In Blender 4.2 in Grease Pencil draw mode it was possible to
erase strokes using box and lasso gestures.
Under the hood, these were just using the selection operators
that had special deletion handling if the object was in draw mode.
Rather than hacking this into the selection operations, this adds
two new operators:
* `grease_pencil.erase_lasso`
* `grease_pencil.erase_box`
When using one of the erase operations with auto-key, the previous
keyframe will be duplicated to the current frame (for the drawings
that are affected by the eraser).
They are mapped to the same shortcuts than the selection
operators in Blender 4.2.
* Lasso erase: `Ctrl`+`Alt`+`RMB`.
* Box erase: `B`.
This is part of #130518.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131504
When in bone selection mode of during weight painting,
pressing ALT+H would unhide faces instead of bones.
Removing the keymap entry fixes that, while still allowing
unhiding of faces in face mask mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131104
Compositor: UI: remove snapping to nodes.
Snapping nodes to other nodes behaves in a very unpredictable way, which makes most snapping options useless.
The patch removes the following:
- Snapping options `Node X`, `Node Y` and `Node XY`
- Menu `Snap Node Element`
- Menu `Snap Target`
New behavior:
- Activating `Snap` always acts as 'Snap to Grid'
Part of https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/128612
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127667
- Modifications for marker selection to use the same behavior as
key selection in the dopesheet.
- Animation editors now mask out events for the timeline (when there are markers).
- Resolve logical conflicts with the Dope sheet keymap.
- Add Shift Drag & Ctrl Drag for box select & de-select.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129841
d2a802d3c6 got overzealous by removing the "tweak" property which was
actually necessary to differentiate box select on click-drag vs. box
select on B. Fix by restoring the tweak property for everything but
preview keymap items (where it doesn't actually do anything).
Main reason this happened is because the original description was a bit
too cryptic, so update it to be clearer.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130015
This implements the "Select Linked Pick" operator, by default exposed
in the keymap with `L` and `Shift-L`. This mirrors the existing operator
in legacy-curve edit mode and mesh edit mode.
The implementation is pretty simple, we just find the curve closest to
the mouse and change the selection of the points in that curve.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129885
Previously the `W` menu was only available for brush tools (brush and
eraser), it should be available to all tools, thus putting the key map
registering function into `km_grease_pencil_paint_mode`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129837
This makes it so that the `Ctrl J` keybind will run the join operator.
As there are only 2 modes and the other one already has a keybind it does not make sense to open the menu.
This matches Blender 4.2.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129352
All sculpt and paint modes should bring up the brush selector asset
shelf popup on Shift+Spacebar. For grease pencil vertex paint mode the
shortcut was missing. I think it was added earlier, but only for the
grease pencil v2 keymap, the v3 one got merged later only.
PR #128051 made some improvements to code by cleaning up properties and
simplifying logic.
However, the default tool in most spaces is box select. By switching to
box select default, there should be more front-facing consistency across
spaces while still retaining near-identical behavior.
This patch would fix the small bug listed in #128671 while keeping the
simplified code benefits from #128051.
Also:
- Move selection keymap items up in the Sequencer (Global) keymap so it
is more visible (similar to Node Editor ordering).
- Split `side_of_frame` property for ctrl press keymap item into a
separate keymap item on ctrl click for both LCS and RCS to avoid
clashing with ctrl+drag for box selects in RCS.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129028
In essential brush assets, the "Crease" brush was replaced with two
crease brushes ("Crease Polish" and "Crease Sharp"), but the keymap
wasnt respecting that.
So to resolve now point Shift+C to "Crease Polish" (seems closer to what
the former "Crease" brush was.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128765
Regression in [0] which didn't account for entering paths in the
file selector which would create paths without confirming,
warning that the "confirm" property was missing.
Entering `*.*` would create `_._` for e.g in the users CWD for example.
Ref !128568
[0]: 6dd0f6627e.
The `paint.brush_colors_flip` option was not exposed in the vertex color
panel.
This adds the toggle in the panel and also adds the keymap `X` to flip
the colors.
The radial controls to set the brush size were not working in sculpt and
vertex paint mode.
This was because of a collision with the `cyclical_set` operator in edit mode.
The issue was that the poll function for the edit mode keymaps also
passed in sculpt and vertex paint mode.
To solve this, add a keymap for these common selection operators and
separate them from the general edit mode keymap.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128542
The paint, sculpt, and vertex-paint modes already have separate context
menu classes from GPv2. The GPv2 classes will be removed, this is just
a small refactor to prevent this change from getting lost in a big
cleanup PR. No functional changes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128530
This should free up references to GPv2 types and operators and should
in turn make their removal easier.
- Remove keymaps for GPv2 operators from `blender_default.py` and
`industry_compatible_data.py`
- Remove keymap poll callback assignment from `gpencil_ops.cc`
- Remove keymap handler registration from `area.cc:ed_default_handlers`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128480
Remove the box select tool from the timeline to simplify selection
logic, avoid confusion for users, and make maintaining the code
easier in the future. It also brings the selection system closer
to other industry-standard NLEs.
