We have established a convention of exposing the most important
settings from popovers, then aligning a popover to control more
detailed settings.
The file browser has powerful display / filtering settings, but
they're hidden in popovers at the moment, so it's sometimes a pain
to use them. The "display as" options are now exposed to the left of
the display settings popover, and the "filter" toggle is exposed to
the left of the filter settings popover. This convention is familiar
and intuitive for users and makes interaction faster.
Note that the "show hidden" item in the filter popover still has an
effect if filtering is disabled.
This commit also:
- Removes the icons in the "Sort By" enum
- Uses property split for the "Sort By" enum
- Very slightly increases the default width of the file browser
window to make room for the new buttons.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8719
Status Bar can show scene statistics, memory usage, version, etc set by context menu. Part two of T75672.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7557
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
The file subversion is no longer used in the Python API or user interface,
and is now internal to Blender.
User interface, Python API and file I/O metadata now use more consistent
formatting for version numbers. Official releases use "2.83.0", "2.83.1",
and releases under development use "2.90.0 Alpha", "2.90.0 Beta".
Some Python add-ons may need to lower the Blender version in bl_info to
(2, 83, 0) or (2, 90, 0) if they used a subversion number higher than 0.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.83/Python_API#Compatibility
This change is in preparation of LTS releases, and also brings us more
in line with semantic versioning.
Fixes T76058.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7748
The old value (1.0) was often too large in practice. When many collection
instances are created, the large empties create a mess in the viewport.
This adds a new preference setting in `Editing -> Objects -> New Objects`
called `Instance Empty Size`.
The value will be used as display size for new empties containing a
collection instance.
Reviewers: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7650
This patch implements dumping images from cache to HDD.
The main goal of this system is to provide a means to achieve consistent playback speed mainly for strips that are not possible to preview in real time.
How to use:
Disk cache has own settings in user preferences for path to storage, size limit and compression level.
To use disk cache, you need to check `Use Disk Cache` box, set `Disk Cache Directory`, `Disk Cache Limit` and save or open existing .blend file.
By default sequencer output will be cached only. Manual setting is possible in cache panel.
Uses:
- Replacement or alternative for proxies. Disk cache will work with any strip type, supports float images as well.
- Storage for strip thumbnails.
- Less RAM needs to be allocated for preview cache
How it works:
Disk cache is extension of RAM cache. Every image, that is stored or deleted in RAM will be stored or deleted on HDD as well. Images can be compressed to save space and for use on slower drives. Compressed images are slower to write and read though.
Images are stored in bulk of 100 rendered frames per one file. This is to overcome slow file access time for large amount of files. Drawback is, that if one frame needs to be redrawn, all 100 frames are deleted.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5524
This commit is a full refactor of the grease pencil modules including Draw Engine, Modifiers, VFX, depsgraph update, improvements in operators and conversion of Sculpt and Weight paint tools to real brushes.
Also, a huge code cleanup has been done at all levels.
Thanks to @fclem for his work and yo @pepeland and @mendio for the testing and help in the development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6293
Multisample buffers were used for smooth line drawing. As we now have
an algorithm that doesn't need the multisample buffers we can remove
them.
The user preference for viewport multi_sampling is replaced by single
toggle overlay `use_overlay_smooth_wire`. By default this setting is
enabled as the new drawing is really quick (<1ms) and uses zero hacks.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6367
This adds the ID-Filters visible on append/link to the settings the file
browser remembers, potentially storing them in the Preferences.
Artists in the studio here requested this. They typically have to set up
the same or similar settings every time, so this saves them from that.
The default was changed with an initial implementation of the feature.
With the feedback from animators, having a behavior which affects curves
outside of a changing range is not convenient for professional animators
working on high quality character animation. On the other hand, automatic
smoothing is better for casual animation of object motion.
This change adds an ability to change the default via User Preferences.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5875
This makes it so that some display related properties of the file
browser state are remembered in the Preferences. Otherwise, users often
end up doing the same set up work over and over again, so this is a
nice way to save users some work.
It's typical for other file browsers to remember their state too, so
another benefit is having a more conventional behavior, meeting user
expectations better.
Some points:
* We currently store: Window size, display type, thumbnail size,
enabled details-columns, sort options, "Show Hidden" option. More can
be added easily.
* No changes are stored to the Preferences if "Auto-save Preferences"
is disabled. This is how Quick Favorites behave too and it's a
reasonable way to make this behavior optional.
* The Preferences are only saved to permanent memory upon closing
Blender, following existing convention of Preferences and Quick
Favorites.
* If settings weren't actually changed, Preference saving is skipped.
* Only temporary file browsers save their state (invoked through
actions like open or save), not regular file browser editors. These
are usually used for different purposes and workflows.
* Removes "Show Thumbnails" Preferences option. It would need some
special handling, possibly introducing bugs. For users, this
simplifies behavior and should make things more predictable.
Left in DNA data in case we decide to bring it back.
Reviewers: brecht, #user_interface, billreynish, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: #user_interface, William Reynish, Campbell Barton, Brecht
van Lommel (quick first pass review in person)
Maniphest Tasks: T69460
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5893
Otherwise --factory-startup would e.g render as `Keep User Interface`
(which is supposed to be `New Window` by default)
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5851
Added because the current default is too fast
for painting with tablets, see D5385.
Turntable and trackball have different settings because
turn-table uses an angle-per-pixel, where as trackball
values are relative to the view-port size so a scale is used.
The sensitivity is scaled by the pixel size so hi-dpi views don't rotate faster.
Simplify preferences by removing the ability to load them from
either the startup.blend or userpref.blend.
Also simplifies updating default preferences by moving
them to a struct definition.
