The best workaround for problems with SplineIK applied to a chain of BBones so far is to disable 'Chain Offset'. Hopefully this workaround will soon become irrelevant.
Made the 'Offset Factor' setting use a separate variable from the 'Offset' setting in the DNA stuff. While we could get away with this sort of thing in the past, it turns out that with the Datablocks viewer these days, settings sharing an internal var but with different ranges/behaviour doesn't work well anymore, since later instances override earlier ones.
Spline IK now takes curve-object transforms into account when the 'Chain Offset' option is not enabled, since the intention of that feature is to allow a chain of bones following the shape of a curve to be placed anywhere in the scene.
This also means that only -s and -S are accepted to set start frame and scene (before, it would accept anything that started with s or S, you could have done blender -b file.blend -super 1 -Science "scene 2").
We really need better argument parsing...
- added an option to BLI_convertstringframe and BLI_convertstringframe_range to add digits if not found.
- removed BLI_convertstringframe where its obviously not needed - such as loading movies and sounds.
Various internal fixes, also additional feature - can drag on the histogram to change scale
(0 key to reset).
Also fix [#20844] Color balance node (lift freeze)
Ambient occlusion: multiplied with direct lighting by default, add
is also still available and more blending methods might be added if
they are useful. This is fundamentally a non physical effect.
Environment lighting: always added as you would expect (though you can
subtract by specifying negative energy). This can be just white or take
colors or textures from the world.
Indirect lighting: only supported for AAO at the moment (and is still
too approximate), and also is always added. A factor is available to
specify how much is added, though value 1.0 is correct.
Also:
* Material ambient value now defaults to 1.0.
* Added Environment, Indirect and Emit pass.
* "Both" blending method is no longer available.
* Attenuation, sampling parameters are still shared, some could be split
up, though if they are different this would affect performance.
Added a check in RNA_property_animateable() which checks if the base ID-block can have animation data or not. Screen data currently cannot have animation data, so this solves that problem (where there were non-functional entries there in the menu).
Now the compositing node tree will update on frame change if any of the
nodes are animated.
This doesn't work for playback (i.e. alt a), that's better off waiting until we
have some kind of frame caching system.
- use mirror when the option is enabled in editmode.
- fliped group names are used when they exist.
- only the setting that is edited will be applied to the mirrored verts group.
- copy value is applied to all mirrored verts of the selection.
- normalize normalizes all vgroups and mirrors.
utility functions defvert_sync and defvert_sync_mapped, similar to defvert_copy but does not remove existing groups and optionally creates groups as needed.
defvert_sync_mapped uses a an int array for mapping the flipped values.
F-Curves now internally store radians again instead of degrees.
- This solves problems with inconsistencies when working with drivers.
- No need to version patch old files, potentially screwing them up. As such, removed the version patching for F-Curves.
- Is better suited to optionally showing radians throughout the UI instead or degrees.
As a result, values are now converted on the fly in the Graph Editor for display and operators that operate on values. I've made the conversion system for this rather general, so that other unit type conversions can also be hooked up with the type conversion backend.
Also, made some tweaks to F-Curve RNA wrapping to make it represent the data better.
TODO:
- Transform code currently still needs to be corrected to work with these changes. Currently moving keyframes for rotation curves will make them change too rapidly vertically when using degrees.
* Better (and windows enabled) OpenMP handling (> 2x-5x speed)
* More Volumetric Texture mapping options (heat, etc) <-- Matt if that's not to your liking, just revert that part, it's separate anyway
* Initial velocity taken from particle settings (no more slow starting)
* Option to select compression method (there seem to be a bug in my high compression usage, at least it's been reported to result in exploding smoke - better use low compression for the time being)
It's been tested since a while but as usual please report any (new!) bugs. ;-)
levels, child particles, and shadow/SSS/AO quality.. Now also works on what
is displayed in the 3d view instead of only rendering, see panel in the scene
properties.
Most file changes were to make scene available in the isDisabled modifier
callback function.
* Select Grouped
Selects bones in the same layer or same group as the selected ones. Optimised the code for the select same groups too.
* Flip Quats
Flips quaternion values so that the rotation progresses over a different path while maintaining the same endpoint orientations.