Add new "Soft Falloff" option on point and spot light that uses
the old light behavior from Blender versions before 4.0. Blend
files saved with those older versions will use the option.
This option is enabled by default on new lights.
Fix#114241
Co-authored-by: Weizhen Huang <weizhen@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Clément Foucault <foucault.clem@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117832
This came up in #117747.
Unless an object was of OB_VOLUME type, the setting was not updating the
viewport accordingly since the introduction in 365bf103d1. So if for
example a mesh has a "Mesh to Volume" node, the update did not take
place.
If we use context, we can check the evaluated GeometrySet on any object
type with a geometry nodes modifier though and if it has a volume, we
can also tag for update.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117848
When moving keys in the Graph Editor animators
usually only want to move them on one axis.
While this is possible in a few ways (G+X, or G + Middle Mouse Button click),
we could default the behavior to always lock on an axis.
This was suggested by Dreamworks animators during the
Animation & Rigging module meeting.
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-01-26-animation-rigging-module-meeting/33081#patch-review-decision-time-5
This PR adds an option with which the movement is
always locked to a single axis by default.
The option can be found in the Graph Editor under "View->Auto-Lock Axis".
The movement will then be restricted to the axis along
which you've moved the cursor the most.
You can still manually override the lock behavior by pressing `X` or `Y`.
I am piggybacking off the auto locking feature you get when pressing the middle mouse button.
When the new feature is enabled I call that at the start of the transformation.
Except when:
* only handles are selected
* the tweak mode has been started on a handle
This is to not snap handles, which is a behavior that has
been requested by the artists.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117669
Animators (especially for film and TV) often need
to track the movement of things in screenspace.
At the end of the day, the pixel motion is what counts.
But motion paths were always in world space,
which made it hard to use when the camera
is also animated (during action scenes e.g.)
This PR introduces the feature of projecting a motion path into the screen space of the active scene camera.
Limitations
This makes the motion path only useful when looking through the active scene camera.
Switching the scene camera using markers is not yet supported.
Technical Implementation
This is achieved by baking the motion path points into the
camera space on creation. For every point calculated,
the camera is evaluated through the depsgraph and
the resulting world matrix is used.
Then I pass in the current frame's world matrix of the
camera into the shader to make sure the points follow it.
As can be seen in the video, it looks quite odd when
viewed at another angle but this is expected.
I mentioned that in the tooltip, so it shouldn't be an issue
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117593
Currently, internal I/O operators can be invoked with drag-n-drop path
data, and when this happens a quick popup menu is shown to customize
import settings.
If these operators support operator presets, using a preset can
override path data given by drag-n-drop, and that can be unwanted
behavior.
While this can be fixed by setting path properties to SKIP_SAVE, doing
this would make these properties also to stop using ghost values. These
ghost values are used by the file select window to open operator last
import directory, and using this flag makes the file select windows
always open the home directory.
To fix that, add an explicit flag PROP_SKIP_PRESET that skips properties
writing to presets. Also clarify that PROP_HIDDEN and PROP_SKIP_SAVE
also avoid writing to presets.
Added a operator that can clean operator's specific property presets.
Importing presets from previous versions runs an automatic cleanup.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117673
This adds a new `ModifierData.persistent_uid` integer property with the following properties:
* It's unique within the object.
* Match between the original and evaluated object.
* Stable across Blender sessions.
* Stable across renames and reorderings of modifiers.
Potential use-cases:
* Everywhere where we currently use the name as identifier. For example,
`ModifierComputeContext` and `ModifierViewerPathElem`.
* Can be used as part of a key in `IDCacheKey` to support caches that stay
in-tact across undo steps.
* Can be stored in the `SpaceNode` to identify the modifier whose geometry node
tree is currently pinned (this could use the name currently, but that hasn't been
implemented yet).
This new identifier has some overlap with `ModifierData.session_uid`, but there
are some differences:
* `session_uid` is unique within the entire Blender session (except for duplicates
between the original and evaluated data blocks).
