Hardocde the position of the essentials assets in the menu,
for consistent alphabetical order and a clearer indication of
the different between the nodes and builtin "Array" modifiers
(the old one is now called "Array (Legacy)").
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146887
This commit fixes a issue where the node wrangler addon would connect
bump mapping textures to the filter width input of the bump node,
instead of the height input.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146684
This adds a new operator which can join multiple nodes together. Currently, it
only supports joining Group Input nodes. However, in the future it could be
extended to join e.g. Bake and Capture Attribute nodes.
This uses the recently freed up ctrl+J shortcut for this functionality, which
feels natural to me.
The implementation is fairly straight forward. The main tricky aspect is
sometimes the nodes can't be joined when that would result in two sockets being
linked to each other twice. In this case, the a separate Group Input node is
kept.
The selected nodes are merged into the active node (in case the active node is
part of the selection, otherwise there is a fallback).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146894
In 3D Viewport theme settings there is "Active Spline" property, which behaves weirdly.
Color of that property is multiplied to color of curve handles. Even though it says active,
it's multiplied in selected and unselected states, for all curves all the time.
That doesn't make much sense, has no real value, and ends up only causing confusion.
Having this property on anything but pure black means that whatever colors you choose
for curve handles in Preferences isn't actually what you're getting them. If color is set to
high-saturation color it completely washes away all colors and makes it difficult to differentiate
between handle types.
I think there is no reason for this property to exist, so this PR just removes that property.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145360
This new translation context is for some special cases when
translation cannot be avoided, for example in an interface where some
props are built-in (translatable) and others are
user-defined (non-translatable), but we don't know which ones in
advance.
It allows specifying explicitly that translation should not occur
for user data when building the UI.
It is a followup to !145963, in which the context was introduced as a
string literal instead of a defined context.
Node sockets could already be declared using:
```cpp
add_input<decl::<SOCKET TYPE>>("NAME")
```
They can now additionally be declared with:
```cpp
add_input(socket_type, "NAME")
```
This commit adds the later form to the message extraction regex. Since
they are mutually exclusive, they are now in a non-capturing group
with an | operator.
Reported by Ye Gui in #43295.
This extracts the names and descriptions for displays, views, and
colorspaces. They are all used in the different parts of the UI.
The views' descriptions are used for the displays'.
The extraction uses the built-in PyOpenColorIO module. This ensures
only data that is actually used is extracted (not ignored in the
config).
use_nodes is now deprecated in Blender 5.0
- Remove check checks
- Remove all nodes before creating the node tree is no more needed : these nodes are no more created at material creation
Implements #146360
Update VFX template with minimum changes:
- Replace Timeline with DopeSheet footer.
- Save (with compression). 525kb → 92kb
All changes were done on a release build at 1920x1080, without a
preferences folder.
See PR for details and screenshtos.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146851
When trying to find and open an older file, it is annoying when it is not in the
recent files list anymore. This patch increases the length of the recent files
list, without making the menu huge by making better use of menu-search.
Specifically the following is changed: * Number of remembered recent files is
increased from 20 to 200 by default. * The recent files menu is limited to 20
entries. * When activating menu search (by pressing space when in the menu), all
available recent files can be searched. * There is a new "More..." menu entry at
the bottom, which also activates the menu search.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146884
Calling the swap operators can result in Blender crashing. From my
testing, the behavior is inconsistent, as sometimes a crash is triggered
and other times it isn't. Though notably, they seem involve nodes
already linked to other nodes, or zones.
The crashing stems from the operators trying to access deleted data.
There were two places where this happens that were identified, one
involving removed links and the other involving removed nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146909
The Mix node has multiple subtypes for handling different data types. (Float, Color, Vector, etc.)
Since these are commonly used operations, the different subtypes are made easily accessible
under the names "Mix Color" & "Mix Vector". These are mostly present in the various node
editors. (Shader, Geometry, & Compositing)
Notably, for Shader Nodes, however, only the "Mix Color" entry is present in the Add Menu.
This patch adds the missing "Mix Vector" entry under the "Vector" category of the
Shader Editor Add Menu.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142886
This patch exposes the "Rotation" subtype of the Mix node in the Geometry Node Add Menu.
This is in a similar vein to "Mix Color" & "Mix Vector", as it makes this subtype more easily
accessible and searchable in the menu.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142887
This node outputs tangent values for face corners. There are two methods:
- **Exact** is the same MikkTSpace calculation used elsewhere in Blender.
- **Fast** (from #131308) is over 4x faster, and useful in many of
the same situations, though not necessarily tangential to the surface.
The reason to include both methods is that there are use cases where the
quality of the tangents don't matter (though the results are actually very
similar visually), we just need some continuous values across faces.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145813
Currently cameras composition guide colors are defined in theme, and not even by an individual
property. They follow 3D Viewport -> View Overlay color, which also defines many other things,
such as world origin cursor. By default it's black and it's difficult to change, because then other
things stand out. But using default black for composition guides is impossible.
This PR, instead, adds new Composition Guide Color property on camera, and uses it in camera view.
