This PR adds the *Polyline Mask*, *Polyline Face Set*, and
*Polyline Trim* tools.
## Limitations
* *Polyline Face Set* is not added to either of the *Sculpt*
or *Face Sets* menu as none of the other face set gestures are in
either.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122248
This PR adds the `Line Face Set` tool and adds it to the following
location:
* Sculpt Mode toolbar
## Limitations
None of the existing Face Set gesture operators exist in either the
Sculpt dropdown or the Face Set dropdown, this PR does not add the Line
Face set tool in either location as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122245
This PR adds a new operator: `PAINT_OT_visibility_edit` to support
iteratively expanding or shrinking the visibility of a mesh, similar to
the *Grow / Shrink Mask* actions and the *Grow / Shrink Face Set*
options. This operator is exposed via two new entries in the *Sculpt*
toolbar entry as *Show More* and *Show Less* and have also been
assigned to Page Up and Page Down in the default Blender keybinds for
Sculpt Mode.
### Technical Details
Each of the PBVH types is solved slightly differently, though the
general principle for each is as follows:
1. Make a copy of the current mesh visibility state
2. Iterate over elements (faces & corners if available, otherwise
vertices) to look at adjacency information
3. Apply appropriate visibility change to vertices
4. Sync face visibility
### Limitations
* Currently, like all other operators in the `paint_hide.cc` file. This
new operator is limited to Sculpt mode only.
Based off of [this](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/pz4y/)
RCS request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120282
This node allows replacing the transformation of every instance by providing a matrix.
Before, this was only possible by using the Store Named Attribute node. It's more common
in Blender to have specialized built-in nodes for built-in attributes (e.g. Set Position, and Set ID).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121473
While easier to understand, the conventionnal global
scene thickness parameter have some downside:
- It doesn't scale with larger scenes since the
distant samples have small thickness
- It doesn't handle fine geometric variation in
foreground.
The proposed angular thicknes makes all sample
have the same angular span. This makes it
distance independant and capture different occluder
thickness with less artifacts. The downside is
that the occluders have the same angular span
at any distance which makes the same occluder inflate
with distance.
A downside is that the geometry near the shading point is
under-represented. Leaving light leaking or lack of AO
at contact points. To fix this, we introduce back a
geometric thickness parameter.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122334
Extract
- Add to Quick Favorites tooltip.
- "Mask", the name of a newly created mask (DATA_).
- "New" in the context of the new mask ID button.
- A few strings using BLI_STR_UTF8_ defines were not extracted.
Take the special characters out of the translation macros.
- "External" menu items from the filebrowser's Files context
menu (right-click on a file). These items were already extracted,
but not translated.
Improve
- Separate formatted error message "%s is not compatible with
["the specified", "any"] 'refresh' options" into two messages.
Disambiguate
- Use Action context for new F-modifiers' names. This is already used
for the "type" operator prop.
- Translate ImportHelper's default confirmation text using the
Operator context, as it uses the operator name which is extracted
with this context.
- "Scale" can be a noun, the scale of something, or a verb, to scale
something. The latter mostly uses the Operator context, so apply
this context to verbs, and the default contexts to nouns.
- "Scale Influence" can mean "Influence on Scale" (tracking
stabilization) and "to Scale the Influence" (dynamic paint canvas).
- "Object Line Art" as type of Line Art to add, as opposed to the
active object's Line Art settings.
- Float to Integer node: use NodeTree context for the node label, as
this is already extracted and used for the enum.
Do not translate
- Sequencer labels containing only a string formatting field.
Some issues reported by Gabriel Gazzán and Ye Gui.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122283
This new `Method` property allows to replace Diffuse GI
by simple ambient occlusion. This can be desirable for
performance or look.
This doesn't add the memory savings but there are already
some performance gain by using this option.
Implementation of the proposal in: #121535
When drawing with "project to surface" turned on, it is now possible to restrict the projection to only the selected objects.