* `session_uid` is not stable across Blender sessions.
Especially due to the first difference, it's not immediately obvious that the new
`persistent_uid` can fulfill all use-cases of the existing `session_uid`. Nevertheless,
this seems likely and will be cleaned up separately.
Unfortunately, there is not a single place where modifiers are added to objects currently.
Therefore, there are quite a few places that need to ensure valid identifiers. I tried to catch
all the places, but it's hard to be sure. Therefore, I added an assert in `object_copy_data`
that checks if all identifiers are valid. This way, we should be notified relatively quickly if
issues are caused by invalid identifiers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117347
Extract:
- Operators' poll messages, including Python-defined ones.
- Use default translation context for the region toggle pie menu.
- Newly created F-Curve modifiers.
- Newly created video tracker track.
- Grease Pencil UV area status message
- Status messages in the graph slider operators.
- Status message "Text <text.py>" when opening .blend with
auto-executing Python file.
Disambiguate:
- Track: can mean NLA track, video tracking, a tracking marker, or
a track constraint.
- Tracking: can mean video tracking, or a track constraint.
Issue reported by Gabriel Gazzán.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117855
Update the look of image editor Vectorscope widget (design #116973):
- Colored and Luma options for the point cloud,
- The circles are no longer very low poly,
- Overall grid/background colors are tuned.
- Primary color locations have text labels.
Images in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116974
There is no reason to allow this currently, and the underlying code is
not designed to support it right now.
Kept liboverrides IDs names editable though through RNA API, think this can
be valuable for advanced processing or debugging.
Part of "improve filtering situation" (#116980), now strip scaling filter defaults to "Auto" which has logic like:
- No scale, no rotation, integer positions: Nearest (fastest)
- Scaling up by more than 2x: Cubic Mitchell, so you get nicer blending between pixels than with bilinear,
- Scaling down by more than 2x: Box, so that many pixels are averaged properly without too much aliasing,
- Otherwise: Bilinear
Existing strips that use Bilinear (which is default) get switched to Auto when loading older files.
All of this has an advantage that unless you have some special needs for your look, you can leave it at default and it will look decently good at either large up-scaling or large down-scaling, but not waste performance if you don't use any scaling at all. Previously none of the choices were good in "all cases": box (née subsampled3x3) only looks good when scaling down, cubic only looks good when scaling up, default bilinear leaves performance on the table when you don't use any scale/rotation, etc.
On something like Gold movie current edit, most of the strips effectively use Nearest now, except some that are translated into non-integer pixel positions; those stay effectively Bilinear.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117853
- "can not" -> "cannot" in many places (ambiguous, also see
Writing Style guide).
- "Bezier" -> "Bézier": proper spelling of the eponym.
- Tool keymaps: make "Uv" all caps.
- "FFMPEG" -> "FFmpeg" (official spelling)
- Use MULTIPLICATION SIGN U+00D7 instead of MULTIPLICATION X U+2715.
- "LClick" -> "LMB", "RClick" -> "RMB": this convention is used
everywhere else.
- "Save rendered the image..." -> "Save the rendered image...": typo.
- "Preserve Current retiming": title case for property.
- Bend status message: punctuation.
- "... class used to define the panel" -> "header": copy-paste error.
- "... class used to define the menu" -> "asset": copy-paste error.
- "Lights user to display objects..." -> "Lights used...": typo.
- "-setaudio require one argument" -> "requires": typo.
Some issues reported by Joan Pujolar and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117856
This avoids the need for manual memory management/raw pointers,
improves const correctness, improves type safety, simplifies iteration,
and simplifies the process of registering a new asset shelf type.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117770
The is a derived property, so overriding it doesn't make sense.
I found this to cause a severe bottleneck when saving a file that creates
overrides for a large number of bones. In my test file this reduces the
save-time from 1200ms to 202ms.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117802
Store the 'expanded/collapsed' state of the bone collection tree view in
the DNA data of the bone collections themselves. This way the tree state
is restored when loading the file.
