Early Ehlinger reported a deadlock when a script tells Blender to render an animation and there are pynodes. While investigating I saw related crashes in bg (blender -b) mode, still not fixed. This commit tries to fix the problem for interactive mode, then. What it does is releasing the lock before rendering and relocking after that, like theeth suggests in the bug report:
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=125&aid=17389&group_id=9
It turns out the material AmbCol property was never working properly, or even supported in the renderer, so I've removed it. Also included is a fix to make the 'Amb' input work properly too.
left overs from new particles
-wind and force did not work if aero or edge collision was activated.
-force field had flipped sign compared to particles
tsk who thinks a attractive force should negative sign? well... i am passionless with that.
-adapted effect of wind and fields on softbodies such that softbody "particles" and particle "particles" behave consistently
note!
effect of wind is 1/25 compared to before
other forces 1/10
New Stuff:
* Alt-XKEY / Alt-DelKey will now activate the Grease Pencil "Erase" menu. This will only show up when it's relevant (i.e. when there exists Grease Pencil data). It should make it faster to quickly delete the last stroke made. This hotkey has been added to the tooltips of the relevant buttons.
* Finished off colouring of 'active' layers panel so that they are now easily identify-able. This could also be done for Constraints, but the 'active' one isn't that important there.
Bugfixes:
* Fixed bug with drawing gp-data sources in the Action Editor, which resulted in missing icons.
* Fixed buttons in Grease Pencil panel. My hasty attempt last night at making the Action Editor to refresh was causing problems.
* Added a (hopefully temporary) button that will be used to prevent drawing from occurring with Shift-LMB. This is useful when trying to select stuff sometimes, with LMB as select-button, especially when selecting a bunch of closely spaced bones might be interpreted as a new stroke.
Based on user feedback, I've made some changes to the Grease Pencil UI (most notably in 'Time Editing' facilities).
* 'Edit Timing' button gone
* Pin button and '<Grease Pencil Data' string gone from Action Editor
* Action Editor in 'Grease Pencil' mode now displays all grease-pencil datablocks for current screen.
* AE: GP-Datablocks are drawn like 'groups', with an expand/collapse button to show/hide layers. Its name shows the type of space it comes from, and shows indicative status info (i.e. for 3d-view, it shows view-angle)
* Added refresh calls for action editor after editing relevant data.
I haven't tested all tools yet, but most should be stable.
Also, I've removed some unnecessary buttons, and added a few tooltips. There's also some experimental code to try to get clearer indication of 'active' layer.
Fixes: [#17315] Sequencer: after undo there's no active object
closes: [#17357] fix for bug #17315 - Sequencer: after undo there's no active object
(kiemdoder: thanks for the patch, had to do it in a little bit different way,
since sort_seq will kill your sort order idea...)
The min/max parameters define a minimum/maximum angle
that the object axis can have with the reference
direction without being constrainted. The angle is
expressed in degree and is limited to 0-180 range.
The min/max parameters define a conical free zone
around the reference direction.
If the object axis is outside that free zone, the
actuator will tend to put it back using as a temporary
reference direction the vector that is exactly at
min or max degree of the reference direction
(depending if the axis angle is below the minimum
or above the maximum) and is located in the plane
formed by the axis and the reference direction.
With a low damping value, this is equivalent to
clamping the axis orientation within min/max degree
of the reference direction.
Backward compatibility corresponds to the absence
of free zone: min = max = 0.
Grease Pencil is a tool which allows you to draw freehand in some views, allowing you to annotate/scribble over the contents of that view in either 2d or 3d. This facilitates many easier communication and planning abilities.
To use, simply enable it from the View menu (choose 'Grease Pencil...' and click 'Use Grease Pencil'). Then, click+drag using the left-mouse button and the shift-key held to draw a stroke.
For more information, check the following page on the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Aligorith/247_Grease_Pencil
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Particle patch from Cédric Paille: bugfixes and child-particles export improvements for .getLoc(), part.getRot() part.getSize(), part.getAge() methods.
Also fix a bug with part.randemission getter (was using PART_BOIDS_2D instead of PART_TRAND), plus typos and duplications in API documentation.
First batch of optimizaton of the bullet adaptation layer in the BGE.
- remove circular motion state update.
- optimization of physic adaptation layer for bullet: bypass
unecessary conversion of rotation matrix to quaternion and back.
- remove double updates during object replication.
Curve modifier on lattice suffered drawing updates, only when the system
was not animated though, missed depsgraph calls then.
Solved it by forcing lattice to always return displist for its vertices,
that's same as for how mesh/curve works now.
Specular render in Blender still had terminator problems... only the diffuse
part got "phong correction" applied. I didn't fix this before to not change
rendering results just before the release. Now there's time I hope?
Render results should only differ minimal, and only visible for low spec
hardness values (like 1 or 2)
Certain actuators hold a pointer to an objects: Property,
SceneCamera, AddObject, Camera, Parent, TractTo. When a
group is duplicated, the actuators that point to objects
within the group will be relinked to point to the
replicated objects and not to the original objects.
This helps to setup self-contained group with a camera
following a character for example.
This feature also works when adding a single object
(and all its children) with the AddObject actuator.
The second part of the patch extends the protection
against object deletion to all the actuators of the above
list (previously, only the TrackTo, AddObject and
Property actuators were protected). In case the target
object of these actuators is deleted, the BGE won't
crash.
This situation corresponds to a group containing only a portion
of a parent hierarchy (the Apricot team needed that to avoid
logic duplication). The BGE will instantiate only the
children that are in the group so that it follows the 3D view
more closely.
As a result, the logic links to the objects in the portion of the
hierarchy that was not replicated will point to inactive objects
(if the groups are stored in inactive layers as they should be).
To keep the logic system consistent, these links are automatically
removed.
This last part of the patch is a general fix that could go in
2.47 but as this situation does not normally occurs in pre-2.47
games, it is not needed.
the aspect of a block could become negative and default when scaling icons.
this is caused by the using viewRedrawForce (transforming a mesh) and drawing icons in the image panel.
must look into why bwin_getsinglematrix can give a negative value, probably because the opengl state is set incorrect.
This is still not correct because the aspect will be wrong. but at least it wont crash.
