this is part 1 of the UI makeover. It has:
- menu system from Matt integrated
- buttons drawing from Matt
- generic button panel system implemented
- converted displaybuttons (not the rest yet)
- cleaned up a lot in drawing spaces itself, to make it aligned and pixel exact.
- cleaned loads of little compiler warnings, protos...
still a lot of work needed, will all be in next week i hope!
(warn: 2 new c files! butspace.c and buttons_scene.c)
Multiple environments now can be rendered in one pass. Previously the other objects with environment maps didn't show up in a reflection. Like this:
http://www.blender.org/bf/dep.jpg
By default, Blender renders now this result:
http://www.blender.org/bf/dep0.jpg
For a further 'recursive ray-tracing effect' you can give each EnvMap texture a higher "Depth" value. Here is a result with depth set at '2':
http://www.blender.org/bf/dep2.jpg
Related new options:
- in (F10) DisplayButtons, environment map rendering can be turned on and off.
- in EnvMap texture buttons you can free all environment maps
- Environment map sizes are also reduced with the (F10) 'percentage' option.
Tech note: with this commit the VlakRen struct has on *ob pointer!
- added new MetaElem types (plane, elipsoid and cube) old TubeX, TubeY and TubeZ will not be supported
- new buttons in Edit button window (dx, dy, dz)
- added new items into the headers menu and toolbox menu
more details at: http://blender.webpark.cz
- the link order for Blender has changed, the libradiosity.a has to be moved after the librender.a (obviously for a new dependency!). Check blender/source/Makefile
- there's a new file: blender/source/radiosity/intern/source/radrender.c
Here's what the new code does:
Using the core routines of the Radiosity tool, each renderface with 'emit material' and each renderface with 'radio material flag' set will be used to itterate to a global illumination solution. Per face with high energy (emit) little images are rendered (hemicubes) which makes up lookup tables to 'shoot' its energy to other faces.
In the end this energy - color - then is directly added to the pixel colors while rendering, Gouraud shaded.
Since it's done with renderfaces, it works for all primitives in Blender.
What is doesn't do yet:
- take into account textured color of faces. Currently it uses the material RGB color for filtering distributed energy.
- do some smart pre-subdividing. I don't know yet if this is useful... Right now it means that you'll have to balance the models yourself, to deliver small faces where you want a high accuracy for shadowing.
- unified render (is at my todo list)
User notes:
- per Material you want to have included in radiosity render: set the 'radio' flag. For newly added Materials it is ON by default now.
- the Ambient slider in Material controls the amount of radiosity color.
- for enabling radiosity rendering, set the F10 "Radio" button.
- the Radiosity buttons now only show the relevant radiosity rendering options. Pressing "collect meshes" will show all buttons again.
- for meshes, the faces who use Radio material always call the 'autosmooth' routine, this to make sure sharp angles (like corners in a room) do not have shared vertices. For some smooth models (like the raptor example) you might increase the standard smoothing angle from 30 to 45 degree.
Technical notes:
- I had to expand the renderface and rendervertices for it... shame on me! Faces have one pointer extra, render vertices four floats...
- The size of the hemicubes is now based at the boundbox of the entire scene (0.002 of it). This should be more reliable... to be done
- I fixed a bug in radiosity render, where sometimes backfaces where lit
In general:
I'd like everyone to play a bit with this system. It's not easy to get good results with it. A simple "hit and go" isn't there... maybe some good suggestions?
outside of the old boundbox of the Object.
it's a small fix, the code is still commented in... need further
work to find out why sometimes balls disappear
- the plane has a material
- material has texture
- scene has a world
- default set 'draw faces' and 'draw edges'
that last one for the noobies, to prevent them complaining!
- added a note in interface.c about the new api doc
- forgot to commit blender.c, for setting the G.f from the file
(this will save faceselect and vertexpaint mode too)
do a make clean in source/blender/ to be sure!
- Included the new shaders from Cessen... well, only the shader calls
themselves. To make sure the shaders work I nicely integrated it
- MaterialButtons: layout changed a bit, but still resembles the old
layout. The 'shader' options now are located together.
- Shaders are separated in 'diffuse' and 'specular'. You can combine them
freely.
- diffuse Lambert: old shader
diffuse Oren Nayar: new shader, gives sandy/silky/skinny material well
diffuse Toon: for cartoon render
- specular Phong: new spec, traditional 70ies spec
specular CookTorr: a reduced version of cook torrance shading, does
off specular peak well
specular Blinn: new spec, same features as CookTorr, but with extra
'refraction' setting
specular Toon: new spec for cartoon render
- default blender starts with settings that render compatible!
- works in shaded view and preview-render
- works in unified render
Further little changes:
- removed paranoia compile warnings from render/loader/blenlib
- and the warnings at files I worked at were removed.
(Some of the audio features do a version check in do_versions
(usiblender.c, readfile.c) and depend on this to convert fields in older
(<2.28) files).
I also removed the "2.27.Newpy.1" line from headerbuttons.c, it now shows
"www.blender.org 228" again.
it needs tests... just a simple cube with sides texmapped. and then
import to whatever vrml viewer or importer you have around.
the trick lies in adding textureCoordIndex nodes to file.
This enables Blender to;
- have scenes with different codec settings. (same as avicodec)
- render directly without dialog.
- batch/background render to Quicktime movies.
Only tested on windows. ;)
parse the vector data. Freetype2 supports many font formats
including Type1, TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Enable with the WITH_FREETYPE2 compile flag, in the
source/blender/blenkernel and source/blender/blenlib dirs.
This code allows you to load Quicktime images and movies as textures
and render animations to Quicktime movies.
Note that the selected output codec is *not* saved in the blendfile.
To enable Quicktime functionality you need the SDK from Apple:
OSX: ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/QT6SDK_Mac.hqx
Win: ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/QT6SDK_Win.hqx
Add the \QTDevWin\CIncludes and \QTDevWin\Libraries directories
from this SDK to your build environment.
Enable the WITH_QUICKTIME compile flag in the following directories:
bf\blender\source\blender\imbuf
bf\blender\source\blender\src
bf\blender\source\blender\render
bf\blender\source\creator
in readfile.c I renamed some localvars that were named main to mainl in
a couple of functions.
in action.c I initalized a var to 0. This is probably not needed but
its a little safer incase someone adds more modes...
I've included a diff of this last one below.
Kent
Index: action.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs01/blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/action.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 action.c
--- action.c 2002/11/25 12:01:52 1.6
+++ action.c 2002/12/20 02:06:27
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
){
bConstraint *dcon;
const bConstraint *scon;
- float dstweight;
+ float dstweight = 0;
switch (mode){
case POSE_BLEND:
(adding)
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif
also the Makefile.in's were from previous patch adding
the system depend stuff to configure.ac
Kent
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