it is to accidentally quit Blender and "lose" your work.
Even though there is quit.blend, Ton said he had no problem
with at least removing plain of 'q' for quit.
Quit Blender hotkey is now Ctrl-Q.
Please read:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Imaging.834.0.html
Or in short:
- adding MultiLayer Image support
- recoded entire Image API
- better integration of movie/sequence Images
Was a whole load of work... went down for a week to do this. So, will need
a lot of testing! Will be in irc all evening.
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Bugfix #5398: setting object layers from background render caused "bad call
to addqueue: 0 (18, 1)" messages to be sent to the console. Add a check in
addqueue_ext() for G.background first before printing.
at the request of Aardbei in the forums eliminating the mouse centering on startup - Matt if there is a 'good reason' for the centering (asking on IRC no one had one), feel free to revert it back
I wonder how this survived so long in Blender... (2005/03/09 commit).
Reason was the call to BPY_free_screen_spacehandlers(sc) in kernel,
which was freeing up scripthandlers in a weird way. That call is
really obsolete. The real freeing should go in the del_area() call,
to prevent copying and deleting area in the UI to go wrong.
(Crash happened in testing timeline markers, and holding CTRL+Uparrow
a while...)
Preview render in 3d window: when window type changes (like 3d window to
UV window), and you change the window size, and restore to 3d view, the
rendered preview had to be re-initialized.
texture.c: a return was added without value.
- pending commit for OSX intel systems, with intel graphics. These now call
an extra swapbuffers after glFlush(). Code is ifdeffed, and doesnt affect
other systems.
- show-off commit: option to have transparent nodes over the composite
result. Only draws Image for active Viewer Node now, and image doesnt
translate nor zoom (which isnt bad though).
Set in themes the alpha color of "node backdrop" to make nodes
transparent.
Ancient issue in making screendumps in Blender. It used to support making
dumps of popup menus, but that disappeared a while ago. However, when you
press CTRL+F3 in a menu now, Blender hangs in some eternal loop in ghost.
This commit fixes making menu screendumps (nice for docs!).
- press CTRL+F3 *twice* for an exact copy of a menu. (first press exits
menu, 2nd press opens filewindow)
- note, it is ALT+CTRL+F3 in OSX
- what is saved is only the topmost open level of a menu
- full-screen dumps work too by holding SHIFT extra.
In outliner, the icons sometimes were drawing too large or too small.
Same happened in NLA, Action, Image window etc. And it happened
for "International fonts" when set to use 'texture drawing'.
Reason: the API call for setting icon size BIF_icon_set_aspect() was not
used consistantly. Sometimes it was set, sometimes not. And even worse,
for every icon drawn in UI buttons, the icon lookup had to be done twice
because of the aspect function.
Solved it by removing this call, and adding a new function:
BIF_icon_draw_aspect()
The old BIF_icon_draw() call now draws with aspect 1.0 always. The icons
code already had optimal checking for changed sizes, zo a change in aspect
won't result in much cpu overhead. Plus it saves calling icons lookup code,
which will make it all a bit faster.
Andrea: I've added this aspect function a long while ago, I think you also
like it better how it is now? Please check!
More Sequence render fixes:
- on load of .blend file, with Sequencer invoking a sequence render, the
header window matrix was not set, giving "Insane icon" prints
- option "Do Sequence" had no re-display call in end
- STUPID mistake from me in setting the waitcursor...
- icons for UI got freed, without checking if it existed (crash in end)
- call to close mainwindow didn't check if window existed
note:
I usually test the "blender -b" case, which should start blender,
initialize all, free all, and print "blender quit" to signal all is fine.
Next to the "DispWindow" there are now two new choices:
- Display render output to Image Editor
- Display render output to Screen-sized Image Editor
Both options won't open a 2nd window anymore, which makes work quite more
smooth even, especially because 'focus' isn't lost. Further it fits in the
'single window UI' paradigm of Blender. Should have been done 10 years ago!
