Intended to replace legacy GL_SELECT, without the limitations of
sample queries which can't access depth information.
This commit adds VIEW3D_SELECT_PICK_NEAREST and VIEW3D_SELECT_PICK_ALL
which access the depth buffers to detect whats under the pointer,
so initial selection is always the closest item.
The performance of this method depends a lot on the OpenGL
implementations glReadPixels.
Since reading depth can be slow, buffers are cached for object picking
so selecting re-uses depth data, performing 1 draw instead of 3
(for 24, 18, 10 px regions, picking with many items under the pointer).
Occlusion queries draw twice when picking nearest,
so worst case 6x draw calls per selection.
Even with these improvements occlusion queries is faster on AMD hardware.
Depth selection is disabled by default, toggle option under select method.
May enable by default if this works well on different hardware.
Reviewed as D2543
The custom poll function for surfacedeform_bind seems to have caused
issues when calling it from Python. Fixed by using the generic modifier
poll function, and setting the button to be active or not in the
Python UI code instead. (there might be a better way, but for now this
works fine)
This adds an option to force fields of type "Force", which enables the
simulation of gravitational behavior (dist^-2 falloff).
Patch by @AndreasE
Reviewers: #physics, LucaRood, mont29
Reviewed By: #physics, LucaRood, mont29
Tags: #physics
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2389
This commit adds a way to debug Cycles motion blur issues which
are usually happening due to something crazy happening in between
of frames. Biggest trouble was that artists had no clue about
what's happening in subframes before they render. This is at
least inefficient workflow when dealing with motion blur shots
with complex animation.
Now there is an option in Time Line Editor which could be found
in View -> Show Subframe. This option will expose current frame
with it's subframe to the time line editor header and it'll allow
scrubbing with a subframe precision in time line editor.
Please note that none of the tools in Blender are aware of
subframe, so they'll likely be using current integer frame still.
This is something we don't consider a bug for now, the whole
purpose for now is to give a tool for investigation. Eventually
we'll likely tweak all tools to be aware of subframe.
Hopefully now we can finish the movie here in the studio..
New options to define the style of the animation paths in order to get
better visibility in complex scenes.
Now is possible define the color, thickness and several options relative
to the style of the lines used to draw motion path.
Experimental option for the Reproject Strokes operator to project strokes on to
geometry, instead of only doing this in a planar (i.e. parallel to viewplane) way.
The current implementation is quite rough, and may need to be improved before it
is really ready for use. Potential issues:
* Loss of precision (i.e. stairstepping artifacts) from the 3D -> 2D -> 3D conversion
as we don't have float version of one of the projection funcs
* Jagged depth if there are gaps, since it will default back to the 3d-cursor plane
if no geometry was found (instead of doing some fancy interpolation scheme)
* I'm not sure if it's that useful for adapting GP strokes to deforming geometry yet...
This operator adds a new frame with nothing in it on the current frame.
If there is already a frame there, all existing frames are shifted one frame later.
Quite often when animating, you may want a quick way to get a blank frame,
ready to start drawing something new. Or maybe you just need a quick way to
add a "placeholder" frame so that a suddenly-appearing element does not show
up before its time.
To make it faster to try different interpolation curves, there's a new operator
"Remove Breakdowns" which will delete all breakdowns sandwiched by normal
keyframes (i.e. all the ones that the previous run of the Interpolation op created)
This commit introduces the ability to use the Robert Penner easing equations
or a Custom Curve to control the way that the "Interpolate Sequence" operator
interpolates between keyframes. Previously, it was only possible to get linear
interpolation between the gp frames.
Workflow:
1) Place current frame between a pair of GP keyframes
2) Open the "Interpolate" panel in the Toolshelf
3) Choose the interpolation type (under "Sequence Options")
4) Adjust settings (e.g. if you're using "Custom Curve", use the curvemap widget
to define the way that the interpolation proceeds)
5) Click "Sequence" to interpolate
6) Play back/scrub the animation to see if you've got the result you want
7) If you need to make some tweaks, undo, or delete the generated keyframes,
then repeat the process again from step 4 until you've got the desired result.
The "gp_sculpt" settings should be strictly for stroke sculpting, and not abused by
other tools. (Similarly, if other general GP tools need one-off options, those should
go into the normal toolsettings->gpencil_flag)
Furthermore, this paves the way for introducing new settings for controlling the way
that GP interpolation takes place (e.g. with easing equations, or a custom curvemap)
Sometimes it can be useful to be able to keep onion skins visible in the
OpenGL renders and/or when doing animation playback. In particular, there
are two use cases where this is quite useful:
1) For creating a cheap motion-blur effect, especially when the before/after
values are also animated.
2) If you've animated a shot with onion skinning enabled, the poses may end
up looking odd if the ghosts are not shown (as you may have been accounting
for the ghosts when making the compositions).
This option can be found as the small "camera" toggle between the "Use Onion Skinning"
and "Use Custom Colors" options.
compiled.
This adds a short message to the smoke, remesh and boolean modifiers' UI
when trying to use them when their compilation was turned off. This was
already implemented for the fluid and ocean simulation modifiers.
This also makes the 'quick fluid' and 'quick smoke' operator abort and
report when trying to use them when unavailable.
For the multi-GPU case users still have to reconfigure the devices they want to use.
Based on patch from Lukas Stockner.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2347
This commit fixes two issues:
- UV/Image editor uvs menu did not match the 3D View's which was changed in rB2b240b043078
- Circle select tool was missing in particle edit mode
Reviewers: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2329
This should make it easier to sculpt in high resolutions, downside is that the new way to calculate maximum edge length is a bit less intuitive. Maximum edge length used to be calculated as blender_unit * percentage_value, now it's blender_unit / value.
Reused old DNA struct member, but had to bump subversion to ensure correct compatibility conversion. Also changed default value slightly (would have had to set to 3.333... otherwise).
Was Requested by @monio (see https://rightclickselect.com/p/sculpting/zpbbbc/dyntopo-better-scale-input-in-constant-detail-mode) and I think it's worth testing.
Bullet spring constraint already supports rotational springs, but
they are not exposed in blender UI, likely due to a simple oversight.
Supporting them is as simple as adding a few DNA/RNA properties
with appropriate UI and passing them on to Bullet.
Reviewers: sergof
Reviewed By: sergof
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2331
Previously, it was only possible to choose a single GPU or all of that type (CUDA or OpenCL).
Now, a toggle button is displayed for every device.
These settings are tied to the PCI Bus ID of the devices, so they're consistent across hardware addition and removal (but not when swapping/moving cards).
From the code perspective, the more important change is that now, the compute device properties are stored in the Addon preferences of the Cycles addon, instead of directly in the User Preferences.
This allows for a cleaner implementation, removing the Cycles C API functions that were called by the RNA code to specify the enum items.
Note that this change is neither backwards- nor forwards-compatible, but since it's only a User Preference no existing files are broken.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Subscribers: brecht, juicyfruit, mib2berlin, Blendify
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2338
Feature request during bconf, makes sense to have it even as an hack for
now, since this is probably one of the most common use cases. This should
be redone in bmesh once we have proper custom noramls handling in edit mode...