Made the new "superknife" tool much stabler
then it was, though a few minor quirks remain.
Rather then the shortest-distance-in-graph method
I was using to rebuild the mesh post-knife I
reworked it to build a triangulation instead,
then merge the triangles into the right correct
faces.
submitted by Tom Edwards
This patch introduces a switch -con and its longer version --start-console. When giving this on cmd-line you'll get the black console window. The new behaviour is to hide it by default. We'll still see briefly the console at startup and during exit, but that's something that cannot be changed.
If you start blender from a cmd.exe, the console will not be hidden.
submitted by Tom Edwards
Fix [#25473] 64bit Windows installer for version 2.56 is not working
patch submitted by Caleb (Dobz)
The thumbnail patch adds a thumb handler DLL that adds .blend thumbnail support in Windows Explorer. A -r option is added to do registration in background. The patch also improves icon building and metadata for blender.exe.
Caleb fixes and cleans up our installer to an acceptable state. The patch uses the new -r option to do the .blend extension and thumbnailer registration.
Thanks to both Caleb and Tom for their efforts!
Multires interpolation is considerably better
now, though it still has a problem with occasionally
producing little random tangent spikes. Still, it's
far better then it was.
Also fixed a bug in dissolve faces.
Multires interpolation. It's quite usable yet; I wanted to avoid
subsurfing the multires data and ray tracing original/new
topology. The result is kindof like trunk's interpolation.
I'll see how much better I can get it. I might have to go with
the full-on ray tracing solution. Right now, it's not very good.
Also made it so trunk files with multires open correctly.
into account that some tools use normals for things other than display. Now
we properly initialize vertex normals at flat faces too.
Also fixed a normal refresh issue, and deduplicated CDDM/mesh normal
calculation code.
weighted normals as the render engine, and the render engine will copy
normals from the mesh rather than always recalculating them.
Subsurf/multires still use regular vertex normals, but they are expected
to be sufficiently high resolution to not need this.
This means that normal maps displayed in the viewport actually match the
render engine exactly and don't have artifacts due to this discrepancy.
It of course also avoids unexpected surprises where your render normals
look different than your viewport normals.
Subversion bumped to 4 for version patch to recalculate normals.
Patch by Morten Mikkelsen, with some small changes.
* Separate out selection flags from file type flags, was bothering me since forever ;)
* Also renamed ACTIVEFILE to SELECTED_FILE to better reflect actual usage in code.
* Fix crash introduced with last commit, better check for valid selection
Bevel! Implemented bevel (from scratch). Man is
this tool way cooler then I thought it was. Note that
uv/vcol interpolation is working (loop level data) but
vert/edge data (like vgroups) likely still needs
work.
Not really a "bug", but it was on my todo anyways. Based on patch
[#26508] by Campbell, with a few modifications including extending
this to the Action/DopeSheet editor too.
Submitted by Filiciss Muhgue
Selecting COLLADA export after starting blender into default scene Blender would crash, due to misreading the path string (no file saved yet, so it was zero).
Fixed view selected code. Made MDisps->disps use the
special allocation library I wrote as a
temporary fix to MDeformGroup->dw problems.
Why was the vgroup solution reused? It's really slow,
and its hard to tie in something like mempool or memarena.
The hackish allocator I wrote really needs to go, eventually,
or be folded into guardedalloc.
Also fixed a customdata bug with modifiers.
Reported by Edwin Amsler
The function for extrapolating the template name with the frame number didn't properly NULL-terminate the
resulting string, this causing broken names and weird paths (if you were lucky - totally unusuable names
detected while stepping through the code).
