When using vertex parenting, an option for using the parent object
final evaluated indices is exposed in the Object Properties: Relations
panel. This allows the calculation of the parent vertex position to
ignore the the CD_ORIGINDEX layer and instead use the final indices
that may have been altered by the node tree evaluation.
The indices that will be used for the vertex parenting are also exposed
to the UI in the same panel, allowing them to be altered after the
vertex parent has been created.
This adds icons for ICON_RGB_RED, ICON_RGB_GREEN, and ICON_RGB_BLUE
that display with those colors. This does not remove the existing
monochrome ICON_COLOR_* icons. This also allows the translation of
the "R", "G", "B" characters shown, for languages that prefer color
words that do not start with these.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136154
Part of #134755 / #134766.
Adds options to the new Import Settings popover (added in 7a6beb65f4)
to toggle collection instancing for dragging in collections. It can be
toggled separately for linking and appending, since it's typical to use
instancing for linking, but not appending (current default, also with
this change).
Previously, toggling collection instancing was only possible via the
Adjust Last Operation panel but this wasn't obvious, many people were
not aware. Adding this option based on feedback by the Blender Studio.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135996
This patch adds a new Image Info node which returns information about
compositor images. The node has three sources:
The node returns the following information:
- Pixel Coordinates: The coordinates of the centers of the pixels in the
image. Those are essentially the integer coordinates with half pixels
offsets added.
- Texture Coordinates: Zero centered pixel coordinates normalized along
the greater dimension. Somewhat analogous to Object coordinates in
shader nodes.
- Resolution: The resolution of the image.
- Location: The location of the image in the virtual compositing space.
- Rotation: The rotation of the image in the virtual compositing space.
- Scale: The scale of the image in the virtual compositing space.
This node is very useful to allow greater flexibility and procedural
creations. For instance, coordinates can be used to create procedural
effects like vignette using very simple math nodes. And size can be used
to compute size-relative parameters for pixel-parameter nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135104
This patch adds common nodes that are used in Geometry Nodes and Shader
Nodes to the compositor. The following new nodes were added:
- Vector Math.
- Vector Rotate.
- Vector Mix.
- Value Mix.
- Clamp.
- Float Curve.
- Blackbody.
The follow nodes were replaced by common counterparts:
- Value.
- Color Ramp.
- Mix Color.
- Map Range.
- Math.
- Combine XYZ.
- Separate XYZ.
- Vector Curves.
Some new features were gained in the process:
- Mix Color can now clamp both factor and result.
- Map Range can map different types and interpolations.
- Vector Curves gained a new Factor input.
Some behaviors were changed:
- Map Range previously forcibly clamped values whose magnitude is larger
than the arbitrary value of 10000. This is no longer the case.
Some nodes were removed:
- Map Value. This was Map Range without the maximum 10000 limitation
followed by a Clamp node. Both are now available as nodes.
Some common nodes remain separate:
- Separate/Combine Color. Shader counterpart does not yet support all
color modes, and does not support alpha.
- RGB Curves. Shader variant does not support Film-Like curves or
Black/White balancing.
Texture nodes will also be added soon in a separate patch. Nodes that
were replaced are now deprecated but still exist and will later be
removed in v5.0. Backward compatibility code was introduced to convert
from the deprecated nodes to the new nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135300
Part of #134755 / #134766.
Replaces the current import method menu in the middle of the Asset
Browser header with a "Import Settings" popover. The import method is
located there now, because it doesn't need to be as prominent as it used
to be, especially with #104686.
Plan is to add further settings to this popover, e.g. see #135996 or
#134943.
Before this patch, Video Output using FFmpeg video
display lot of parameters.
But some of theses have a meaning only for some codec
(mainly lossy gop codecs : H264, H265, AV1...)
Hide not useful parameters for codec :
'DNXHD', 'FFV1', 'HUFFYUV', 'PNG', 'QTRLE'
- DNXHD : intra frame codec, encoding setting depends of a profile
- FFV1/QTRLE : Intra or P frames only. Lossless codec
- HUFFYUV/PNG : Intra lossless codec
Co-authored-by: mvji <33432858+mvji@users.noreply.github.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135827
The import nodes are considered complete enough to expose without
the experimental option. This commit removes the option so they will
be exposed in 4.5. There are still some possible future improvements,
including automatic caching, possibly exposing more input sockets,
and possibly including imported paths in the "Internal Dependencies"
panel. Those are considered non blocking though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135957
Add 12, 8, and 6 FPS presets often used in stylized animation,
especially in 2D/Grease Pencil animation.
12 FPS to animate on 2's, 8 FPS on 3's, 6 FPS on 4's or for
early blocking stages or storyboard.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135712
Part of #134755 / #134766.
The asset browser currently lacks a compact view that leaves names
readable. Especially when managing asset libraries (e.g. to prepare it
for sharing or set up a production library), this is quite a usability
issue. A column view like the file browser has can solve this, allowing
a quick overview and fast browsing of libraries, while keeping names
readable.
Adds a new "Horizontal List" display mode to the asset browser that
distributes assets over multiple columns, with horizontal scrolling.