This not only fixes the issue mentioned above, but also allows different cameras in one scene to
have different overlay colors. This is very handy when you have, for example, two cameras, one of
which looks at the black corner, and another at the lit-up white one. Using a single black or white color
in this case makes the other one more difficult to see. Now, each camera can have its own color.
This PR only changes color for Composition Guides, and NOT for Safe Areas and sensor. Reasons are:
- It's important to differentiate between different concepts, having everything one color is distracting
- Safe areas are per-scene and shared with Sequencer preview. The camera shouldn't dictate color there.
I have separate plans about handling safe areas in the future.
Images in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143788
Currently, only the visibility of input sockets can be changed dynamically based
on other menu inputs. However, under some circumstances, it can also be useful
to hide certain outputs. For example, the built-in Curve Arc primitive node does
that.
This patch adds support for automatic detection of unused outputs. How to detect
unused outputs is less straight forward compared to inputs. This patch uses the
rule that an output is unused if it always outputs a "fallback value" (typically
0) irrespective of the currently used inputs. If the output is independent of
all inputs, it stays visible though.
There is a new small utility node called "Enable Output". It replaces a value
with it's fallback value unless it is disabled. This simplifies setting up
unused outputs. In theory, a normal switch node can also be used, but that is
less usable and the user will have to hardcode the fallback value for each type
which is not something that is explicitly exposed yet.
Supporting dynamic output visibility is also a prerequisite for exposing some
menu node options as sockets (e.g. in the Arc node).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140856
In Render properties > Color Management > Display.
* Off: Directly output image as produced by OpenColorIO. This is not correct
in general, but may be used when the system configuration and actual display
device is known to match the chosen display.
* Automatic: Display images consistent with most other applications, to preview
images and video for export. A best effort is made to emulate the chosen
display on the actual display device.
The option is grayed out when the current OpenColorIO config and display/view
does not support emulation.
Ref #145022, #144911
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146808
A subset of brushes behave as "anchored" brushes, in that they do not
apply to the surface continually underneath the cursor, but have a
starting point and then are influenced by the mouse movement. These
brushes behave oddly with tablet pressure sensitivity, as they cannot
modulate over the course of the stroke without causing odd behavior.
Currently, the pressure is only sampled at the very beginning of the
stroke, which makes it difficult to control intuitively. Further work
can be done to improve this behavior (e.g. D6603).
The full list of brush types affected is below:
* Grab
* Snake Hook
* Elastic Deform
* Pose
* Boundary
* Thumb
* Rotate
* Cloth with Grab deformation
Resolves#83697
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146825
Nodes have many indicators in their header: whether they have a
preview, warnings, whether they are a node group, plus potentially
more such as if the library is linked/overriden or packed data.
Of all indicators, whether the node is a node group or not is often not
so relevant (especially when many nodes will be just node group assets)
so having an icon takes away precious real estate for other indicators.
Draw the node shape slightly different. A subtle "stack" of nodes
behind Node Groups indicate this is more than just one node.
The stack is only drawn at a certain zoom.
It is now possible to double-click a node group to enter.
It also makes some more room for the node label, since the node group
icon in the header is no longer needed.
Plus a few visual tweaks and fixes for broken/non-valid nodes.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145674
This PR adds an option "Affect Gizmo" for custom shape transforms to affect
the transform gizmos. If enabled, this will place the gizmo at the
location and orientation of the "Override Transform" (i.e. in its local space).
For Orientations: The gizmo mode *is* respected. I.e. global mode is aligned to the world etc.
There is a special case for "Gimbal" where it will not follow the orientation of the
"Override Transform" bone. I think it makes sense to keep it that way since this
is about the channels of the bone you are actually manipulating.
The other option is "Use as Pivot" with which the bone is actually rotated
around the override bone. This can be useful for rigs in which shapekeys and
armature deformation is combined
Taken over from #136468
For design task #135429
Co-authored-by: Wayde Moss <wbmoss_dev@yahoo.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142847
3D Viewport and Image Editor had theme colors for paint curve handle and pivot.
Paint curves are one of the stroke methods for brushes, and are generally not
widely used. To simplify theming it's best to remove those four properties and
use other shared colors instead.
We could use common curve colors for them, but they don't have point color
and handle point color is black, so we would need to add one more property
anyway and it would look bad as well.
Instead, use gizmo primary and secondary colors. Technically, paint curves
can be treated as gizmos, because they're interactive widgets in the viewport.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146777
This adds support for packed linked data. This is a key part of an improved
asset workflow in Blender.
Packed IDs remain considered as linked data (i.e. they cannot be edited),
but they are stored in the current blendfile. This means that they:
* Are not lost in case the library data becomes unavailable.
* Are not changed in case the library data is updated.
These packed IDs are de-duplicated across blend-files, so e.g. if a shot
file and several of its dependencies all use the same util geometry node,
there will be a single copy of that geometry node in the shot file.
In case there are several versions of a same ID (e.g. linked at different
moments from a same library, which has been modified in-between), there
will be several packed IDs.
