The Preferences for asset libraries are becoming more than a simple name
+ path. E.g. there is now an Import Method options, and we previously
also considered a Relative Paths option (which we may still want to
add). The previous UI, while consistent with the Auto Run Python Scripts
UI isn't well suited for less than trivial cases. Using UI lists makes
the UI more scalable and follows usual list UI patterns more. There is
also more space for the path button now.
Part of #104686.
The default import method for an asset library can now be determined in
the Preferences. The Asset Browser has a new "Follow Preferences" option
for the importing. The essentials asset library still only uses "Append
(Reuse Data)".
This is part of #104686, which aims at improving the import method
selection, especially for the introduction of the new essentials library
(which doesn't support certain import methods). Further changes are
coming to improve the UI, see #104686.
Pull Request: #104688
The quick fur operator now uses the new hair system. It adds a new
curves object for every selected mesh, and adds geometry nodes
modifiers from the essentials assets that generate curves. A few
settings are exposed in the redo panel, including an option for whether
to apply the modifier to generate the initial curves so that there is
original editable data.
The point of the operator is to give people a sense of how to use the
node groups and to give a very fast way to build a basic setup for
further tweaking.
Pull Request #104764
Use the right hand side selection, as it fits the typical workflow
the best.
Arguably, the same would need to be done for the k-shortcut, but
that is another issue to be tackled. As well as making the selection
active.
Pull Request #104777
This implements the delete operator in curves edit mode. The behavior
is similar to the delete operator in the edit mode of legacy curves,
i.e. it's actually dissolving and doesn't split curves. This is also
the behavior that we generally want for the hair use case.
The operator is added to the `Curves` menu and can be accessed via
the keyboard using `X` or `Del`.
Pull Request #104765
This adds a new `Curve Falloff` popover to the comb brush tool settings.
The curve control allows changing the brush weight along the curve to
e.g. affect the tip more than the root. This is a relative way to get
something like stiffness for short hair.
This functionality could potentially be added to some other brushes,
but the comb brush is the most important one, so that is added first.
I did add the buttons add the buttons to choose a curve map preset.
However, I did not add the preset dropdown, because that just adds
some unnecessary complexity in the code now and is redundant.
Pull Request #104589
This patch adds a simple operator to set values of the active
attribute for the selected element. The aim is to give simple control
over attribute values in edit mode rather than to provide the fastest
workflow for most cases. Eventually this operator might be less
important compared to more advanced attribute editing tools, but for
now, exposing a little bit of functionality is low hanging fruit and
will help to see the possibilities.
The implementation mostly consists of boilerplate to register the
necessary property types for the operator and draw their UI.
Beyond that, we just loop over selected elements and set a value.
Pull Request #104426
As described in #104171, add an operator that creates a new node group
that contain the current node group and named attribute nodes to deal
with the outputs. This saves manual work when moving a high-level
modifier to the node editor for better procedural control.
Pull Request #104546
This adds a new overlay for curves sculpt mode that displays the curves that the
user currently edits. Those may be different from the evaluated/original curves
when procedural deformations or child curves are used.
The overlay can clash with the evaluated curves when they are exactly on top of
each other. There is not much we can do about that currently. The user will have
to decide whether the overlay should be shown or not on a case-by-case basis.
Pull Request #104467
Sculpt: Added vector displacement for the sculpting draw brush (area plane mapping only for now)
Vector displacement maps (VDM) provide a way to create complex displacements that can have overhangs in one brush dab.
This is unlike standard displacement with height maps that only displace in the normal direction.
Forms like ears, curled horns, etc can be created in one click if VMDs are used.
There is a checkbox on the draw brush in the texture settings "Vector Displacement" that enables/disables this feature.
Technical description: The RGB channels of a texture in a brush stroke are read and interpreted as individual vectors, that are used to offset vertices.
As of now, this is only working for the draw brush using the area plane mapping. Symmetry and radial symmetry are working.
A few things to consider when making VD-Maps:
* UVs need to stay intact for the bake mesh (e.g. voxel remeshing can't be used to create VD Meshes)
* When exporting a VD Map it should be in the file format OpenEXR (for positive and negative floating point values).
* Export resolution can be 512x512 or lower (EXR files can get very large, but VDM brushes don't need a high resolution)
And when using them:
* Inside Blender clamping needs to be unchecked on the texture
* The brush falloff should be set to constant (or nearly constant)
This patch was inspired by this [right-click-select proposal](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/WqWx/) Thanks for the post!
(Moved [this patch](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17080) to here.)
Co-authored-by: Robin Hohnsbeen <robin@hohnsbeen.de>
Pull Request #104481
Matching the RNA id's to the search pattern is slow because
of the function `fnmatchcase`. This patch first checks the string
prefix without any special characters used by fnmatch,
if the `startswith` check fails, there is no need to check `fnmatchcase`.
Before the optimization, an online manual lookup took about 400ms
which is quite noticeable, with this patch applied it's under 10ms.
Ref !104581.
Currently the passepartout color is hardcoded to black. While a
sensible default for cinema, it may make less sense for other media,
whether video, print, web, etc. It greatly affects viewing conditions
of the image and should be user selectable, much like painting
programs allow.
Pull Request #104486
During hair grooming in curves sculpt mode, it is very useful when hair strands
are prevented from intersecting with the surface mesh. Unfortunately, it also
decreases performance significantly so we don't want it to be turned on all the time.
The surface collision is used by the Comb, Pinch and Puff brushes currently.
It can be turned on or off on a per-geometry basis.
The intersection prevention quality of this patch is not perfect yet. This can
be improved over time using a better solver. Overall, perfect collision detection
at the cost of bad performance is not necessary for interactive sculpting,
because the user can fix small mistakes very quickly. Nevertheless, the quality
can probably still be improved significantly without too big slow-downs depending
on the use case. This can be done separately from this patch.
