* This fix is really only a bandage, as the underlying issue is that sequencer preview render doesn't yet use the job system.
* The sequencer preview can start a full render of the scene, and this can collide with other preview/actual renders in many cases.
* Drawing the sequencer preview is now disabled when an other render is in progress, but the sequence preview rendering could have already been started before the other render, so this doesn't really fix anything.
* For now only OpenGL rendering can be used for the sequencer preview reliably until it's reimplemented using the job system.
* Using the job system in the future can handle the clashes between different renders properly and will give users a nice progress bar to indicate something is happening while the preview is recalculated.
This should help silence complaints from some about "dloc",etc. not being easily keyable.
It's also a nice way to have instances of animated objects located in different places, by animating either the standard transforms or the deltas, and then modifying by not animating the other version to keep the instances from going to a single point. This was a common newbie problem in 2.4x.
Users can set their machine name to something containing non-ascii characters. In Python this currently causes problem due to
socket.gethostname() throwing UnicodeEncodingError. Work around this by not using platform.system() (which uses internally socket.gethostname()).
See http://www.pasteall.org/16215 for backtrace
was missing button for single layer rendering.
also renamed Object.show_shape_key to Object.show_only_shape_key since this pin's the shape key so others are disabled.
now addon path is created using the same path functions and selecting where to save the startup.blend
also made some minor changes to path handling funcs.
- fixed WM_OT_context_cycle_int was causing problems with int overflow, now it cycles properly.
- rename QUOTE macro to STRINGIFY_ARG, and added STRINGIFY, which is used more often since it gives the value as a string.
* Shapekey editor now shows ID-box for showing and editing the action assigned here. This should help alleviate the misconceptions arising to #23823, where user tries to load shapekey action into Action Editor (context there is ob-action only).
There are still a few minor update bugs that I still need to fix here (i.e. post keyframing) though. Those shouldn't take too long I think.
* Changing the action used in the Action Editor properly decrements the user counts now. This solves the bug where you could get actions with a high usercount, but not that many actual users.
* Sequence speed effect was functional in theory, but very difficult to actually use.
* Now the effect works as follows:
- "Speed Factor" (formerly "speed fade") controls the current speed of the sequence (can be animated).
- "Use as speed" (formerly "f-curve velocity") is now the default behavior so that the "speed effect" by default changes the "speed" of the sequence.
- "Multiply Speed" (formerly "global speed") is a scale factor that's applied to the calculated frame (can't be animated).
- Without animation "Speed Factor" and "Multiply Speed" work exactly the same (in this case "multiply speed" could perhaps be disabled in ui, but currently there's no easy way to check this).
- If "Use as speed" is not checked the effect simply remaps the current frame to the given "Frame Number" (can be animated).
- "Scale to length" (formerly "f-curve compress y")scales "Frame numbers" from 0.0-1.0 to the length of the target strip to allow easy animation.
* Tooltips added for all values and options.
* Code for frame blending was nowhere to be seen, so I commented the option out from ui.
* This should fix at least bugs #20979 and #21309.
* The cache was reset almost constantly because smoke didn't save the first frame into cache. Although not necessary for smoke, it's vital to pointcache.
* Added info message to smoke cache panel for non saved files.
* Now smoke also only updates with a framestep of 1, so that scrubbing the timeline doesn't mess up the simulation.
* Among other things fixes report #23731.
