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Major list of changes done in tomato branch:
- Add a planar tracking implementation to libmv
This adds a new planar tracking implementation to libmv. The
tracker is based on Ceres[1], the new nonlinear minimizer that
myself and Sameer released from Google as open source. Since
the motion model is more involved, the interface is
different than the RegionTracker interface used previously
in Blender.
The start of a C API in libmv-capi.{cpp,h} is also included.
- Migrate from pat_{min,max} for markers to 4 corners representation
Convert markers in the movie clip editor / 2D tracker from using
pat_min and pat_max notation to using the a more general, 4-corner
representation.
There is still considerable porting work to do; in particular
sliding from preview widget does not work correct for rotated
markers.
All other areas should be ported to new representation:
* Added support of sliding individual corners. LMB slide + Ctrl
would scale the whole pattern
* S would scale the whole marker, S-S would scale pattern only
* Added support of marker's rotation which is currently rotates
only patterns around their centers or all markers around median,
Rotation or other non-translation/scaling transformation of search
area doesn't make sense.
* Track Preview widget would display transformed pattern which
libmv actually operates with.
- "Efficient Second-order Minimization" for the planar tracker
This implements the "Efficient Second-order Minimization"
scheme, as supported by the existing translation tracker.
This increases the amount of per-iteration work, but
decreases the number of iterations required to converge and
also increases the size of the basin of attraction for the
optimization.
- Remove the use of the legacy RegionTracker API from Blender,
and replaces it with the new TrackRegion API. This also
adds several features to the planar tracker in libmv:
* Do a brute-force initialization of tracking similar to "Hybrid"
mode in the stable release, but using all floats. This is slower
but more accurate. It is still necessary to evaluate if the
performance loss is worth it. In particular, this change is
necessary to support high bit depth imagery.
* Add support for masks over the search window. This is a step
towards supporting user-defined tracker masks. The tracker masks
will make it easy for users to make a mask for e.g. a ball.
Not exposed into interface yet/
* Add Pearson product moment correlation coefficient checking (aka
"Correlation" in the UI. This causes tracking failure if the
tracked patch is not linearly related to the template.
* Add support for warping a few points in addition to the supplied
points. This is useful because the tracking code deliberately
does not expose the underlying warp representation. Instead,
warps are specified in an aparametric way via the correspondences.
- Replace the old style tracker configuration panel with the
new planar tracking panel. From a users perspective, this means:
* The old "tracking algorithm" picker is gone. There is only 1
algorithm now. We may revisit this later, but I would much
prefer to have only 1 algorithm. So far no optimization work
has been done so the speed is not there yet.
* There is now a dropdown to select the motion model. Choices:
* Translation
* Translation, rotation
* Translation, scale
* Translation, rotation, scale
* Affine
* Perspective
* The old "Hybrid" mode is gone; instead there is a toggle to
enable or disable translation-only tracker initialization. This
is the equivalent of the hyrbid mode before, but rewritten to work
with the new planar tracking modes.
* The pyramid levels setting is gone. At a future date, the planar
tracker will decide to use pyramids or not automatically. The
pyramid setting was ultimately a mistake; with the brute force
initialization it is unnecessary.
- Add light-normalized tracking
Added the ability to normalize patterns by their average value while
tracking, to make them invariant to global illumination changes.
Additional details could be found at wiki page [2]
[1] http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver
[2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Motion_Tracker
Originally was needed to reach easy way of defining masks used for tracking
(do eliminate textures which doesn't belong to feature when tracking.
Implemented as alternative to GP datablock for clip and added switch between
per-clip and per-track GP datablocks -- internal limitations of GP doesn't
allow to display all GP datablocks easily. So either you see.edit GP associated
with clip or with track.
GP strokes associated with track are relative to track's position, following
tracks during tracking and could be shared between several tracks.
Masking code presents in libmv and there's rasterizer of GP datablocks for
masks in blender's tracking module, but they still need to be glued together.
Some documentation cound be found at this page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Motion_Tracker#Grease_Pencil
Use homography transformation for pattern displayed in track preview widget.
Sampling of this pattern happens to resolution of preview widget itself,
which implied some bigger changes in how scopes are working:
- Instead of real pattern store search area in BKE_movieclip_update_scopes,
which is later used for sampling pattern.
- Sampling of pattern happens in ui_draw_but_TRACKPREVIEW from search area
which allows to sample it to actual resolution of preview widget.
- If size of preview widget is not changing, this sampled pattern wouldn't
be re-sampled until scopes are tagged to update.
There are some issues with pattern sampling which seems to happen SamplePlanarPatch,
changing linear sampling to nearest removes that unwanted 1px offset.
Left commented saving of sampled image in ui_draw_but_TRACKPREVIEW which should
help figuring the issue out.
Issue was caused by do_versions being used pdata as reference for active/render/
stencil/clone layer indices instead of fdata.
Added some utility functions used only by do_versions to be sure this indices
are set from fdata for pre-bmesh files.
Now it's indicates at which scene frame number movie clip starts playing back.
This this setting is still belongs to clip datavlock and used by all users of
clip such as movie compositor nodes, constraints and so.
After long discussion and thoughts about this it was decided that this would
match image's current behavior (which initially seen a bit crappy), but that's
actually allows:
- Keep semantics of start frame in image and clip datablocks in sync
- Allows to support features like support of loading image sequences
with crappy numbers in suffix which doesn't fit long int.
- Allows to eliminate extra boolean checkbox to control such kind of offset.
Hopefully from pipeline POV it wouldn't hurt because idea of having this things
implemented in original way was working only if sequence before processing
started naming form 001.
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The linear and angular thresholds set the speed limit (in m/s) and rotation limit (in rad/s)
under which a rigid body will go to sleep (stop moving) if it stays below the limits for a
time equal or longer than the deactivation time (sleeping is disabled is deactivation time is
set to 0).
These settings help reducing the processing spent on Physics during the game.
Previously they were only accessible from python but not working because of a bug.
Now the python functions are working and the settings are available in the Physics panel
of the World settings when using the Blender Game render engine.
Python API:
import PhysicsConstraints
PhysicsConstraints.setDeactivationLinearTreshold(float)
PhysicsConstraints.setDeactivationAngularTreshold(float)
* Remove all code for Texture and Sequencer plugin system, this never worked in 2.5x / 2.6x and is therefore not needed anymore.
* DNA structures are kept, all read/writefile code is gone.
Detail: Smoke solver and Blender side of smoke now share the same cell length.
First reported by the Sintel artists long ago, again reported by MiikaH.
Part of my Smoke Development Project Phase III.
For an detailed user-level description of new features see the following blogpost:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/05/node-editing-tweaks/
TL;DR:
* Frame node gets more usable bounding-box behavior
* Node resizing has helpful mouse cursor indicators and works on all borders
* Node selection/active colors are themeable independently
* Customizable background colors for nodes (useful for frames visual
distinction).
Averages input samples to make the brush stroke smoother. Only mouse
location is averaged right now, not pressure/tilt/etc.
The DNA is in struct Paint.num_input_samples, RNA is
Paint.input_samples. In combination with PaintStroke usage this change
applies to sculpt, vpaint, and wpaint.
The range of useful values varies quite a bit depending on input
device; mouse needs higher values to match tablet pen, so set max
samples pretty high (64).
Release note section:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Sculpting#Input_Stroke_Averaging
