This adds a new modal operator that allows reordering columns interactively.
It's triggered by dragging the column header. Edge panning while dragging the
column to the left or right of the region is supported. Scrolling with a
horizontal scroll wheel works too.
There are three new UI elements to help the user understand what is happening.
These three elements seem to be fairly standard in other spreadsheet software.
* The column that is dragged is highlighted in its original place.
* A "shadow" of that column stays attached to the cursor.
* A line indicates where the column will be inserted.
Note: The column order is not yet persistent when columns disappear temporarily.
That will be worked on separately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139136
The Smoke Surface Emission is the height of the smoke from the mesh surface.
It is measured in Domain Grid Units, and if the grid unit is relatively big
(compared to the mesh), the smoke emission is huge.
To fix that the Surface Emission was decreased from 1.5 to 1.0. As a result
it is possible to emit smaller smokes (width 2, previously 3).
Further decreasing default value of Surface Emission is not recommended,
as in some cases (too small mesh compared to Grid Unit) will result not
emitted smoke.
Fix#132613: Issue with large smoke domain and small emitter
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138567
This patch adds the option to take screenshots for asset previews.
Since the functionality lives inside an operator, the screenshot can only
be taken from within the GUI of Blender.
* The operator can be accessed from the dropdown menu in the asset
browser preview n-panel.
* It works for local assets and assets that are managed by blender
(e.g. brush assets)
* Click drag anywhere in Blender to create a capture
* Holding Space will move the capture area
* Holding Shift will unlock the aspect ratio
* On a re-run, the operator remembers it previous capture
area to easily create an identical screenshot
* If the screenshot is fully contained within a single 3D viewport,
the background will render transparent
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132904
This patch adds a new Relative To Pixel node in the compositor. The node
converts values that are relative to the image size to values that are
in terms of pixels.
This is useful to use relative values in nodes that take pixel values.
For instance, the Kuwahara node has an input that defines the filter
size in pixels. If one wants to define it relative to the image size
instead, one can use this node.
The node can operate on float and 2D vector values. Further, the node
can do the conversion relative to a number of image properties:
- Per Dimension: Each dimension gets converted independently. The X
value is relative to the X dimension and the Y value is relative to
the Y dimension. This mode is special because in float mode, the
output will be a factor as opposed to a float.
- X: Relative to the x dimension.
- Y: Relative to the y dimension.
- Greater: Relative to the greater dimension.
- Smaller: Relative to the smaller dimension.
- Diagonal: Relative to the diagonal of the image.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138773
- "Parameters for custom (OSL-based) Cameras" -> "cameras": lower case
in tooltips.
- "Connect two nodes ... (automatically determined": missing
parenthesis.
- "Join curve... control points are detected(if disabled...": add
missing space.
- "Add Selected to Active Objects Collection" -> "Active Object's":
typo.
- "Duplicate the acive shape key" -> "active": typo.
- "Copy selected points ": remove trailing space.
- "Move cursor" -> "Cursor": title case for operator.
- "Paste text to clipboard" -> "from clipboard": typo.
- "An empty Action considered as both a 'layered' and a 'layered'
Action." -> "is considered as both a 'legacy' and a 'layered'
Action": likely copy-paste error.
- "Target's Z axis will constraint..." -> "will constrain": typo.
- "The layer groups is expanded in the UI" -> "layer group": typo.
- Deprecation warnings: add missing parentheses.
- "... on low poly geometry.Offset rays...": add missing space after
period.
- "... relative to the files directory" -> "... to the file's
directory": typo.
- "The unit multiplier for pixels per meter" -> "The base unit": this
property description was copy and pasted.
- "... beyond the faces UVs..." -> "the faces' UVs: typo.
- "Is tracking data contains ..." -> "Whether the tracking data
contains": grammar.
- "Selected text" -> "Text": title case for prop.
- "The user has been shown the "Online Access" prompt and make a
choice" -> "made a choice": grammar.
- "Glare ": remove trailing space.
- "Don't collapse a curves" -> "Do not collapse curves": grammar.
Some issues reported by Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139118
This adds a new Bit Math node which supports the following operations: `and`,
`or`, `xor`, `not`, `shift` and `rotate`.
For the `shift` and `rotate` operations, a posititive shift is a left shift and
a negative shift is a right shift.
Currently, the node always works on 32-bit integers which is what Geometry Nodes
uses internally for integers. If required, this can be extended to work on other
bit widths in the future.
