There are many accumulated unused properties in theme. Generally, it's a mess,
lot of copy-paste errors and leftovers between editors, shared functions with no
actual use, etc. Some were just added and never used, like Pattern and Layout nodes,
which were meant to be used with Texture Nodes I believe, but it never happened.
Overall 19 properties removed:
- 3D Viewport: Edge UV Face Select
- 3D Viewport: Last Selected Point
- Dope Sheet/Timeline: Value Sliders
- Dope Sheet/Timeline: View Sliders
- Nonlinear Animation: View Sliders
- Video Sequencer: Window Sliders
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Window Sliders
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Vertex Bevel
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Vertex Group Unreferenced
- Image/UV Editor: Vertex Bevel
- Image/UV Editor: Vertex Group Unreferenced
- Image/UV Editor: Freestyle Face Mask
- Image/UV Editor: Face Retopology
- Image/UV Editor: Face Orientation Front
- Image/UV Editor: Face Orientation Back
- Node Editors: Selected Text
- Node Editors: Pattern Node
- Node Editors: Layout Node
- Video Sequencer: Draw Action
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Details:
- Made Vertex Bevel and Vertex Group Unreferenced colors in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_vertex`
optional, so that they don't appear in Graph Editor and UV Editor theme properties, where they're unused.
- Same thing in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_face` for face attributes (Freestyle Mark, Retopology),
so that they don't appear in UV Editor, where they're unused. Also did same for face orientation colors,
but used different argument for them, since they could be used in future (remember seeing PR for this).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143782
This PR adds a "Mirror" menu to the Strip menu within the VSE preview.
This menu is similar to the "Mirror" menu in the view3d "Object" menu.
It allows the user to access the mirror operator through a menu, rather
than via a shortcut.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142506
When the "Pie Menu on Drag" is active in the preferences, pressing "I"
and then moving the mouse will open a pie menu where the user can
select which keying set to key.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144573
Tree view elements can be deleted by the remove operator located on the
right side with `-` icon. But these operators are different for every
type. Now introduced `UI_OT_view_item_delete`. With that it is possible
to delete elements with X key when mouse is over tree view. In future
maybe we could remove type specific operators (for example: `GREASE_PENCIL_OT_layer_remove`).
See video in PR description
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144045
Continuing #140360, after 39c066ee53
Moving curve handle colors & size from space editors into common theme properties.
They are now shared by 3D Viewport, Image Editor, Graph Editor, and Movie Clip Editor,
instead of each of them having their own properties.
(Video in PR)
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Details:
- NURB U/V lines, active spline, and last selected point colors were defined
in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_curves` but were optional and only called by
3D viewport. Since no other editor calls that function anymore, I removed it and
moved those properties directly inside `rna_def_userdef_theme_space_view3d`.
- In Image Editor & Movie Clip Editor (Mask mode), curves don't ever show
selection colors, and Vector handles are generally never visible, that is
bug/missing in Blender in general, not a result of this PR.
- Handle vertex size were included in Dope Sheet and NLA, where handles don't
exist. Now as a side effect they're removed as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143762
This adds the `Pen` tool to Grease Pencil Edit Mode.
With the pen tool you can:
- Extrude points by `Left Click`.
- Move the handles by dragging the mouse.
- Snap handles to 45 degree increments with `Shift`.
- Cycle through the handle types by `Double Clicking`.
- Add new point on segments by `Ctrl Clicking`.
- Remove existing point by `Ctrl Clicking`.
- Close a curve by clicking on one end while having the other selected.
- Move existing segment by clicking and dragging on the edge.
- Move points by clicking and dragging the mouse.
Some changes have been made compared to the legacy
curve object's pen tool:
- `Angle locking` with `Alt` was replaced with `Angle Snapping`
using `Shift`. This was done to match the behavior of Grease Pencil
primitive tools.
- `Move Entire Point` was changed from the `Space` key to `Alt`. This
was done because some laptops can't move the mouse while
`Space` is held.
- `Link Handles` and `Free Align Toggle` were not implemented.
- `Toggle Vector` and `Close Spline Method` were removed.
- `Close Spline` was removed and set to always be true.
- `Extrude Handle` type was removed as a option and was replaced
by the `shift` modifier key when clicking.
- Newly created points are placed on the drawing plane, instead of
the view plane.
When a new curve is created, the material will be the active material
and the radius will be set from the `radius` property.
Note: This tool is added to edit mode because it uses handle selection
and bézier overlays which currently don't exist in draw mode.
A future PR will implement a draw mode version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142646
Since the tangent attributes are now recomputed inside the loop over uv
layers, looping directly over this mesh data is dangerous, as computing
the tangents attributes might trigger some re-allocations, leading to
invalid memory accesses when accessing the next uv layer.
