This changes the naming of "Custom Split Normals" or "Split Normals" to be "Custom Normals"
This addresses #134744, only UI naming has been adjusted.
Internal/External APIs are left unchanged.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140440
The grid layout type for UI list is planned for removal in 5.0, see
blender/blender#110461.
In previous UI meetings, we talked about deprecating the Grid mode of
the UI list, which is not actually accessible in UI and was never used.
Nowadays, there is a new grid view that can be exposed in the API in
the future.
Initially, I wanted to remove references to layout_type in UI templates
in the text editor, because a lot of add-on developers on the
extensions platform base their lists on that code, and a lot of them
are therefore including soon to be deprecated code in their add-ons,
which I want to avoid in the future. But I thought we might as well
remove it from our python scripts as well, since it's just basically
redundant code that doesn't do anything. And also because many add-on
developers use bundled python scripts for references as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138395
This is replaced by geometry nodes, where volumes can now be generated from
point clouds and meshes with more control, and more efficient rendering as a
sparse volume.
No backwareds compatibility is provided, as this would be complicated, and
probably this feature was not used much in the past few years.
This node was supported in Cycles only, not by EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140292
This changes the engine identifier back to `BLENDER_EEVEE`.
We keep the `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` identifier around for
versioning reasons (have to detect when it is the active
engine of a older file).
This also rename a bunch of pannels that were using `next`
in their name.
This is a breaking change for Addons compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140282
This is part of the short term roadmap goal of simplifying the
compositor workflow
(see https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/134214).
The problem is that many users don't know how to get started with
compositing in Blender, even when they have used Blender for other
areas, e.g. modeling.
Note: although the solution makes compositor node trees reusable
accross blend files, this is a nice side effect and not the main goal
of the PR.
This PR implements a "New" button that creates a new compositing node
tree, and manages trees as IDs. This has following advantages:
- Consistent with other node editors and other parts of Blender,
therefore making it easier to getting started with compositing if users
are familiar with shading or geometry nodes
- Give users the ability to reuse the compositing node tree by linking
or appending it.
Note: The parameter "Use Nodes" is still present in this PR, but will
be removed (in a backward compatible way) in a follow up PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135223
e.g. stands for "exempli gratia" in Latin which means "for example".
The best way to make sure it makes sense when writing is to just expand
it to "for example". In these cases where the text was "for e.g.", that
leaves us with "for for example" which makes no sense. This commit fixes
all 110 cases, mostly just just replacing the words with "for example",
but also restructuring the text a bit more in a few cases, mostly by
moving "e.g." to the beginning of a list in parentheses.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139596
When enabled, this normalize the strength by the light area, to keep
the total output the same regardless of shape or size. This is the
existing behavior.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA.
For add-ons, an API function to compute the area is added for conversion,
in case there is no native support for normalization.
area = light.area(matrix_world=ob.matrix_world)
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136958
Similar to other renderers, this adds a temperature property to set the
light color using blackbody emission. This can be more convenient than
using nodes, and can improve interop with other software.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134303
Similar to other renderers, this adds an exposure property to multiply
the light power by 2^exposure. This can be more convenient to control
a wide range of values.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134528
- "Parameters for custom (OSL-based) Cameras" -> "cameras": lower case
in tooltips.
- "Connect two nodes ... (automatically determined": missing
parenthesis.
- "Join curve... control points are detected(if disabled...": add
missing space.
- "Add Selected to Active Objects Collection" -> "Active Object's":
typo.
- "Duplicate the acive shape key" -> "active": typo.
- "Copy selected points ": remove trailing space.
- "Move cursor" -> "Cursor": title case for operator.
- "Paste text to clipboard" -> "from clipboard": typo.
- "An empty Action considered as both a 'layered' and a 'layered'
Action." -> "is considered as both a 'legacy' and a 'layered'
Action": likely copy-paste error.
- "Target's Z axis will constraint..." -> "will constrain": typo.
- "The layer groups is expanded in the UI" -> "layer group": typo.
- Deprecation warnings: add missing parentheses.
- "... on low poly geometry.Offset rays...": add missing space after
period.
- "... relative to the files directory" -> "... to the file's
directory": typo.
- "The unit multiplier for pixels per meter" -> "The base unit": this
property description was copy and pasted.
- "... beyond the faces UVs..." -> "the faces' UVs: typo.
- "Is tracking data contains ..." -> "Whether the tracking data
contains": grammar.
- "Selected text" -> "Text": title case for prop.
- "The user has been shown the "Online Access" prompt and make a
choice" -> "made a choice": grammar.
- "Glare ": remove trailing space.
- "Don't collapse a curves" -> "Do not collapse curves": grammar.
Some issues reported by Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139118
