This patch re-assigns the mirrored data to use vertex groups with "mirrored"
names (e.g. L_arm -> R_arm, Leg.R -> Leg.L etc.). Vertex groups with the
"mirrored" names must already exist in the base mesh.
This means that it is no longer necessary to apply the mirror modifier in order
to rig the mirrored data independently.
Thanks to Michael Fox for the patch!
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Snappy stuff
* Align rotation with snapping target: rotate the object, aligning it with the target (object mode only - temporarily) (New icon in the header when snap is turned on)
* Snap to different mesh elements (face, edge, vertice): snapping target slide on faces and edge or use exact position of vertice. When using Align rotation with edge snapping, the normal is interpolated as you slide along.
Snaps correctly to derived mesh (sculpt, modifiers, ...) and duplis. In object and edit mode.
NOTE: The snapping code is now based on faces, so even if you're snapping to vertices or edges, it will not work on meshes without faces. This might change if needed.
Baking would split non-planer quads in an unpredictable way, which is fine for rending but game engines often use a fixed order (0,1,2), (0,2,3) or (1,2,3) (1,3,0).
Added an option to use a fixed order when baking.
Since these conflict with loop select its now an option from the mesh tools panel. also made it possible to alt+rmb and alt+shift+rmb to mark other edge flags (creases,
bevel weights, sharp edges)
* option to export modifier applied objects
* option to export quads as tri's
* added back compress option (will default to enabled if you use .x3dz as the extension)
It is now possible for Action Channels to be displayed using the colour of its group. The colour for an Action Group is only set when it is auto-created by keyframing (controls to tweak this may/may-not be added, time permitting).
To enable the display of these colours, the View -> 'Use Group Colors' must be enabled. However, this is disabled by default.
* Changed default UV wire drawing do be a grey line with a black outline, highlighting aroudn selected points.
* Moved some draw options out of the View menu into the View panel.
* Changed header buttons to make Vert/Face modes less confusing.
act as if the object was in its original position, instead of being
different for all instances. However, this is desired behavior in
some cases and so breaks compatibility. Now it only does the new
behavior when enabling the "From Original" option.
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Caching and Baking:
- The point cache is now cleared on DAG_object_flush_update(), and not cleared for time dependency graph updates.
- There is now a Bake button instead of Protect. Also cache start and end frames were added to softbody and particles.
- The cloth autoprotect feature was removed.
- The Ctrl+B menu now also bakes cloth and particles next to softbody and fluids. Additionally there are now frree bake and free cache menu entries.
- The point cache api has been changed. There is now a PTCacheID struct for each point cache type that can be filled and then used to call the point cache functions.
- PointCache struct was added to DNA and is automatically allocated for each physics type.
- Soft body now supports Bake Editing just like cloth.
- Tried to make the systems deal consistently with time ipo's and offsets. Still not sure it all works correct, but too complicated to solve completely now.
Library Linking:
- Added some more warnings to prevent editing settings on library linked objects.
- Linked objects now read from the cache located next to the original library file, and never write to it. This restores old behavior for softbodies. For local simulation the mesh and not the object should be linked.
- Dupligroups and proxies can't create local point caches at the moment, how to implement that I'm not sure. We probably need a proxy point cache for that to work (ugh).
Physics UI:
- Renamed deflection panel to collision for consistency and reorganized the buttons. Also removed some softbody collision buttons from the softbody panel that were duplicated in this panel for cloth.
- Tweaked field panel buttons to not jump around when changing options.
- Tabbing e.g. Soft Body Collision into the Soft Body panel, it now only shows Collision to make the panel names readable.
- I tried to make enabled/disabling physics more consistent, since all three system did things different. Now the two modifier buttons to enable the modifier for the viewport and rendering are also duplicated in the physics panels. Toggling the Soft Body and Cloth buttons now both remove their modifiers.
- Fixed modifier error drawing glitch.
