Remove the use_attribute_storage_write experimental option and always
write in the new format, which is supported by 4.5. The new format is
only used at runtime by point clouds currently but there is no reason
for it to be an option at this point.
This is a second commit repeating 84212bae4b
after that was reverted. Issues that came up with Grease Pencil writing
have been resolved in the meantime.
Change the maximum data-block name from 64 to 256 bytes by increasing MAX_ID_NAME value.
Also increase a few related non-ID data name max size, essentially the action slots identifiers, as these are the primary key used to match an Action's slot to an ID by name.
Other sub-data (bones, modifiers, etc.) lengths are not modified here, as these can be made actual dynamic strings in the future, while keeping (a reasonable level of) forward compatibility, during the course of Blender 5 release cycles.
Implements #137608.
Co-authored-by: Bastien Montagne <bastien@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137196
This patch removes the Dot output from the Normal node. This previously
computed negative the dot product of the normalized inputs. We are
removing it because we now have a Vector Math node that can compute the
dot product, and because it output is confusing, considering it computes
the negative of the product and it implicitly normalized the input.
The node was moved to the input category, and might be later extended to
allow normal picking from the scene or normal passes.
Fixed#132770.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140599
Add a footer region which contains essentially the playback and frame
range buttons from the Timeline Editor, to the following editors:
- Dope Sheet
- Graph
- NLA
- Sequencer
Available in the View menu in each editor, hidden by default.
The motivation is to provide a convenient way to access these
often used controls, and in the near future adjust these footers
to add more playback functionality related to each editor.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135697
Remove barely used theme settings for "Navigation Bar" and
"Execution Region".
These properties were only used in two areas, which already had a good
candidate to be replaced with.
Visually it should look exactly the same by default.
Part of #135192, simplifying and cleaning up theme settings.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140352
The grid layout type for UI list is planned for removal in 5.0, see
blender/blender#110461.
In previous UI meetings, we talked about deprecating the Grid mode of
the UI list, which is not actually accessible in UI and was never used.
Nowadays, there is a new grid view that can be exposed in the API in
the future.
Initially, I wanted to remove references to layout_type in UI templates
in the text editor, because a lot of add-on developers on the
extensions platform base their lists on that code, and a lot of them
are therefore including soon to be deprecated code in their add-ons,
which I want to avoid in the future. But I thought we might as well
remove it from our python scripts as well, since it's just basically
redundant code that doesn't do anything. And also because many add-on
developers use bundled python scripts for references as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138395
Currently we have two entries in the Select menu:
- Box Select
- Box Select (Include Handles)
But since b037ba2665, Include Handles is the default, so both entries
behave exactly the same.
To resolve, make it:
- Box Select (Include Handles)
- Box Select
with the second one setting the "include_handles" option to False.
NOTE: behavior of "include_handles" option False might be a bit flaky in
certain situations as well (can be checked later), better to actually
have two entries that represent what the code does.
Noticed while checking on #139314
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139347
Make node headers (or body when collapsed) use the exact theme color
set for that node type, instead of a hardcoded blend between it and the
node backdrop.
This can result in unreadable combinations, but allows more
flexibility and it is consistent with the rest of Blender.
Both dark and light theme defaults have been updated.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140481
The Compositor node tree is no longer embedded in the Scene, so having
its action and slot selector in Scene properties doesn't properly
represent the data model anymore. For example, the node tree could
in theory be shared across multiple scenes as a standard setup in a
project.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140467
Previously there was no way to select/manage the action and slot
assigned to most kinds of node trees. This addresses that oversight.
This applies to all node trees that are not embedded IDs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140347
Remove the `use_attribute_storage_write` experimental option and always
write in the new format, which is supported by 4.5. The new format is
only used at runtime by point clouds currently but there is no reason
for it to be an option at this point.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140284
This is replaced by geometry nodes, where volumes can now be generated from
point clouds and meshes with more control, and more efficient rendering as a
sparse volume.
No backwareds compatibility is provided, as this would be complicated, and
probably this feature was not used much in the past few years.
This node was supported in Cycles only, not by EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140292
This enables the new .blend file format as described in #129309 and implemented
in 6a90382390 by default. This allows storing
blocks larger then 2GB inside the file. This is a necessary requirement to be
able to store e.g. meshes with more than a few hundred million vertices.
There is a new debug option that can be used to force Blender to write the older
file format. This is especially useful when using tools that have not been
updated to be able to read the new format yet.
Compatibility:
* Blender 4.5 is able to read the new format for a few months already, so 4.5
LTS will be able to read these files
(6a90382390).
* The internal `blendfile.py` which is used by `blend2json.py` has been updated
(d83bfee347).
* blender-asset-tracer (BAT) has been updated
(blender/blender-asset-tracer@f1ee7980b2).
* `blend_render_info.py` will be updated soon (#140341).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140343
Clarify the terms for NDOF translation & rotation sensitivity.
Previously translation was named: "ndof_sensitivity" making it
sound like it would control rotation as well.
