BaseException was used as a catch-all in situations where it
didn't make sense and where "Exception" is more appropriate
based on Python's documentation & error checking tools,
`pylint` warns `broad-exception-caught` for e.g.
BaseException includes SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt & GeneratorExit,
so unless the intention is to catch calls to `sys.exit(..)`,
breaking a out of a loop using Ctrl-C or generator-exit,
then it shouldn't be used.
Even then, it's preferable to catch those exceptions explicitly.
Customizable highlighting of editor edges that can be used to help
differentiate between areas, indicate active area, and/or help users
with visual impairment. Can be completely removed as well. This
replaces the active area header highlighting, which doesn't work for
transparent headers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116684
When overriding the GPU backend to OpenGL from the command line the
vulkan device was still visible in the preferences. This is fixed by
testing both the active backend and the backend in the preferences to be
vulkan.
Allows users to override the auto detection for GPU
selection. Normally the GPU selection is done by looping
over the order Vulkan provides and finding the highest
performing device based on its type (discrete, integrated,
software).
However users might have multiple discrete cards and want
to switch between them. Or developers want to validate other
GPUs without rebooting.
This PR adds the ability to override the auto detection
for the vulkan backend.
**Future improvements**:
- This PR does not include a command line option. This can be added
later for render farms.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127860
This PR allows users to select a GPU backend.
In the system tab of the user preferences the GPU backend can be selected in the `Display Graphics` panel.
It will require a restart of Blender before the changes become effective.
During startup minimum requirements are checked. Blender will switch automatically
to OpenGL when no compatible Vulkan device could be detected. A dialog will be shown
to inform the user.
The setting of the in the `Display Graphics` panel are still overridden when blender is started
using the `--gpu-backend` option. When starting blender with `--debug-gpu` the backend
detection will print to the console.
See PR for detailed information and screenshots of the UI.
Implements #126504
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126545
Adds the ability to connect and disconnect strips in the VSE.
- Connected strips have an icon indicating their status, and attempting
to select one connected strip selects all other connected strips in
that chain.
- If the user attempts to connect a strip that is already connected to
other strips, that strip will disconnect itself from others before
connecting to new strips.
- Preview selection also works in bulk if multiple video strips are
connected together in the timeline.
- When adding new strips from the Add menu or the File Browser, strips
from the same file are connected by default. There's an option to
turn this off in Editing > Video Sequencer user preferences.
- It is possible to individually tweak strips/handles and ignore
connections with Alt+Click.
- This shortcut overrides the old keymap item for "Linked Handle"
selection. The property still exists if people want to use that
shortcut for its old purpose.
- To make sure that connections remain valid even after duplication,
I've added a condition to `seq_new_fix_links_recursive` that also
updates connections using the `seq->tmp` var. (A note -- I've updated
the comment for this field in `DNA_sequence_types.h` because the var
is only used for duplication now. It was once present in
`select_more_less_seq__internal` to be used for linked selection but
is gone now).
- There are also functions to cut one-way links and make sure that
all strips are bidirectionally connected after duplicating.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124333
Show the autokeying indicator (record button) on the Timeline header in
red when enabled. With a white outline on dark theme, or with a black
outline on light theme. The red color is user changeable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126344
This patch introduces a new experimental option for the new CPU
compositor under development. This is to make development easier such
that it happens directly in main, but the compositor is not expected to
work and will probably crash.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125960
This gives users the ability to control the size of tooltip text
separately from other text styles. This is an accessibility issue
in that users with low vision can choose to make these larger than
the working text.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125147
Core extensions should have their bugs reported as any other issue in
Blender.
This PR removes their "Rrport a Bug" link.
I left the link only for glTF since it has its own tracker. But I
wouldn't mind removing it as well.
