A new option '-a' can be passed to the blenderplayer. It forces the
framebuffer to have an alpha channel.
This can be used in VideoTexture to return a image with alpha channel
with ImageViewport (provided alpha is set to True on the ImageViewport
object and that the background color alpha channel is 0, which is the
default).
Without the -a option, the frame buffer has no alpha channel and
ImageViewport always returns an opaque image, no matter what.
In Linux, the player window will be rendered transparently over
the desktop.
In Windows, the player window is still rendered opaque because
transparency of the window is only possible using the 'compositing'
functions of Windows. The code is there but not enabled (look for
WIN32_COMPOSITING) because 1) it doesn't work so well 2) it requires
a DLL that is only available on Vista and up.
give precedence to AA over Swap copy:
Certain GPU (intel) will not allow MSAA together with swap copy.
Previously, swap copy had priority over MSAA: fewer AA samples would be
chosen if it was the condition to get swap copy. This patch reverse the
logic: swap copy will be abandonned if another swap method (undefined or
exchange) will provide the number of AA samples requested. If no AA
samples is requested, swap copy still has the priority of course.
Load driver dynamically at runtime instead of weak-linking the
3Dconnexion framework. Driver no longer needed at build time!
Works with really old drivers (as in PowerMac old), more recent
versions, and the latest which allows us to process events on a
separate thread.
Original patch by @random (D765) with some minor work done by @campbell
and me.
At this place, I'd like call out a number of people who were involved and
deserve a big "Thank you!":
* At the first place @randon who developed and submitted the patch
* The Blendercn community which helped a lot with testing - espacially
* @yuzukyo, @leon_cheung and @kjym3
* @campbellbarton, @mont29 and @sergey for their help and advises during
* review
* @ton who realized the importance of this early on and asked me for
* reviewing
We are still not finished, as this is only the first part of the
implementaion, but there's more to come!
Custom implementation for resizing (GHOST_SizerWin32)
Some things still don't work:
* esc cancel
* max windows size
* aero (sizing) snap on win7
hbrBackground = 0 to disable clear screen.
Thanks to dfelinto for help in finding of root cause.
Now the active monitor size is used on startup.
Currently the cursor position is checked for intersection with the monitor bounds to find the active screen.
starting from version 2.64. Unless you have a special system setup, this means the
will be in ~/.config/blender rather than ~/.blender.
When the version number is changed to 2.64, the "Copy Previous Settings" operator
in the splash will copy the settings to the new location.
XDG base directory specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Not all file formats/calls are supported yet. It will be expended.
Please from now on use BLI_fopen, BLI_* for file manipulations.
For non-windows systems BLI_fopen just calls fopen.
For Windows, the utf-8 string is translated to utf-16 string in order to call UTF version of the function.
- building with GHOST/SDL now adds the PREFIX
- image.external_edit operator errors out if the filepath isnt set (was annoying and loaded gimp while running tests)
NDOF is disabled in CMake.
- Added "default" section to switch in sendMotionEvent.
It's what strict gcc rules don't like much and it's
And it's good practice in general, imo.
- added includes for spnav
- added FindSpacenav.cmake which allows using spacenav from a nonstandard path.
- remove NDOF_LIBPATH, use a full library path instead.
- use char rather then STR_String for the event printer.
- added option to build WITH_GHOST_DEBUG for cmake
- renamed WITH_SDL_GHOST --> WITH_GHOST_SDL
This opens up the option for blender to be more easily ported to other devices, OS's.
TODO
- continuous grab.
- text glitch with multiple windows (was a bug in X11 too for a while, will check on this)
blender_add_lib now takes a separate include argument to suppress warnings in system includes (mostly ffmpeg & python).
also only build wm_apple.c on apple+carbon configuration.
