Fixed two issues with the sequencer:
* using blend modes with startstill / endstill in combination with IPOs
failed, since there was no room to store the composited result.
(It was stored into the same TStripElem thereby effectively disabling the
effect of the IPO)
If you have no idea, what this is all about:
A common case was: use a single PNG as a title, extrude and try to fade
in / out using IPOs.
* startstill / endstill are always displayed, so that one can change them
also on movie-strips and scene-strips.
They now also store a list of samples per pixel, and then get
shaded together with the ztransp samples. This comes with a
slight speed hit, but mainly memory might be a concern. However,
testing some peach scenes I haven't problems.
This completes the pipeline make-over, as started in 2006. With this
option, during rendering, each sample for every layer and pass is being
saved on disk (looks like non-antialiased images). Then the composite
and color correction happens, then a clip to 0-1 range, and only in end
all samples get combined - using sampling filters such as gauss/mitch/catmul.
This results in artefact-free antialiased images. Even Z-combine or
ID masks now work perfect for it!
This is an unfinished commit btw; Brecht will finish this for strands.
Also Halo doesnt work yet.
To activate FSA: press "Save Buffers" and the new button next to it. :)
Now when moving keyframes in the Action Editor, any existing keyframes on the frames where a selected keyframe lands (after the transform) will be removed. This is to prevent stacks of keyframes which cause blips and headaches for animators (especially stressed animators with a looming deadline).
I've added an option to the Action Editor's View menu to turn this behaviour on/off (by default, it's on). This shouldn't need to be used too much, and may be removed in due course. If it stays, it'll need a better name...
Added three new tools to the WKEY menu for Armatures in EditMode/PoseMode. These add .* extensions to the names of selected bones based on their position in 3d-space on the axis considered by that tool.
The current naming schemes are based upon the extensions I normally apply. Some people may have slightly different preferences though.
There is one for:
* Left-Right names (along x-axis)
* Front-Back names (along y-axis)
* Top-Bottom names (along z-axis)
Adding the possibility to use 2 or 3 vertice to define an edge or face-like orientation.
Adding the possibility to use 2 connected edges to define a face-like orientation.
Added a new option to the "Vertex Groups" menu: "Remove Selected from All Groups". This menu can be accessed using Ctrl-G in EditMode for Meshes and Lattices.
Previous changes for Constraint Up/Down buttons broke the drawing of some constraints. It seems the lack of any buttons within an pair of uiBeginBlockAlign() and uiEndBlockAlign() caused problems.
Keyframes are now checked for whether they are visible or not before they are prepared for drawing. This should provide some improvements for large data-sets...
In general there don't appear to be any major issues, although in a few situations, long-keyframes may end up appearing/disappearing.
Now the Action Editor doesn't bother drawing channels which are out of view. This should give some performance improvements when there are many channels with heaps of keyframes, as the keyframes that occur in that channel don't need to be sampled (which is a major performance bottleneck).
Vertices that are newly created by a subdivision of a mesh object
with mirror modifiers (with clipping option set) are projected to
the plane of symmetry when they are created on edges that lie on
that plane.
For regular subdivide this is trivial by linearity, so this mainly
effects subdivide smooth, loopcut smooth, and subdivide fractal.
This commit basically prevents nasty seam rips on the mirror when
doing these operations.
world. That allows more extreme lamps (areas too).
To make it work more intuitive, the preview renders in buttons now use
the settings for exposure too.
* Buttons to change position of constraints in constraint stack are now totally hidden if they don't do anything valid. It'll have to be this way until we get grey-able buttons.
* Duplicating keyframes in Action Editor now sets correct undo-string
Added a new constraint, "Limit Distance". This constraint defines a 'virtual sphere' around the target which the owner can be made to stay inside, outside, or on the surface of it.
This constraint is best used when applied using the Ctrl-Alt-C hotkey, as the radius is set correctly that way.
One usage, is to prevent the target of an IK-chain from straying away from the chain. Care should be taken to not use a member of the IK-chain as the target though.
Description of Variables:
* 'Dist' - Radius of virtual sphere
* 'R' - Click on this to recalculate the 'Dist' value (note: like the 'R' button in the StretchTo constraint, this is currently buggy)
' Mode' - This menu gives different options for how the limiting sphere should act. The mode names are self explanatory.
* 'Soft' and 'SoftDistance' - currently not functional (so settings are hidden). These are used to define a smaller radius around the sphere of influence where a non-linear relationship between input and resulting locations occurs to prevent the owner 'crashing' into the sphere.
Cleaned up some old parts of sculpt. Got rid of the old EditData struct in favor of two new "brush action" structures, which split the symmetry data out from everything else. Cleaned up various names and such as well. There should be no user-visible changes.
i did not like the accusation blenders soft body module is too bad coded to not respect law of energy conservation.
well .. animators most of the times don't care if there was a theoretical physics law .. they want to get things done
hum i think
on the other hand it is for sure raising confidence to the soft body module when simple physical rules can be verified
so i won't 'turn a hand' on either approach
IMHO the inaccurate soft approach serves best to animators
anyhow
you have both so you can decide devil or Beelzebub
have fun BM
Making the mirror tool axis selection interactive instead of using a popmenu.
Mirror is now just a constant -1 scaling transform, which enables you to choose the mirror axis through hotkeys (x,y,z) and with MMB. It also means it's easier to select the correct axis if you're not sure which is which and gives access to all the orientation supported in transform (including custom user orientations).
Mesh and Object header menus still have the individual axis as options but have an added "Interactive Mirror" which just enters transform and lets user pick the axis there. Ctrl-M enters "Interactive Mirror" too.
In a nutshell, this changes adds more possible mirroring axis and unifies the mirror axis selection process with transform constraint axis selection.
Problem: artist wants character to walk in grass, but still have all rendered
in seperate render-layers, for postpro effects and vblur. How to efficiently
create a mask image you can put *over* the character for the grass?
Solution has two parts; this commits allows any layer inside of the renderlayers
to become a Z-mask (Z values for solid gets filled in, but not rendered).
Second part of commit is render option "Only render stuff that's in front of
a zbuffer value that was filled in (saves render time)
