Blender had a very limited (only uncompressed or MJPEG frames) .avi file
support, for both reading and writing. This is something that ffmpeg can
fully do.
This removes all of that. 3500 lines of code gone, primary motivations being:
- ffmpeg can read and write .avi files just fine, including ones with
uncompressed or MJPEG frames.
- Blender's ffmpeg integration could also be taught to produce uncompressed or
MJPEG .avi files, but TBH I don't see a particular reason to do that. Modern
formats like H264 are better in every way, and already support "lossless"
option if needed.
- The "Lite" blender build configuration was excluding both ffmpeg and avi
anyway, so that config is something that can't read nor write any movies.
User visible changes:
- In scene image output type, under Video section now there's only Ffmpeg Video
(AVI Raw and AVI JPEG are gone)
- Whenever loading an existing file, if output was one of AVI Raw / AVI JPEG,
it is set to Ffmpeg Video.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118409
The depsgraph CoW mechanism is a bit of a misnomer. It creates an
evaluated copy for data-blocks regardless of whether the copy will
actually be written to. The point is to have physical separation between
original and evaluated data. This is in contrast to the commonly used
performance improvement of keeping a user count and copying data
implicitly when it needs to be changed. In Blender code we call this
"implicit sharing" instead. Importantly, the dependency graph has no
idea about the _actual_ CoW behavior in Blender.
Renaming this functionality in the despgraph removes some of the
confusion that comes up when talking about this, and will hopefully
make the depsgraph less confusing to understand initially too. Wording
like "the evaluated copy" (as opposed to the original data-block) has
also become common anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118338
- Use FunctionRef to avoid passing a separate user_data pointer
- Use std::string in arguments struct
- Add search items in one loop after gathering search items
- Use Vector of unique_ptr for search items instead of linked list
Add a new `BKE_lib_query_unused_ids_amounts` to query expected amounts
of deleted IDs. This function does not tag IDs in main anymore.
Factorize most parameters (and output data) into a new struct
`LibQueryUnusedIDsData`.
Part of PR https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117304.
I added a new BLO_userdef_default.h header to contain declarations of
two global variables that are still defined in C files. Use of designated
initializers for large structs make those files harder to change.
Arguably this is a better header for them anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118015
Extract:
- Operators' poll messages, including Python-defined ones.
- Use default translation context for the region toggle pie menu.
- Newly created F-Curve modifiers.
- Newly created video tracker track.
- Grease Pencil UV area status message
- Status messages in the graph slider operators.
- Status message "Text <text.py>" when opening .blend with
auto-executing Python file.
Disambiguate:
- Track: can mean NLA track, video tracking, a tracking marker, or
a track constraint.
- Tracking: can mean video tracking, or a track constraint.
Issue reported by Gabriel Gazzán.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117855
- "can not" -> "cannot" in many places (ambiguous, also see
Writing Style guide).
- "Bezier" -> "Bézier": proper spelling of the eponym.
- Tool keymaps: make "Uv" all caps.
- "FFMPEG" -> "FFmpeg" (official spelling)
- Use MULTIPLICATION SIGN U+00D7 instead of MULTIPLICATION X U+2715.
- "LClick" -> "LMB", "RClick" -> "RMB": this convention is used
everywhere else.
- "Save rendered the image..." -> "Save the rendered image...": typo.
- "Preserve Current retiming": title case for property.
- Bend status message: punctuation.
- "... class used to define the panel" -> "header": copy-paste error.
- "... class used to define the menu" -> "asset": copy-paste error.
- "Lights user to display objects..." -> "Lights used...": typo.
- "-setaudio require one argument" -> "requires": typo.
Some issues reported by Joan Pujolar and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117856
* For materials with UDIM tiles support, get array and mapping in one call
* For viewers that can use render results, add a dedicated function
* Fix potential use of render results in stencil overlay and grease pencil
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117563
This significantly simplifies memory management, mostly by avoiding
the need to free the memory manually. It may also improve performance,
since std::string has an inline buffer that can prevent heap
allocations and it stores the size.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117695
This is an optional parameter for int properties, which then show up as
enum properties.
Included fix: reset ID properties' enum items when the `items` parameter is `None`.
Example usage:
```python
import rna_prop_ui
# Add a regular int property.
rna_prop_ui.rna_idprop_ui_create(D.objects['Cube'], "test", default=123, min=-3, max=500)
# Change to an enum property with items (min/max are ignored).
rna_prop_ui.rna_idprop_ui_create(D.objects['Cube'], "test", default=0, min=-10, max=10, items=[("APPLES", "Apples", ""), ("ORANGES", "Oranges", "")])
# Switch back to regular int property.
rna_prop_ui.rna_idprop_ui_create(D.objects['Cube'], "test", default=1, min=0, max=10)
```
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117289
The term `PIL` stands for "platform independent library." It exists since the `Initial Revision`
commit from 2002. Nowadays, we generally just use the `BLI` (blenlib) prefix for such code
and the `PIL` prefix feels more confusing then useful. Therefore, this patch renames the
`PIL` to `BLI`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117325
Exceptions:
* Links to personal wiki pages
* Pages that are not in the new developer docs yet (like Human Interface Guidelines)
* tools\check_wiki\check_wiki_file_structure.py needs a refactor
No functional changes expected.
Before this PR the keyframing code was aware of driver specifics
and changed the frame where a key is inserted to the current driver value.
This is now changed so that the calling code needs to know where on the
FCurve the key should be inserted. This removes the need for the
`INSERTKEY_DRIVER` flag.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116823
The FPS menu was using a cached value which wasn't being refreshed
when translation changed.
Add `bpy.app.handlers.translation_update_post` handler which runs
when translation changes, this can be used to clear any cached UI
values.
Ref !117049
Using screen changing functions with screens used for full screen areas
isn't supported & caused corrupt screen data.
Add checks that the current and overriding screen support switching,
raising an error when they don't. Also add a check when restoring the
context not to change any full screen areas.
Recent and ongoing efforts have changed many properties to be stored
contiguously in memory, e.g. mesh attributes. This patch updates
rna_raw_access to make use of this and copy the entire contiguous block
of memory when the property is stored contiguously.
This is faster and scales much better with larger arrays.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116015
