addon_utils.enable/disable now handle wheels so that the functions can
be used with extension add-ons.
A new argument `refresh_handled` supports scripts handing refresh
themselves which is needed to avoid refreshing many times in cases
when there are multiple calls to enable/disable.
This is mostly useful for internal operations.
When doing action baking, the option "Clear Constraints" mentions
it's doing visual keying while not actually using that option.
Just fixing the description, even though a better solution
would be to revisit the design of the options to see if they
even make sense in some configurations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129052
Replace plain-text type information with the type syntax used
for Python's type annotations as it's more concise, especially for
callbacks which often didn't include useful type information.
Note that this change only applies to inline doc-strings,
generated doc-strings from RNA need to be updated separately.
Details:
- Many minor corrections were made when "list" was incorrectly used
instead of "sequence".
- Some type information wasn't defined in the doc-strings and has been
added.
- Verbose type info would benefit from support for type aliases.
This operator deals specifically with add-ons, using the term extensions
is misleading as it works for legacy (non-extension) add-ons and
extensions can also be themes.
As discussed in #128066, we want that activating a brush makes sure the
most appropriate tool is activated. For example activating an eraser
brush should activate an eraser tool, if available. This makes the
tool and brush binding two ways, which is more clear. Plus it means that
users don't have to care about tools at all if they don't want to, they
can just keep switching brushes and Blender takes care of the tool.
Implementation wise, this works by letting a Python operator lookup a
tool for a given brush type name, when activating a brush.
Design Task: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/128066
BaseException was used as a catch-all in situations where it
didn't make sense and where "Exception" is more appropriate
based on Python's documentation & error checking tools,
`pylint` warns `broad-exception-caught` for e.g.
BaseException includes SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt & GeneratorExit,
so unless the intention is to catch calls to `sys.exit(..)`,
breaking a out of a loop using Ctrl-C or generator-exit,
then it shouldn't be used.
Even then, it's preferable to catch those exceptions explicitly.
This adds a new type of zone to Geometry Nodes that allows executing some nodes
for each element in a geometry.
## Features
* The `Selection` input allows iterating over a subset of elements on the set
domain.
* Fields passed into the input node are available as single values inside of the
zone.
* The input geometry can be split up into separate (completely independent)
geometries for each element (on all domains except face corner).
* New attributes can be created on the input geometry by outputting a single
value from each iteration.
* New geometries can be generated in each iteration.
* All of these geometries are joined to form the final output.
* Attributes from the input geometry are propagated to the output
geometries.
## Evaluation
The evaluation strategy is similar to the one used for repeat zones. Namely, it
dynamically builds a `lazy_function::Graph` once it knows how many iterations
are necessary. It contains a separate node for each iteration. The inputs for
each iteration are hardcoded into the graph. The outputs of each iteration a
passed to a separate lazy-function that reduces all the values down to the final
outputs. This final output can have a huge number of inputs and that is not
ideal for multi-threading yet, but that can still be improved in the future.
## Performance
There is a non-neglilible amount of overhead for each iteration. The overhead is
way larger than the per-element overhead when just doing field evaluation.
Therefore, normal field evaluation should be preferred when possible. That can
partially still be optimized if there is only some number crunching going on in
the zone but that optimization is not implemented yet.
However, processing many small geometries (e.g. each hair of a character
separately) will likely **always be slower** than working on fewer larger
geoemtries. The additional flexibility you get by processing each element
separately comes at the cost that Blender can't optimize the operation as well.
For node groups that need to handle lots of geometry elements, we recommend
trying to design the node setup so that iteration over tiny sub-geometries is
not required.
An opposite point is true as well though. It can be faster to process more
medium sized geometries in parallel than fewer very large geometries because of
more multi-threading opportunities. The exact threshold between tiny, medium and
large geometries depends on a lot of factors though.
Overall, this initial version of the new zone does not implement all
optimization opportunities yet, but the points mentioned above will still hold
true later.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127331
Do not allow renaming liboverride IDs from batch-rename either.
Users who really want to rename liboverrides should use python/RNA API
instead, this should not be exposed to standard UI tools (as renaming
liboverride IDs can lead to quite some confusing setups).
For an NLA strip to use a slotted Action, it needs to specify which slot
to use in that action. This is now handled by two new properties on the
strip in DNA & RNA: `action_slot_handle` and `action_slot_name`.