The need for this came up every now and then. It can be useful when encoding
specific bits in integer attributes (for efficiency or because the geometry is
exported to other software that expects a certain format). Also, this node is
useful for some people doing crazy but fun things with Geometry Nodes like
emulating hardware. Even if the use-cases are not common, if they arise, it's
hard to work around and the cost of having this node is quite low for us.
Co-authored-by: Charlie Jolly <charliejolly@noreply.localhost>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138290
The modifier input value for menu items is an int property, which is not
compatible with the enum property used in node group socket definitions for
menus. Wrapping a node group with a menu will try to assign the int value from
the modifier directly to the enum, which expects a string identifier.
To aquire the matching string identifier, use the UI properties in the modifier
RNA, which contain the complete enum item definition.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139074
Previously, when adding a group node it was always called `Group`. This is not
particularly useful. Also it's inconsistent with many other places like adding
modifiers where the name of the modifier depends on what modifier is added.
Now, newly added group node will have the same name as the group that it calls.
Node names still have to be unique though, so e.g. `.001` is still added.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139093
This commit adds a toggle functionality to the `brush.asset_activate`
operator that makes it behave similarly to the `paint.brush_select`
parameter of the same name.
When the operator has this option enabled, using the operator or
pressing the relevant key will either:
* Activate the specified brush and store it if the current brush does
not match the specified brush
* Activate the previously stored brush if it exists.
This option is exposed in the keymaps and enabled by default for the
Sculpt Mask brush.
This allows, for example, users to press 'M' to switch to the mask brush
and then press 'M' again to switch back to their previously active
brush.
Partially addresses this RCS submission: [1]
[1] https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/1VwZ/
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### Notes
This commit does not currently clear the `AssetWeakReference` when switching paint modes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138845
Add new rna property that sets `UILST_FLT_ITEM_NEVER_SHOW` Flag for
internal attributes. This avoids internal attributes from showing in the
list with invert button is enabled, see: `UI_list_item_index_is_filtered_visible`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138756
Always show the 'Available' option in the keyframe menu, so that the
shown menu items are stable. This helps to keep hotkey assignments for
the menu items remain the same.
Note that this isn't a full guarantee yet, as the 'Active Keying Set'
option is also still conditionally added, depending on whether a
keying set was chosen or not. This will be addressed in another
commit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136952
Armature bone display mode (Octahedral, Stick, Envelope, B-Bone,
Wire) could only be set on the whole armature. This adds ability to
override the display mode per-bone (by default bones use the
same display mode as the armature).
Images in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138445
Use the horizontal scroll wheel for panning left/right in the
3D Viewport. Similar to how it is used in 2D Views.
Also add it to the industry compatible keymap, since it is
a pretty standard/basic navigation gesture.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138880
At this point, with pen tilt functionality having received the following
changes recently:
* Consistency between platforms for what pen tilt values represent
* Inactive cursor visualization
* Invertable per-brush strength
The majority of the work that remains is wider testing and addressing
per-device issues, thus it makes sense to make this option available in
release builds.
By default, no brushes packaged with Blender have a non-zero Tilt
Strength, making this option opt-in by default.
The following brushes support this option:
* Draw
* Draw Sharp
* Flatten
* Fill
* Scrape
* Plane
* Clay Strips
With a non-zero Tilt Strength value on the brush, the normal of the
brush plane is tilted in the same direction as the user's pen, where a
perpendicular orientation for the pen matches the behavior with a Tilt
Strength of 0.
Resolves#82877
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137574
This implements a new operator that automatically fits the width of a column to
its content. It's triggered by double-clicking on the column edge in the header
row. This is common functionality in other spreadsheet software.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138924
Previously, one had to search for "Time" to get the Scene Time node which
provides access to the current frame and second. Intuitively I often start
searching for "frame" or "seconds" instead and only later remember what I
actually have to search for.
This patch improves the UX by allowing to create a Scene Time node by searching
for "frame" or "seconds" directly. This works in Geometry Nodes and the
compositor.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138927
Currently, removing a node frame a frame is rather annoying. The `alt+P`
shortcut is hard to reach and probably not very intuitive. Furthermore, often
one only notices that one wants to remove a node from a frame after starting to
move the node. So one would have to put the node back down, detach it from the
frame and then start moving again.
This patch simplifies this entire process by adding a new shortcut that can be
used while dragging nodes. When `F` is pressed, the selected nodes are detached
from their parents. Alternatively, if the nodes are detached already, they may
be attached to the frame under the cursor.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138650
Currently, the steps required to add a named frame in the node editor are quite
cumbersome:
* Press ctrl+J, which is hard to reach.
* Press F2, to rename.
This is bad, because frames are a key part of making node trees understandable.
