Add a toggle for Fast GI Approximation in the header of the panel,
following Cycles layout.
Move the `Max Roughness` setting inside the panel, and rename to
Threshold.
Since Fast GI Approximation only has any effect when Threshold/
Max Roughness is below the max (1.0), gray out the rest of the
panel when at that value.
Co-authored-by: Clément FOUCAULT <foucault.clem@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125452
When deleting files on WIN32, open files cannot be removed.
This is especially a problem for compiled Python modules which
remain open once imported.
Previously it was not as common for add-ons to include compiled Python
modules however with extensions supporting Python-wheels,
it's increasingly likely users run into this.
Workaround the problem by:
- Scheduling the files for removal next time Blender starts.
- Rename paths that cannot be removed to avoid collisions when
the paths is reused (re-installing for example).
This is supported for:
- Extensions.
- Python wheels.
- Legacy user add-ons.
- App-templates.
Details:
- On startup, a file exists that indicates cleanup is needed.
In the common case the file doesn't exist.
Otherwise module paths are scanned for files to remove.
- Since errors resolving paths to remove could result in user data loss,
ensure the paths are always within the (extension/addon/app-template)
directory.
- File locking isn't used, if multiple Blender instances start at the
same time and try to remove the same files, this won't cause errors.
Even so, remove the checking file immediately avoid unnecessary
file-system access overhead for other Blender instances.
Also resolves#125049.
Resolve error when overwriting existing Python modules would attempt
to recursively remove a symlink which raised an error.
Related to #123827, same error but for extensions.
Modifiers in the VSE have mask properties first, then modifier-specific
settings. This breaks consistency with other modifiers for objects
and Grease Pencil.
Move Mask properties to the bottom, after a separator, and group them
in a column for better alignment.
Fixes#120360
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125710
Update `draw_material_settings` to show EEVEE Next properties.
This only changes the internal function, instead of the Panel classes
themselves, to avoid breaking the Python API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125616
Add a utility function to add horizontal padding to the left and right
of items in UI lists and tree views to make them more consistent with
other buttons like menu entries.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125498
This type of projection is often used e.g. in exhibitions that leverage big
curved screens.
Effectively, the frame is mapped onto a cylinder, with the x axis becoming the
longitude and y axis becoming the height.
Users can configure the min/max longitude, the min/max height and the radius of
the cylinder.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas.stockner@freenet.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123046
This removes the terminal periods automatically added to the end of
tooltip items. The current desire is to only end in period if there
are multiple sentences - so if there is one in the middle of the
description. This also converts our uses of lists to use space and
bullet, rather than just bullet or asterisks.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125460
Missed after 'Set Snap Base' commit.
Just like in 3D View, UV editing can also benefit from selecting
multiple snap target elements.
The C++ code was already done, it was only necessary to edit the
interface.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124986
Hide the Action Slot selector in the Action editor behind the experimental
flag. Not only shouldn't it be shown, but also it uses an API that's only
available in experimental builds.
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
Convert an image to grease pencil strokes by tracing features.
Uses the Potrace library to generate curve on averaged b/w values of the image.
Ported from the GPv2 feature of the same name.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125328
Add an Action Slot selector to the Action editor's header, next to the
Action selector. The selector shows all slots in the action that are
suitable for animating objects (as the Action editor itself is limited
to showing the Action of the active object).
This also considerably simplifies the 'Animation Debug' panel, as some
debugging code has been removed, as well as the display of any animation
layers. The latter can be reintroduced (if necessary) when multi-layer
animation support is added. Most importantly, it removes the
WindowManager property that was used as a hack to assign layered Actions
to objects.
API change: the RNA property `AnimData.slot` is now a pointer property
that reflects the actual slot (it used to be an enum property).
Some small changes to the UI code were necessary to make the selector
show the slot's display name (and not their internal name).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125416
Replace the "play" emoji ▶ with a hyphen as separator in attribute
lists (Attributes and Color Attributes panel).
The hyphen uses less space while at the same time adding negative
space around domain/datatype making it easier to scan through the list.
