This patch adds a new Media Type option to image format settings, which
is used in the Render Output panel, File Output node, and Image Saving
operation. The option does not provide any new functionality, but
improves the UX of selecting file types by categorizing the existing file
type option into:
- Image.
- Multi-Layer EXR.
- Video.
Each option would then list only the file types that fit that media
type. For Multi-Layer and Video, the file type option is no longer drawn
for now since only one option exist for now, OpenEXR Multi-Layer and
FFMPEG respectively. This also improves the experience by not listing
technical terms like FFMPEG in the UI, but rather use "Video" instead.
The original motivation for introducing this option is the recent
redesign of the File Output node. The problem is that the distinction
between images and multi-layers images is not at all clear, while the
behavior of the node changes quite a bit when multi-layer is chosen.
While now with the new option, the distinction is quite clear.
Implementation-wise, the new option is mostly a UI layer that controls
the available enum items for the file format and callbacks to set a
default format if the existing format doesn't match the media type.
However, core code is unaffected and still transparently reads the image
format only.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142955
This patch replaces the Composite node with the Group Output node as the
primary compositor output. The old node was removed and versioned. This
was done for consistency with Geometry Nodes and in preparation for more
generic use of the compositor in VSE modifiers, layered compositing, NPR
multi-stage compositing, and more.
The Group Output node relies on the node tree interface, so we now have
a default interface of a single input and a single output. For now, only
the first input is considered while the rest are ignored, just like the
Geometry Nodes design. Furthermore, the input is required to be of type
color. Warnings and errors are issues if any of those are not met, also
similar to Geometry Nodes.
This introduces a new limitation: Composite outputs can no longer exist
in node groups, since they obviously then act as their respective group
outputs.
A refactor for the compositor scheduler is needed to simplify the logic
after this change, but this will be done in a separate patch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142232
The flags were converted with 96e549c092,
but the new values only used the new `Brush` level properties in
b472570875.
Additionally, the `CurveMapping` structs were not initialized inside
the various operations that depended on them, potentially leading to
a crash if custom curves are used.
This commit fixes what was missing from both previous commitsL
* Conversion of the HSV jitter values and their curves to the new
storage location.
* Correct initialization in relevant operators
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142104
Ultimately, the issue was caused by updating sound sequence handle in
`AUD_SequenceEntry_setSound` on each new frame regardless if the
modifier data has changed.
This commit fixes the issue by implementing a means for modifiers to
check, if their parameters or inputs are changed.
This is done by storing these parameters in `StripModifierDataRuntime`
struct, that is shared between all modifier types. This is not ideal,
but it significantly simplifies dependency graph runtime store/restore
code.
Function `strip_update_sound_modifiers` passes boolean `needs_update`
to strip stack update functions. If any needs to be updated, it sets
value of `needs_update` to true allowing following update functions to
skip parameter checking to speed up the process.
Original code updated sound sequence handle twice. Once by function
`BKE_sound_update_scene_sound` then by `strip_update_sound_modifiers`.
If sound modifier is used, only `strip_update_sound_modifiers` needs to
be called, so there is condition to decide which one of these functions
is called.
Also fixes#139605
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141595
So far, only node group were able to have menu input sockets. Built-in nodes did
not support them. Currently, all menus of built-in nodes are stored on the node
instead of on the sockets. This limits their flexibility because it's not
possible to expose these inputs.
This patch adds initial support for having menu inputs in built-in nodes. For
testing purposes, it also changes a couple built-in nodes to use an input socket
instead of a node property: Points to Volume, Transform Geometry, Triangulate,
Volume to Mesh and Match String.
### Compatibility
Forward and backward compatibility is maintained where possible (it's not
possible when the menu input is linked in 5.0). The overall compatibility
approach is the same as what was done for the compositor with two differences:
there are no wrapper RNA properties (not necessary for 5.0, those were removed
for the compositor already too), no need to version animation (animation on the
menu properties was already disabled).
This also makes menu sockets not animatable in general which is kind of brittle
(e.g. doesn't properly update when the menu definition changes). To animate a
menu it's better to animate an integer and to drive an index switch with it.
### Which nodes to update?
Many existing menu properties can become sockets, but it's currently not the
intention to convert all of them. In some cases, converting them might restrict
future improvements too much. This mainly affects Math nodes.
Other existing nodes should be updated but are a bit more tricky to update for
different reasons:
* We don't support dynamic output visibility yet. This is something I'll need to
look into at some point.
* They are shared with shader/compositor nodes, which may be more limited in
what can become a socket.