Asset previews are shown in this mode, plus an asset type icon if
there's enough space. The size of previews and the columns can be
configured next to the display mode, for optimizing the display.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135306
This patch adds the ability to snap to the frame range bounds in the VSE
timeline, on by default. End frame snap location is offset by 1 to
ensure the snap point aligns with the visible end frame boundary
(otherwise e.g. right handle of strip would be one frame short).
Timeline and preview snapping is also turned on by default using the
same versioning block.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135753
This PR enabled GPU based subdivision on Metal.
Most work is done in #135296.
- Metal max storage bindings for compute shaders were never set.
Some performance figures: Suzanne 6 subdivision levels
| Machine | CPU Subdivision | GPU Subdivision |
| --------------- | --------------- | --------------- |
| M1 Studio Ultra | 7fps | 12 fps |
| M2 Air | 3fps | 11 fps |
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135628
This PR enabled GPU subdivision on Vulkan backend. Measured
performance is slower compared to CPU on my system. But it is
expected that other bottlenecks should be solved in order to
fully benefit from this feature.
We enable it so we keep track of the performance bottlenecks.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135777
draw_attribute_warnings() called in every attribute panel code.
Following function iterates through entire attribute list
mesh.attributes along with vgroup list to identify the colliding name.
This results in printing collision names in irrelavant panels. Now fixed
by passing relevant attributes to compare in `draw_attribute_warnings`.
First find colliding names, add them to the list if they exists in current attribute list
passed to the function
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135495
As a small addition to the import node features for 4.5,
this simple node imports a text file as a string. Potential
use cases include retrieving text for motion graphics.
Currently this just allows .txt files. More extensions could
be allowed in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135459
When accessing the key-map for tooltips it's important to use
the final "user" keymap, combine from "active" & "default".
Using the active keyconfig would only keys from key-maps that had
been modified.
This commit adds the `sculpt.mask_by_color` operator to the 'Mask' menu item in Sculpt Mode. This
allows users to access it via operator / property search. Additionally, the Redo panel is exposed
for general usage.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135210
Add this operator to the dropdown menu to the right of the attribute list
for curves and point cloud geometries. For these geometry types the
operator can run in edit mode too, unlike meshes.
Added entries for operators missing in the Curves edit mode context and
topbar menus as mentioned in #105253.
Ordered menu entries based on legacy and mesh menus but it's not
identical as the operator set is reduced. Prioritized keeping group
classification consistent between the menus when deriving the layout.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134935
Adds the option to create a boolean socket that can be used as a panel toggle.
This allows creating simpler and more compact node group UIs when a panel
can be "disabled".
The toggle input is a normal input socket that is just drawn a bit differently in
the UI. Whether a boolean is a toggle input or not does not affect evaluation.
Also see #133936 for guides on how to add and remove panel toggles.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133936
`IDProperty` of keyitem and operator in UI were not matching in
`wm_keymap_item_find_in_keymap()`. Now fixed by removing explicit
property value from UI menu
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134724
This adds a new `Visual Geometry to Objects` operator which is added to the
`Apply` menu.
It creates new objects from the evaluated geometry of the active object. Other
than e.g. applying modifiers, this operator does keep all generated data and
creates new objects and collections for instances. It does have some
similarities to `Make Instances Real` with the main difference that it doesn't
actually realize instances, i.e. instanced geometry is still shared between all
objects using it.
It does intentionally not replace the original object, because the semantics of
that aren't all that obvious. It's especially tricky when the object was
referenced by other objects. Instance attributes are not preserved currently.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134119
The issue was introduced on 1584cd9aa5 (see !134911 for details).
This fixes this and rename the remaining point_cloud from the API.
The DNA is left untouched, so users don't need to re-enable the
experimental point cloud feature.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134927
With the brush assets project, brushes were moved from being local to
the working blendfile to being linked from asset libraries. This breaks
the Image Paint 'Clone' brush, as it has a brush property that links to
other Image datablocks.
To support this functionality, this commit adds the corresponding
properties into the `ImagePaintSettings` struct so that it is stored
locally with the images that will be used by the tool, inside the main
blendfile.
The source image property is shared with the 3D version of the 'Clone'
brush instead of adding a separate field to preserve old behavior.
Notably, this has the following limitations:
* If clone brush assets have been made and shared with external packs,
they would not work out of the box with linked image assets.
* Despite these settings being stored on the scene, they are populated
inside the tool window under "Brush Settings" which is potentially
misleading. However, this is already the case for the 3D version of
the brush, so further UI refinement will happen outside of this PR.
* Users will be unable to use separate images simultaneously for the
Image editor and the 3D viewport, unlike in pre-4.3 versions. This
can be adjusted in the future if it is a critical workflow.
Because the intended design and functionality of this tool is currently
questionable, this commit opts to make these changes instead of doing
further design to support both accessing data on the brush and on the
scene.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134474
Move the mask_random function to BLI_index_mask.hh, so it can be shared between curves, grease pencil and point cloud.
Copied/inspired by the curves select code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134624