This commit also adds some code to the abstract tree view classes, for
supporting synchronisation of the extended/collapsed state between it
and external data. It follows the same approach as the handling of the
active element.
RNA wrappers have been added to make it possible for Python code to
expand/collapse parts of the tree.
Library overrides are supported for this property, so the
expanded/collapsed state of linked armatures can be locally saved. If
there is no override, the `is_expanded` property is still editable;
changes will not be saved to file in that case, though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116940
- Adding new repositories now differentiates between "Online" & "Local"
where adding a local repository doesn't prompt for a URL.
- Support removing repositories and their files (uses confirmation
defaulting to "Cancel" to avoid accidents).
- Show an error icon next to repositories that have invalid settings,
these repositories are now ignored until the settings are corrected,
required fields are highlighted red when they're unset & required.
- Rename "directory" to "custom_directory" since an automatic path is
used when not set - created in the users scripts directory.
- Use toggles for custom-directory & remote URL instead of relying on
the value to be left an empty string for alternative behavior.
Based on the design of #102585, This PR replaces the MOD_MASK icon with
the CLIP_UVDEHLT icon to better communicate the intent of masking across
many areas of Blender. It also changes the Grease Pencil `invert` icons
to avoid conflicts with the CLIPUV_DEHLT & CLIPUV_HLT.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117467
* For materials with UDIM tiles support, get array and mapping in one call
* For viewers that can use render results, add a dedicated function
* Fix potential use of render results in stencil overlay and grease pencil
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117563
`BKE_image_scale` -- which is only used for the python API -- was
getting the `ImBuf` without providing an `ImageUser`.
This is fine, but always gets the first tile (and the current frame for sequences).
To resolve this, add an optional "frame" & "tile_index" argument so these can be specified explicitly (similar to layer_index and pass_index already used for some other API functions).
Fixes#117539 : Scaling UDIM images via Image.scale() only scales one tile
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117549
Properly wrap a returned `char *` that could be `nullptr` into an
`std::optional<std::string>`. `std::string` doesn't like `nullptr`.
Another problem was that the wrapped `char *` was actually allocated on
the heap, and not freed after conversion to a `std::string`, causing
memory leaks.
Having an early return makes the precondition check an actual precondition
check. This will make an upcoming change easier to implement.
No functional changes.
Extend the `ID.evaluated_get()` docstring to explain that it does not
trigger a re-evaluation of the data-block.
No functional changes, just expansion of documentation.
This changes the tooltip for the user preference settings
`Only Insert Needed` and `Only Insert Available`
to better explain what these features are for.
Only Insert Available
Automatic keyframe insertion in available F-Curves
-> Insert Keyframes only for properties that are already animated
Auto-Key Needed
Auto-Keyframe insertion only when keyframe needed
-> Auto-Keying will skip inserting keys that don't affect the animation
Manual Key Needed
Keyframe insertion only when keyframe needed
-> When keying manually, skip inserting keys that don't affect the animation
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117270
With this patch, materials are kept intact in simulation zones and bake nodes
without any additional user action.
This implements the design proposed in #108410 to support referencing
data-blocks (only materials for now) in the baked data. The task also describes
why this is not a trivial issue. A previous attempt was implemented in #109703
but it didn't work well-enough.
The solution is to have an explicit `name (+ library name) -> data-block`
mapping that is stored in the modifier for each bake node and simulation zone.
The `library name` is necessary for it to be unique within a .blend file. Note
that this refers to the name of the `Library` data-block and not a file path.
The baked data only contains the names of the used data-blocks. When the baked
data is loaded, the correct material data-block is looked up from the mapping.
### Automatic Mapping Generation
The most tricky aspect of this approach is to make it feel mostly automatic.
From the user point-of-view, it should just work. Therefore, we don't want the
user to have to create the mapping manually in the majority of cases. Creating
the mapping automatically is difficult because the data-blocks that should
become part of the mapping are only known during depsgraph evaluation. So we
somehow have to gather the missing data blocks during evaluation and then write
the new mappings back to the original data.