Pull Request #104469
This adds a new `select_linked` function that selects all the points
on a curve if there is at least one point already selected.
This also adds a keymap for the operator.
Co-authored-by: Falk David <falkdavid@gmx.de>
Pull Request #104569
Add `contains_group` method in python api for `NodeTree` type, cleanup
`ntreeHasTree` function, reuse `ntreeHasTree` in more place in code.
The algorithm has been changed to not recheck trees by using set.
Performance gains from avoiding already checked node trees:
Based on tests, can say that for large files with a huge number
of trees, the response speed of opening the search menu in the
node editor increased by ~200 times (for really large projects
with 16 individual groups in 6 levels of nesting). Group insert
operations are also accelerated, but this is different in some cases.
Pull Request #104465
Adds an experimental option under "New Features" in preferences,
which enables visibility of the new Volume Nodes.
Right now this option does nothing but will be used during development.
See #103248
Pull Request #104552
Box-Selecting channels in the dope sheet with click-drag was no longer possible as of Blender 3.2
Due to the removal of tweak events the box select operator was always shadowed by the click operator.
Original Phabricator discussion here: https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17065
Use `WM_operator_flag_only_pass_through_on_press` on click operator to fix it
Co-authored-by: Christoph Lendenfeld <chris.lenden@gmail.com>
Pull Request #104505
The generator now skips these with a warning, they will need to be
corrected in the user manual.
This caused tests/python/bl_rna_manual_reference.py to fail looking
up URL's.
Move the function for getting the language code associated with the
user manual into a utility function (from the generated
rna_manual_reference.py).
This allows other parts of Blender to create a manual URL based on the
current locale preferences and environment.
Ref !104494
Add a new node that groups faces inside of boundary edge regions.
This is the opposite action as the existing "Face Group Boundaries"
node. It's also the same as some of the "Initialize Face Sets"
options in sculpt mode.
Discussion in #102962 has favored "Group" for a name for these
sockets rather than "Set", so that is used here.
Pull Request #104428
This adds a `select_box` function for the `Curves` object. It is used in the `view3d_box_select` operator.
It also adds the basic selection tools in the toolbar of Edit Mode.
Authored-by: Falk David <falkdavid@gmx.de>
Pull Request #104411
- Use bpy.utils.execfile instead of importing then deleting from
sys.modules.
- Add a note for why keeping this cached in memory isn't necessary.
This has the advantage of not interfering with any scripts that import
`rna_manual_reference` as a module.
This allow to bypass all cost associated with shadow mapping.
This can be useful in certain situation, such as opening a scene on a
lower end system or just to gain performance in some situation (lookdev).
Implements virtual shadow mapping for EEVEE-Next primary shadow solution.
This technique aims to deliver really high precision shadowing for many
lights while keeping a relatively low cost.
The technique works by splitting each shadows in tiles that are only
allocated & updated on demand by visible surfaces and volumes.
Local lights use cubemap projection with mipmap level of detail to adapt
the resolution to the receiver distance.
Sun lights use clipmap distribution or cascade distribution (depending on
which is better) for selecting the level of detail with the distance to
the camera.
Current maximum shadow precision for local light is about 1 pixel per 0.01
degrees.
For sun light, the maximum resolution is based on the camera far clip
distance which sets the most coarse clipmap.
## Limitation:
Alpha Blended surfaces might not get correct shadowing in some corner
casses. This is to be fixed in another commit.
While resolution is greatly increase, it is still finite. It is virtually
equivalent to one 8K shadow per shadow cube face and per clipmap level.
There is no filtering present for now.
## Parameters:
Shadow Pool Size: In bytes, amount of GPU memory to dedicate to the
shadow pool (is allocated per viewport).
Shadow Scaling: Scale the shadow resolution. Base resolution should
target subpixel accuracy (within the limitation of the technique).
Related to #93220
Related to #104472
Now a single script to generate both links and release notes. It also includes
the issue ID for the LTS releases, so only the release version needs to be
specified.
Pull Request #104402
There was an inconsistency between geometry sample nodes and mesh/curve
sample nodes, where the latter didn't have a special "Sample" category,
and we categorized as "Operations", which they were not. Also put the
sample category between "Read" and "Write" since the verb name is
more consistent and sampling is an advanced form of reading.
This will add a proper modal keymap for the node link drag operator.
It allows the user to customize the keys used to start drag and so on.
Also it gets rid of the custom status bar message.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17190
The operator has the option to add to selected FCurves instead
of only the active, but it was only exposed in the redo panel.
This patch adds the operator to the right-click menu on FCurve channels,
and to the channel menu in the Graph editor.
Both times with configured to add to selected
instead of only the active FCurve
Revied by Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17066
Ref: D17066
- Replace type annotations with doc-strings, the current conventions is
not to use type annotations in startup scripts.
- Replace abbreviation "idx" with "index" in public arguments/properties.
- Replace `len(..) > 0` with boolean checks.
- Add `__all__` to list public members.
- Use `arg` instead of `param` for doc-strings.
- Locate the doc-string so it shows as `__doc__`.
Adds two operators to select linked vertices in weight paint mode.
Similar to how it works in edit mode.
Press "L" to select vertices under the cursor,
or CTRL + "L" to select anything linked to the current selection.
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel, Hans Goudey, Marion Stalke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16848
Ref: D16848
In the previous situation the message was shown for Apple devices.
But this is not correct and confusing.
- Apple with Metal backend are supported, OpenGL on Apple isn't
- Legacy devices on Windows or Linux are also not supported.
This change will check that the capabilities of the GPU match the
requirements to use Viewport compositor. Based on those capabilities
a message is shown and the panel is activated.
