* "Around Current Frame" option now works differently. When this option is activated, the path range calculated remains the same (PSta -> PEnd), but only PPre and PPost amount of path-points on either side of the current frame get shown. This is less clumsy to use, and looks quite neat!
* "Clear Paths" now only clears the paths of the selected bones, not all bones. The old behaviour can still be obtained by selecting all bones, but previously there was no way to only clear paths of selected bones.
* Own fix: path colours are now drawn less saturated, as they were showing up TOO strongly.
TODO:
* Fix up interface for "Around current..." option. It's quite confusing atm.
* Selective recalculation of path on certain operations could also be investigated further...
- new option for Local Constraint Ipos did not set user counter in
Ipo at file reading, causing data to get lost (not saved).
- Driver feature: the channels "Loc X Y Z" now also use the result
of constraints, but transformed back into local space, as if it
was action X Y Z. Nice stuff for those who understand this...
it means you can drive something with a bone that has constraints.
modifier.c, BKE_modifier.h - flag for modifiers to say they use pointcache, also new func modifiers_usesPointCache
renamed //pointcache to //blendcache_blendfilename so blendfiles in the same dir dont conflict, and other to show this dir isnt limited to pointcache only (nodes way want to use this)
wizard_curve2tree.py - better defaults for pretty tree's
Fixes for bugs in #7833
- Hair softbody cache was reset on rendering.
- When Alt-a playback is synced to audio frames are skipped. This caused dynamics caching to go crazy. Now the first loop of playback goes through all frames if there are non cached dynamic systems.
Invalid point caches weren't cleared when new systems were created. This caused messed up shapes when softbody was added.
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- Added a Mute button for shape keys, useful for debugging the influence
of driven shape keys.
- Bugfix for the shape keys relative to others keys, was hanging in
an eternal loop when deleting the other key.
Restoring the "evil src splitting hack" for scons+mingw systems. By default, it is not used, but if your system is choking when trying to link src, then add BF_SPLIT_SRC=1 to your user-config.py to use this hack.
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A new "Selected to Active" option in the Bake panel, to (typically) bake
a high poly object onto a low poly object. Code based on patch #7339 by
Frank Richter (Crystal Space developer), thanks!.
Normal Mapping
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Camera, World, Object and Tangent space is now supported for baking, and
for material textures. The "NMap TS" setting is replaced with a dropdown
of the four choices in the image texture buttons.
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/render-baking/
in EditButtons, panel "Links and Materials", there's now a browse button
to directly assign a material to selected faces. It does:
- check if material was already in one of the 'slots' of the object
- if so, then use this as index to assign
- if not, then add a new slot, and assign the new index
-> Constraint Influence Ipo now can be local, linked to constraint itself
You enable this in the IpoWindow header, with the Action icon to the left
of the Ipo Type menu. The button tooltips give the clue as well.
Tech note: the Ipo now can get directly linked to a constraint, and is
being called during regular pose constraint solving.
Actions (and drivers in actions) are being calculated *before* pose
constraint solving. Result of actions then is written in bones, which
then solves the entire pose.
This means you can have a driver on both the constraint, as on the action
channel for the constraint! Not that I'm going to debug that easily :)
Additional fix: Joshua added a copy/paste IpoCurve feature, but he broke
the functionality to be able to paste in an empty ipo channel. That now
works again
- update for new particle system
- made blenderplayer.exe compile again (DDS library missing)
- exchanged a few float math functions (logf, sinf, cosf, expf, powf) with their double counterparts in CMP_nodes
(MSVC chokes on them, because the compiler is not C99 compliant)
Object panels were using object_data_is_libdata, which meant linked obdata could not have object settings changed.
curve2tree
- option to face leaves up or down
- random pitch and roll options
- place 2 leaves on a point for denser leaves
- random seed entry so you can get reproducible results
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- Fix for child particles disappearing with right mouse drag translation.
- Added partial cache updates for selection, should make it a bit faster.
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- Fix crash with the cut tool and child particle drawing.
- Make the "Col" option to use material colors work for
the path/hair visualisation type.
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- Fix for bug #7837: circle drawtype + velocity crashed.
- Setting density vertex group didn't do proper refresh.
Mesh Deform Modifier
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- Make it work for nurbs and curves.
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- Fix for bug #7840: adding particle system to nurbs, curves crashes.
Now simply doesn't allow to add a particle system to a non-mesh
object, the current code does not support it.
- Fix for bug #7834: deleting vertices of an object with a particle
system crashes. Fixed by disabling particle display for objects in
editmode.
- Fix for the particle add brush on subsurfed objects.
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- Fix for bug #7832: boids physics crashed.
- Bugfix for child particles not getting orco texture coords.
- Allow smaller strand sizes in blender units.
- Fix for a common but harmless uninitialized value warning in
valgrind, in the event queue.
