to finetune deform further as well.
Note that curve deform requires object buttons 'track' and 'up' axes set
properly. Curve deform can twist/flip a lot, making Vertex Group based
deform hard to set up.
The "Use VGroup" or "Use Envelope" options now are in Modifier Panel
for Armature deform.
If Modifiers are in use, they override the Armature settings for it.
(Cannot get rid of the Armature panel options yet, since Blender still
allows parenting to be deforming too, which is displayed as a Virtual
modifier now)
This now allows to - for example - make a Envelope deform on a Lattice,
and have same Armature use vertexgroups on Mesh.
Next; vertexgroup option for Lattice & Curve deform
is a modifier only (Armature not parented to Mesh).
Note; if multiple Modifier/Armatures work, it uses only the first still.
- Armature option 'draw axes' now scales axes to 0.25 of bone length.
windows. If set (in View pulldown), it synchronizes the horizontal scale of
the current window with the other Windows with this option set. That way
you always have these windows showing an identical part of the time you
work on.
Also added because Action Window now displays its content relative to
NLA strips.
functionality for the UV editor:
* A "Select->Pinned UVs" command (Shift P) that
selects all the visible pinned UVs
* A "Select->Border Select Pinned" tool (Shift B) that
works just like the normal border select tool, but only acts on pinned UVs
This is really useful when using LSCM, I only want to
touch the pinned UVs and then recalculate.
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Mesh_Ripping.712.0.html
This tool allows to insert gaps/seams in a Mesh, based on the selection
(1 vertex or a row of edges) and the position of the mouse (to indicate
the part that gets grabbed). Shortcut: Vkey.
Special Orange request!
- new methods from NMesh (transform, getFromObject, findEdges)
- new methods for deleting groups of verts, edges and faces
- new methods for accessing mesh editing tools: fill, flipNormals,
recalcNormals, remDoubles, smooth, subdivide, toSphere
- Added PVertType to Types module (not my favorite name; any suggestions?)
- added redraw of Oops/Outliner on selecting in Databrowse
- Ipo Record in ipo window had copy paste error, causing in potential mem
errors
- Ipo Record now creates a new Ipo again
Fixed bugreport on crashing vertex duplicators in editmode. Apparently it
was not coded with new mesh/modifier support. And now it does, quite fun!
One day picture for quick people:
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg
Daniel; could you check the commit diff below?
Materials; using "Stencil" option, didn't work properly for multiply, and
other related filters. This is a very old issue, but now I found the good
way to fix it! :)
it and reload. I could fix the crash quickly, but it still gives not freed
memory errors.
More important; this code is VERY BAD! Not sure who added all this *goto*
stuff, but it's not acceptable code that way... (kernel, font.c)
The hacks in editfont.c are very bad too. I really hope Alexander and/or
Mika will clean up before we officially release!
- Discombobulator by Evan R and DirectX8 Exporter by Ben Omari.
BPython:
- Crashed Blender while testing discombobulator: obj.setMaterials() was not checking if the passed obj had valid obj->data. If the object had been created and not linked yet to a mesh, a crash would happen when trying to sync ob and me material lists. Now an error is returned. Also made obj.setMaterials accept an empty list, since obj.getMaterials can return that.
Thanks to the script authors for the updated versions and special thanks to Tom (LetterRip) for collecting info about updated and new scripts, sending me updates I had missed, etc.
A large chunk of documentation goodness from Campbell Barton (ideasman).
Thanks!
Note that any mispellings, errors, or inconsistencies are due to
my ham-fisted editing.
- test build alpha splash
- version update to 239 in code
- release names are 2.40-alpha1
Note about release names; this is really an alpha still, not a release
candidate, so cannot call it 2.40-pre either.
Naming conventions is a discussion still... hope this works as a compromise
for now.
- implemented slice operations (get/set) for vertex list; allows script
writers to manipulate lists of vertices (using 'thick' vertices)
- fixed problem in mesh.faces.extend() which allowed the creation of
"Eeekadoodle" faces
- added mesh.update() method; (possibly) temporary fix to allow updating DAG
- updating some bundled scripts, thanks to authors Jean-Michel Soler, Campbell Barton and Anthony D'Agostino.
BPython:
- removing wrong fix from BGL.c's glDrawPixels.
note: applied guitargeek's setName patch to Blender.Key, but saw that he updated it with more functionality and assigned to stivs, so I won't commit this old version.
When using vertex weight groups to control Shapes, the vertexgroup also
worked when no IpoCurve was assigned to channel (channel defaulting to 1).
This now only works with a Pinned Shape. For relative key situations it was
not useful. :)
-> Note; added 2 new c files (split editipo.c). MSVC needs upgrade.
Impatient people can check the goodies in CMS:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Action_and_NLA_editor.706.0.html
Most work was on trying to unwind the spaghetti for editing ipos. Too much
history and bad design got added here. Most evident changes:
- made generic 'context' for detecting which Ipo is being edited, or to
assign ipos or to retrieve ipo curves.
- made generic insertkey() for all ipo types, including actions
- shuffled a lot of code around to make things more logical. Also made
sure local functions are not exported
It is far from ready... when action/nla was added in Blender, a lot of
duplicate code was generated. That's for another time.
Now the goodies;
- made Actions to allow any Ipo type
- made NLA to define active actions, for Action window too
- corrected timing for active action, so it shows the 'real time', as
defined in NLA editor.
I did update python code, but that would require testing. Testing is
needed for this commit in general, too many changes happened on all
levels of the animation system. :)
Will keep track of all reports this evening, hopefully it doesnt break
the pre-release schedule!
in this case only the new blenderdummy.cpp and utilities.cpp have to be compiled
- restructured gui:
* domain options split up into 2 sections
* added compressibility and refinement settings
* added inflow/outflow object types
- increased progress bar by 1
