To use; press the (temporal) icon in header. Switching widget types is by
pressing G, R or S once, if current widget type is different it switches,
otherwise it goes to normal Transform().
Widgets need a bit test for picking accuracy, correct drawing etc.
The rotate widget has a center button for 'trackball' rotate. That latter
can also be used for hotkey-based rotate.
In current code, all widgets remain in "Global" space, also in editmode.
Also widget updates while using normal transform has to be done.
2 Bugfixes:
- rotate in PoseMode had error for 2d 'around' center
- transform in postemode could crash, due to typo (& or |)
- Scripts:
fixed error in "Save Current Theme" which prevented it from automatically updating script registration in menus.
cosmetic changes in a couple of Campbell's sel_same.py script strings + more descriptive name for its new menu place (3d view, face mode -> select menu).
small updates to help_browser.py script.
The above changes are related to this:
- Added new script menu entries: Render (for exporters to renderers), Themes, FaceSelect (this already at the proper place). Updated Scripts win->Scripts menu so it won't show all available entries, only the ones we mean to see there.
- Updated menu registration so that scripts folders can become trees. The release/scripts/ dir should be updated soon with subdirs like converters/, modifiers/, generators/ or whatever -- better discuss first (or is it? /me afraid of long irc discussions during meetings :) ).
- Modules:
Blender: added 'udatadir' option to .Get() function and added var Blender.mode to tell if Blender is in bg or interactive mode.
NMesh: added Campbell's nmesh.transform(matrix, recalc_normals = False) method (reworked, so my fault if it doesn't work).
- Bugs fixed:
#2123: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=125&aid=2123&group_id=9
Reported by Ken Hughes (thanks!), who also found the exact problem later (it was in Text.Load, not with script links -- if only I had checked emails these days ... lost > 1 hour today to find the problem: passed filename to M_Text_Load was later being written over by a function called by add_text). Also saw that Text.Load wasn't checking existence of passed filename (duh!), now it does.
#1655: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=125&aid=1655&group_id=9
Reported by Chris Want (thanks!): command line "blender -P script" not working properly for bg mode ("blender -b blendfile -P script").
Had to make some small updates to get it working (bg mode for scripts was never explicitely handled, it worked due to collateral effects, let's say), interested readers can check the report after I update it or the API_intro.py doc file. After more testing we can make further updates. Updated many places to not call redraws if in bg mode, now it is officially available. Blender outputs its own info when rendering in bg mode, if that is considered a nuissance we'll have to add a few "if (during_script())" calls outside bpython.
- Removed a few warnings here and there and also updated docs.
-includes:
*Text3d accessors - ablity to manipulate FONT objects through python
*update to Object.link - calls text_to_curve upon ob_font link for drawing
*update to constant.h - constant type checking define
*update to curve.c - clamp values on getters/setters
*clean up of Text3d module
Transform can switch mode on the fly again (GRS).
Fixed a bug with the BIF constraint call, needed to call startConstraint and normalise the space matrix (this affected the manipulator).
- Made framework for 3d Transform Manipulators (widgets)
- The Manipulators act like '2d buttons', by default with LeftMouse and with
while-hold-move-release
- Implemented now: Translation Widget, which allows:
- four hotspots for axis grab or view-aligned grab
- center defined by 'around' setting
- SHIFT+LMB gives planar constraint on other 2 axes
- works in Object mode and Edit mode (not posemode yet)
Enable it with (temporal) icon in 3D header. All other 'normal' transforms
then keeps working btw.
On the todo for this widget:
- choice for Global, Local or Normal orientation
The way the widgets are going to work is in review still. Commit is also for
Matt for his proposal/paper on topic.
Some notes regarding this project;
- no life updates (on mouse over) like 3DS, I think that's neurotic
- on click, dominant axis changes to theme defined "Transform" color, other axes disappear, like maya
- manipulater size is fixed preset, independent zoom.
- manipulator follows selection, and is located based on 'around' mode
Unresolved;
- in maya, when you select 2 or more objects, the manipulator draws on the 'active' object, also interesting
- what to do with G,R,S hotkeys? It could switch the manipulator "mode"...
- header button/menu for manipulator mode?
Constraint selection is now based on mouse motion (instead of pointer position).
