* "Make fur" now creates a basic fur material for each object (smaller strand tip width and a little bit of surface diffuse)
* If fluid/smoke emitters aren't rendered the objects are also set to draw only in wire mode so that the fluid/smoke can be clearly seen.
* simplify export and import, now that we have blender profiles for lights. The vanilla import is now more in line with the specs. If a blender profile is found, skip normal import, use the profile data instead.
* multiply energy into color rgb export (common profile).
* recalc distance taking metrics in account
* A couple of operators to quickly create effects that would otherwise take some time to set up.
* Nice to use for demoing functionality or as a starting point for more complex effects.
* "Make Fur" - Gives every selected mesh object particle fur with a desired density and length.
* "Make Smoke" - Makes each selected object a smoke emitter and creates a new domain object around the emitters with the correct material to render the smoke.
** Has style options for "stream": constant smoke flow, "puff": only create smoke once from the volume of the emitter object, "fire": enable high resolution smoke and set a secondary fire color texture for the domain object.
* "Make Fluid" - Makes every selected object a fluid object (normal/inflow) and has the option to start fluid baking immediately.
* This should provide a nice base for extending these / adding more operators for different effects.
provided by Mike Sloman
from the patch report:
When building on Mac OSX with SCONS the Info.plist file is zero length and thus OSX cannot identify icons and file type associations.
The problems was in the execution of the "date" command to add times in the modified bundle name strings passed to sed. This failed and thus the info.plist file was overwritten with 0 length file.
Noted that a floating point exception caused by this r28953.
With the render engine using DerivedMesh normals this came up as a memory error when rendering some files.
for now zero the normals, could interpolate between vertex normals if needed.
* Too strict poll functions for render & display panels.
* Like said in the report cache & vertex groups are a part of the particle system (not particle settings) they can't be shown when the settings are pinned.
submitted by Tom Edwards
Fix [#25473] 64bit Windows installer for version 2.56 is not working
patch submitted by Caleb (Dobz)
The thumbnail patch adds a thumb handler DLL that adds .blend thumbnail support in Windows Explorer. A -r option is added to do registration in background. The patch also improves icon building and metadata for blender.exe.
Caleb fixes and cleans up our installer to an acceptable state. The patch uses the new -r option to do the .blend extension and thumbnailer registration.
Thanks to both Caleb and Tom for their efforts!
Missing null check for "improper" driver variables.
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Also, this commit includes some WIP NLA evaluation reshuffling which
should be harmless. I had originally intended this for a later
commit...
Bone Color Sets weren't set in the call used here. This seems to be a
newish operator that didn't exist in the past, so this error didn't
really show up in the past.
Gave the report-timer (in top header) an own TIMER define, to not
confuse with timers in use for UI. Easier for debugging. :)
Also gave better malloc names to regions in 3d window.
All this for testing proper buffer drawing in Intel cards... which
is still unsolved.
reported by Keith Boshoff (Wahooney)
Instead of a confusing backtrace popup, tell the user the image editor cannot be found, and where to set the path to it.
