LWO cheats by having multiply poly lines in 1, by doubling back on the line. BPyMeshes NGON function splits this into multiple NGons so PolyFill can fill properly.
Tested with 1711 LWO files - (2 had unreadable faces) 77meg and 103 OBJ files- all worked.
Further changes need to be added but theres a bug in Blender that prevents the NGon function from working.
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4544&group_id=9&atid=125
Lightwave major update by Alessandro Pirovano (uaraus) intergrated with my changes.
Tested with ~ 500 models to import without throwing an error.
Added subsurf back, image loading fixes and removed meshtools dependancy
- Jean-Michel Soler updated the svg to obj module used by Paths
Importer (thanks!)
- user request: added option to control whether user prefers per face
(uv face select "TwoSided" toggle) or per mesh ("Double Sided") single /
double face info in ac3d exporter.
BPY:
- Blender_ShowHelp() was now crashing Blender when called for the
second time, due to EXPP_dict_set_item_str decrementing the reference
count of an object passed as argument to Blender_ShowHelp() (so not
owned by that function).
Help->System->Benchmark (the Tkey benchmark) returned timings even if
user cancelled the pupmenu. Was just missing a check
for -1 in toets.c -- wonder how old this one was... Reported by Wim Van
Hoydonck.
Scripts:
- Updated Jean-Michel's hotkeys script for Blender 2.42.
- Followed Pieter Visser's suggestion and added version info to the menu
names of the older collada scripts (v1.3.1).
Thanks guys!
Note for builders: nevermind if you already compiled 2.42RC1, these
updates are not critical at all and can be left for the release or RC2.
Fixed the blur-plugin (and maybe a lot more) crashes by expecting
future float-buffer aware sequencer-plugins to have a bumped PLUGIN_VERSION
number. Since quality and speed is degraded by converting the float
buffer first to byte, performing the effect on bytes and then converting
back again an additional warning is displayed in the effect strip,
suggesting to update the used sequencer-plugins.
Fixed some more crashes along the way.
Float buffer aware sequencer plugins should
- first check, if the output-ibuf has a rect_float
=> perform all operations with floats (input and output)
- if not: perform everything on bytes (intput and output)
- the .so files are copied to the installation dir plugin/ directory now
(other platforms copy it to the .blender dir, which doesn't exist there
for OSX)
- plugin C files got #defines for return values, was old patch I applied,
but was never committed
you can click on the 'Sample' button, to sample any colour on the Blender
screen. This is really useful in the compositor, and would probably be good for
sampling footage in any eventual chroma key nodes that may be made, too.
LMB to pick the colour, ESC or RMB to cancel.
The preview.blend now shows raytracing/transparency, and also turns on and off
the fake shadow based on the 'shadbuf' setting.
Also included an updated preview.blend file to accomodate this.
- Improved lighting and background (also turned off shadows, unnecessary and
a potential slowdown in generating the preview)
- UV unwrapped the sphere and monkey models, so you can actually see something
useful when a texture is mapped to UV
- Added a 'hair' preview option (reused sphere icon will be eventually
forthcoming)
* replaced foobar==[]: with if foobar: - no reason to make empty lists for comparison.
* Would raise an error is importing a mesh with a blender that had objects in more then 1 scene.
* sped up some of the XML reading functions.
Added remove doubles as a keyword option,
Fixed Triangulate (need to select the faces first)
Fixed boundry weighting (defaults reduced boundries first more then
non boundry verts!)
Made face area weighting give better results.
Workaround for a problem where badly predicted positions are further then half the edge length, on these cases just collapse to the weighted middle of teh edge.
Added docs for "PolyReduce" (Uses BPyMesh_Redux) and WIP Docs for AutoTex Layout.
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartXIII/Modelling_Scripts
for export depending on whether the object containing the data has
modifiers or not. For an object without modifiers, things are nice since
the mesh can be properly instanced and reused. For an object with
modifiers there are problems, since a new Mesh has to be created,
akin to doing an Alt-C on the mesh, and we end up using more memory
after the use of the script than we used beforehand. (I wonder if
I would be better off porting the thing to C.)
This script makes a new image from the used areas of all the images mapped to the selected mesh objects.
Image are packed into 1 new image that is assigned to the original faces.
This is usefull for game models where 1 image is faster then many, and saves the labour of manual texture layout in an image editor.
- Realy needs an image example to see why this is usefull.
