* Finished wrapping the colour properties for Bone Groups in RNA. Although changing the colour-set used will change the displayed/cached colours, changing the colours via the colour wells will not change the colour set to 'custom' (as per 2.4x) yet. This needs a nice solution...
* Fixed context-related bugs with the Assign/Remove operators for bone groups. These were using context-iterators for selected posechannels, but that was only defined/valid for the 3d view (but not for the buttons window), hence a failure in that case.
Modal keymaps.
I've tried to make it as simple as possible, yet still using sufficient facilities to enable self-documenting UIs, saving/reading in files, and proper Python support.
The simplicity is: the 'modal keymap' just checks an event, uses event matching similarly to other keymap matching, and if there's a match it changes the event type, and sets the event value to what the modal keymap has defined. The event values are being defined using EnumPropertyItem structs, so the UI will be able to show all options in self-documenting way.
This system also allows to still handle hardcoded own events.
Tech doc:
1) define keymap
- Create map with unique name, WM_modalkeymap_add()
- Give map property definitions (EnumPropertyItem *)
This only for UI, so user can get information on available options
2) items
- WM_modalkeymap_add_item(): give it an enum value for events
3) activate
- In keymap definition code, assign the modal keymap to operatortype
WM_modalkeymap_assign()
4) event manager
- The event handler will check for modal keymap, if so:
- If the modal map has a match:
- Sets event->type to EVT_MODAL_MAP
- Sets event->val to the enum value
5) modal handler
- If event type is EVT_MODAL_MAP:
- Check event->val, handle it
- Other events can just be handled still
Two examples added in the code:
editors/transform/transform.c: transform_modal_keymap()
editors/screen/screen_ops.c: keymap_modal_set()
Also: to support 'key release' the define KM_RELEASE now is officially
used in event manager, this is not '0', so don't check key events with
the old convention if(event->val) but use if(event->val==KM_PRESS)
* Added Bone Groups UI to 'Armature' context buttons for now. Later, it may be more convenient to have these with bones instead?
* Added operators for the operations that can be performed on these groups. Moved the core adding/removing functions to blenkernel so that they can be used elsewhere in future if need be.
* Properly wrapped bone groups in RNA. Copied the way that Vertex Groups are wrapped, since they share some similarities. Setting colours for bone groups still needs more work though.
* Add/Remove IK now works again using Shift-I and Ctrl-Alt-I as before. The code for this is now located in editconstraint.c for now...
* Adding constraints with automatically added targets works again. It's a relief that the old code still works (with a minor tweak)
* Names for newly added constraints are now derived from the type of constraint, making it easier to identify the type of constraint
* Fixed crash when renaming constraints (due to invalid pointer being passed for the 'old' string name)
* List template visual changes. Items now look different,
and it expands to size 5 as more items are added.
* Added LISTROW and LISTBOX elements. The former is like
a typical ROW button, but looks diffrent. The latter
looks like a BOUNDBOX, and has no extra features yet.
* Fix some glColor3ubv warnings with casting, did not find
a nicer way.
* Added suppport for generating code without verifying with DNA,
this doesn't give good errors and is more error prone, but makes
it easier to wrap things like EditBone which are not in DNA.
* RNA_define_verify_sdna(0), and set to 1 again afterwards.
* Revert lamp sampling/buffers change. The right enum items should
be defined in RNA, not the layout, so that it works in outliner,
python api too.
* Also changed type popup to radio buttons again, and removed the
icons. This is more consistent, and I don't think it's a good idea
to start using icons for these things, too much clutter.
* Replace Mesh with Normals panel in the mesh buttons.
* Remove Material panel from mesh buttons.
* Added name fields for shape/vgroup/vcol/uv.
* Spacing tweak to Object and Bone names.
* Fix some naming conflicts in RNA, with "name" and "type" properties
being defined twice in the same struct.
* context.scene.tool_settings -> context.tool_settings.
