the tooltip of the To: field of a message actuator was saying that
messages will only be sent to objects with a property of that name,
while in fact it was sent to objects with that name.
Unfortunately, the GameKit (and probably other documentation, too)
is wrong about this as well.
corrected the tooltip to reflect what's actually happening
friends with a group-malloc system would speedup. That wasn't...
While doing this I noticed such mess... so spent a while cleaning things
a bit:
- all malloc() replaced with MEM_mallocN()
(this except for vertices/edges/faces, for speed)
- unified free_xx names, this was too confusing! so now we have:
free_editvert()
free_editedge()
free_editvlak()
free_vertlist()
free_edgelist()
free_vlaklist()
and only very few calls to free() and alloc() themselves.
- AO energy slider to control amount
- option "Use sky color" for colored AO. The horizon color will define
bottom diffuse color, the zenith works on top
- option "Use sky texture" will do a full sky render to define AO color
Please note that AO energy and color only is found when a ray does not
intersect. So for interior scenes make sure 'Dist' value is sufficient
low.
New also is:
- World "Map input" allows "Ang Map" (Angular mapping) which can be used
for 360 degree spherical maps, aka as Light Probes. Check samples here:
http://www.debevec.org/Probes/
Note that Blender doesn't support HDRI images yet, but option "Use sky tex"
already gives intersting results with such images
- World sky rendering with Image Textures now correctly filters and uses
antialiasing. Also noticable for raytrace mirror reflections
- World preview render for sky type "Real" now gives correct view as
defined by current used camera.
I tried to speed up AO tracing with coherence systems, none of it really
worked yet... time to tackle octree itself i guess!
Selection in the NLA window was often offset due to bad handling of
constraint channels (whatever the heck they are) and such.
Thanks to malefico and slikdigit for example blends.
In buttons_object panels, there was an old check for used library data
that evaluated data linked on objects, instead of object.
Restored it to checking for ob->id.lib only.
BTW: the setButLock() is persistant, and should be reset after.
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1145&group_id=9&atid=125
I changed the fbutton function to give the possibility to control the a1 and a2 parameters of the button.
This commit also fixes two things in the bevel function:
- The numbut didn't do anything because it wasn't recalculating the proper variable
- The display wasn't recalculated when pressing Ctrl or Shift (it's now done by recalculating after every keyboard event. I've done it this way since the event loops seems to skip CTRL and SHIFT events)
When more than 30 scenes are in a scene, the sequencer "Add" option didnt
show a databrowse window.
This was a nasty one, because databrowse facilities are more-of tied to
having a header. The fix is that I added option to IDnames_to_pupstring()
to not limit the menu (by passing NULL for menu short pointer).
Also noticed a bug with pupmenu_col(), which did return on a val==0 event
(mouse release) which shouldn't be, this makes sequences of menus not
possible.
Saving images from UV editing window was confused... initially I thought
it only used the same format as input image, but it did use the same
as F10 buttons specified, sorta. Fixes include:
- BIF_write_ibuf() now uses current Scene renderdata to check for
image type (it checked the global R struct instead, which is only
set correct after render)
- Fileselector now gives correct title in bar (like "SAVE TARGA")
- Pulldown menu in UV window now always gives the "Save" option
- removed the weird usage of BTST() to check for flags, and made it
using the #defines instead for readability
In Mesh editmode, with option "draw faces", hiding 1 vertex of a quad
doesn't always result in not drawing the face. Only 3 out of 4 vertices
were tested.
When choosing 'International fonts' this variable was not reset
when loading .B.blend again with CTRL+X.
Move the check for this to read_homefile() instead of init() call.
When you use arrow keys to activate items in a menu (like IKEY for Ipos)
the selected items were not correctly choosen when mousepointer was over
an item, only when mousepointer over title.
Fixed by catching 'RETKEY' event in buttons event subloop.
Animated metaballs didn't update correctly when changing frame, this when
they were parented (for example) to an object with Ipo.
The fix consists of three things:
- the test_displist() call doesn't remake displist anymore, but frees it.
this works, because when drawing an mball object it checks for a displist
and creates one when needed
- the main drawing routine drawview3d() now has a separate loop where first
all objects are updated with where_is_object(), then they're drawn.
This effectively solves lag for mballs. Might improve other lags too!
- included in NumPad-9 call to test_displist() too, to force a full upgraded
3d view
Solved by Styken, thanks dude!
the winqreadtextspace() function wants CTRL/ALT events, but also should
accept special characters that are sometimes behind an ALT on certain
keyboards (like [ ] in sweden).
In the old code all ALT events caused ascii to set on zero. Now it
checks first for ispunct() chars.
This more of a quality issue... changes now are:
- in (ortho) 3d view, changing window aspect keeps zooming
level (it zoomed out with extreme portrait aspect)
- pressing 'home' in 3d window now shows all with extreme aspect ratios too
Logic buttons have not been Panelized (will be difficult, dont try!) so
the 'Home' and automatic view-limits didn't work it anymore.
This caused logic blocks not being accessible by scrolling window.
Fixed by updating the code that sets view limits.
When editing a Curve object, type Poly, some code still thought it was
a Nurbs instead, doing nasty stuff with knots arrays.
Also fixed redraw events for buttons while editing Curve, this wasn't
done properly at all, causing the UI showing non-existant data...
- Ambient Occlusion is a more sophisticated ambient trick, which takes
nearby faces into account by firing a hemisphere of shadow-rays
around. AKA 'dirt shader'.