See pull request for images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125436
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 adds two new nodes:
* `Grease Pencil to Curves`: Converts each grease pencil layer into an instance
that contains curves.
* `Curves to Grease Pencil`: Converts top-level curve instances into grease
pencil layers.
This opens up many new opportunities:
* Use grease pencil as input to other procedural systems that don't necessarily
output grease pencil.
* Generate grease pencil from scratch using geometry nodes.
* Temporarily convert grease pencil data to curves to use more powerful features
for curves processing.
Some data on layers are not attributes yet unfortunately, so there is some
special case handling for the `opacity` attribute. This was previously discussed
at the geometry nodes workshop:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-05-13-geometry-nodes-workshop-notes/34760#grease-pencil-14
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124279
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
The filter for grease pencil objects wasn't showing up.
The code was still checking for the legacy type.
Now, we're checking for the right object type and
are also looking at the `bpy.data.grease_pencils_v3`
list to make the checkbox show up in the UI.
Follow up to !123570
With !122709, many Sculpt tools were changed to remove the visual brush
radius displayed by the brush cursor to avoid confusing users. This had
the unintended side effect of forcing these tools to use the default
arrow cursor.
This commit adds the PAINT_CROSS cursor back to various Sculpt Mode
tools to remain consistent within the overall mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124946
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
- Fixes incorrect handling of incompatible engines. There is a global list of compatible
engines, but `create_cycles_material` didn't use it, displaying an incorrect warning
when using the operator.
- Add `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` to compatible engines.
- Remove `BLENDER_EEVEE` from compatible engines.
- Add render method option. This replaces the material `blend_method`
- Remove material blend method option (replaced by `render_method`)
- Remove material shadow option. Not needed anymore as shadows use
the node tree for evaluation.
**TODO**
- Manual should still be updated. Will be done after this patch lands.
- I did some basic tests. I am not familiar with this operator, but think it
should handle all the different cases. Would be nice to have some
render tests for this to detect regressions.
Implements: #122315
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124094
Interpolation tool for strokes ported from GPv2.
Adds a new operator that inserts a new frame with interpolated curves.
The source curves are taken from the previous/next keyframe.
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122155
Add the concept of 'active slot' within an Action. This allows
clicking on a slot in the Action editor, to select it and mark it as
'active'.
Note that this does _not_ add support for action slots in
`ANIM_set_active_channel()`, as that function doesn't get enough info
to do that, and refactoring it is not on my wishlist.
RNA property `action.slots.active` can be used to access and set the
active slot in Python. `slot.active` can be used to query the slot's
active state, and is read-only (so that there is one way to set the
active slot).
A panel in the Action editor shows info about the active slot. This
panel is just a minimal UI that shows the name and an icon
representing the idtype of the active slot.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124422
The (GPv2) fill tool has an "extension" mode to assist with filling
small gaps where strokes don't fully meet.
- Overlay: Draws various helpers during modal fill tool operation, using
the same functions as the render-to-image used for applying the fill
tool.
- Extension lines: Scrolling or page up/down extends the tips of strokes
and draws extra boundary lines to limit filling.
- Extension circles: Press S to toggle the mode. This draws circles
around stroke tips.
- Stroke overlay: This can be enabled in the brush settings
(_Advanced > Visual Aids_) to draw strokes in a simple color on top of
the viewport.
- Extension line collision: Tests for intersections of extension lines
with other lines and with strokes, and cuts them short. Enable in
brush settings (_Advanced > Strokes Collision_).
- Better defaults for extension increments: The values are in Blender
units, and quite arbitrary. Using lower values makes it feel more like
GPv2 in the 2D animation template.
- Draw functions in the `ed::greasepencil::image_render` namespace now
consistently expect coordinates in view space (avoids confusion and
works better for 2D elements).
- Some internal renaming and cleanup (many variable names come from GPv2
and were not very clear).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122771
`UnifiedPaintPanel.get_brush_mode()` may return `None` when the current
tool doesn't use brushes. In the specific case of primitive tools
("Line", "Polyline", "Arc", etc) in grease pencil draw mode, the tools
actually should use brushes, but this isn't implemented properly yet
with brush assets. Still handle this case cleanly.