It also fixes an issue caused by d2091b4b1.
More details in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128051
Implements scrolling support for tree-views, as well as changing the size of the
scroll-able tree-view. This is important to be able to place them in many places
in the UI, where a compact layout is preferred over an every expanding one
(causing following contents to be scrolled out of view). UI-lists would use
scrolling and resizing to ensure this, now tree-views are on par.
Enables scrolling and resizing for:
- Bone collection UI (`UILayout.template_bone_collection_tree()`)
- Grease Pencil layer UI (`UILayout.template_grease_pencil_layer_tree()`)
- Light link collection UI (`UILayout.template_light_linking_collection()`)
- UI to define a node tree interface (`UILayout.template_node_tree_interface()`)
These are all cases where compact UIs make more sense than expanding ones.
Internally this is enabled by calling the `set_default_rows()` method of the
tree-view, although the API might change still. It shouldn't be quite simple to
implement this for grid-views too if necessary, or other potential view types.
Although I'd like to do some smaller code quality improvements still, this
feature is important for some other modules (e.g. grease pencil module for the
layers UI in grease pencil v3), so I decided to prioritize merging this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119668
Supporting selection operators and overlays in sculpt mode is necessary
to support masking operations.
This enables selection drawing in the overlay in sculpt mode,
and ensures all the necessary operators (pick, lasso, circle, box)
handle the differences in modes correctly.
The selection code so far was expecting object mode, so the `vc->obedit`
object was used without further checks. Now the selection code can be
called outside of edit mode, in which case the `vc->obact` object must
be used instead. Similarly edit mode and sculpt mode have separate
`selectmode` flags, so the correct mode property must be used from the
tool settings depending on the object mode. These changes require some
refactoring of unrelated selection code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128040
This adds a gradient tool allowing the user to specify a gradient by dragging from a start to a end point.
This behaves the same as most gradient tool in other softwares.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120121
This is a variation of the modal "Interpolate" operator, where a series
of keyframes is generated according in stead of a single keyframe.
The behavior should be the same as the GPv2 operator.
Much of the code is shared between the "Interpolate" and "Interpolate
Sequence" operators now (utility functions section at the top).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127709
This rename the `Cutter` tool's name, code and icon to `Trim`.
The legacy Grease Pencil code is unchanged.
This was discussed in the 2024-07-30 Grease Pencil Module Meeting.
Reasons for the change:
- Match the `Trim Stroke Ends` setting on brushes.
- Match the `stroke_trim` operator.
- Name is more clear and more commonly used.
- Frees the name for a future boolean cutting tool.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126452
Assign mouse button 4 and 5 to navigate back/next in the
File Browser. These button numbers are usually mapped to
this actions on browsers.
Additionally to the existing Alt/Option+Left/Right shortcuts.
Both in Blender default keymap and Industry Compatible.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127413
Pressing ctrl-click should switch the drawing tool into a eraser
for grease pencil. This is now handled by detecting
`EVT_TABLET_ERASER` and switch to `BRUSH_STROKE_ERASE` mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126962
Adds the ability to connect and disconnect strips in the VSE.
- Connected strips have an icon indicating their status, and attempting
to select one connected strip selects all other connected strips in
that chain.
- If the user attempts to connect a strip that is already connected to
other strips, that strip will disconnect itself from others before
connecting to new strips.
- Preview selection also works in bulk if multiple video strips are
connected together in the timeline.
- When adding new strips from the Add menu or the File Browser, strips
from the same file are connected by default. There's an option to
turn this off in Editing > Video Sequencer user preferences.
- It is possible to individually tweak strips/handles and ignore
connections with Alt+Click.
- This shortcut overrides the old keymap item for "Linked Handle"
selection. The property still exists if people want to use that
shortcut for its old purpose.
- To make sure that connections remain valid even after duplication,
I've added a condition to `seq_new_fix_links_recursive` that also
updates connections using the `seq->tmp` var. (A note -- I've updated
the comment for this field in `DNA_sequence_types.h` because the var
is only used for duplication now. It was once present in
`select_more_less_seq__internal` to be used for linked selection but
is gone now).
- There are also functions to cut one-way links and make sure that
all strips are bidirectionally connected after duplicating.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124333
Support segment mode in Grease Pencil v3 selection operators.
This is a continuation of #109221.
Segment selection works in multiple stages:
1. When enabled, the 2D evaluated lines for all visible curves are
entered into a BVH tree. This tree is used to find intersections later
on. All the visible drawings are in the tree, an `OffsetIndices` array
is used to record ranges of BVH elements for each drawing.
2. Primary selection functions get alternative versions that produce an
`IndexMask` instead of writing directly to selection attributes. This
makes it possible to detect select actions on points that are already
selected. Using a delta of selection attributes for this is not enough
to detect such user actions (and inefficient).
3. In segment mode the `IndexMask` is extended to fully cover segment
points (or exclude them when deselecting respectively). This first
performs and intersection test using the BVH tree, then finds all point
range with selected elements.
4. Finally the extended index mask is applied to selection attributes as
usual.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126027
