Just making sure memory is always allocated and freed in the same
binary object, which seems to be mandatory on msvc if you don't have
the comercial version. If you are using this code you need to
syncronize with yafray cvs also, or it won't work. Binaries for os x
are updated in the link I gave in my last commit.
Needs latest yafray, you can get it from cvs, but I have also binaries
for os x here:
http://www.coala.uniovi.es/~jandro/noname/downloads/yafray-0.0.6-3.pkg.zip
To use it, go to yafray panels (global settings) and uncheck the "xml" button.
That would tell the export code to avoid xml export and use the yafray plugin
instead. You'll see the render being draw while running and you can even stop it
with ESC key.
Since I'm sure problems will appear, expect updates soon.
Remember: does not work on win32
types:
- Continue: is default, old style
- Dolly: is like previous, but not continuous
- Scale: is the new method. Name is based on fact it scales view
PupStrInput, a wrapper for the Blender String popup (thanks!)
- Fixed bug #1374 reported by Gabriel Beloin (gabio, thanks too):
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=125&aid=1374&group_id=9
There was a minor mistake in the import menu: vrml called dxf and vice-versa and shortcuts were wrong (removed them).
- Doc updates, minor updates elsewhere.
Wim Van Hoydonck contributed the famous Knife script (put under Modifiers group) developed by Stefano Selleri and himself (thank to both!)
- Added helper function Blender.sys.makename, updated docs and script ac3d_export to use it (shall update other exporters too):
this function is just a simple helper to format a filename as needed (change extension, strip dirname, it defaults to use G.sce as path).
- Added a test method: Blender.Scene.getScriptlinks(eventName):
just testing, if this path proves useful other functions will be added and made general, for objects, etc.
Displace mapping + Map-Input using Object wasn't working. This caused
by the inverse matrix of an Object potentially not being calculated when
displace was calculated.
Solved by moving imat calculus to the top of the main function.
Yafray note: the convention to hack out all transformations from
renderconverter could be implemented more elegant, by moving this to
the yafray section (and just matrix-transform back). Makes code less
unreadable, but also support displacement then (and might solve other
errors).
Envmap render error; when no (f10) envmap option was used, it could give
a 'stripe' effect based on a non-initialized global value. Only happens
for transparant layers...
Recalculate normals (mesh editmode) had some weak points, as demonstrated
in the bug report sample file. It appeared to be 2 aspects that could be
simply fixed:
- for calculation of the most outer face (to set normal outside) it used
a manhattan distance. making it real distance helped quite some
- but most important: the routine only took triangles into account, which
didn't work proper with very irregular quads, especially with non-flat
quads. It now calculates both trias in a quad individually.
-- new try so that scripts place their guis and file selectors in proper places:
should be ok now for any but the really weirdest screen layouts, will be updated when scripts are added to other menus in the interface.
* Added items for importing DXF, VRML, etc. in the File->Import menu, that just call the normal Open function. Most people don't even know that you can open these formats through the normal Open fileselect, so this will make it more obvious.
* Removed the 'Export Selected' menu, and put poor old lonely STL in the Import and Export menus too. Most of the exporters export only the selected object anyway, so it's not really a necessary distinction to make.
- added function Blender.sys.exists(path) to check if a given file exists;
- forgot to mention: in my previous commit the blender.html file was also updated slightly.
- tiny updates for better behavior, unix line endings, cvs Id tags;
- Updated DX7 exporter (thanks to author Ben Omari who's also working on a DX8 one);
- added sysinfo script;
Interface (scripts):
- changed behavior for which win is chosen for script guis:
Now there's a smarter order, guis will use either:
- Scripts win
- Buttons win (if not a script from groups Wizards or Utils)
- Text win
- Closest bigger area
- Added a button to the scripts header so that it's faster to return to the buttons win (this can be made general), if that was the previous win used.
-starting updates and new additions for Blender 2.34:
Some of the new scripts require Python modules not builtin with Blender, so you either need a full Python install or the needed extra modules. This is an ongoing work, there should be more scripts, better testing and also proper ways to tell users they don't have all expected modules. It's expected that Win users won't need full Python installs, since we can provide a minimal zip with the needed modules from 2.34 on.
Thanks to Anthony D'Agostino (scorpius), Jean-Michel Soler (jms) and Campbell Barton (Cam / ideasman) for donating the scripts now added / updated.
BPython:
-added two new script menu groups: Tools and Utils. We still need to find places elsewhere in the gui where the groups can be put.
prevented rvk editing to work in the action window.
Please not that "if (act) {" (Does the object have an action? Currently
only true for some armatures) and "if (key) {" (does the object have
rvk's keys? Currently only true for meshes) are never both true at the
same time so in the following snippet, the function foo_key() never gets
executed:
if (act) {
if (key) {
foo_key();
else
foo_bar();
}
}
Better is this:
if (key) {
foo_key();
else if (act) {
foo_bar();
}
messages and pupmenu()s. Edited spelling and grammar,
stylistic consistency, etc.
I added the guidelines and rationale that I used to the
CMS here:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Language_and_terminology.338.0.html
Next step is to get icons in there, to make it easier to see
at a glance what sort of message (and how much attention
should be paid to it, or if it can be dismissed with a flick
of the mouse, eg. boring remove doubles notifications)
mockup: http://mke3.net:9000/blender/ui/controls/error_ok_icons.png
big, since a float can go to 10^-37. And, this value is still squared, so
a square root will not frustrate it.
Limit now is 10^-35, fixing disappearing faces in extreme small object
thats extreme close to a camera. (thanks OOPz!)
Switched order of routines for displacement and autosmooth, where the
autosmooth will be last now. This prevents displaced (loose) faces, and
might give attractive sharp edges in other cases too.
Key alpha (render) set alph component at '1' for sky... this is an old
convention from NeoGeo days, and I have absolutely no clue whatfor...
maybe for some antique amiga iff format or so. Made it zero now.
