This feature is going to be replaced with a more thorough refactoring
of the node group interface UI, which has actual node drawing support
and a new API for integration of panels into nodes.
Design task: #109135
Implementation: #110272
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110803
This allows irradiance volume that have less priority to
transfer lighting to the ones with higher priority.
Meaning interactive relighting from the world or
lookdev HDRI is now supported if the world isn't baked
inside the volume data.
This should improve workflow with larger scenes and
interactivity with light setups.
To help setup with dynamic objects, this patch introduce
3 new parameter to remove some components from the
irradiance grids.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110838
Add three new nodes for operations and inputs specific to
node group operators.
- **Selection** Whether elements are selected in the viewport
- **Set Selection** Sets the edit/sculpt selection, on the point,
face, or curve domains
- **3D Cursor** Gives the location and rotation of the 3D cursor,
in the local space of the modified object.
- **Face Set** The face set value from mesh sculpt mode,
and whether the attribute exists.
- **Set Face Set** Set sculpt face set values.
In the add menu and search, the nodes are only visible in the
"Tool" context of the geometry node editor. They also give
errors when executed by a modifier.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109517
Add support in the UI for the edit mode of curves, mesh, and point
cloud objects. It's possible to control for which mode sand object
types the asset is available with a dropdown in the node header.
To make this per-mode filtering possible, the static asset tree
cache is now unique per context mode.
See #101778
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109526
This is currently meant mainly for testing, when "Developer Extras" is
enabled. The goal is to make interactive Hydra export and USD file export
identical. We are not there yet, and having the ability to compare both
in the viewport and automated tests should help us get and stay there.
Ref #110765
Adds a new "Ui Asset Shelf" template to the script editor, demonstrating
how scripts can register own asset shelves. The asset shelf is designed
as a new standard UI element that add-ons, application templates and the
like can use, so this is useful. It's also useful as a quick way to test
and customize the asset shelf.
The script is only available in the UI if the "Asset Shelf" experimental
feature is enabled in the Preferences.
With the "Extended Asset Browser" and "Asset Shelf" experimental
features enabled, an asset shelf will now be displayed in sculpt mode.
This is useful for testing and development for the brush assets project,
see #101895.
Approved as part of #104831, then split off as separate commit.
The previous commit introduced all the basic bits and pieces necessary
to support asset shelves as experimental feature, but didn't actually
add support for any specific editor. With this commit asset shelves can
be registered in 3D Views, which should soon be used by the Pose Library
add-on to replace its previous UI in the sidebar (see
blender/blender-addons#104546). Note that until then, there will still be no
actual asset shelf to display.
Also adds:
- Toggle to hide/unhide the asset shelf under "View" -> "Asset Shelf"
- 3D View theme settings for the asset shelf regions.
None of the changes are visible if the experimental option for the asset
shelf is not enabled.
Approved as part of #104831, then split off as separate commit.
Pull Request: #110767
No user visible changes expected, except of new experimental feature
option.
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This introduces asset shelves as a new standard UI element for accessing
assets. Based on the current context (like the active mode and/or tool), they
can provide assets for specific workflows/tasks. As such they are more limited
in functionality than the asset browser, but a lot more efficient for certain
tasks.
The asset shelf is developed as part of the brush assets project (see #101895),
but is also meant to replace the current pose library UI.
Support for asset shelves can quite easily be added to different editor types,
the following commit will add support for the 3D View. If an editor type
supports asset shelves, add-ons can chose to register an asset shelf type for
an editor with just a few lines of Python.
It should be possible to entirely remove `UILayout.asset_view_template()` once
asset shelves are non-experimental.
Some changes are to be expected still, see #107881.
Task: #102879
Brush asset workflow blog post: https://code.blender.org/2022/12/brush-assets-workflow/
Initial technical documentation: https://developer.blender.org/docs/asset_system/user_interface/asset_shelf/
Pull Request: #104831
"Tool" is a more friendly word with mostly the same meaning within
Blender. Eventually it should be possible to create active tools with
node groups anyway, so the distinction isn't even helpful.
See #101778
Implement capture point bias. This offsets the capture
points to reduce the amount bad capture locations (i.e.:
inside objects, near walls etc...).
Two new parameters are added:
- Capture Surface Bias: Ensure a minimum distance between
capture points and surrounding geometry. This is expressed as the
relative distance between two capture point. Requires re-bake
to take effect.
- Capture Escape Bias: Moves capture points enclosed inside
objects above the nearest surface. This bias defines how far a
capture point can be moved for escaping the object. This is
expressed as the relative distance between two capture point.
Requires re-bake to take effect.
This is called virtual offset in the reference material.
A quick prepass runs before the baking to offset the samples away
from any surface that could potentially make bad samples.