This is really useful for drawing onto surfaces that has a lot of detail meshes that you don't want to project onto.
Add the operator from the io_import_images_as_planes add-on,
making it a built-in operator.
The main differences with the add-on are:
- Compositor integration has been removed.
- The file handler for dropping images has been removed
to avoid a popup whenever images are dropped onto Blender.
There were also changes to follow Blender's core scripts more closely:
- Defer imports where possible.
- Use `str.format`.
- Use double-quotes for non-enum strings.
- Remove or "_" prefix unused arguments.
- Avoid unnecessary use back-slashes for wrapping lines.
Otherwise all other functionality has been kept.
Ref !122223
Co-authored-by: Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Bastien Montagne <bastien@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Brendon Murphy <meta.androcto1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CoDEmanX <codemanx@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: Dalai Felinto <dalai@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Damien Picard <dam.pic@free.fr>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Salazar <zanqdo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Florian Meyer <florianfelix@web.de>
Co-authored-by: Jacques Lucke <mail@jlucke.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Yurkovich <jesse.y@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Smith <j.jaydez@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Luca Bonavita <mindrones@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: meta-androcto <meta.androcto1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Philipp Oeser <info@graphics-engineer.com>
Co-authored-by: Pratik Borhade <pratikborhade302@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Rick Astley <mrbimax>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Sibo Van Gool <SiboVG>
Co-authored-by: Sun Kim <perplexing.sun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Dinges <blender@dingto.org>
Co-authored-by: Victor Chedeville <victor-09@noreply.localhost>
This allow to reduce the amount of noise and reduce
the lost energy caused by low thickness and large
stride (low sample count).
Actual number of rays is twice the UI count.
The reasonning is that we already have a resolution limit
slider per light.
The global shadow resolution scale is usefull as a quick
speedup option to reduce shadow cost for viewport regular
work or for quick rendering. For final render, the per
light resolution limit is more suited than a LOD scale
since it doesn't modify the filtering of based on distance
from the camera.
This feature is really not hard to add back if there is
a compelling use case for it.
Though the whole modifier menu could use a reorganization, it probably doesn't
make sense to do that before we have a builtin library of node group assets.
We already have the "Normals" category though, so these two modifiers make
more sense there.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122168
In a recent module meeting
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-05-21-grease-pencil-module-meeting/34755
it was proposed to to make "Delete Group" delete everything
(the group with children) and use "Ungroup"
for just deleting the group while keeping the children.
This implements the suggested change that was agreed upon.
Add a preference to "Work Offline" system preference as well as command
line options `--offline-mode` & `--online-mode`
(which overrides the preference).
This option is displayed in the initial setup screen too.
This is currently respected by:
- Check for updates on startup
- Disables running an update when enabling extensions.
When Blender is launched with `--offline-mode` the option cannot be
enabled in the preferences. This is intended for environments
where internet access is intentionally disallowed.
Background: with Blender supporting access to online-repositories
as well as 3rd party extensions themselves potentially accessing the
internet. This setting provides a way for users to disable online
functionality.
This prevents error messages when online access fails in environments
without internet access as well as the ability for users who prefer
Blender doesn't access the internet to have one place to turn this off.
While it does not enforce limitations on add-ons, 3rd party scripts
are expected to respect this setting using `bpy.app.internet_offline`.
The details for this will be handled along with other policies scripts
are expected to follow.
Ref !121994
Split single keymap definition into timeline and preview as well as LCS
and RCS definitions.
This improves readability of keymap code.
Tweak and Box Select tools will now use "Sequencer Timeline Tool",
or "Sequencer Preview Tool" entries instead of "Sequencer Tool", so
custom keymaps or scripts have to be updated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121846
This introduce a new "secret" per-repository property of type password
as described by #121856.
A token or secret may be used by some non blender.org repositories.
This only shows for remote repositories and is shown in the
"Add Remote Repository" popup.