* There may be performance implications unless extra special cases are
implemented, especially for multi-function nodes.
* Some nodes use socket renaming instead of dynamic socket visibility which
isn't something we support more generally yet.
### Implementation
The core implementation is fairly straight forward. The heavy lifting is done by
the existing socket visibility inferencing. There is a new simple API that
allows individual nodes to implement custom input-usage-rules based on other
inputs in a decentralized way.
In most cases, the nodes to update just have a single menu, so there is a new
node-declaration utility that links a socket to a specific value of the menu
input. This internally handles the usage inferencing as well as making the
socket available when using link-drag-search.
In the modified nodes, I also had to explicitly set the "main input" now which
is used when inserting the node in a link. The automatic behavior doesn't work
currently when the first input is a menu. This is something we'll have to solve
more generally at some point but is out of scope for this patch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140705
LZO and LZMA is only used for compressing point caches inside of
Blender. As we already use ZSTD for compressing other data in Blender it
makes sense to remove LZO and LZMA to simplify our library requirements
(and lessen our library maintenance burden).
I've talked to Sergey about this and he suggested that I leave the LZO/LZMA
libraries and code around but effectively disabled until beta, so if there is a
huge uproar, we can easily reinstate the support.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141461
Node:
- Rename "Z Combine" node to "Depth Combine"
Sockets:
- First input "Image" -> "A"
- Second input "Image" -> "B"
- First Z -> "Depth A"
- Second Z -> "Depth B"
- Output Image -> "Result"
- Output Z -> "Depth"
This is a breaking change for the Python API
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141676
This commit introduces the extension modes to the transform node and
further streamlines the node properties by wrapping all props in a node
storage. Therefore, the interpolation mode has been removed from the
custom properties of the node and moved into the node storage.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141487
This commit moves Curves and Grease Pencil to use `AttributeStorage`
instead of `CustomData`, except for vertex groups. This PR mostly
involves extending the changes from the above commit for point clouds
to generalize to other geometry types.
This is mostly straightforward, though a couple non-trivial places of
note are the joining of Grease Pencil objects (`merge_attributes`), the
"default render fallback" UV for curves objects which was previously
unused at the UI level and just ended up being the first attribute, and
the `update_curve_types()` call in the curves versioning function.
Similar to:
- fa03c53d4a
- f74e304b00
Part of #122398.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140936
This commit introduces the `radial_symmetry` property on the `Mesh`
datablock and simultaneously removes the `radial_symm` property in
Sculpt, Vertex Paint, and Weight Paint.
This allows users to have these symmetry values defined on a per-object
basis instead of needing to reconfigure it for each mesh.
Current values stored on the `ToolSettings` on a per-scene basis are not
copied to each mesh in a scene. This is done to avoid introducing
potentially inaccurate data to a large number of meshes at the cost of
some minor backwards incompatibility.
Part of #108107
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141108
This patch introduces a new Extension Mode option to the Translate node,
replacing the current repeat option and adding an extra Extend mode when
the nearest boundary pixel is sampled. The option allows choosing from
Zero, Repeat, and Extend for each of the axis independently.
A new generic sample method was added to the Result class for sampling
with arbitrary interpolation and extension modes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140607
This adds support for scene assets.
* Scenes can be marked like any other ID as assets (e.g. by right-clicking on a scene ID selector).
* Scenes will generate previews by rendering the view from the active camera in solid view.
Note that this requires the scene to have an active camera.
* When dragging a scene asset onto anywhere in a window (except the asset browser itself),
it will import the asset (or use the local ID) and set the scene as the active one in the window.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141081
The theme property for group socket nodes was set to `#000000` for
default themes, which looked out of place against the other node
header colors. This patch adds colors to both the Blender Dark & Light
themes that should resemble their counterparts before 2ea3cd2188.
Colors:
Blender Dark - `#1d1d1d`
Blender Light - `#3d3d3d`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141011
Maths nodes in files saved in late v4.5 will load as undefined in 5.0.
That's because versioning ran for versions before 4.5, not after. To fix
this, we move versioning to 5.0 to cover such cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140868
Historically, the `UnifiedPaintSettings` struct has been used to
provide users the ability to set brush values at a scene level. Examples
of such attributes are the brush size, strength, and color, to name a
few.
Instead of these values being shared across all of the grease pencil,
mesh painting, and curves sculpting modes. This commit migrates the
data to the `Paint` struct, meaning that each individual mode (e.g.
