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?
(mesh or lattice) RVK IpoCurves: support currently includes:
- RVK sliders. Pressing the little triangle next to
the word 'sliders' in the channel names opens them up.
- NKEY in the area where the key block names are allows the
user to change the name of the keyblock, and the max and min
values of the RVK sliders.
- ability to visualize the keyframes for the IpoCurves when
the object is selected.
- right mouse can be used to select the keys
- border select in the main area can be used to border
select keys.
- AKEY selects/deselects all of the keys
- GKEY and SKEY can be used to grab or scale the key
selections.
- XKEY deletes the selected keys.
- DKEY duplicated the selected keys.
- VKEY, HKEY and shift-HKEY change the bezier handles for
the selected keys.
Please, please, please test!
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.
size of this;
Finally, the Sequencer audio support and global audio/animation sync stuff!
(See http://intrr.org/blender/audiosequencer.html)
Stuff that has been done:
./source/blender/blenloader/intern/writefile.c
./source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
Added code to make it handle sounds used by audio strips, and to convert
Scene data from older (<2.28) versions to init Scene global audio settings
(Scene->audio) to defaults.
./source/blender/include/BSE_seqaudio.h
./source/blender/src/seqaudio.c
The main audio routines that start/stop/scrub the audio stream at
a certain frame position, provide the frame reference for the current
stream position, mix the audio, convert the audio, mixdown the audio
into a file.
./source/blender/makesdna/DNA_sound_types.h
Introduced new variables in the bSound struct to accomodate the sample
data after converted to the scene's global mixing format (stream, streamlen).
Also added a new flag SOUND_FLAGS_SEQUENCE that gets set if the Sound
belongs to a sequence strip.
./source/blender/makesdna/DNA_scene_types.h
Added AudioData struct, which holds scene-global audio settings.
./source/blender/makesdna/DNA_sequence_types.h
Added support for audio strips. Some variables to hold Panning/Attenuation
information, position information, reference to the sample, and some flags.
./source/blender/makesdna/DNA_userdef_types.h
./source/blender/src/usiblender.c
Added a "Mixing buffer size" userpref. Made the versions stuff initialize
it to a default for versions <2.28.
./source/blender/makesdna/DNA_space_types.h
./source/blender/src/filesel.c
Added a Cyan dot to .WAV files. Any other suggestions on a better color? :)
./source/blender/src/editsound.c
Changes (fixes) to the WAV file loader, re-enabled some gameengine code that
is needed for dealing with bSounds and bSamples.
./source/blender/src/editipo.c
./source/blender/src/drawseq.c
./source/blender/src/editnla.c
./source/blender/src/space.c
./source/blender/src/drawview.c
./source/blender/src/renderwin.c
./source/blender/src/headerbuttons.c
- Created two different wrappers for update_for_newframe(), one which scrubs
the audio, one which doesn't.
- Replaced some of the occurences of update_for_newframe() with
update_for_newframe_muted(), which doesn't scrub the audio.
- In drawview.c: Changed the synchronization scheme to get the current audio
position from the audio engine, and use that as a reference for setting
CFRA. Implements a/v sync and framedrop.
- In editipo.c: Changed handling of Fac IPOs to be usable for audio strips as
volume envelopes.
- In space.c: Added the mixing buffer size Userpref, enabled audio scrubbing
(update_for_newframe()) for moving the sequence editor framebar.
./source/blender/src/editseq.c
Added support for audio strips and a default directory for WAV files which
gets saved from the last Shift-A operation.
./source/blender/src/buttons.c
Added Scene-global audio sequencer settings in Sound buttons.
./source/blender/src/sequence.c
Various stuff that deals with handling audio strips differently than
usual strips.
Florian Eggenburger).
Full instructions are in doc/README.windows-gcc.
Main differences from Florian's patch:
- the 'lib' dir should now be the same level as the 'blender' dir (rather
than being a subdir of 'blender'). This is consistent with the other
platforms that bf-blender supports (tuhopuu will also adopt this convention
hopefully soon).
- the script 'free_windows-env.mk' is no longer needed ... see the
docs about how this is overcome (again, tuhopuu will hopefully
also follow this route soon).
- the dlltool dir has it's own Makefile that builds all of the
needed stub libraries from the dll's in cvs.
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. ;)
All modifications are behind compileflag INTERNATIONAL,
and affect these two directories; source/blender/src and
source/blender/ftfont.
Thanks to philipp, a new utf8towchar() function is added
to Shizu's work, which fixes the international support for
OSX. It also makes the iconv library obsolete. This means
all translation files (blender.mo) need to be 'recoded' to
UTF-8, and language support in the fileselect window and
the text editor is not possible. Iconv might be added in
the future to enable these features.
Redesigned the userpreference window layout. (not finished yet)
Enhanced the texteditor with; a rightmousemenu, clipboard text
support (for windows !) and the alt-m keystroke generates a 3d
text object. (up to 1000 characters)
(1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 from http://www.tncci.com/blender/feats.html)
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
the wireframe after drawing the model in solid/shaded/textured mode.
The user can set this per object using the "Wire" button in the
edit buttons window.
doing the bulk of the work when he added the button).
The new x-ray button is added in the edit buttons when
the armature is selected. (suggested by ztonzy)
source/blender/makesdna/intern/dna.c
This should fix the segfault at startup for non-x86 systems (tested on
linux/ppc and linux/x86). I would be glad if someone could check
if it works on other systems as well.
sgefant
(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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mein@cs.umn.edu