- Eeshlo made it a Lamp type, which doesn't fit well. I've moved the
settings to the World menu, and let the Material->ambient value control
the amount it contributes
- currently, the AO value is added/subtracted/mixed with the 'diffuse'
factor while shading, before it is multiplied with Material color
Buttons are in new Panel 'Amb Occ" in F8 menu. Note:
- "Dist:" by shortening the length of rays you get subtler effects and it
renders faster too
- "DistF:" the attennuation factor gives control over how the 'shadow'
spreads out.
Further it's just raytracing, so tends to be slooooow.... :)
Here same tricks as for other raytraced scenes apply, especially try to
keep the environment as small as possible (exclude faces from Octree by
giving them no Material Traceable).
I still have to think over a couple of aspects, will await feedback on it:
- AO color? Now it just adds 'white'
- other sampling patterns? I tried dithering, which was so-so
- method of controlling final 'samples' in F10? Might be useful for other
oversampling too (area light) to have it reacting to a percentage or so..
In Faceselect Mode, in the Face menu, Copy Vertexcolors, Copy UVs & Textures
and Copy Drawmode did not work.
Also fixed some menu entries redrawing the logic buttons window instead of the
edit buttons window.
changed sprintf (var, "blahhh %"); to sprintf(var, "blahhh %%");
and initilized a questionable variable to NULL.
drawd should be looked at to see if there is ever a time it might not
be initalized and if so what would be a good default? 1?
I left this one, but if I had to guess I'd initalize it to 1.
Kent
multiple functions and partially recoded. Because now all the uv mapping
settings are accessible throught the panel, no popus will be shown when
pressing 'U' to unwrap faces in face select mode. Also From Window to Cylinder
and From Window to Shpere became obsolete, as you can set this in the new
panel.
The panel contains buttons for all the existing uv mapping modes, and the
following settings:
- Cube size: For Cubical unwrapping.
- Radius: Radius for Cylindrical unwrapping.
- View Aligns Face, View Aligns Top, Align to Object: For Cylinder and Shpere.
Respectively means you are in front of the Cylinder/Sphere, look through the
Cylinder, or use the object rotation to determine how the cylinder is
positioned (old Cylindrical unwrapping).
- Polar XZ, Polar XY: With 'View Aligns Top' enabled, defines at which polar
you are looking.
- No Edges, Draw Edges, All Edges: Draw no edges, draw edges z-buffered on top,
draw all edges, without depth test.
All credits for this part (and also at least half of the other UV editor
improvements) go to Jens Ole Wund aka "bjornmose".
Sticky UVs: Ctrl+C
Local Stikcy UVs: Shift+C
Active Face Select: C
Constrained Scaling / Grabbing in the UV editor. Press XKEY or YKEY to scale
or move only in X or Y direction. XKEY and YKEY previously did mirroring while
scaling. Now mirroring can be done using the MKEY.
Grab, Rotate, Scale, Weld / Align and Mirror were added to a new Transform
sub-menu of the UVs menu.
The png file containing the icons, 'blenderbuttons', was updated to contain
these new icons. It now also contains the icons from the 2.30 ui makeover.
The file had not been updated since then.
When you try to SHIFT+F1 Link a file, but accidentally choose the current
file, the error handling didn't immediately close the file. That can give
problems with saving over with CTRL+W.
Fix is that filesel.c now prevents selecting the current file.
- Added vertex_loop_select to bif_editmesh.h (gave a warning)
- Re-added "Get Same Uv" feature. this selects all faces that have the same uv-texture as the active face. it's placed in the Select headermenu while in faceselect mode.
Basically this provides three new things:
1. Choice of a list of noise-base functions, which can be used by the
current Clouds, Marble, Wood textures as well.
2. Three new texture types: Musgrave, Voronoi and DistortedNoise
3. Python access to noise functions (not for render!)
All of this together makes Blender's builtin procedural textures a LOT
more powerful. Here again, a full webpage should be made to show off all
possibilities, and explain some of the more scientific names for settings.
A good read on Musgrave textures can be found here:
http://www.ypoart.com/Downloads/Musgrave.htm
About Voronoi:
http://www.ypoart.com/Downloads/Worley.htm
I can't find official DistortedNoise docs easily... maybe its something
Eeshlo created himself.
I've spent some time to change the patch Eeshlo provided. Worth noting:
- created main texture "Musgrave" with 5 sub choices (instead of 5 new
main textures)
- added for all new textures the option to scale (zoom in out)
- added patch in do_versions to initialize variables
I hope the Python team will check on the Noise.c API. And include in docs!
&wrld->physicsEngine instead of a pointer to a short.
car: please rebuild and test.
Kester: please check the entries/values in the physics menu (they
differ from the values in tuhopuu).
reason is that raytrace code doesnt like shadow on backfacing faces
at all. the hemi light is omni-directional, and would need a shadow
calculation to mimic this as well. the new 'Ambient Occlusion' patch
will make that possible.
- Draw Faces in the UV editor
- Draw Faces, selected in the UV editor, in the 3D view
- Draw Shadow Mesh in the UV editor (for faces unselected in the 3D view)
- Select Linked UVs (LKEY)
- Unlink Selection (Alt+LKEY)
- Stick (Local) UVs to Mesh Vertex on selection
- Active Face Select
- Reload Image
- Show / Hide Faces in the UV editor (H, Shift+H, Alt+H)
- Proportional Editing (O, Shift+O)
- Stitch, Limit Stitch UVs (snap by mesh vertex)
- Weld / Align UVs (WKEY)
- UVs Snap to Pixels on/off switch
- RMB in Texture Paint or Vertex Paint mode picks color
- Select Inverse in Faceselect mode
I hope these are all the features that were commited. The new UV Mapping
panel (and code) will follow later.