In order to speedup the process, we create cluster list of surfels
near each irradiance grid point. This allow access to neighboring
surfels that can contribute to the virtual offset which should
never be more than half a cell wide.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110355
Implement invalid sample points filling. Improves invalid regions
but introduce light leak.
Grid sample points are considered invalid if they have a ratio of
front-face ray hit under the given threshold. This is a post-processing
pass on the baked lighting that fills dark regions produced by
invalid sample location (e.g.: inside walls) with valid neighbor
samples data.
Two new parameters are added:
- Dilation Threshold: Validity threshold under which grid samples are
considered invalid. Invalid samples will gather valid lighting data
from valid neighbors inside the dilation radius.
- Dilation Radius: Radius of the dilation process. Expressed in grid
sample distance.
The validity of each point is progressively refined just like the
lighting data during the baking process.
The dilation process is implemented as a post-processing pass during
the loading of the grid data into the irradiance atlas. This allows
live tweaking the dilation parameters.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110386
This is a full rewrite of the raytracing denoise pipeline. It uses the
same principle as before but now uses compute shaders for every stages
and a tile base approach. More aggressive filtering is needed since we
are moving towards having no prefiltered screen radiance buffer. Thus
we introduce a temporal denoise and a bilateral denoise stage to the
denoising. These are optionnal and can be disabled.
Note that this patch does not include any tracing part and only samples
the reflection probes. It is focused on denoising only. Tracing will
come in another PR.
The motivation for this is that having hardware raytracing support
means we can't prefilter the radiance in screen space so we have to
have better denoising. Also this means we can have better surface
appearance with support for other BxDF model than GGX. Also GGX support
is improved.
Technically, the new denoising fixes some implementation mistake the
old pipeline did. It separates all 3 stages (spatial, temporal,
bilateral) and use random sampling for all stages hoping to create
a noisy enough (but still stable) output so that the TAA soaks the
remaining noise. However that's not always the case. Depending on the
nature of the scene, the input can be very high frequency and might
create lots of flickering. That why another solution needs to be found
for the higher roughness material as denoising them becomes expensive
and low quality.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110117
Adaptation of the operator `ACTION_OT_keyframe_insert` to take into account grease pencil channels.
Grease pencil keyframes can now be inserted in blank mode, or in additive mode (duplicate the current frame in the new keyframe).
Two API functions were added :
* `add_duplicate_drawings` which copies the data of a drawing to creates a duplicate, and
* `insert_duplicate_frame` which creates a duplicate frame of an existing one either by copy or instance.
The additive mode option is also added to the UI.
The Layer method `frame_key_at` previously private was set to public.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110649
The Repeat Zone operator from the Geometry nodes Add Node -> Utilities
menu was not translated because it used the "Operator" translation
context, instead of the default context.
Since the function displaying the menu item, `add_repeat_zone()`, is
only ever called from the Utilities menu, and the label is specified
there as "Repeat Zone", we know in advance that it will have this
name.
For the same reason, this commit also simplifies the function which
creates the menu entry for simulation zones. This function is also
only called from the Simulation menu with a specific label using the
default context, so it should also use this one.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110644
Use instead of "'%s'" to avoid problems in the unlikely instance of
the strings containing characters that need escaping.
Also use a ternary operator instead of indexing a tuple.
Prefer the more generic exception type as it's possible exceptions
derive from this and not "Exception".
Also use the name 'ex' for exceptions instead of 'e'.
Dynamic topology drawing can now use the smooth status saved in each
edge. Because of that, the "Smooth Shading" draw option is unnecessary
and just adds confusion because of inconsistency between dynamic
topology drawing and other modes.
Fixes#109191
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110548
## Overview
Much like node groups, or a VSE clip, when we duplicate we actually want a _linked_ duplicate. This PR updates the NLA key board for Duplicate linked to `Shift + D`, and Duplicate to `Alt + D`.
Additionally, update Tool tips to reflect duplicate vs linked duplicate.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110316
This implements the main aspects of changes to blendfile compatibility
as designed in #109151:
* Blender files which file minversion is newer than current Blender
executable won't be loaded at all.
* Blender files which file version is newer than current Blender will
triger systematic warning to user:
* In the status info bar (lower right corner in default UI).
* When attempting to save (overwrite) them.
This means that the file minversion becomes a hard limit, and not a
soft, warning-only as it used to be. Further more, forward compatibility
warning is now systematic (instead of depending on file minversion),
and more visible for users.
See also https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Compatibility_Handling
for details over the new policy.
Technically:
* Opening any file with a minversion newer than current Blender file one
now triggers an early abort, with an error message reported to the user.
This is handled by a new utils called from `blo_decode_and_check`.
