There is a new option to select whether you want to use cage or not.
When not using cage the results will be more similar with Blender
Internal, where the inwards rays (trying to hit the highpoly objects)
don't always come from smooth normals. So if the active object has sharp
edges and an EdgeSplit modifier you get bad corners.
This is useful, however, to bake to planes without the need of adding
extra loops around the edges.
When cage is "on" the user can decide on setting a cage extrusion or to
pick a Custom Cage object. The cage extrusion option works in a
duplicated copy of the active object with EdgeSplit modifiers removed to
inforce smooth normals. The custom cage option takes an object with the
same number of faces as the active object (and the same face ordering).
The custom cage now controls the direction and the origin of the
rays casted to the highpoly objects. The direction is a ray from the
point in the cage mesh to the equivalent point to the base mesh. That
means the face normals are entirely ignored when using a cage object.
For developers:
When using an object cage the ray is calculated from the cage mesh to
the base mesh. It uses the barycentric coordinate from the base mesh UV,
so we expect both meshes to have the same primitive ids (which won't be
the case if the cage gets edited in a destructive way).
That fixes T40023 (giving the expected result when 'use_cage' is false).
Thanks for Andy Davies (metalliandy) for the consulting with normal
baking workflow and extensive testing. His 'stress-test' file will be
added later to our svn tests folder. (The file itself is not public yet
since he still has to add testing notes to it).
Many thanks for the reviewers.
More on cages:
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/#Working_with_Cages
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
CC: adriano, metalliandy, brecht, malkavian
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D547
New operator that can calls a bake function to the current render engine when available. This commit provides no feature for the users, but allows external engines to be accessed by the operator and be integrated with the baking api.
The API itself is simple. Blender sends a populated array of BakePixels to the renderer, and gets back an array of floats with the result.
The Blender Internal (and multires) system is still running independent, but we eventually will pipe it through the API as well. Cycles baking will come next as a separated commit
Python Operator:
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The operator can be called with some arguments, or a user interface can be created for it. In that case the arguments can be ommited and the interface can expose the settings from bpy.context.scene.render.bake
bpy.ops.object.bake(type='COMBINED', filepath="", width=512, height=512, margin=16, use_selected_to_active=False, cage_extrusion=0, cage="", normal_space='TANGENT', normal_r='POS_X', normal_g='POS_Y', normal_b='POS_Z', save_mode='INTERNAL', use_clear=False, use_split_materials=False, use_automatic_name=False)
Note: external save mode is currently disabled.
Supported Features:
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* Margin - Baked result is extended this many pixels beyond the border of each UV "island," to soften seams in the texture.
* Selected to Active - bake shading on the surface of selected object to the active object. The rays are cast from the lowpoly object inwards towards the highpoly object. If the highpoly object is not entirely involved by the lowpoly object, you can tweak the rays start point with Cage Extrusion. For even more control of the cage you can use a Cage object.
* Cage Extrusion - distance to use for the inward ray cast when using selected to active
* Custom Cage - object to use as cage (instead of the lowpoly object).
* Normal swizzle - change the axis that gets mapped to RGB
* Normal space - save as tangent or object normal spaces
Supported Passes:
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Any pass that is supported by Blender renderlayer system. Though it's up to the external engine to provide a valid enum with its supported passes. Normal passes get a special treatment since we post-process them to converted and "swizzled"
Development Notes for External Engines:
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(read them in bake_api.c)
* For a complete implementation example look at the Cycles Bake commit (next).
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Normal map pipeline "consulting" by Andy Davies (metalliandy)
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
This option (alongside the Ease In/Out/InOut options already available) aims to make it
easier to get an initial curve that looks closer to the one you were expecting, by
automatically picking whether Ease In or Ease Out should be used based on the type of
interpolation being used for the curve segment in question.