Name collisions are averted by storing these packed IDs into a new type of
'archive' libraries (and their namespaces). These libraries:
* Only contain packed IDs.
* Are owned and managed by their 'real' library data-block, called an
'archive parent'.
For more in-depth, technical design: #132167
UI/UX design: #140870
Co-authored-by: Bastien Montagne <bastien@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133801
This patch adds a new Compositor modifier that applies a compositing
node group on a sequencer strip. This patch also introduces the concept
of a compositor node tree space subtype, where we now have a Scene and a
Sequencer subtypes. Practically, this just means that node like the
Render Layers node will not be available in the node editor in the
Sequencer subtype.
Future improvements includes:
- The compositor context is recreated on every modifier application,
while it should ideally be persistent somehow to make use of the
compositor static cache. This might require work from the compositor
side by moving the static cache outside of the context and make it
thread safe if needed. See `Render.compositor` for an example on
persistent context.
- GPU execution is not supported. This just needs a GPU context to be
bound before execution, but the tricky part is getting a GPU context.
See `render::Compositor::execute` for an example on bounding a GPU
context and why it is less straight forward.
- Node inputs are not exposed on the sequencer modifier interface. An
approach similar to Geometry Nodes modifier could be used, look at
`update_input_properties_from_node_tree` for reference, but notice
that Geometry Nodes naturally exempt the main Geometry socket because
Geometry inputs can't be exposed, but for the compositor, we will have
to exempt the main Color and Mask sockets manually. !145971
Co-authored-by: Aras Pranckevicius <aras@nesnausk.org>
Co-authored-by: Falk David <falk@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139634
Small layout and links adjustments to the splash screen.
- Extend list of templates to fit the new Storyboarding template.
- Extend the list of recent files by one row, so it matches templates.
- Add icons to templates.
- Rename `Donate` to `Donate to Blender`.
- Move donate link down so it's more prominent.
- Make separator visible.
- Add "Get Involved" link.
- Remove "Tutorials" link. The Support link already provides help, and
it's been a while since we no longer promote tutorials on blender.org.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146730
In very old OpenEXR version there was a limit on the channel names, which meant
the pass names needed to be short like "DiffDir". Change them to be longer like
"Diffuse Direct".
* This breaks forward compatibility. Old Blender version will lose links when
reading compositing node setups with such passes, but #146571 will fix it
for 4.5 LTS.
* Add-ons, scripts and compositing setups in other applications that rely on these
names will also break.
* The find_by_type function for render passes has also been removed, as this was
already deprecated and replaced by find_by_name.
* We assume spaces in the name are ok, since we have passes with them already
and have not seen reports about compatibility issues.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142731
Add theme settings for the Curve and CurveProfile widgets.
Even though the curve widget is used all over Blender, it never had its
own theme settings. It was using a mix of colors from the “regular”
toggle widget with text colors inherited from the editor.
Thanks to the recent cleanup and removal of so many redundant theme
options, we can now add new/missing settings without overwhelming
the theme.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146274
Implement a native method to swap between different node and zone types.
This implementation repurposes the existing menu definitions as base
classes, from which both an "Add" and a "Swap" version would be generated
from. This allows both menus to have the same layout, but use their own
operators for handling the different node/zone types.
In this PR, support for all node editors has been implemented.
Invoking the menu is currently bound to `Shift + S`, same as the old
implementation in Node Wrangler. Since "Swap" is implemented as a
regular menu, features that menus already have such as type-to-search
and adding to Quick Favorites don't require any extra caveats to
consider.
Resolves#133452
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143997
Often displaying the "Manage" panel is not very useful, or at least it
isn't worth taking up the screen real-estate. This commit adds an option
for showing the panel in the modifier, and adds an option to the node
group which is used to initialize the modifier option when creating a
modifier for a node group asset.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146775
Running Node Wrangler's Merge Nodes operator on only one node
resulted in an error. It was introduced in commit db39daf9e7.
That commit assumed that `l[len(l)-2]` and `l[-2]` were the same, but
they are not when `len(l) == 1`. In that case, the former is valid but
the latter is not.
This commit fixes the error by checking how many nodes are selected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146361
This PR generalizes properties for geometry (currently mesh only) attributes
found in 3D Viewport theme, namely:
- Combine "Edge Bevel" and "Vertex Bevel" into one "Bevel" property.
- Combine "Freestyle Edge Mark" and "Freestyle Face Mark" into one "Freestyle" property.
- Remove word "Edge" from Crease, Sharp, and Seam properties, to match others.
- Group all of the above together in the UI.
This is a breaking change (that will be handled with others in migration),
but doesn't introduce any visual changes in the default theme (and almost any theme).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146732
Rename the menu item "Footer" in Animation/VSE to "Playback Controls".
This only affects the menu item label under `View`, in the following editors:
* Dope Sheet
* Graph Editor
* NLA Editor
* Sequencer
The name "footer" has issues:
* It's not descriptive of what it does/contains.
* It can be moved to the top, so no longer a footer.
* When used in other editors, it may contain different things so it
is unexpected what to find in it.
See PR for screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146727
