Notes and image:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
- now each editor has own settings for "show panel header" and
"show panel background", and colors+alpha for this.
- this setting used to be global for all editors, but it can conflict
with looks of specific editors.
- Now you can set for editors to show panels with a 100% transparent
tool/properties region.
Note: read XML theme files now might get an error, Campbell will fix.
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29681&group_id=9&atid=127
The solver was mostly implemented by John Mansour at VPAC, with help from me and with funding from the AutoCRC. The SPH formulation is due to Gingold and Monaghan, and the smoothing kernel is due to Wendland.
This solver does not replace the old one; it is available as an option. Note that the new solver uses different units than the old one. The patch page has a couple of attachments that can be used to test the new solver, particularly sphclassical_dam_s0.01_grav.blend (ignore the earlier tests). The simulation in that file compares well with a physical experimental dam break; details in a paper by Changhong Hu and Makoto Sueyoshi, also referred to on that page.
Based on patch [#30837] UV Offset Modifier
by Pawel Kowal (pkowal)
- Allows you to setup a transformation between objects to apply to UV coords.
- Option to select which axis apply to U/V.
- Option to select the UV center (needed for transformations that scale or rotate).
- Uses from/to objects in a similar way to the Warp modifier.
- Vertex group can be used to adjust influence.
* Made SVG versions of the NLA solo (star) icons. These are much nicer than the hack 'n slash bitmap versions, but could still do with some polish. The svg is too heavy to do fine tweaks here.
* Ported over the mute/graph-visible icons
* Recreated Drivers icon
* Moved Blender icon from AD1/DA1 to AD16/DA16, as per the trunk icon sheet
Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
The node_add_move operator is an extended variant which starts the (modal) transform operator right after adding a node, as a quicker way of inserting nodes in a tree.
* Split and moved Cycles’ render layers panels into the render_layer
context as well (would be nice to hide this context when not needed,
e.g. with the BGE, but this is not so easy to do nicely...).
* Fixed some inconsistencies with trunk (probably due to svn merge
glitches) using r52858 as reference. Also recovered the missing
release/bin/blender-softwaregl file.
* A bunch of style code fixes in Blender's own code (not Freestyle
itself yet): line lengths, spaces around operators, block formatting,
headers, etc. In rna_linestyle.c, color_blend_items was replaced by
ramp_blend_items (exported from rna_material.c).
RNA subtype), since Freestyle internally use angles in radians.
A patch set by Bastien Montagne (many thanks!)
NOTICE FOR BRANCH USERS:
This commit may break line drawing settings of already saved Freestyle files.
All angles are now treated as radians instead of degrees, so collections of
angle values might be necessary in order to recover previous visual results.
Affected properties are:
- Crease Angle in the edge detection options
- Min 2D Angle in the 'Splitting' section of a line style
- Max 2D Angle in the 'Splitting' section of a line style
- 'orientation' parameter of the Calligraphy thickness modifier
- 'angle' parameter of the PerlinNoise1D geometry modifier
- 'angle' parameter of the PerlinNoise2D geometry modifier
- 'angle' parameter of the 2DTransform geometry modifier
adding meshes were scaling the user input values so the distance on the button didnt relate to the scale of the object added.
Now use an invoke function that scales unset default values.
* Removed the ../include and ../src include directories from scons/cmake files.
These directories do not exist and are very noisy when building.
* Coding style clean-up in Python scripts: 'string' is used for enum values,
and "string" for usual stings.
* UILayout.active is used instead of UILayout.enabled to grey out "inactive"
settings. This still allows users to edit them, which can be handy sometimes.
* Improved UI layout of the Line Style panel by means of:
- The standard “column” paradigm is used in more places;
- More compact layout where possible; and
- Tweaks to the modifiers' header.
* Improved UI layout of the Line Set panel by rearranging the "Selection by"
options into a compact row of toggle buttons.