Solved by caching uv layers' names in a list beforehand, the uvlayers
themselves are not even needed for tangent data handling.
Regression from e0a9e98cbd.
This PR makes it easier to clear keyframes from strips in preview.
It is the similar to the feature in 3D viewport. Just navigate to
"Strip" -> "Animation" -> "Clear Keyframes...". This then deletes
all keyframes form the selected strips.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141106
Point Caches (used by particle system, cloth, boids etc.) are now
always compressed, uzing zstd coupled with lossless data filtering.
- This is both smaller cache files _and_ faster than the old
"Heavy" compression mode,
- And smaller data files and same or slightly faster speed than
using no compression at all,
- There was not much difference between compression levels once
data filtering got added, so option to pick them was removed.
- So there's no downside to just always using the compression,
which makes for a simpler UI.
- RNA change: removes PointCache.compression property.
More details and cache size / performance numbers in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144356
Adds scene assets (including the catalogue tree) to the `Add` > `Scene` menu.
When selecting a scene asset, the asset import setting is used:
* Link: Scene is linked (cannot be edited, but will be used by the strip)
* Append: Appends the full scene including all IDs to the file.
* Append/Reuse: Appends the scene but will reuse IDs (like mesh data, materials, etc.).
Objects, collections, and the scene itself are not reused.
Part of #144063.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141213
The "Asset Shelf" checkbox can be confusing for people, they enable it
but it still can't get the shelf to show up. This is because the shelf
is only available in certain contexts (e.g. pose mode and paint modes
in the 3D view, more is planned see blender/blender#135061). Gray out
the toggle with a disabled hint when not available.
The region toggle pie menus will hide the item.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113063
This commit adds the option to open the Preferences editor in a
maximized area instead of a new window. This is done by adding a
"Preferences" field to the Interface > Editor > Temporary Editor
preferences. The default value is set to "New Window" keeping the
current behavior.
Implements: #142665
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142681
The distance sampling is mostly based on weighted delta tracking from
[Monte Carlo Methods for Volumetric Light Transport Simulation]
(http://iliyan.com/publications/VolumeSTAR/VolumeSTAR_EG2018.pdf).
The recursive Monte Carlo estimation of the Radiative Transfer Equation is
\[\langle L \rangle=\frac{\bar T(x\rightarrow y)}{\bar p(x\rightarrow
y)}(L_e+\sigma_s L_s + \sigma_n L).\]
where \(\bar T(x\rightarrow y) = e^{-\bar\sigma\Vert x-y\Vert}\) is the
majorant transmittance between points \(x\) and \(y\), \(p(x\rightarrow
y) = \bar\sigma e^{-\bar\sigma\Vert x-y\Vert}\) is the probability of
sampling point \(y\) from point \(x\) following exponential
distribution.
At each recursive step, we randomly pick one of the two events
proportional to their weights:
* If \(\xi < \frac{\sigma_s}{\sigma_s+\vert\sigma_n\vert}\), we sample
scatter event and evaluate \(L_s\).
* Otherwise, no real collision happens and we continue the recursive
process.
The emission \(L_e\) is evaluated at each step.
This also removes some unused volume settings from the UI:
* "Max Steps" is removed, because the step size is automatically specified
by the volume octree. There is a hard-coded threshold `VOLUME_MAX_STEPS`
to prevent numerical issues.
* "Homogeneous" is automatically detected during density evaluation
An option "Unbiased" is added to the UI. When enabled, densities above
the majorant are clamped.
This PR removes validation of saved bookmarks and system paths in File
Browser. The act of checking validity of a path can result in a timeout
that can last many seconds. Blender will have a very long startup time
if any such items are disconnected, invalid, offline, or removed. Even
if these paths are not used during the Blender session, like network
shares used only at work, web storage for some non-Blender use, a
shortcut to a USB drive, etc. Items will not be greyed out, and
clicking on one will result in a timeout _at that time_ but this seems
like expected behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138218
This feature allows the user to use `ctrl + C`, `ctrl + V` and
`ctrl + shift + V` directly in the sequencer preview. It adds these
operators also to the preview Strip menu.
It works the same as in the sequencer timeline.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143371
Duplicating a strip that references an ID like the scene strip would not
duplicate the scene. This is wanted in some workflows.
To align with the rest of Blender, this changes the behavior for how
strips are duplicated:
* `Shift + D` ("duplicate"): Duplicate the strip and also duplicate the
IDs referenced by the strip. Currently this only affects `Scene`,
`MovieClip`, and `Mask` strips.
* `Alt + D` ("duplicate linked"): Duplicate the strip, but reference the
same IDs. This is the current behavior in `main`.