These serve the same purpose as their counterparts on the `AnimData`
struct.
Note that this commit does NOT add NLA evaluation support for slotted
Actions. It merely allows assigning them. Evaluation, tweak mode
support, etc. will be implemented in future commits.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127359
The cfl_condition default was changed in 9a0a75eff0 with the intention
of making liquids behave better. However, that degraded the simulations of fire.
Now the property will be set to its old value if the quick smoke operator is used.
Can't think of a great way always use the old value for smoke simulations for now.
- Move sys_info into an internal module to avoid having so many
top level modules for Blender's internal functionality.
- Rename system_info sub-modules that pre-fill URL's for clarity.
- Move top-level exception handling into the operator.
- Report an error if an unexpected exception occurs.
- Use `Exception` instead of `BaseException` as there is no reason to
catch the additional exceptions.
- Remove use of sys_info from the command line example,
replace with in-lined system info.
This commit adds a python script that can collect some of the
information necessary to fill out a bug report.
The primary use case is to help users collect system information for
a bug report in the case that Blender can't open.
CMD and sh files are included to help users use the Python script.
Ref !122191
Add two new operators, `anim.slot_new_for_id` and
`anim.slot_unassign_from_id`. These are used in the Action editor and
the Animation panels in the Properties editor, to respectively create a
new Action Slot for an ID and to unassign whatever slot is currently
assigned to that ID.
The latter operator also replaces the C++ operator
`anim.slot_unassign_object`, which was specifically made for the
Dopesheet header. The Python ones are generic enough to be used there
too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126943
Previously when renaming an IDProperty the existing paths in the
animation/driver system isn't updated, this leads to missing animation
after renaming the property. Now `BKE_animdata_fix_paths_rename_all`
will be called so the animation system records the updated name.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125474
The poll functions for theme & key-map preset operators used functions
documented not to be used on redraw draw and could make the interface
slow when extensions (for example) are stored on a network file-system.
While the file-system lookups are typically cached, it can still cause
occasional stuttering or hanging. In general scanning the file-system
on poll should be avoided.
Regression in [0] which displays the filename for the active
theme but still used the label internally.
This meant actions such as removing the theme would not always apply
to the name being displayed.
- Adding a new theme was not setting it active.
- Detecting if a theme was built-in used the run-time label as a lookup.
- Theme removal first require it to be re-selected.
[0]: 0bb6317035
When deleting files on WIN32, open files cannot be removed.
This is especially a problem for compiled Python modules which
remain open once imported.
Previously it was not as common for add-ons to include compiled Python
modules however with extensions supporting Python-wheels,
it's increasingly likely users run into this.
Workaround the problem by:
- Scheduling the files for removal next time Blender starts.
- Rename paths that cannot be removed to avoid collisions when
the paths is reused (re-installing for example).
This is supported for:
- Extensions.
- Python wheels.
- Legacy user add-ons.
- App-templates.
Details:
- On startup, a file exists that indicates cleanup is needed.
In the common case the file doesn't exist.
Otherwise module paths are scanned for files to remove.
- Since errors resolving paths to remove could result in user data loss,
ensure the paths are always within the (extension/addon/app-template)
directory.
- File locking isn't used, if multiple Blender instances start at the
same time and try to remove the same files, this won't cause errors.
Even so, remove the checking file immediately avoid unnecessary
file-system access overhead for other Blender instances.
Also resolves#125049.
Resolve error when overwriting existing Python modules would attempt
to recursively remove a symlink which raised an error.
Related to #123827, same error but for extensions.
- Fixes incorrect handling of incompatible engines. There is a global list of compatible
engines, but `create_cycles_material` didn't use it, displaying an incorrect warning
when using the operator.
- Add `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` to compatible engines.
- Remove `BLENDER_EEVEE` from compatible engines.
- Add render method option. This replaces the material `blend_method`
- Remove material blend method option (replaced by `render_method`)
- Remove material shadow option. Not needed anymore as shadows use
the node tree for evaluation.
**TODO**
- Manual should still be updated. Will be done after this patch lands.
- I did some basic tests. I am not familiar with this operator, but think it
should handle all the different cases. Would be nice to have some
render tests for this to detect regressions.
Implements: #122315
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124094
