* The whole case of lib linking and pointcaches is not very well defined currently, but this fix sets the behavior of sb to the same as other physics currently.
* A proper fix will be easy to implement after a good physics baking ui is added.
1) Added a new operator to swap the order of strips within a track
(Alt-F).
This makes it possible to select two strips (or more precisely, two
islands of consecutive + selected strips) in a single track and change
the order in which the appear without needing a extra tracks to
perform the move through.
As usual, the non-overlapping rules apply, so there may be some cases
where swapping in this way is not possible without adjusting the
intermediate strips first manually. Otherwise, everything just gets
too tricky to manage deciding what adjustments should be done to the
obstructing strips to make a fit.
2) Freeing meta-strips didn't free their local data properly (i.e.
modifiers they may have had).
3) Adding strips to tracks, where the endframes for the strips
overlapped would cause problems with incorrect ordering of strips. I
still need to double-check whether evaluation works ok in this case...
* When a simulation is baked no dynamics calculations should happen anymore (even outside of baked frame range) since these can be very time consuming and baked simulations are supposed to be fast!
- metaball tessellation functuion was calculating density when it didn't need to.
- image drawing was using a float as a loop counter, in extreme cases this could cause an infinite loop.
- remove/comment unused vars.
Added new option for applyong modifiers on splines' points. This moves
tesselation point and path would be affected by modifiers which are applied on
splines' points.
* When euler-rotation F-Curves had a single keyframe only, the view
would be artifically extended to fill up to 57 (this comes from the
radians to degrees calculations) due to a combination of the bounds-
finding function enforcing a minimum separation of 1 unit between
min/max. This has now been moved to the operator-level where it gets
applied AFTER these conversions have taken effect
* F-Curves with samples only (i.e. baked F-Curves) would be ignored by
these operators. Was caused by using a poll calback that only
considered whether there were keyframes. Hopefully this is sufficient;
otherwise a hybrid poll method will be needed.
The tool-redo depends on a working undo system, so it can rewind
a step and then redo operator with new settings. When a user
disables undo, this won't work.
Now the properties for redo operator (toolbar, F6) will grey out
when a redo isn't possible.
also minor functional changes
- OBJECT_OT_make_links_data() type property is now assigned to the operator property (so popup menu can find it)
- removing BG image now returns cancelled if no image is removed.
That primitives, which used ri crash blender, flips normals just after creation
and this normals flipping calls layers interpolation, but MDISPS layer
contains no data still.
Just added checking to layerInterp_mdisps.
* Viscoelastic springs between the fluid particles can simulate all kinds
of viscous and elastic substances, such as jelly and honey. This is
achieved by creating springs dynamically between neighboring particles
and adjusting their rest length based on stretching/compression.
* This nearly completes the currently intended functionality for particle
fluids. The last missing thing is a surfacing extraction algorithm,
which is needed for a proper representation of a sph fluid.
* I also cleaned up and renamed some of the fluid parameters to make the
ui a bit easier to understand.
* One addition to the patch is an option to use "initial rest length" for
the springs, which uses the lengths between the particles at the time of
spring creation as the spring rest lengths instead of interaction radius/2.
This makes the fluid keep it's original shape better (good for very
viscoelastic materials), but can create large density differences inside
the fluid (not really physically correct for a fluid).
* Viscoelastic springs are stored in point cache as extra data.
* Not strictly necessary right now, but better for future.
* Struct data (only boids at the moment) is now written as structs (with dna) so they work between 64 and 32 bit machines too.
* I've getting bad feelings about the point cache index_array for a while (cause for this bug too), so from now on memory cache uses a simple binary search directly on the index data to handle queries to specific data points.
* This is a bit slower than just checking from a dedicated array, but it's much less error prone, uses less memory and makes the code more readable too, so it's not a tough choice.
also removed unused vars.
can_pbvh_draw() had a NULL check which is never needed (callers check for this), a NULL ob would have crashed the function anyway.
This adds the "Apply Base" feature from my gsoc2010 branch.
Apply Base partially applies the modifier, in that the mesh is
reshaped to more closely match the deformed mesh. The upper-level
displacements are recalculated so that the highest multires level
appears unchanged.
Multires does not currently deal well with too large displacements.
An easy-to-reproduce example: create any mesh type, add multires,
subdivide a few times, then use the sculpt grab brush to drag the
entire mesh over a few units. At the highest level, and at level 0,
the mesh looks fine, but all of the intervening levels will have ugly
spikes on them.
This patch doesn't help with situations where you can't modify the
base mesh, but otherwise works around the problem fairly well (albeit
with a heuristic, not an exact solution.)
Many thanks to them!
For comparison, see here:
http://kishalmi.servus.at/3D/bumpcode/
Based on algorithm in: Mikkelsen M. S.: Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces Revisited.
http://jbit.net/~sparky/sfgrad_bump/mm_sfgrad_bump.pdf
This fixes bugs:
#24591: Artefacts/strange normal mapping when anti-aliasing is on
#24735: Error at the Normal function.
#24962: Normals are not calculated correctly if anti-aliasing is off
#25103: Weird artefacts in Normal
This will break render compatibility a bit, but fixing this bugs would have also
done that, so in this case it should be acceptable.
Patch committed with these modifications:
* Bump method Old/3-Tap/5-Tap option in UI, 3-Tap is default
* Only compute normal perturbation vectors when needed
* Fix some middle of block variable definitions for MSVC
* Renamed children to "simple" and "interpolated" as this is
easier to explain and more descriptive than "from particles"
and "from faces".
* Also shuffled the child ui around a bit to make it clearer.
* Child seed parameter allows to change the seed for children
independent of the main seed value.
* Long hair mode for interpolated children:
- Making even haircuts was impossible before as the child
strand lengths were even, but their root coordinates were
not similar in relation to the parent strands.
- The "long hair" option uses the tips of the parent strands
to calculate the child strand tips.
* Hair parting options:
- Hair parting can now be calculated dynamically on the fly
when in 2.49 there was a cumbersome way of using emitter mesh
seams to define parting lines.
- For long hair parting can be created by a tip distance/root
distance threshold. For example setting the minimum threshold
to 2.0 creates partings between children belonging to parents
with tip distance of three times the root distance
((1+2)*root distance).
- For short hair the parting thresholds are used as angles
between the root directions.
* New kink parameters:
- Kink flatness calculates kink into a shape that would have
been achieved with an actual curling iron.
- Kink amplitude clump determines how much the main clump value
effects the kink amplitude.
- The beginning of kink is now smoothed to make the hair look
more natural close to the roots.
* Some bugs fixed along the way too:
- Child parent's were not determined correctly in some cases.
- Children didn't always look correct in particle mode.
- Changing child parameters caused actual particles to be
recalculated.
* Also cleaned up some deprecated code.
All in all there should be no real changes to how old files look
(except perhaps a bit better!), but the new options should make
hair/fur creation a bit more enjoyable. I'll try to make a video
demonstrating the new stuff shortly.