Particles:
- Particles are now recalculated more often than before. Previously it did partial updates based on the changes, but that doesn't work well with DAG_object_flush_update() ..
- Fixed memory leak loading keyed particle system. Now keys are not written to file anymore but always created after loading.
- Make particle threads work with autothreads.
Continue Physics:
- The timeline play now has a Continue Physics option in the playback menu, which keeps the simulations going without writing them to the cache.
- This doesn't always work that well, some changes are not immediately updated, but this can be improved later. Still it's fun to get a feel for the physics.
Todo:
- Point cache can get out of sync with and undo and changing a file without saving it.
- Change the point cache file format to store a version (so old point cache files can be either converted or at least ignored), and to do correct endian conversion.
- Menu item and/or buttons for Ctrl+B.
- A system("rm ..") was changed to remove() since the former is very slow for clearing point caches. These system() calls were already giving trouble in a bug in the tracker, but really most use of this system("") should be changed and tested.
- The Soft Body Collision and Clot Collision panel titles don't mention there's point cache settings there too, doing that makes them unreadable with the default panel setup.. but may need to make the names longer anyway.
This patch consists in new KX_GameObject::SetParent() and KX_GameObject::RemoveParent() functions to create and destroy parent relation during game. These functions are accessible through python and through a new actuator KX_ParentActuator. Function documentation in PyDoc.
The object keeps its orientation, position and scale when it is parented but will further rotate, move and scale with its parent from that point on. When the parent relation is broken, the object keeps the orientation, position and scale it had at that time.
The function has no effect if any of the X/Y/Z scale of the object or its new parent are below Epsilon.
-Handling of fluid particles was not coded at all
-Now things should work properly, but as fluid particles are not very familiar to me I'd appreciate some thorough testing
fix for [#6950] Blender crashes when .blog file top line is 160 characters or more
- made sure BLI_convertstringcode doesn't return more than 240 chars
- went through all callers and fixed places where string passed to BLI_convertstringcode was too short
- TODO: look into increasing sample->name and sound->name too, I prevented crashes, but filename might get shortened.
* Bugfix #8599d:
When using the ChildOf constraint on bones without parents, with cyclic-offset in action the effect of the cyclic-offset was applied twice. Added a bone option to make the effect of cyclic-offset not be applied to rootbones which have the option 'enabled'.
In the UI, this is presented in the opposite way. It is represented by the 'Offs' button beside the parent-bone selector in the Armature Bones panel when in EditMode.
* Head/Tail setting and Constraint Channels:
Added back in checks to see if the head/tail IPO-curves for Constraint Channels can get applied for the target constraint. I had removed these when applying the patch, but I'd overlooked the fact that users could add an IPO-curve for this from the IPO-editor, potentially mucking up the behaviour of some constraints.
This appears to be a long-standing bug, and it only affected the Follow-Path constraint as it was the only one which was dependant on time-based changes. An oversight in the depsgraph code meant that Follow-Path constraints on armature bones were not evaluated, unless there was an Action or some NLA-Strips for that armature.
I've added a new flag to pose->flag (POSE_CONSTRAINTS_TIMEDEPEND) which only gets set/cleared by update_pose_constraint_flags. This flag indicates that the depsgraph needs to do an update for such cases, and will require going in/out of EditMode to set this for old files.
It's been implemented as such to avoid having costly searches when trying to run animations realtime (as is done for modifiers).
Fixed a long standing bug in IMB_dupImBuf: refcounter should be better 0
within the duplicated ImBuf...
Finally removed this strange STRIPELEM_META mumbo jumbo.
On a way to asset management: made METAs behave like true input strips:
* proxying should work
* input filter options should work (including transform and color balance :)
* IPOs now work in replace mode
The latter is now obsolete and will be soon
removed.
Some tiny build tweaks for darwin committed
in preparation of bigger changes for proper
SDK suport both on intel and ppc