Part of #144063.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144138
This simply removes the operator property to set the alpha mode, so that
this can be automatically determined. The None case was already handled
by Use Transparency, and Channel Packed doesn't make sense here.
Ref #144009
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144074
Next step of #140360, continuing after 39c066ee53
Moves more animation theme properties shared by different editors to the new Common panel.
- Playhead (was shared by 7 editors)
- Marker Line (was shared by 5 editors)
- Marker Line Selected (was shared by 5 editors)
- Channel (was shared by 3 editors)
- Sub-channel (was shared by 3 editors)
- Channel Group (was shared by 2 editors)
- Active Channel Group (was shared by 2 editors)
In total, 27 properties are replaced with 7.
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User Visible Changes:
- "Current Frame" is renamed to "Playhead". It was general sentiment among
Anim and UI modules to rename this everywhere after "Playhead Snapping" was
added, and this is first step towards that. Name is more recognizable and it's
clear it refers to UI element, rather than something as generic as "current frame".
- Channel, Sub-channel, Channel Group, and Active Channel Group colors in
Dope Sheet had alpha, but ones in Graph and NLA editors didn't. New common
property is used for all three of them and has alpha, meaning two editors gain
alpha as well, but they don't use alpha, still only Dope Sheet does.
- Channel and Sub-channel had different color in NLA and didn't match Dope Sheet
and Graph Editor, now since it's shared it has same color, which is a visual change
(slighlty lighter blue).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144060
The `Add` > `Scene` > `New Scene` operator was behaving as follows:
* If there is no active scene strip, create an empty blank scene and
assign it to a new scene strip.
* Otherwise, use the scene referenced by the active scene strip and
use one of the copy scene methods (blank, copy settings, copy linked,
or full copy) to create a new scene and assign it to a
new scene strip.
This was not ideal for 2 reasons:
1. With no strip selected, creating blank scenes is generally not very
useful as it means that the user has to e.g. update all the render
settings, add a camera, etc.
2. The behavior of copying an existing scene by using the active strip
is very hidden. Also because adding the strip immedialty calls the
move operator, so you cannot even adjust the copy method of the
scene.
This PR changes 3 things:
1. Don't use at the active scene strip. Instead use the active scene.
2. Don't create an empty blank scene, copy the settings of the active
scene by default. This means that e.g. render settings can be reused.
3. The operator entry in the `Add` > `Scene` menu is now called `Empty Scene`.
Part of #144063.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144069
This was disabled because island selection used to be exposed as a
UV selection mode (along with vertex/edge/face) where selecting
parts of other islands would seem like a bug.
Now island selection has been moved to a separate toggle it makes
sense to allow connected geometry to be included in the selection when
other selection options enforce this.
This PR adds a flag to the pose bone that determines its visibility.
Doing so allows to hide a pose bone and
* don't affect other instances of the same armature
* save the visibility even if the rig is linked
The visibility of the bone in object mode is now also determined by the
pose bone whereas before it was the `Bone`.
**This breaks backwards compatibility** on the Python API since the visibility property,
on the `Bone` behaves differently now as it hides the edit bone instead of the pose bone.
In order to remove all active uses of `BONE_HIDDEN_P` the changes in `armature_skinning.cc` are required.
Part of #138482
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139167
Invoke context menu for shape key with right click.
Added `MESH_MT_shape_key_tree_context_menu`, this include operators
that takes action on selected/active tree items:
- Make Basis
- Duplicate
- Move to Top -> Move After Basis
- Move to Bottom -> Move to Last
See Video in PR description
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143444
Edge and Vertex marks such as Crease, Bevel Weight, Seam, Sharp, have
specific use cases and colors assigned to them that users get familiar
with over time.
It can be hard to remember which color belong to what, this PR tries to
address this by introducing colored icons that follow the theme setting
for that edge mark/flag.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144075
Introduced in 4434a30d40
The above commit changed many of the `wm.radial_control` default
keybinds used in various paint modes to support accessing the "unified"
properties on a per-mode basis. While the base Blender keymap and the
industry compatible keymap were updated, this change was not applied
to custom keymaps, leading to confusing behavior for the users.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143872
Ensure that `__main__.__file__` is not set to "<blender string>" when
spawning the subprocess for the background downloader. Blender sets this
value when executing a Python string from C++ code. However, this value
causes issues with Python's `multiprocessing` module, as it expects that
IF the attribute is set, it contains the actual file of the actual main
module. Clearing it works fine, as `__file__` is optional anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143985
Expose existing mask operators as tools in the toolbar.
The primitive tools are commented out since interactively placement
isn't currently supported by the operators.
Ref !136086