This commit doesn't implement sending to token to the server which will
be implemented separately.
Ref !121886
Co-authored-by: Dalai Felinto <dalai@blender.org>
This pull request adds an "Active Element" node that exposes the active
vertex, edge, or face index to the geometry node tool context. The
presence of an active element is available as a boolean.
This node enables the creation of "active-to-selected" style operators.
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121333
Jittered Soft Shadows support.
Improves soft shadow quality at the cost of re-rendering shadow maps every sample.
Disabled by default in the viewport unless enabled in the Scene settings.
| Tracing-only | Jitter-only | Jitter+Over-blur |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |
Tracing-only is the method used by default in EEVEE-Next.
Jitter-only is the method used by EEVEE-Legacy Soft Shadows.
Jitter+Over-blur combines both.
Co-authored by Miguel Pozo @pragma37 (initial patch #119753)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121836
Add-ons which were enabled but not found warn on startup
and were shown under "Missing scripts", where they can be ignored
(the user can choose to restore the paths) or disabled them to suppress
the warnings in future.
This is now available again, with a minor refactor.
Add new ID_IS_EDITABLE macro that checks if the ID can be edited in the
user interface. Replace usage of ID_IS_LINKED where it is used with this
meaning.
Also add a corresponding ID.is_editable property for Python.
This prepares for the ability to edit some linked datablocks for brush
assets.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121838
The extensions system allows to extend Blender with connectivity to the internet. Right now it means Blender can
discover and install add-ons and themes directly from the internet, and notify users about their updates.
By default this is disabled (opt-in), and users can enable it the first time they try to install an extension or visit
the Prefences > Extensions tab. If this is enabled, Blender will automatically check for updates for
extensions.blender.org upon startup.
When will Blender access the remote repositories:
* Every time you open the Preferences → Extensions: ALL the enabled repositories get checked for the latest info (json)
* Every time you try to install by dragging: ALL the enabled repositories get checked for the latest info (json).
* Every time you start Blender: selected repositories get checked for the latest info (json).
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From the Blender code point of view, this means that most of the add-ons and themes originally bundled with Blender
will now be available from the online platform, instead of bundled with Blender. The exception are add-ons which are
deemed core functionality which just happened to be written as Python add-ons.
Links:
* Original Extenesions Platform Announcement: https://code.blender.org/2022/10/blender-extensions-platform/
* Extensions website: https://extensions.blender.org/
* User Manual: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.2/extensions/index.html#extensions-index
* Technical specifications: https://developer.blender.org/docs/features/extensions/
* Changes on add-ons bundling: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/changes-to-add-on-bundling-4-2-onwards/34593
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This PR does the following:
* Move extensions out of experimental.
* No longer install `scripts/addons` & `scripts/addons_contrib`.
* Add `scripts/addons_core` to blender's repository.
These add-ons will still be bundled with Blender and will be always enabled in the future, with their preferences
moved to be more closely integrated with the rest of Blender. This will happen during the remaining bcon2 period.
For more details, see #121830
From scripts/addons:
* copy_global_transform.py
* hydra_storm
* io_anim_bvh
* io_curve_svg
* io_mesh_uv_layout
* io_scene_fbx
* io_scene_gltf2
* pose_library
* ui_translate
* viewport_vr_preview
Extra: bl_pkg (scripts/addons_contrib)
Note: The STL (legacy) add-on is going to be moved to the extensions platform. There is already a C++ version on core
which is enabled by default.
All the other add-ons are already available at extensions.blender.org. To use them you need to:
* Go to User Preferences > Extensions
* You will be greated with an "Online Extensions" message, click on "Enable Repository".
* Search the add-on you are looking for (e.g, Import Images as Planes).