While writing back to original data is something we do in some cases already,
the situation here is different, because we are actually creating new relations
between data-blocks. This also means that we'll have to do user-counting. Since
user counts in data-blocks are *not* atomic, we can't do that from multiple
threads at the same time. Also, under some circumstances, it may be necessary to
trigger depsgraph evaluation again after the write-back because it actually
affects the result.
To solve this, a small new API is added in `DEG_depsgraph_writeback_sync.hh`. It
allows gathering tasks which write back to original data in a synchronous way
which may also require a reevaluation.
### Accessing the Mapping
A new `BakeDataBlockMap` is passed to geometry nodes evaluation by the modifier.
This map allows getting the `ID` pointer that should be used for a specific
data-block name that is stored in baked data. It's also used to gather all the
missing data mappings during evaluation.
### Weak ID References
The baked/cached geometries may have references to other data-blocks (currently
only materials, but in the future also e.g. instanced objects/collections).
However, the pointers of these data-blocks are not stable over time. That is
especially true when storing/loading the data from disk, but also just when
playing back the animation. Therefore, the used data-blocks have to referenced
in a different way at run-time.
This is solved by adding `std::unique_ptr<bake::BakeMaterialsList>` to the
run-time data of various geometry data-blocks. If the data-block is cached over
a longer period of time (such that material pointers can't be used directly), it
stores the material name (+ library name) used by each material slot. When the
geometry is used again, the material pointers are restored using these weak name
references and the `BakeDataBlockMap`.
### Manual Mapping Management
There is a new `Data-Blocks` panel in the bake settings in the node editor
sidebar that allows inspecting and modifying the data-blocks that are used when
baking. The user can change what data-block a specific name is mapped to.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117043
Use an optional string instead of a manually allocated char pointer.
Optional is used because sometimes `nullptr` was returned. It's
still inconsistent though, because often "" or ".." was returned
instead.
This significantly simplifies memory management, mostly by avoiding
the need to free the memory manually. It may also improve performance,
since std::string has an inline buffer that can prevent heap
allocations and it stores the size.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117695
Some modifiers were still using `BKE_panel_layout_panel_state_ensure` to
create open/close flag properties at runtime. Should register a RNA
property using `rna_def_modifier_panel_open_prop` instead.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117697
Caused by 90c4e2e6ec.
We are now getting the enum item via
`RNA_property_enum_item_from_value_gettexted` (as opposed to
`RNA_property_enum_items_gettexted` prior to 90c4e2e6ec).
The former does not translate the description (whereas the later does)
which I think is just an oversight.
To resolve, now add description translation to
`RNA_property_enum_item_from_value_gettexted`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117693
For icons that represent collapsible and collapsed content we use a
variety of icons: chevrons and closed triangles of varying
proportions. This PR makes everything use a chevron for consistency.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116240
As discussed in the UI Module Meeting we don't have an acceptable use
case for dialogs that use the Blender logo. Removing this image from
the project since this is now exposed through dialog customization.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117676
This simplifies the C++ API for making layout panels. Now it is also more similar to the Python API.
`uiLayoutPanel` is like `layout.panel` and `uiLayoutPanelProp` is like `layout.panel_prop`.
Both, `uiLayoutPanel` and `uiLayoutPanelProp`, now exist in two variants. One that takes a label
parameter and one that does not. If the label is passed in, only the panel body layout is returned.
Otherwise, the header and body are returned for more customization.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117670
Move WM notifiers from property setter functions to
`RNA_def_property_update` call.
This actually makes them work properly, for example setting
`bone_collection.is_solo` from Python now actually updates the armature
in the 3D Viewport. Toggling the property from the UI already worked
(for other reasons, apparently), masking this issue.
Thickness modifier ported to Grease Pencil v3.
Note: Uniform thickness range and UI step changed to better
match new thickness of blender unit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117631