Notes:
* The types chosen may need some adjustments (e.g. using ease in-out instead of just ease in)
* This does break compatability with files saved in previous dev builds, but only
if you were using Bounce/Elastic/Back with "Ease In"
Made the timeline option to only show keyframes from selected channels/data be a
per-scene setting instead of the per-timeline option it was previously. This makes
it easier for animators working on rigs with multiple bones (especially during the
polishing phase), since now the timeline and jump to keyframe operators use the same
setting to decide which subset of keyframes they need to consider.
By default, this option is enabled by default.
TODO: Extend this to the keyframe status shading on the active object name in the 3D view?
This commit cleans up and fixes some problems related to how the auto-snapping
behaviour in the animation editors works, resolving the issues mentioned in T39819.
1) "Nearest Frame" no longer snaps to the nearest second when time is displayed in seconds.
Instead, there is now also a "Nearest Second" option, so that either can be used
as needed instead of only when a certain time display is used.
2) A similar change has been made for "Time Step" - This is now "Frame Step" and "Second Step"
respectively.
Notes:
* Removed the unneeded getAnimEdit_DrawTime()
* Time Step/Frame Step don't work for Graph Editor yet (and seem to not have worked at all)
* NLA Editor also seems to be showing some weirdness now. Will be checked on.
* Cancelling nearest-second snapping doesn't work nicely, due to another bug with GraphEdit transforms.
Also refactor:
- Material property UI related to shadows
- Preparation of OR-ed mode flags (ma->mode_l) of render materials
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D313
Line styles now have a set of new options for rearranging the stacking order of lines.
This gives artists more control to determine which lines should be drawn on top of others.
Two available sort keys are the distance from camera and curvilinear 2D length.
Since the distance of a line from camera may vary over vertices, another option called
integration type is used to compute the sort key for a line from the values computed at
individual vertices. Available integration types are MEAN, MIN, MAX, FIRST and LAST
(see the tool tips for more detail).
Don't use a dedicated node layer but use temporary int layer instead.
Works like a charm as long as we are careful resetting the layer when
needed (after pbvh clearing and always after bmesh has been filled in
undo)
Tip by Campbell, thanks!
This commit makes it so CameraIntrinsics is no longer hardcoded
to use the traditional polynomial radial distortion model. Currently
the distortion code has generic logic which is shared between
different distortion models, but had no other models until now.
This moves everything specific to the polynomial radial distortion
to a subclass PolynomialDistortionCameraIntrinsics(), and adds a
new division distortion model suitable for cameras such as the
GoPro which have much stronger distortion due to their fisheye lens.
This also cleans up the internal API of CameraIntrinsics to make
it easier to understand and reduces old C-style code.
New distortion model is available in the Lens panel of MCE.
- Polynomial is the old well-known model
- Division is the new one which s intended to deal better with huge
distortion.
Coefficients of this model works independent from each other
and for division model one probably want to have positive values
to have a barrel distortion.
This change introduces a new checkbox to deactivate the sensors, controllers and/or actuators. It is useful during the development phase to avoid delete sensors, controllers or actuators if you want to test something new.
NOC: The wiki page is being updated (the images mostly), but the feature is already in the 2.71 release log.
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Reviewers: moguri, dfelinto, campbellbarton, dingto, #user_interface, billrey
Reviewed By: moguri
CC: billrey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16
Many parts of the compositor are unnecessarily complicated. This patch
aims at reducing the complexity of writing nodes and making the code
more transparent.
== Separating Nodes and Operations ==
Currently these are both mixed in the same graph, even though they have
very different purposes and are used at distinct stages in the
compositing process. The patch introduces dedicated graph classes for
nodes and for operations.
This removes the need for a lot of special case checks (isOperation etc.)
and explicit type casts. It simplifies the code since it becomes clear
at every stage what type of node we are dealing with. The compiler can
use static typing to avoid common bugs from mixing up these types and
fewer runtime sanity checks are needed.
