This PR adds the *Line Hide* tool and the corresponding
`PAINT_OT_hide_show_line_gesture` operator to Sculpt Mode.
*Line Hide* supports common modal functionality including:
* Snapping to angles
* Flipping the selection area
* Moving selection area
Addresses one of the tools in #80390
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119671
This PR implements the background blurring for studiolight/lookdev HDRIs.
The visual appearance matches EEVEE-Classic closely.
**Technical details**
- LOD0 is skipped as the regular background color can be used. The
regular background color is blended towards LOD1.
- Volume probe is mixed in to remove baked in artifacts in the higher LODs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119872
Annotation layer widget was missing on the Tool Settings bar and the
side bar for some of the editors, as well as both color and layer
widgets on the Tool tab of the Properties editor.
Also fixed the Tool Settings bar not updating when drawing annotations
on the Image editor viewport, and the Tool panel in Properties editor
not updating when drawing annotations on the 3D scene.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112688
Addresses two improvements to `Snap to Grid` as suggested in #73993:
- Make 'Absolute Grid Snapping' a new Snap Mode
- Snap to Grid in Non-Side View performed at ground level
Implementation details:
- Snap to Grid has no cursor symbol, unless we are in `Set Snap Base`
mode. Similar to the previous 'Absolute Grid Snap' behavior.
- In Non-Side view, Snap to Grid is performed at ground level.
- If `Snap Base` is `Closest`, Snap to Grid uses the transform pivot
point instead. Similar to the previous 'Absolute Grid Snap' behavior.
- The "Absolute Grid Snap" option has been removed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116109
Add a new "Save" to the Themes list in Preferences to save (overwrite)
custom themes. The operator has a poll function to disable for built-in
themes. Shows a confirmation when overwriting.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119491
This PR introduces the ability for users to switch between boolean
solvers while using the sculpt *Trim* tools (*Box Trim* & *Lasso Trim*)
much like the mesh boolean modifier and geometry node. Because the
*Exact* solver has performance issues with larger meshes, the *Fast*
solver is set to be the default.
In my very rough timing tests on my laptop on a mesh with **1.7m**
vertices, a *Trim* operation with the *Fast* solver finishes in roughly
20 seconds as opposed to still being in progress after five minutes
with the *Exact* solver.
Addresses part of #84229
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119699
This adds a new exprimental option to automatically convert GP legacy
data to GPv3 one.
It supports also linking and appending cases. Conversion also happens
when opening a file linking GP legacy data saved by an older .blendfile.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118705
The Volume input of the world didn't show up inside the property panel.
Reason was that the panel didn't have EEVEE-Next inside its list of compatible
engines.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119729
Smooth transparent shadows by jittering their opacity threshold every
sample.
Always enabled on final renders, optionally enabled in the viewport with
`scene.eevee.shadow_jittered_transparency`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119480
Allow the user to scale shadow-map resolution per-light.
Adapt the PCF scale based on shadow-map to pixel footprint ratio,
since we can no longer assume that higher LODs don't need filtering.
This allows using much lower shadow resolutions, which can yield
quite significant performance improvements, with relatively little
perceptual quality loss (at the cost of softening shadow edges).
The per-light resolution scale is a literal scale, so for example 0.5
means half the resolution. The Scene Simplify Shadows setting has
been updated to match this behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119436
This uses Spherical Harmonics to store the indirect lighting and
distant lighting visibility.
We can then reuse this information for each closure which divide
the cost of it by 2 or 3 in many cases, doing the scanning once.
The storage cost is higher than previous method, so we split the
resolution scaling to be independant of raytracing.
The spatial filtering has been split to its own pass for performance
reason. Upsampling now only uses 4 bilinearly interpolated samples
(instead of 9) using bilateral weights to avoid bleeding.
This also add a missing dot product (which soften the lighting
around corners) and fixes the blocky artifacts seen at lower
resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118924
A tone mapper designed specifically for PBR color accuracy, to get sRGB
colors in the output render that match as faithfully as possible the input
sRGB baseColor under gray-scale lighting. This is aimed toward product
photography use cases, where the scene is well-exposed and HDR color values
are mostly restricted to small specular highlights.
Fixes#118824: Proposal: add a view transform for Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper
Co-authored-by: Emmett Lalish <elalish@google.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118936
Experimental flag for "Extensions Development Utilities" that can be
enabled separately from "Extensions". Note this PR does not enable the
use of this flag (coming later) as uses are in addons-contrib. This
flag is requested in #119521
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119562
With default sizes the Timeline "Playback" popover clips the text of
two items in English. This PR just makes it just wide enough plus a
bit of breathing room.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119474
Layer masks were partly already there. This PR completes the implementation and expose them through the UI.
This also adds three operators to:
- add a layer mask
- remove a layer mask
- reorder layer masks
Note: These are not used by the renderer yet. Will be done in a following PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119433
This adds the `viewlayername` property to grease pencil v3 layers.
It's exposed as `viewlayer_render` in python.
Note: this is not used in the renderer yet. Will be used in a following PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119422
Changes:
- Add Vert Slide and Edge Slide to 'UV -> Transform' menu.
- Add a separator for Vert Slide and Edge Slide in the context menu.
- Don't display the "Correct UVs" option in the Redo menu of UV Editor.
EEVEE-Next performes less on integrated GPUs then discrete GPUs.
Most shaders have been analyzed, but there will always be bottlenecks
related to architectural differences.
In order to make EEVEE-Next run smooth on integrated GPUs this change
will implement viewport pixel size option similar to Cycles. The main difference
is that the samples will still be weighted and up-sampled to the final film
resolution. This makes the pixels not look squared in the viewport but will
resolve to something close to the results without up-scaling.
This improves the performance especially on integrated GPUs. The improvement
for discrete GPUs are less noticeable. See here the stats when playing
`rain_restaurant.blend` back on a RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO iGPU.
| Pixel size | Frames per second |
|------------|-------------------|
| 1x | 0.25 FPS |
| 2x | 4.14 FPS |
| 4x | 6.90 FPS |
| 8x | 9.95 FPS |
Related to: #114597
See PR for some example images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118903
We recently added a new "Internet" icon, meant to represent internet
services and protocols generally, in contrast with the existing "url"
icon which can be seen as being http (web link) specifically. This
PR just uses this icon for cloud storage uses and for remote extension
repository.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119409
