render
When adjusting settings for world textures (with Both/World preview modes),
every tweak would result in the usercount of the texture increasing. As a
result, before long the texture would claim to have over 100 users. Fortunately,
this only appeared to be just a cosmetic issue (i.e. no real memory leak here),
though it was a bit unsettling.
NOTE: this is still a bit glitchy, as now we have flickering when updating
texture settings - the texture still temporarily has a second user during
preview rendering.
The Limit Distance constraint is now allowed to use the owner/target space
settings. Previously this wasn't exposed it didn't seem sensible/useful.
However, this can be useful when dealing with dependencies between bones and the
armature gets scaled.
Usage notes:
- It is advised to select the same space for both owner and target, otherwise
the comparisons are meaningless
Each BSDF node now has a Normal input, which can be used to set a custom normal
for the BSDF, for example if you want to have only bump on one of the layers in
a multilayer material.
The Bump node can be used to generate a normal from a scalar value, the same as
what happens when you connect a scalar value to the displacement output.
Documentation has been updated with the latest changes:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes
Patch by Agustin Benavidez, some implementation tweaks by me.
Documentation & Test blend files:
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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:MiikaH/GSoC-2012-Smoke-Simulator-Improvements
Credits:
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Miika Hamalainen (MiikaH): Student / Main programmer
Daniel Genrich (Genscher): Mentor / Programmer of merged patches from Smoke2 branch
Google: For Google Summer of Code 2012
It's using the Ward BSDF currently, which has some energy loss so might be a bit
dark. More/better BSDF options can be implemented later.
Patch by Mike Farnsworth, some modifications by me. Currently it's not possible yet
to set a custom tangent, that will follow as part of per-bsdf normals patch.
with errors
This filtering option is useful when rigging and you want to figure out if any
of your drivers are not functioning, and/or which one(s) are not, so that you
can go through fixing them. It saves you from having to check on each one
individually, or going into the console to try to infer which ones are not
working.
Maya keymap used LMB press to select object and also used tweak event
of LMB for border select. This lead to selecting object under the cursor
before border select could start.
This could be pain when working on huge scenes.
Solved by switching selection from LMB press to release.
There was a missing check for whether color management enabled or not when
converting byte textures to linear space.
This commit also fixes wrong texture preview rendering, which was applying
sRGB transform twice, making procedural textures bright. This will make
float textures being previewed dark (in a linear space) but that's how it
used to behave in pre-OCIO color management.