Lastly it might bypass issues with X11... having 2 windows with opengl
context is not always stable in Linux.
This option uses an identical trick as for the Compositor viewer, using an
Image block with a fixed name ("Render Result").
The flow, when invoking a Render, goes as follows:
- first it checks if there's an Image Editor visible displaying the "Render
Result", if so then it uses that area-window.
(Use this option for dual-monitor setups for example, a render will always
go to the same location then)
- else it checks if there's an Image Editor open in general, it then
assigns that window the "Render Result" Image.
- else: it searches for the largest Area in the screen, and turns that into
a temporal Image Editor showing render output.
After a render, an ESC will push back the former view, if the Area type has
changed.
Same rules apply for the "Full Screen" option. Here an ESC will always go
back to the regular Screen, and restore Area type if required.
While rendering, the queue for the renderwindow isn't handled yet, so you can
not zoom (nor get full redraws), as for the regular render window.
Existing conflicts:
- in FaceSelect mode, the Image editor enforces to display the face texture
after rendering again.
- when using an Image window for compositing, you'll lose the Viewer output
on a render.
Implementation note:
While rendering updates, nothing is drawn in frontbuffer anymore. That's
good news for b0rked OpenGL drivers (and faster). However, for the few
OpenGL cards that don't do a "swap copy" but a "swap exchange" you get
issues... has to be worked on. I'm afraid we have to drop frontbuffer
drawing altogether.
Other fixes:
- Hotkeys NumPad 1, 2, 4, 8 will set zoom levels (was half coded only?)
Use SHIFT to zoom out (smaller).
- Rendering Tile updates still had draw errors on edges of tiles, in OSA
only. (Caused by commit 4 days ago)
queues get signalled to all escape, this to prevent things happening
on old windows.
The code then still did a redraw though... which was invisble (another
draw happened after, but caused icon system for example to choke on
not-initialized values.
This patch is mostly a usability patch for the sequencer, mainly written by
Anders Gudmundson and twisted a little bit by me.
- Lock Time to other windows
- Possibility to switch the X-Axis between frames and seconds-display
- IPO-Frame Locking for plugins (T-Key)
- Additional Popup to add HD-Sound and Movie at once
- In Timeline-Window: Sequencer windows only playback
- Make the IPOs a little bit IPO-Frame-Lock friendlier (doesn't jump;
the frame that is drawn has the right dimension)
- Wheel-Mouse buttons make the sequencer window zoom again.
- The "This is not a sound/movie-file message" now reads "... or
FFMPEG-support not compiled in!" since I learned some prominent
people who complained, that hdaudio does not work for them ;-)
- Make SPACEKEY open up the "Add Strip"-Popup on the timeline and start
playback in the preview window.
with each having different scenes, changing screens didn't call the proper
set_scene() call, which left quite some stuff improperly initialized.
With depsgraph code even causes crashing.
Until now, on each mouse/key event preview render restarted with first tile.
It now rememers where it was, and continues rendering.
Also tried to get threaded preview working, but its more work than I can
spend right now. Back to bugs :)
A full detailed description of this will be done later... is several days
of work. Here's a summary:
Render:
- Full cleanup of render code, removing *all* globals and bad level calls
all over blender. Render module is now not called abusive anymore
- API-fied calls to rendering
- Full recode of internal render pipeline. Is now rendering tiles by
default, prepared for much smarter 'bucket' render later.
- Each thread now can render a full part
- Renders were tested with 4 threads, goes fine, apart from some lookup
tables in softshadow and AO still
- Rendering is prepared to do multiple layers and passes
- No single 32 bits trick in render code anymore, all 100% floats now.
Writing images/movies
- moved writing images to blender kernel (bye bye 'schrijfplaatje'!)
- made a new Movie handle system, also in kernel. This will enable much
easier use of movies in Blender
PreviewRender:
- Using new render API, previewrender (in buttons) now uses regular render
code to generate images.
