New properties 'line_color' and 'line_priority' are added to Material ID data blocks.
The 'line_color' property allows users to specify a per-material line color that can be
used as a Freestyle line color through Material color modifiers of line style settings.
The new line color property is intended to provide a solution for line color
stylization when a proper Freestyle support for Cycles is implemented (likely
as part of the upcoming Blender 2.72 release; see Patch D632). Materials in
Cycles are usually set up using shader nodes, and Freestyle won't be capable
of retrieving colors and other properties from node-based materials any soon.
The new line color property of materials addresses this foreseen limitation by
providing artists with an intuitive alternative mean to specify line colors on a
per-material basis independently from node trees.
The 'line_priority' property gives users a way to control line colors at material
boundaries. When a line is drawn along a feature edge at material boundaries,
one of the two materials on both sides of the edge has to be picked up to
determine the line color. So far there was no way to control this selection
(which was in effect at random). Now the material with a higher line color
priority will be selected.
The new per-material line settings are shown in the new Freestyle Line tab in
the Material context of the Properties window (only when Freestyle is enabled).
It is sometimes possible to end up with a lot of datablocks which have old + unused
"AnimData" containers still attached. This most commonly happens when doing motion
graphics work (i.e. when some linked-in objects may have previously been used to develop
a set of reusable assets), and is particularly distracting in the NLA Editor.
This commit adds an operator which removes AnimData blocks (restricted to only those
which are visible in the animation editor where it is run from) which are "empty"
(i.e. that is, have no active action, drivers, and nla tracks or strips).
This operator can be found from the "Edit" menu in the NLA Editor. Although it also
works when run from the DopeSheet or Graph Editors, it is of less use there since
those won't show these empty AnimData blocks by default (since by definition, such
AnimData blocks necesarily have no keyframes or drivers that can be shown), hence
there will be no feedback if the operator fails or succeeds.
Simply add an option to render settings to save an EXR cache,
just when the render is finished. Also changed RE_ReadRenderResult() to read
cache instead of temp sample files (those are fully volatile now anyway).
Path to save cached render results is an UserPreferences setting.
Also added 'Reload render' feature to the Image Editor (so one can now re-open a blend,
and in an Image Editor hit ctrl-R to (try to) reload last render from cache).
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D553
This revision is meant to update Freestyle's Python scripts to make full usage
of the new features of Python and Freestyle's Python API.
Freestyle's Python scripts are pretty old already, and were never given much
attention. With the 2.7x generation of Blender coming up, this is an excellent
time to update Freestyle's Python scripts, hopefully adding some new features
and achieving some speed improvements on the way.
Main goals:
* use for loops where possible
* general cleanup, making use of more recent python features (generators,
ternary operator, ect.)
* update the documentation on the way (it's lacking atm)
Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D319
Author: flokkievids (Folkert de Vries)
Reviewed by: kjym3 (Tamito Kajiyama)
panels.
Patch by @Severin (with minor modifications by me). As discussed in
{D535} the node editor does not have real modal operator tools like the
3D view or image editors for instance, so it makes sense to utilise it
this way. Tabs really help in this area due to the large amount of node
types and categories. Further tweaks could be made later if the need
arises.
Exposes all supported unit systems & types, and to_value()/to_string() functions.
Reviewed and enhanced by CampbellBarton, many thanks!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D416
Most weight tools also work in edit mode.
This change exposes all applicable tools
within a separate weight tool panel
in the tools tab of the tool shelf
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D592
This bug fix is likely to affect the visual results of existing Freestyle setups using the
Material color/alpha/thickness modifiers with the 'material_attribute' parameter set to
either 'Diffuse' (default) or 'Specular', and also the Ramp option enabled in the case
of the Material color modifier.
When you hit "setup tracking scene" in MCE, the active layer usually switches
to the layer where the ground has been created, thus he shadow layer.
New objects are created or appended on that layer which means they will be
default be rendered as shadows only. This behaviour requires muscle memory
and is confusing for new users. This patch is changing the behaviour in a
way that the active layer is remembered from before setting up the scene.
Patch by gottfried, thanks!
Reviewers: sebastian_k, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D574
This commit is intended to fully fix the problem described in
https://developer.blender.org/T36425#19 (see also the previous commit rB08528f577dcb).
Addition of a small offset (to avoid singularity in stroke rendering due to overlapping vertices)
was not performed for all overlapping vertices.
Removed the StrokeCleaner and related helper functions which were added as a
temporary workaround in rB2a5b6d9c8f16.
So! First, frame for absolute shape keys: never allow a new key to have the same pos as an
existing one (this does not make sense). This way, the two workflows are possible (create
all keys and then animate ctime, or animate ctime and then create keys where you need them).
Also, fixed UIList for shapekeys, the "absolute" test was wrong, and better to show frame
value, even though not editable, than nothing in case of absolute keys.
And finally, add getter to RNA 'frame' readonly value, so that we output real frame values,
and not dummy internal ones (which are /100) in our API.
as duplicators.
This property was always hidden in the UI for empties and cameras. It
doesn't make sense for the objects themselves (they are wires-only), but
also gets inherited by duplis. Now show it greyed out if not used, but
make it available for duplicators.
Dashed lines were resetting stroke segment visibility by mistake (making invisible segments
visible, for example when applied to the results of square blueprint geometry modifier).
