Some notes about code status:
* The Blender modifications were fairly quickly put together, much more code
polish and work is needed to get this to a state where it can be committed
to trunk. Files created with this version may not work in future versions.
* Only simple path tracing is supported currently, but we intend to provide
finer control, and more options where it makes sense.
* For GPU rendering, only CUDA works currently. The intention is to have the
same kernel code compile for C++/OpenCL/CUDA, some more work is needed to
get OpenCL functional.
* There are two shading backends: GPU compatible and Open Shading Language.
Unfortunately, OSL only runs on the CPU currently, getting this to run on
the GPU would be a major undertaking, and is unlikely to be supported soon.
Additionally, it's not possible yet to write custom OSL shaders.
* There is some code for adaptive subdivision and displacement, but it's far
from finished. The intention is to eventually have a nice unified bump and
displacement system.
* The code currently has a number of fairly heavy dependencies: Boost,
OpenImageIO, GLEW, GLUT, and optionally OSL, Partio. This makes it difficult
to compile, we'll try to eliminate some, it may take a while before it
becomes easy to compile this.
discussed with Janne, Ton, Nathan and we agreed this kind of change at least needs discussion with module owners.
Its also too close to release to be making these kinds of changes.
commands used:
# reverse merge
svn merge -r36073:36072 .
# for some reason this gave a lot of property changes
svn revert `svn st | grep "^ M" | awk '{print $2}'`
# reverse merging didn't work here, removing while dir.
svn rm extern/eltopo/
# manually fixed conflict in
# ./source/blenderplayer/CMakeLists.txt
#
# also manually removed 2 lines from
# ./CMakeLists.txt
Plugged the eltopo library into the cloth solver.
I was playing with it earlier, and it's so easy to
use I decided to quickly put it in (trunk's) cloth.
See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2009/eltopo/eltopo.html
. The authors are on the bleeding edge of continuous collision
detection (one of them did ILM's cloth sim).
I
don't really have to time to plug it into softbody, particles,
bullet, fluid, etc, but doing so would be pretty straightforward.
I'll leave that up to someone else.
To use, turn on USE_ELTOPO (in cmake) or WITH_BF_ELTOPO in scons.
submitted by Tom Edwards
Fix [#25473] 64bit Windows installer for version 2.56 is not working
patch submitted by Caleb (Dobz)
The thumbnail patch adds a thumb handler DLL that adds .blend thumbnail support in Windows Explorer. A -r option is added to do registration in background. The patch also improves icon building and metadata for blender.exe.
Caleb fixes and cleans up our installer to an acceptable state. The patch uses the new -r option to do the .blend extension and thumbnailer registration.
Thanks to both Caleb and Tom for their efforts!
For cmake users, you should now use "make install" instead of "make". This was
already changed for Linux and Windows. Same for Xcode, use the install target.
Changes:
* CMake install mechanism, resulting bundle was verified to be indentical here.
* For cmake, include Info.plist in bundle using builtin mechanism for that.
There was some code in packaging.cmake, but it wasn't correct as these
properties need to be set on the executable.
* For scons, fix app bundle version, was still using removed release/VERSION.
* Remove unused blendercreator.app and blenderpublisher.app.
* Fix Info.plist being set as a binary file in svn, should be plain text.
* Don't use "make install", doesn't work yet.
* Use total number of cores rather than number of processors.
* Quicker number of cores query, by not asking for all system info.
change how the extraction commands are presented (old BUILD_TYPE was empty all the time here) and
ensure also that python/lib subdir under versioned dir gets actually created.
use 'install' target rather then copying files with post-build commands.
Main change is that you need to run 'make install', which copies files to ./bin by default
unless WITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE is OFF, where CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is used for a typical unix-system install.
CMake build option WITH_PYTHON_MODULE, will build ./bin/bpy.so
This allows 'bpy' to be imported from python or other applications/IDE's which embed python, eg:
python -c "import bpy ; bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)"
This runs in background mode and has similar restrictions to running a script:
blender --background --python test.py
TODO:
- install to site-packages with blender scripts
- add support for imp.reload()
- WITH_OPENJPEG wasn't defined for creator.c with CMake.
- remove shadowed/redefined vars.
- remove some unused RNA report args.
- re-arrange IMB_FILE_TYPES so IRIS is not the first format tested, since its not very common test JPEG and PNG first.
- move test -> tests, this name is used elsewhere in lib/tests.
- change interface code not to loop on a float value (clang warning), harmless, but with extreme cases an eternal loop would still be possible though unlikely.
