detects...
- invalid vertex range for edges/faces
- duplicate indices in edge/face
- duplicate edges/faces in mesh
- missing edges data in faces
At the moment it doesn't correct errors, but eventually it will do this.
- Tidying up some inconsistent formatting
- Names of old IPO blocks are now included in the names used for new
actions. These are included after a "CDA:" prefix, (i.e. "_C_onverted
_D_ata _A_ction:"), which makes it easier to browse through these
actions later.
One-liner fix - a missing "OPERATOR_FINISHED" on the select operator
was causing problems renaming markers and potentially with other
operations too!
To find this bug, I added debug method to dump the list of markers to
console. This has revealed some troublesome things about the way
markers are organised, which IMO need to be addressed.
-> 2.50
Actionified ShapeKey IPO-blocks (i.e. "Shape Key Actions") would have
an action channel with the hardcoded name, "Shape", and this action
would be assigned to Object level (although ShapeKey blocks had their
own IPO-block slot, only Objects could have actions, so actionifying
ShapeKey IPO-blocks would wrap a ShapeKey block's IPO's to an Object-
level action).
Hence, the path conversions code would wrongly interpret this action
channel as referring to a Pose Channel instead, thus creating some
invalid paths with a 'pose.bones["Shape"]' prefix wrongly getting
tacked on. To ensure that the converted animation can work out of the
box, a 'data.shape_keys' prefix is now used instead so that these
actions can still be Object-rooted while still being able to correctly
control the Shape Keys. This is because there's no easy way to
identify and then shift such action from Object-level to ShapeKey-
level within the conversion code. The consequence though is that such
converted ShapeKey actions CAN ONLY BE USED THROUGH OBJECT LEVEL (i.e.
via Action NOT ShapeKey editor).
Secondly, the Action/ShapeKey editor version patching code has been
modified so that if a ShapeKey editor view was active when loading an
old 2.4x file, the action gets cleared from the view. This is because
of this didn't make semantic sense: the ShapeKey editor is for
ShapeKey-rooted actions, while the Action Editor is for Object-rooted
actions. The converted files though let Object-level actions be shown
in either one.
* Texture context was previously determined by going to the appropriate panel, for example "world panel -> texture panel" to access world textures. Additionally there was a separate button to access brush textures.
* Now the texture context can be selected directly through an expanded icon menu, which shows the available context options.
* This context selector is now at the top of the texture panel, but this could later be perhaps integrated to the context path somehow to be more intuitive.
RMB click in InfoWindow "console log" was missing call to set subwindow,
needed because it uses opengl picking to find active lines.
Result was that entire UI was glCleared, for some buffer swap methods.
This was reverted by Brecht r22541 because its inefficient but there is no way to work around this with povray at the moment so adding it back as optional args.
The poll() callbacks used in the Text Editor for scrolling and text-
block unlinking operators were too restrictive when the text block was
lib-data.
- Scrolling lib-linked texts is useful for just checking out parts of
the linked-in file that aren't visible on screen already. For example,
checking the specific rig that some UI panels script will work on, or
reading a "README.txt" linked in with notes on which layers various
controls are on. It should be fine that this temporarily modifies the
linked text-block (but for view-settings which will can be reset
later/on file load without any real consequences).
- Unlink operator should be able to be run, otherwise it would be very
difficult to remove linked files from a file (?)
- python 3.2 does 'import site' on startup which now tries to parse pyconfig.h which isn't copied. so for now just run without importing 'site', alternative would be to copy the header file for posix systems.
- cache PYTHON_VERSION variable so it can be set to 3.2, needed for copying python installation's other then 3.1.
mode with drivers
ChildOf constraints added using the PoseBone.constraints.new() method
via Python scripts instead of using the operator (this latter method
is still the preferred/recommended method) were not getting some
critical flags set, causing errors arising from space conversions
being performed more than once.
- negative ray casts would invert the offset direction.
this meant if positive and negative were enabled at once and the mesh was slightly inside & outside the object it wrapped,
the offset would be applied in opposite directions.
This way the offset is always along the vertex normal.
- allow negative offset from RNA, could be useful and no benefit to disable.
While testing Apply Visual transforms last night, I noticed that
setting a constraint to use its owner as its target was allowed and
didn't trigger any warnings. This clearly doesn't do any good and is
different from the old behaviour.
After talking with Ton Roosendaal we agreed on making those changes.
I wonder if we should go for "Start Game" instead of "From File". But Space is not a constraint here so be it.
- Armature Actuator now only shows the "Secondary Target" option when the Bone Constraint supports it (IK only now).
-- that may be overkill I don't know. It shouldn't slow down the UI considerably, so it should be fine. Easy to revert if needed though.
- renaming things such as "Start frame" to "Start Frame"
When using masks or other simple 3D elements in composites, doing
a layer re-rendering on a node is a bit clumsy all the time.
This commit does two things to help:
- new hotkey "Z" in node editor automatically finds render layer
that changed and re-renders it + composites
- option "Auto Render" does same, but then after every transform
edit in 3D window
The latter is experimental; real & proper system for this requires
full threaded render support (like previews). But it works!
Demo file:
http://download.blender.org/demo/test/auto_composite.blend
Important fix:
After any render, all the render layers were tagged "changed", which
caused any edit to first totally recomposte everthing. Now it only
composites changes.
Implementation notes
- DAG scene flush now sets 'changed' flags in render layer nodes
- Added notifier for 'transform finished' to trigger the update,
this is temporarily.
Drivers for Scene, World, and Compositing Nodes now "work" (well,
sort-of)! Previously they were strictly restricted to object-
accessible data only; now they can function across the board (give or
take some weak spots).
Although there is still no depsgraph support so that these properties
update properly when their source controls are changed (this will
probably require a lot more work), they can still update under other
circumstances (i.e. frame change and/or manual refresh flushing via
mouse movement, etc.)
As the depsgraph tagging support is lacking, these just get always
executed for now, which might potentially be quite sluggish, though it
is hoped that there are so few of these top-level datablocks with
drivers hooked up that this is barely an issue in practice. At least I
haven't noticed any substantial slowdowns for animation playback, so
it should probably be fine.
* There were a lot of settings in the particle panels that made no sense for simple hair and only cluttered up the ui.
* Now these settings are hidden by default unless "advanced" hair options are shown.
* Without advanced options the particle velocity controls are replaced by a simple "hair length" value, which actually corresponds to the grown hair length in blender units.
* Some hair effector options that are actually very useful were not shown in ui. These are now found in the "field weights" panel.
Moving this code to the same method as is used for Apply Visual
Transform (for bones case), which uses standardised decomposition
methods instead of the improvised ones used here before. This was in
an attempt to get IK chains Visual Keyed correctly, though this
doesn't seem to have improved the situation much.
Also, the decompositon for objects here now takes care of euler
rotation modes.
TODO: other rotation modes should get included here too...