- new datafile 'preview.blend.c' has the preview scenes in it
- previews get rendered in exact displayed size (1 pixel = 1 pixel)
3D Preview render
- new; press Pkey in 3d window, for a panel that continuously renders
(pkey is for games, i know... but we dont do that in orange now!)
- this render works nearly identical to buttons-preview render, so it stops
rendering on any event (mouse, keyboard, etc)
- on moving/scaling the panel, the render code doesn't recreate all geometry
- same for shifting/panning view
- all other operations (now) regenerate the full render database still.
- this is WIP... but big fun, especially for simple scenes!
Compositor
- Using same node system as now in use for shaders, you can composit images
- works pretty straightforward... needs much more options/tools and integration
with rendering still
- is not threaded yet, nor is so smart to only recalculate changes... will be
done soon!
- the "Render Result" node will get all layers/passes as output sockets
- The "Output" node renders to a builtin image, which you can view in the Image
window. (yes, output nodes to render-result, and to files, is on the list!)
The Bad News
- "Unified Render" is removed. It might come back in some stage, but this
system should be built from scratch. I can't really understand this code...
I expect it is not much needed, especially with advanced layer/passes
control
- Panorama render, Field render, Motion blur, is not coded yet... (I had to
recode every single feature in render, so...!)
- Lens Flare is also not back... needs total revision, might become composit
effect though (using zbuffer for visibility)
- Part render is gone! (well, thats obvious, its default now).
- The render window is only restored with limited functionality... I am going
to check first the option to render to a Image window, so Blender can become
a true single-window application. :)
For example, the 'Spare render buffer' (jkey) doesnt work.
- Render with border, now default creates a smaller image
- No zbuffers are written yet... on the todo!
- Scons files and MSVC will need work to get compiling again
OK... thats what I can quickly recall. Now go compiling!
- Sunday merger with bf-blender
- Foundations for new Node editor in Blender, generic framework that can
be used for Material/Texture, Compositing, Logic or maybe even Sequencer.
Note: this doesn't do anything yet, nor save! Is just to get this nice
in CVS now. :)
no shadow a little bit. Uses same threshold function as the "Bias" button.
(That latter still works, and will use an automatic bias value based on the
geometry, to prevent terminator errors in raytracing).
Anyhoo, with this manual bias you can get rid of terminator problems for
weird diffuse shaders now as well (like tangent or fresnel).
Committed a few more files than needed, that's just code cleanup.
(2001) hack that enforced opening renderwindows smaller than screen size.
The notes I could find referred to testing old 3d cards, which failed to
give graphics memory for large windows. Another note was an issue on OSX,
where the topbar and windowbar gets hidden otherwise.
That latter case I corrected now.
Will organize good testing for this, if there's issues, will uncommit :)
NOTE: I had to fix NMesh.c, Mesh_fromNMesh(), that is a real bad
function... it was returning a Py object as a Mesh (on error).
This is still not really solved (NULL return is not handled).
When using 3d window "unlocked" (own layer and own camera possible), the
dependency updates didn't work, these were only using Scene layers.
Changed the dependency graph call DAG_scene_flush_update()
to accept an argument for all visible layers in a Screen.
header prints on the 3d view header to be the same color as the menu text.
This ensures that you can read the text against the color of the header
just as long as the theme color for the menu text is also readable against
the header color. This should make dark themes much better.
for some configs. This was an old hack for sgi's, so I've put it behind an
ifdef for sgi and suns now.
Test if blender still works by switching screens, and check for the borders
between the blender area windows. These should draw all nice empty/black.
directory... so the slowdown was still evident!
Maintenance commit;
- *Giant* speedup for LMB frame-dragging in ipo/action/nla windows. It was
calling a routine that accessed frontbuffer drawing.... a very old patch
for SGIs even! :)
- Prepared code for support of unlimited Shape keys
- Curve objects didnt draw correct for selection-outline option