What that means is that if you simply click MMB, it works exactly like it did with old transform (in 90% of the case, the last 10% is when MMB click was unpredictable in old transform because of extreme viewport orientation)
Also, since this means you don't really have a referential on which to base yourself, it draws a dashed line representing the mouse motion, starting at the center of the axis lines.
Please test and discuss, if this is better than before or not.
Fixed Extrude constraint. Needed to premul the normal by the object's matrix to but it in global space.
Also, moved the Locking Axis modifier (for constraints) from Alt to Shift. Alt was conflicting with middle mouse button emulation (reported in the test builds forum).
Tilt Transformation.
Sorting elements in TransData array according to their distance. That means we can always stop loops when it finds the first element that doesn't apply. That makes PET factor calculation and actual transformations faster since it stops at the first element outside of the area.
The Sorting algo is a no swap version of quicksort using the start of each subset as the pivot (random would be better and easy to implement. Need 3 additional lines of code really).
Silly 2.36 bug! In FaceSelect mode, other solid objects didn't show. Bad!
Additional; when using Halo material, and setting 'X Alpha', and disabling
Halo option, the 'Only Shadow' option turned on... uses same bit...
No time for real fix here, so for now the bit is always cleared after
disabling Halo.
choosing 'individual faces' it uses the ShrinkFatten option.
Note for Martin: center of axis is still wrong, but you know!
Note for non-testers: unfortunately axis constrainting for old
transform now doesn't work anymore. New code is much nicer, I dont restore
hacks!
When that flag is set, numbers typed when the cursor is on the first position will affect all positions who do not currently have something typed for them.
Enabled Skey, 2, Enter to quickly double the size of something.
All modesty asside, it's coded rather smartly so it shows the cursor in every position that it will affect and lets you tab in undefined position to type in values there.
Thanks to Samadam for reminding me that the old code permitted that.
Brought back Shrink/Fatten. Changed the behavior a bit, move the cursor to the right to move toward the normal, to the left to move backward. Please comment.
Only works with meshes, defaults to resize otherwise.
What that means is that you can grab/resize an object, press Xkey, type 2 (to resize/move by 2 on the x axis) and then press Ykey and the numeric value will be applied to the transformation on the Y axis.
Fixed a small glitch where constraint center wasn't readjusted for edit mode when using MMB (graphical bug only).
After deleting an object, the call free_and_unlink_base() takes care of
NULLifying object pointers. But, with exception of constraints. Silly!!!
So, in the end of a function additionally the test_scene_constraints()
has to be called to prevent crashes. This was missing in join_mesh and
convert_object.
To enable it you will need to download OpenEXR and install it.
For the Makefiles you will need to set WITH_OPENEXR=true
and set NAN_OPENEXR to point to where OpenEXR is installed.
For scons you'll need to remove config.opts to get the new options
so you can enable OpenEXR, I was not able to get blender to link
with scons so the scons stuff may need to be tweaked a little but
I think it should work.
For other platform managers The OpenEXR stuff is similar to QUICKTIME
you need to define WITH_OPENEXR and setup the library stuff and
as you'll notice in this commit there are two extra files.
Kent
Halo render had too narrow clipping for left/right or top/bottom part of
image. Was caused by fix for 2.36, incorrect clipping for distance...
distance was OK, but the old hack should be still there for X or Y clip!
Finish adding local constraints for multiple objects: One of the objects will have its axis highlighted lighter than the others. You control this one with your mouse and the others copy the motion on their respective axis.
Code changes: the TD_OBJECT flag is now a flag in TransInfo with the new T_POSE, T_EDIT and T_TEXTURE
It now only uses 1 extra row of 21 buttons. More can simply be added
- Added new icons for the new proportional edit options Root, Linear and
Constant
- Made sure pulldown and pop-up menu work for new prop options
- Transform fix; proportional edit circle was drawing in Object mode
always loc/rot/size ipos. The old method had a quite questionable
heuristic for detecting what changed, not sure if we want it back.
Added note in code, good candidate for later recode with dep graphs.
- Background image would jitter around on ATI card when zoomed in too
far. It appears that the driver is was multiplying the image width
by the zoom factor at some point and clamping this number, before
clipping the visible image. Somehow this then fed back in to clipping
the zoom factor.
Fix is to only tell GL to draw the smallest number of pixels (width
and height) that would be visible on the screen. Since this is not
a generally bad thing to do applied fix for all users of
glaDrawPixelsSafe.