== Simplified Node Conversion ==
Converting nodes to operations was previously based on "relinking", i.e.
nodes would start with by mirroring links in the Blender DNA node trees,
then add operations and redirect these links to them. This was very hard
to follow in many cases and required a lot of attention to avoid invalid
states.
Now there is a helper class called the NodeConverter, which is passed to
nodes and implements a much simpler API for this process. Nodes can add
operations and explicit connections as before, but defining "external"
links to the inputs/outputs of the original node now uses mapping
instead of directly modifying link data. Input data (node graph) and
result (operations graph) are cleanly separated.
== Removed Redundant Data Structures ==
A few redundant data structures have been removed, notably the
SocketConnection. These are only needed temporarily during graph
construction. For executing the compositor operations it is perfectly
sufficient to store only the direct input link pointers. A common
pointer indirection is avoided this way (which might also give a little
performance improvement).
== Avoid virtual recursive functions ==
Recursive virtual functions are evil. They are very hard to follow
during debugging. At least in the parts this patch is concerned with
these functions have been replaced by a non-virtual recursive core
function (which might then call virtual non-recursive functions if
needed). See for example NodeOperationBuilder::group_operations.
Naming:
Change pressure to size_pressure, it notes correctly that this value is
updated and expected to be used for size updating only.
Change name of cursor function and since it is used for uv sculpting
only now move to the relevant file. Also cleanup unneeded functionality
from function.
Stroke:
Separate updating of stroke variables to invariants (updated when
stroke->init = false) and variants.
* Add a new calcLoopNormals function to DerivedMesh struct, and implement it for CDDM and CCGDM (subsurf).
EditDerivedBMesh (edit mode DM) only gets a dummy one in this commit.
* Add a tessellated version of CD_LOOPNORMAL layer (CD_TESSLOOPNORMAL), with relevant code to handle it
(tessellation, rna access, etc.).
* Change auto_smooth options of Mesh (angle now in radian internaly, and toggle is now used to enable/disable
split normals in DM creation process). Note BI render code is not touched here, hence its behavior regarding
this option is now incoherent, will be addressed in a separate commit.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
CC: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D365
There is no good solution here, since RNA props can only have one type/unit.
Tried to find the less worse one - have different RNA props for same DNA value
(a bit like the angle/length for camera lens).
Also fixed two other issues with Transform conctraint:
* Angle were still in degrees (yes, another backward-compatibility breacking).
* Scale was absolute, unlike loc/rot.
Also cleaned up a bit the code, replaced some magic numbers by proper enums, ...
Issue here is that "show diffuse" option does not respect its intended
purpose which is to be used only for masking.
There are a couple of caveats here:
Dyntopo and multires -always- have mask data enabled, and thus as soon
as one goes to dyntopo mode or adds a multires modifier he would get the
default grey color instead.
Matcaps would break when nodes asked for a diffuse material color (this
was broken before too). Solved by adding global material state for when
matcaps are enabled. Also matcaps don't always played well with VBOs
off.
Added a few more missing updates for mask operators to notify
show_diffuse property as changed. This was also needed on rebuilding
dyntopo pbvh.
Also make zero mask color duller again after artist feedback.
This deduplicates/simplifies some code. Also cleanup up a bit scopes UI code!
Use new GRIP button for uiList grab-resize.
This allows us to greatly simplifies the code, and get rid of a few hacks in uiList event handling!
Note autosize mode of uiList is now trigered by any value of list_grip below a given threshold, rather than the fixed zero value...
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D343
This is done by adding a new button type, GRIP, similar to other numbuttons
(scroll, slider, ...), which here controls the preview height.
Then, we add a new DNA struct to be able to save that height in Blend files
(note I choose not to use Panel struct for this, because we would then have the
same limitation we used to have with uiLists, only one preview per panel
and no preview outside panel).
This implies a change to template_preview UI RNA/py API (each preview needs an ID),
but this is backward compatible, as by default datablock type will be used if no ID is
given (which means e.g. all material previews with no ID will have same height).