Sculpt, Vertex Paint, Grease Pencil Draw) now has the ability to change
these values without affecting other modes.
While this change is large, the majority of the work is simply
refactoring access to the `UnifiedPaintSetting` struct. to ensure the
correct property is being retrieved.
Resolves#134077
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139766
Recently, panel styling was moved to a global setting instead of being
per-editor. However, the panel's title and labels inside still rely on
the per-editor region's text and title settings.
Move panel title and text colors to the global "Panel" settings.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Part of #135192
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140726
Change the maximum data-block name from 64 to 256 bytes by increasing MAX_ID_NAME value.
Also increase a few related non-ID data name max size, essentially the action slots identifiers, as these are the primary key used to match an Action's slot to an ID by name.
Other sub-data (bones, modifiers, etc.) lengths are not modified here, as these can be made actual dynamic strings in the future, while keeping (a reasonable level of) forward compatibility, during the course of Blender 5 release cycles.
Implements #137608.
Co-authored-by: Bastien Montagne <bastien@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137196
This patch removes the Dot output from the Normal node. This previously
computed negative the dot product of the normalized inputs. We are
removing it because we now have a Vector Math node that can compute the
dot product, and because it output is confusing, considering it computes
the negative of the product and it implicitly normalized the input.
The node was moved to the input category, and might be later extended to
allow normal picking from the scene or normal passes.
Fixed#132770.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140599
Add a footer region which contains essentially the playback and frame
range buttons from the Timeline Editor, to the following editors:
- Dope Sheet
- Graph
- NLA
- Sequencer
Available in the View menu in each editor, hidden by default.
The motivation is to provide a convenient way to access these
often used controls, and in the near future adjust these footers
to add more playback functionality related to each editor.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135697
At the moment, only menus and tooltips have a shadow. However, other
elements can benefit from having a shadow. This PR adds shadows to
panels in overlapped regions. Makes the default shadow size slightly
larger, but less opaque so it's not so prominent. While dragging a
panel this makes the shadow larger for a "floating" effect.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139847
Remove barely used theme settings for "Navigation Bar" and
"Execution Region".
These properties were only used in two areas, which already had a good
candidate to be replaced with.
Visually it should look exactly the same by default.
Part of #135192, simplifying and cleaning up theme settings.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140352
This patch renames the Degr input of the Rotate compositing node to
Angle. That's because it is needlessly shortened and is also wrong,
as the unit is internally radians and it also depends on the scene
settings on the UI side and can be radians.
Reference #96219.
Resolves#53574.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110637
In Blender 3.3 (1) the individual combine and separate color nodes were
combined together into a single combine/separate color node.
To ensure legacy addons still worked, the old nodes were left in
Blender, but hidden from the Add menus.
It has been nearly 3 years since that change was made, most if not all
addons should have been updated by now. So this commit removes these
hidden legacy nodes.
(1) blender/blender@82df48227b
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135376
Make node headers (or body when collapsed) use the exact theme color
set for that node type, instead of a hardcoded blend between it and the
node backdrop.
This can result in unreadable combinations, but allows more
flexibility and it is consistent with the rest of Blender.
Both dark and light theme defaults have been updated.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140481
- Move `gtao_distance` to view layer and rename to
`ambient_occlusion_distance` (API change).
- Remove `gtao_quality` from the RNA (API change).
- Remove `use_gtao` (unused) from the RNA (API change).
- Rename `gtao_focus` to `fast_gi_bias` in the DNA (no API
change).
- Rename `gtao_resolution` to `fast_gi_resolution` in the
DNA (no API change).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140298
Move panel header, panel background, and sub-panel background color
settings to be global, under `User Interface`, like other widgets.
Remove per-editor panel styling. This way users can edit the panel
colors once, and affect all panels.
See pull request for screenshots and details.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140295
This commit introduces interpolation methods (Nearest, Bilinear,
Bicubic) for the Displace node in the compositor:
- Exposes a dropdown selector for interpolation selection.
- Introduces different methods for Anisotropic and other interpolation
methods.
Reference: #119592.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139802
Change island selection from being it's own selection mode,
along side vertex/edge & face modes, to a separate toggle.
This makes it possible to use sync-select without loosing functionality
as previously island selection didn't work when sync-select was enabled.
Now island selection supports sync-select although at the moment this
only works in face-select mode, when !138197 is merged this limitation
will be removed.
In practice this change is subtle, making it possible to toggle island
selection no matter which selection mode is currently active.
Details:
- The UI is mostly unchanged, this option is available
in the same location in the header & menu as a toggle.