* Click on Install
Over time their maintaince will be transferred over to the community so their development can carry on. If you used to
help maintain a bundled add-on please read: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/changes-to-add-on-bundling-4-2-onwards/34593
Ref: !121825
The algorithm to merge points based on distance thresholdhas been
implemented in 8b7d5f8587. This patch moves the function to
`blender::ed::greasepencil` namespace and use it to implement
merge by distance operator.
There are two parameters for the operator:
`threshold`: Distance threshold used for merging.
`use_unselected`: Use whole stroke or only selected points
Resolves: #113917
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120385
Implementation of the GPv2 Fill tool in Grease Pencil 3.
This tool creates new strokes where the user clicks, by rendering
strokes into an image and then performing flood-fill and boundary
search operations.
This is a minimal first part, several features of the GPv2 tool are
still missing (gap filling methods, smoothing, dilate/erode).
Co-authored-by: Falk David <falk@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120693
Sculpt: Add customizable increment for line tool snapping
This PR exposes the snap increments introduced in #118760 to the base
`WM_gesture_straightline` operators and exposes the increment menu to
allow users to change this value in both Sculpt and Weight Paint mode.
## Details
The full list of operators this affects:
* IMAGE_OT_sample_line
* PAINT_OT_weight_gradient
* MESH_OT_bisect
* PAINT_OT_mask_line_gesture
* SCULPT_OT_trim_line_gesture
* SCULPT_OT_project_line_gesture
* PAINT_OT_hide_show_line_gesture
## Compatibility
Previously, the hardcoded value for this snap increment was 15 degrees,
by using the toolsetting value, this changes the default to 5 degrees.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121547
Sun extraction convert part of light comming from the world to a
sun light which increases the quality of the rendering. The goal
of this feature is to workaround the limitation of the storage
techniques used for environment lighting inside EEVEE.
This first implementation works by clamping the world lighting and
summing the excess lighting and (and its incomming directions) to
deduce the sun position.
All the lighting is then transfered into this light power. The sun
angle is computed based on the directionnality of the excess lighting,
the more divergent the excess lighting is, the bigger the angle.
This has a few benefits:
- It's stable and behave well under animation. This is because we
average a lot of data.
- It's fast as it can be done inside the remap shader in one pass.
- It requires only one parameter, the clamp threshold.
However, it has some issue:
- It modifies the lighting as we change the incomming direction for
excess lighting away from the chosen sun direction. This could be fixed
by masking only lighting around the chosen sun direction (requires 2
passes, slower).
- Given that this only average the direction, it behaves poorly if there
two opposite bright light sources (it puts the sun in the middle). This
could be fixed by extracting more suns, but that becomes more complex
and requires even more passes.
- It looks bad if the summed lighting is not supposed to be a perfect
disk in specular reflections or if the sources are too divergent as the
disk is too big and the approximation fails short. This could be
mitigated by adding an upper bound to the sun radius. For now we
workaround this issue by exposing the sun angle parameter in the UI.
A more precise algorithm can be implemented in the future to avoid
having to deal with these limitations. A possibility is to use
importance sampling to randomize sun position. But that would be only
for final render.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121455
Effectively, make GPU compositor available without need to enable
an experimental feature set.
The compositor device is now exposed in the Performance panel of
Render Buttons. It is also still available in the compositor's
N-panel, together with some other options which are more about how
editing works, and not exactly related to render performance.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121398
This implements and exposes the `View`/`Scene` brush radius option.
* `View`: Brush units are in pixels. Zooming in and out in the viewport will make the brush stay the same size relative to the view, but grow/shrink relative to the scene.
* `Scene`: Brush units are in meters. Zooming in and out in the viewport will make the brush grow/shrink relative to the view, but stay the same size relative to the scene.
The default radius unit is `Scene`, which is what GPv2 did.
The "2D Animation Template" was updated to disable using the radius in the unified paint settings. This means that using the template by default will use the brush radius, which also mimics the behavior of GPv2.
The user can change the radius brush unit from the `Advanced` panel.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120257