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D342
- autodetect optimal default, which typically avoids HT threads
- can store setting in .blend per scene
- this does not touch general omp max threads, due i found other areas where the calculations are fitting for huge corecount
- Intel notes, some of the older generation processors with HyperThreading would not provide significant performance boost for FPU intensive applications. On those systems you might want to set OMP_NUM_THREADS = total number of cores (not total number of hardware theads).
Summary:
The title actually says it all, it's just possible to
have independent free handles for mask splines. Also
it's now possible to have aligned handles displayed
as independent handles.
Required changes in quite a few places, but they're
rather straightforward.
From user perspective there's one really visible change
which is removed Handle Type menu from the panel. With
asymmetric handles it's not clear which handle type to
display there. So now the only way to change handle type
is via V-key menu.
Rewrote normal evaluation function to make it deal
with new type of handles we support. Now it works in
the following way:
- Offset the original spline by maximal weight
- Calculate vector between corresponding U positions
on offset and original spline
- Normalize this vector.
Seems to be giving more adequate results and doesn't
tend to self-intersect as much as old behavior used to,
There're still some changes which needed to be done, but
which are planned for further patch:
- Support colors and handle size via themes.
- Make handles color-coded, just the same as done for
regular bezier splines in 3D viewport.
Additional changes to make roto workflow even better:
- Use circles to draw handles
- Support AA for handles
- Change click-create-drag to change curvature of the
spline instead of adjusting point position.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
CC: sebastian_k, hype, cronk
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D121
Bevel Factor Mapping allows to control the relation between bevel factors
(number between 0 and 1) and the rendered start and end point of a beveled
spline.
There are three options: "Resolution", "Segments", "Spline". "Resolution"
option maps bevel factors as it was done < 2.71, "Spline" and "Segments"
are new.
* "Resolution“: Map the bevel factor to the number of subdivisions of a
spline (U resolution).
* "Segments“: Map the bevel factor to the length of a segment and to the
number of subdivisions of a segment.
* "Spline": Map the bevel factor to the length of a spline.
Reviewers: yakca, sergey, campbellbarton
CC: sanne
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D294
Located on topology panel.
To use just click on button and click on mesh.
Operator will just use the dimensions of the triangles below to set the
constant detail setting.
Also changed pair of scale/detail size with nice separate float
percentage value.
Nothing spectacular here, fill tools are easy. Just take the dyntopo
code and repeat until nothing more to do.
The tool can be located in the dyntopo panel when the dyntopo constant
detail is on.
Also added scale factor for constant detail. This may change when detail
sampling gets in, I am not very happy with having two numbers here,
still it will give some more control for now.
This commit introduces support for a number of new interpolation types
which are useful for motion-graphics work. These define a number of
"easing equations" (basically, equations which define some preset
ways that one keyframe transitions to another) which reduce the amount
of manual work (inserting and tweaking keyframes) to achieve certain
common effects. For example, snappy movements, and fake-physics such
as bouncing/springing effects.
The additional interpolation types introduced in this commit can be found
in many packages and toolkits (notably Qt and all modern web browsers).
For more info and a few live demos, see [1] and [2].
Credits:
* Dan Eicher (dna) - Original patch
* Thomas Beck (plasmasolutions) - Porting/updating patch to 2.70 codebase
* Joshua Leung (aligorith) - Code review and a few polishing tweaks
Additional Resources:
[1] http://easings.net
[2] http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
Fluid sims have a very nasty feature for interaction, in which a psys
can directly update the bvhtree for //another object's psys//. This
breaks with threaded depsgraph evaluation and is generally a no-go.
To avoid crashes for now, use a global mutex to avoid concurrent writes
to an object psys' bvhtree.
Was using wire or black in many places, this color is used for cursor,
camera guides, transform helper lines. So its possible to have a dark
background with light overlay color.
Patch D331 by Brita, with some edits.
