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12 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Dinges
07ee0e6f7d Shader Nodes:
* Use unified node sizes, as already was done with compositor nodes. Only Mapping node uses a custom size. This way we don't have too small nodes on creation anymore.
* Don't show Script Category for Blender Internal nodes.
2013-05-21 20:21:46 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
3758193c18 Cycles / Wireframe node:
* Added a wireframe node (Input category) to get access to Mesh wireframe data. 
The thickness can be controlled via a "Size" parameter, and is available in world units (default) and screen pixel size. 
* Only the triangulated mesh is available now, quads is for later. 

Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Wireframe

Render and Example file:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=51731
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/21510
2013-05-20 15:58:37 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
916ab30ccb Added an entry for Reroute node in the node categories. Reroute is not a "real" node, but for users it's a bit hard to find, so a menu entry is ok for now.
Eventually a context menu for nodes could be a nicer solution: right-click on node link opening a popup with operators for the node, socket or link under cursor, including option "Insert Reroute".
2013-05-13 09:32:17 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
89d77c538a Fix suggested by Campbell Barton: use %r instead of %s when building the python expression for the node operator settings to ensure correct escaping. 2013-05-09 08:05:02 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
a092611f67 Fix for node item polling: recursion check was the wrong way around, needs to test is the parent tree is inside the group. 2013-05-08 15:41:09 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
d7c74acab1 Added filter to the node group items callback to remove recursive node groups right from the start. These tree pointers would be polled out internally as well, but this way they don't show up in the menus in the first place. 2013-05-08 15:41:07 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
8863222a90 A bit more pythonic way of using the items callback in node categories. The category.items attribute is now a function taking a context parameter instead of a property. This can be used for checking validity, e.g. for doing node group recursion checks, and filter out unusable items. 2013-05-08 15:41:05 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
85a4938c10 Fix [#35127] Layout -> Frame doen't exist anymore 2013-04-28 13:02:46 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
d56ceaab4c Nicer registration mechanism for node categories. The lists of node categories and items are now stored in a dictionary with an identifier key, so they can be registered and unregistered individually. The Add menu is now persistent and gets extended with a draw function for each of the registered node category lists.
This allows pynodes to define their own list of node categories and items and register it at runtime without interfering with the standard nodes.
2013-04-22 16:25:35 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
4d0c576f4e Shader nodes / order:
* Have all "Info" nodes next to each other. 
* Moved "Material Output" to the top.
* Have all light shaders (Emission, Background, AO) next to each other.
2013-04-14 09:34:59 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
50e7e34520 Node categories / Add menu:
* Fix for Subsurface Scattering node.
2013-04-13 15:51:25 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
94931f9f45 Replacing the node Add menu and making the toolbar useful
As some people have already noticed, the "Add" menu for nodes is a bit messy since pynodes merge. The reason for this is that the order of nodes in submenus (categories) was previously defined by the order in which all nodes are registered (at the bottom of blenkernel/intern/node.c). For the dynamic registration of node types now possible this system of defining node order along with registration is no longer viable: while it would still sort of work for C nodes, it is completely meaningless for dynamic (python) nodes, which are basically registered automatically in whatever order modules and addons are loaded, with the added complexity of unloading and reloading.

To fix this problem and add a bunch of desirable features this commit replaces the C menu with a python implementation. The new menu does not rely on any particular order of types in the node registry, but instead uses a simple explicit list of all the available nodes, grouped by categories (in scripts/nodeitems_builtins.py).

There are a number of additional features that become possible with this implementation:

1) Node Toolbar can be populated!
The list of nodes is used to create 2 UI items for each node: 1 entry in a submenu of "Add" menu and 1 item in a node toolbar panel with basically the same functionality. Clicking a button in the toolbar will add a new node of this type, just like selecting an item in the menu. The toolbar has the advantage of having collapsible panels for each category, so users can decide if they don't need certain nodes categories and have the rest more easily accessible.

2) Each node item is a true operator call.
The old Add menu is a pretty old piece of C code which doesn't even use proper operator buttons. Now there is a generic node_add operator which can be used very flexibly for adding any of the available nodes.

3) Node Items support additional settings.
Each "NodeItem" consists of the basic node type plus an optional list of initial settings that shall be applied to a new instance. This gives additional flexibility for creating variants of the same node or for defining preferred initial settings. E.g. it has been requested to disable previews for all nodes except inputs, this would be simple change in the py code and much less intrusive than in C.

4) Node items can be generated with a function.
A callback can be used in any category instead of the fixed list, which generates a set of items based on the context (much like dynamic enum items in bpy.props). Originally this was implemented for group nodes, because these nodes only make sense when linked to a node tree from the library data. This principle could come in handy for a number of other nodes, e.g. Image nodes could provide a similar list of node variants based on images in the library - no need to first add node, then select an image.

WARNING: pynodes scripters will have to rework their "draw_add_menu" callback in node tree types, this has been removed now! It was already pretty redundant, since one can add draw functions to the Add menu just like for any other menu. In the future i'd like to improve the categories system further so scripters can use it for custom node systems too, for now just make a draw callback and attach it to the Add menu.
2013-04-13 15:38:02 +00:00