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
Changes in view3d_id_path_drop_copy from 8b6a21c122 assumed that
drag-drop filepaths was handled only with FileHandlers in View3d. This
adds the missing drop-box to FileHandler conversion for .vdb files.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122839
A few of the recently added submenus are not included in the list of builtin
menus, so node assets under those catalog names will generate redundant submenus.
Fixes same issue as b49c84276c for newly added nested menus.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122855
autopep8_format_paths.py was never wired up in the windows tooling,
this PR wires it up, to get around a 8191 limitation for command
lines on windows an alternative "--no-subprocess" option has been
introduced to call the pep8 module directly from python.
TODO: A subprocess is still used for getting the version information
Contributors:
- @campbellbarton fixes to autopep8_format_paths.py to support
the -no-subprocess option.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120794
We don't have yet the perfect formula, so adding
- An option to disable bone shape for Blender heuristic, if needed
- An option to scale factor the bone shape for Blender heuristic
Originally this would replace scripts that come bundled with Blender,
but it's unclear how this is useful.
Searching for this online mainly leads to people asking how they can
use it to add scripts. For example in a studio environment you might
want to deploy add-ons and startup scripts for all users.
Even if you wanted to use it for replacement though, it wasn't really
doing that and inconsistent for different types of scripts:
* startup: ignored
* modules: replaces bundled scripts
* presets: adds to bundled scripts
* addons (in 4.1): ignored
* addons_core (in 4.2): ignored
* startup/bl_app_templates_system: replaces bundled scripts
This change makes it add scripts from this path for all. This is a
breaking change, though arguably this feature was just broken to
begin with and not used much in practice because of that.
The alternative would be add a new set of environment variables to
avoid breaking existing behavior. But that also means keeping around the
broken behavior or fixing it in another way.
Supporting multiple paths may be used too, but for now just support
a single one as doing this for all BLENDER_SYSTEM variables is
non-trivial. The main use case for that would be add-ons anyway, and
those will mainly be handled through upcoming
BLENDER_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS instead.
Ref #122512
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122689
This PR changes the temporary viewers created in node groups by Connect to Output in two ways:
- Rename it, as it is currently called "tmp_viewer", which stands out
as strange and code-like. It is renamed to "(Viewer)", which can be
translated.
- Use the actual connected socket type.
Currently the viewer uses hardcoded socket types (Geometry for Geometry
Nodes, Shader for shader nodes). While in GN we can only connect
geometry to the output, in shader nodes other types can be inspected.
This change allows the tmp_viewer to use the type of the actual socket
being inspected, to have a better idea of what it contains from
outside the group.
It can be especially useful if a group is used in multiple materials
and different sockets are being previewed in each one.
It also does some cleanup, details in the commits.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122520
Update .glb / .gltf extension
Part of #122783
Still remaining the change of default (grayed) value if user didn't set filepath yet
But not sure this can be accessible from python API
When a file is created with pre- 4.2 version, but is open with 4.2 version:
We can now detect the automatically created node setup
Wrong for the exact value of the cutoff, but better than nothing to get it detected
Based on feedback in !122727, include previously built-in add-ons
in the built-in extensions panel even if there is no support for
adding it back via the extensions repository.
The translation extraction goes through each keyconfig preset file and
activates it in order to extract its messages. This change makes it
restore the original config, otherwise it would end up switching to
Industry Compatible.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122789
This groups all the add-ons from 4.1 which were enabled but are no
longer distributed with Blender and provides an easy way for users to
install them. This panel is collapsed by default.
Ref !122727
Co-authored-by: Dalai Felinto <dalai@blender.org>
Since import images as mesh planes operator was added recently in core
Blender, it is now easy to also support converting image empties to mesh
planes by reusing the same code.
This results in a fast workflow where you can use Blender's drag & drop
& align feature for reference images, and quickly turn them into meshes
without registering second file handler and clicking anything before
import is finished.
Ref !122546