Ref: !125218
This PR removes the "Widget Label" text style, found in Preferences /
Themes / Text Style. This results in both labels and the text found in
input boxes sharing settings. This results in a slight loss of
customization but it isn't that useful to have these things separate
and results in code complication and errors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122898
Improvements to Area maintenance, adding the ability to move and dock
areas to any location, including between multiple windows. Allows
transitioning between splitting, joining, moving, and docking without
early commit. Improved visual feedback. Design Doc #124915. Added
as experiment feature.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123414
This is a workaround to allow user to keep working without loss of data
when an issue like #124049 happens.
This commit also expose again the `use_all_linked_data_direct` debug
option, no idea why that one was removed.
Previously add-ons were sorted by category & name, remove the category
only sorting by name since the category is no longer displayed and
isn't part of extension meta-data. Now the add-ons are sorted by name
(case insensitive).
Details:
- Store add-ons modules sorted to avoid having to sort on every redraw.
- addon_utils.modules() now returns an iterator.
Prevent potential problems from untrusted XML (typically themes)
traversing into data outside the intended targets.
From what I can tell it's not currently possible but changes to RNA
could allow for this which would likely go by unnoticed.
Further details in code-comments.
The default "System" repository which was ordered before "User Default",
order system repositories last as these are a special case many users
won't touch.
- Use line separator over box instead of separate boxes.
- Format web-links with a label, then the button instead
of positioning the buttons side-by-side.
Changes by Brecht with minor edits (see !123420).
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Add back the "Add-ons" preferences, removing add-on logic from
extensions.
- Add support for filtering add-ons by tags
(separate from extension tags).
- Tags now respect the "Only Enabled" option.
- Remove the ability to enable/disable add-ons from extensions.
- Remove add-on preferences from extensions.
- Remove "Legacy" & "Core" prefix from add-on names.
- Remove "Show Legacy Add-ons" filtering option.
Implements design task #122735.
Details:
- Add-on names and descriptions are no longer translated,
since it's impractical to translate text which is mostly
maintained outside of Blender.
- Extensions names have a `[disabled]` suffix when disabled so it's
possible to identify installed but disabled extensions.
- The add-on "type" is shown in the details,
so it's possible to tell the difference between an extension,
a core add-on & a legacy user add-on.
- Icons are also used to differentiate the add-on type.
- User add-on's must be uninstalled from the add-ons section
(matching 4.1 behavior).
- Simplify logic for filtering tags, move into a function.
Extract
- Cycles denoiser enum.
- Extensions user preferences UI.
- Node operator poll message from new node function.
Improve
- Split "(Enabled|Disabled) on startup, overriding the preference."
into two messages.
Disambiguate
- "Add" when describing the action of adding something should use the
Operator context.
- "Dimensions", in noise textures.
- "Transform" as a noun, the matrix transform type of Geometry Nodes,
as opposed to the verb to move things in space.
- "Parent" as a noun or verb (the parent of an object, to parent an
object to another).
Some issues reported by Satoshi Yamasaki, deathblood, and Gabriel Gazzán.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122969
The following operations have been removed for system repositories:
- Installing from disk.
- Uninstall extensions.
- Delete files (when removing the repository).
Also change the operator to remove a repository so the option to
remove files is now a boolean instead of an enum. While a dynamic
enum can be made to work, this option is logically a boolean.
The buttons to upgrade or sync extensions called extension
operators via bpy.app.handlers, requiring awkward glue-code
which didn't show error reports in to the user.
Remove these operators and call the upgrade & sync operators directly.
Support for "System" extensions as an alternative to the current
"User" extensions repository.
The purpose of this change is to support bundling extensions for
offline work or in environments where users setting up thier own
extensions isn't desirable, see #122512.
Details:
The default "System" repository on Linux will for example use:
- `/usr/share/blender/4.2/extensions/{system}` For system installs.
- `./4.2/extensions/{system}` For portable installs.
- Blender's default startup now has a "System" repository
which users or administrators may populate.
- Repositories can select between User/System paths,
setting a custom path overrides overrides this setting.
- Add "BLENDER_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS" (matching "BLENDER_LOCAL_EXTENSIONS").
Ref !122832