Therefore, we should lower the barrier to adding them as much as possible.
Additionally, named frames help significantly more with readability. Therefore,
it's good to lower the barrier to adding those even more. Of course it's still
possible to click in empty space to avoid having to give a frame a name.
This patch adds a new operator to join nodes in a named frame. When triggered,
it adds the frame and automatically opens the rename menu to set the name.
Keymap changes:
* Remove `ctrl+J` which was creating a frame without label.
* Move existing functionality of `F` key to `J` key
(including `shift+F -> shift+J`).
* Use `F` for this new operator to create a named frame.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138390
Currently, depending on whether or not a brush asset is part of a
library, the context menu shown for it changes significantly.
To better support local brush asset modifications, and make the UI more
consistent, this commit exposes the following operators:
* `brush.asset_edit_metadata`
* `brush.asset_load_preview`
* `brush.asset_save`
* `brush.asset_revert`
Of these four operators, the first two are allowed to execute, whereas
the latter two are always disabled on local assets via the corresponding
`poll` methods, as neither is applicable for this usecase.
Related to #138105
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138376
Node groups are now hidden based on the "Show Hidden Files/Data-Blocks"
user preference, similar to how the ID selector search filters the
results based on the user preference.
Note that this PR does **not** change filtering behavior when the
setting is off and you search for a dot.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138878
Improve labels and UI consistency.
- Update color labels: Object, Wireframe, Background
- Rename 'Single' shading color to 'Custom'. Move to the end.
- Rename 'Viewport' color to 'Custom' for consistency.
- Fix alignment of Object Color item labels
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137408
The current behavior for the Node Editor's Add menu is to list the
user's asset catalogs at the root level of the menu. However, an
exception is made if the catalog has the same name as a builtin menu.
In such case, the asset catalog is appended to that builtin menu,
instead of being drawn at the root level.
How this is currently implemented right now is to have a hard-coded set
of builtin menus in `add_menu_assets.cc`. Certain menus are missing from
this set, particularly newer ones, which may be an oversight during the
creation of these menus.
This patch adds those menus to that list, which are as follows:
- Input/Gizmo
- Input/Import
- Grease Pencil (and all its submenus)
- Texture (in Compositor Nodes)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138870
Previously, the modifier name was used to identify it in a compute context or
viewer path. Using `ModifierData.persistent_uid` (which was only introduced
later) has two main benefits: * It is stable even when the modifier name
changes. * It's cheaper and easier to work with since it's just an integer
instead of a string.
Note: Pinned viewer nodes will need to be re-pinned after the change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138864
Some mice have an additional horizontal scroll wheel. This patch adds support
for receiving such events. By default it is used to scroll 2D editors left and right.
I originally developed this because I was missing it in the spreadsheet, but it
seems to be useful in many other editors too.
It's supported on Linux (Wayland), Windows and macos.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138758
Rework internals of how VSE caching is done. Primarily to make all the
caching logic more understandable from development point of view, but
also has several user visible implications (more details in the PR):
- Simpler and fewer caching UI options,
- Disk cache is gone (primary reason: proxies are kinda the same thing),
- VSE cache size set in preferences is actual size used for VSE caches
now (previously caching stopped as soon as whole Blender used that
much memory, even if some memory usage was not about VSE at all),
- Certain scenarios of cache invalidation are faster now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137926
Currently, there are two main annoying problems with columns widths in the
spreadsheet:
* The initial column width is often too small. This is especially noticeable
with the ID integer attribute.
* There is no way to change the column width.
This patch improves both of these aspects. The initial column width will now be
derived from the content of the spreadsheet. This initial width is then stored
in DNA to make it editable and to avoid having to recompute it on each redraw.
Furthermore, there is a new modal operator to change the width of a column.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138657
Prior to this commit, the Dyntopo panel was hardcoded to display as
faded if the current brush was the mask brush. This conflicts with the
common set of brushes which we do not support dyntopo for, which
includes many other brushes.
This commit changes the check to better indicate that certain brushes do
not support dyntopo. The scene-level settings can still be changed & the
detail flood fill operator remains functional even if the a different
brush is selected.
Additionally, the panel is no longer greyed out if the "Manual" option is
active.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138634
These are generic properties of grids (not stored in voxels) which are
useful to know in geometry nodes. The transform in particular defines
the voxel size. Background value is used outside of active voxels.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138592
There are two implementations:
- "Link to Viewer Node"
-- when clicking on a socket directly, link from that socket [done by
first selecting and then taking that selection state into account]
-- otherwise cycles through available sockets
- "Connect to Output" [python operator, made core from Node Wrangler]
-- does not take socket selection into account
-- only cycles through available sockets
So goal is to replicate behavior of "Link to Viewer Node" in "Connect to
Output" in terms of "which socket to link from"
This is done by
- exposing a sockets select state to python
- tweaking the call to bpy.ops.node.select so it does socket selection
as well
- take that selection into account
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138323
As described in #122398, implement read and write support for a new
attribute storage system. Currently this is only implemented to support
forward compatibility; the format used at runtime isn't changed at all.