- The shortcut 4-key is kept, toggling instead of switching modes.
- Enabling island selection no longer isolates islands,
it just acts on selection actions made after being enabled.
Allow theming the outline of selected elements. This helps to make
active elements more prominent, and allows for flat theme combinations
not possible before.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139850
The tabs in the sidebar are aligned to the content, which looks great
when region overlap is off, but when it isn't, it looks like the tabs
are attaching to nothing. Solve this by drawing sidebar tabs as pills,
when using region overlap. This matches the top-bar workspace tabs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139951
This is part of the short term roadmap goal of simplifying the
compositor workflow
(see https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/134214).
The problem is that many users don't know how to get started with
compositing in Blender, even when they have used Blender for other
areas, e.g. modeling.
Note: although the solution makes compositor node trees reusable
accross blend files, this is a nice side effect and not the main goal
of the PR.
This PR implements a "New" button that creates a new compositing node
tree, and manages trees as IDs. This has following advantages:
- Consistent with other node editors and other parts of Blender,
therefore making it easier to getting started with compositing if users
are familiar with shading or geometry nodes
- Give users the ability to reuse the compositing node tree by linking
or appending it.
Note: The parameter "Use Nodes" is still present in this PR, but will
be removed (in a backward compatible way) in a follow up PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135223
This adds support for specifying structure types on closures. The main immediate
benefit is that this makes it possible to use fields with closures (without
having incorrect warnings in the UI).
A closure zone behaves very similar to a node group with respect to structure
type inferencing. The structure types can be inferenced fully automatically, or
the user can specify them manually on the closure inputs. On the evaluate
closure zone, the user has to specify the structure types of the inputs and
outputs explicitly (or leave them as dynamic).
Working on this, I was a bit surprised that `get_output_socket_shape` depended
on the field state. Is that a left-over? It feels like it shouldn't be necessary
since the socket shape shouldn't depend on field inferencing anymore. I removed
that now and couldn't see a difference yet.
The operator that creates a closure zone from an evaluate closure node copies
the input structure types already. Beyond that, there is no automatic syncing of
the structure types yet. The structure types only affect the UI and not what's
actually done during evaluation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139713
This moves `PointCloud` to use the recently added `AttributeStorage`
at runtime. Mainly this involves implementing the higher level attribute
API on top, and implementing the RNA API as well. The attribute RNA type
is now backed by either CustomDataLayer or bke::Attribute. For now the
new code is specific to point clouds but next steps can reuse it for
Grease Pencil layer attributes, curves, and eventually meshes.
Point cloud attributes no longer have a name length limit.
Internally, the `AttributeStorage` API is extended with a few additions:
- The data structs have static constructors for convenience.
- A few functions give index-based access to attributes
- A "rename" function is added.
The `Attribute` RNA type now exposes a `storage_type` property.
For now the "single value" option is still unused at runtime, and
accessing the single value data isn't implemented yet.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139165
Complete the versioning and writing changes from these commits:
- f9b627d29c
- f2bcd73bd2
- c5ba8bd7c2
4.5 has the forward compatibility handling to support reading files
written by 5.0. This removes the conversion when writing files
and removes the lookup of ".uv_seam" as a fallback for "uv_seam".
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139841
Add ability to randomize color of each stroke for or use perlin noise
randomization during the stroke. Works similarly to grease pencil stroke
color randomization. This feature is available for all mesh color
painting modes (Sculpt Paint brush, Texture Paint and Vertex Paint)
This setting is available both as a per-brush setting and a unified
setting on the scene level. Additionally, the equivalent Grease Pencil
options have been migrated to these more generic flags and values.
Based on this [1] RCS request.
[1]: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/mwgbbc/
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128953
Set fuzzy=1 when softbody modifier is added. As of now, value is 0, this
raises concern of division by zero so bump it to 1.
Updated `softbody_test.blend` to fix the failing test.
Resolves#137849
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137878
Overall the goal of the PR is to show the preview range in the
clip editor's dopesheet and graph mode.
To accomplish this, some cleanup and refactor were needed:
- Clip editor had a nearly 1:1 copy paste of the timeline draw code,
which has been replaced with `ANIM_draw_framerange`.
- Preview range draw code required `bContext`, which was only used to
access scene. Now scene is passed explicitly, without need to know the
context.
- The macro to access the preview range was removed. This is because the
code is within `PRVRANGEON` check, so `PSFRA`/`PEFRA` were doing
redundant checks.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138678