* Any file newer than current Blender version sets a new
`has_forward_compatibility_issues` flag in Main struct at read time.
* Status bar info area is turned into a template, which uses this flag
to display special warning UI and tooltip when set.
* A new confirmation popup appears when user tries to save (overwrite)
such a 'newer' blendfile, stating potential loos of data, and
proposing by default to 'save as' instead.
* The 'quit unsaved' popup has also been updated to 'save as' instead of
'save' when the edited file is has potential forward compitibility
issues.
Part of #109151 (PR !110109).
Loading a blend file with unknown regions would raise an exception.
Also remove exception where channels were skipped when the attribute
isn't found as it's no longer needed.
When pressing N-key a pie menu is shown which can toggle regions,
typically the toolbar, sidebar and the header.
This supports toggling regions without having to add a separate shortcut
for each one.
The pie menu locations selected based on the region alignment.
See #107785.
In order to avoid navigation hotkey conflicts during transform
operations, this commit implements the "Transform Navigation with Alt"
option.
This option is enabled by default and makes navigation hotkeys require
the `Alt` key during a transforming in the 3D View.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109754
This replaces the trilinear interpolation with manually
placed samples to avoid most light leak.
Add two new parameters to bias the sampling position:
- Normal bias
- View bias
Move the irradiance smoothing parameter per grid.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110312
Implementation of the hard eraser for grease pencil.
The tool "cuts" the strokes, meaning it removes points that are inside the eraser's radius, while adding points at intersections between the eraser and the strokes.
Note that this does not implement the "Stroke" and "Dissolve" mode of the eraser yet.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110063
This patch merges the two operators `Push Pose from Rest Pose`
and `Relax Pose from Rest Pose` into one
new operator `Blend Pose with Rest Pose`
The operator has a default range of -1/1 with a default of 0.
The functionality of `Relax Pose from Rest Pose` is on the positive axis
and `Push Pose from Rest Pose` on the negative.
This is a breaking change so ideal for 4.0
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108309
Adds the UI for layer opacity in the layer panel.
Currently layer blending rendering is not implemented, so the last layer's opacity will affect all of the layers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110177
The maximum OpenGL versions supported on mac
doesn't meet the minimum required version (>=4.3) anymore.
This removes all the OpenGL paths in GHOST
Cocoa backend and from the drop down menu in
the user preferences.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110185
Implementation of the smoothing operator for grease pencil strokes.
Works on `CurvesGeometry` position and other attributes, such as radius.
Based on the gaussian blur like algorithm in `BKE_gpencil_stroke_smooth_point` by Henrik Dick.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109635
This PR introduces baking reflective light from light probes. Light probes
are baked on the fly when the light probe data has changed. It doesn't update
directly when other scene data is changed in the viewport.
When doing image rendering the light probes are updated on each frame.
Currently the world probe and closest reflection probe are composited
together in shader. This allows different resolutions. We expect that we
eventually composite it before usage. This would improve the performance.
Unclear if we would support both compositing options eventually.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109909
Implements the Butterworth Filter
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth_filter) for smoothing FCurves.
This filter is ideal for smoothing dense data, like motion capture recordings.
It has the advantage of keeping the shape of the curve
intact while reducing minimal fluctuations.
The disadvantage is the impulse response has a twang,
meaning extreme spikes cause fluctuations to either side.
The implementation is based on the GPL code found here:
https://exstrom.com/journal/sigproc/dsigproc.html
In order to avoid phase shifting, the filter is run forward and backward,
effectively doubling the filter order.
The Redo panel offers the following options
* Frequency Cutoff: 0-n value, where 0 means it cuts everything
so the curve will become straight, the max value is the Nyquist frequency
and depends on the frame rate and the "Samples per Frame" option
* Filter Order: Higher values mean the frequency cutoff is steeper
* Samples per Frame: Before the filter is applied, the curve is resampled
at this interval to avoid errors when there are uneven spaces between frames.
If the keys are on subframes, e.g. a 60fps file in a 30fps scene, increase this value to 2
* Blend: 0-1 value to blend between the original curve and the filter result
* Blend In/Out: The number of frames at the start and end for which
to blend between the filtered and unfiltered curve.
This can help reduce any resulting jumps in the animation at the selection border
The operator can be called from the Key menu. (Key->Smooth->Butterworth Smooth)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106952
Move the node previews to the overlay region, atop each node.
It allows nodes to keep the same size when the preview is toggled,
which is more convenient for large nodes and large nodetrees.
The preview has to be drawn from `node_draw_extra_info_panel`
because there could be overlapping between info text and the preview.
When the node is out of the view, it also has to make sure that the
preview is also out of the view before exiting the draw function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108001