That can be done one step at a time during the 4.5 and 5.0 development
cycles. A new experimental option for testing tells Blender to always
save with the new format.
The main benefit of the new structure is that it matches the attribute
system design, it allows for future attribute storage optimization, and
each attribute is an allocated struct, which will give pointer stability
for the Python API.
The next step is to connect the attribute API and the RNA API to
AttributeStorage for the simplest geometry type, point clouds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133874
Add a new shader node to control volume coefficients (scattering,
absorption and emission) directly, making it easier to model existing
volumes with measured data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136287
This adds basic templating support to render output paths. By putting
"{variable_name}" in the path string, it will be replaced by the named
variable's value when generating the actual output path. This is similar
to how "//" is already substituted with the path to the blend file's
current directory.
This templating system is implemented for both the primary render output
path as well as the File Output node in the compositing nodes. Support
for using templates in other places can be implemented in future PRs.
In addition to the "{variable_name}" syntax, some additional syntax is
also supported:
- Since "{" and "}" now have special meaning, "{{" and "}}" are now
escape sequences for literal "{" and "}".
- "{variable_name:format_specifier}", where "format_specifier" is a
special syntax using "#", which allows the user to specify how numeric
variables should be formatted:
- "{variable_name:###}" will format the number as an integer with at
least 3 characters (padding with zeros as needed).
- "{variable_name:.##}" will format the number as a float with
precisely 2 fractional digits.
- "{variable_name:###.##}" will format the number as a float with at
least 3 characters for the integer part and precisely 2 for the
fractional part.
For the primary render output path: if there is a template syntax error,
a variable doesn't exist, or a format specifier isn't valid (e.g. trying
to format a string with "##"), the render that needs to write to the
output path fails with a descriptive error message.
For both the primary and File Output node paths: if there are template
syntax errors the field is highlighted in red in the UI, and a tooltip
describes the offending syntax errors. Note that these do *not* yet
reflect errors due to missing variables. That will be for a follow-up
PR.
In addition to the general system, this PR also implements a limited set
of variables for use in templates, but more can be implemented in future
PRs. The variables added in this PR are:
- `blend_name`: the name of the current blend file without the file
extension.
- `fps`: the frames per second of the current scene.
- `resolution_x` and `resolution_y`: the render output resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134860
The main way to create a new node group right now is to select some nodes and
then press ctrl+G. This works well for the common case when one already has some
nodes to group. However, there is no good alternative currently for when one
wants to create a new group from scratch. A common workaround currently is to
add some dummy node, then press ctrl+G and then to delete the dummy node in the
group again. Obviously, we can do better than that.
This patch adds a `New Group` entry in the menu. It's available in geometry,
compositing and shading Nodes. The operator adds a new node group called
"NodeGroup" (the same default name we use for ctrl+G currently). Then it adds a
new group node and assigns the new group to it. The group itself does not have
any inputs or outputs by default because any such socket would just be a guess
that's likely wrong and more annoying than useful.
A nice side benefit of adding this operator is that the Group menu is not empty
in shading and compositing nodes initially which always looked a bit off.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138430
Previously, it was possible to search for specific math operations in
link-drag-search but not in the normal add menu. This patch adds support for
searching for specific operations in various math nodes.
A good trick for adding e.g. a vector add node is to search for `vadd`
(similarly with `iadd`).
The menu itself looks unchanged. This patch only adds additional elements to the
search.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138534
It always was functionality which got committed without proper review
by the module or UI/UX team. It has all sort of UX problems, but it is
also something that will be tricky to support for HDR drawing.
To brings things to a more manageable state the functionality is now
removed.
With `MESH_OT` prefix, the shortcut was added to wrong
keymap ("object mode", see: `WM_keymap_guess_opname`).
idname of following operations has been changed, they are
only exposed in sculpt mode UI (also see their poll function:
`geometry_extract_poll`):
- `face_set_extract`
- `paint_mask_extract`
- `paint_mask_slice`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133852
Added a new operator `OBJECT_OT_material_slot_remove_all`
that removes all materials from the material slots of selected objects
This was inspired by a request proposal on RCS.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138402
