Also adds DampedTrackTo to the list of supported constraints in the BGE
Test file:
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/11715
Patch developed as part of a project to NF-UBC Nereus Program.
Development time 'sponsored' by the project.
www.nereusprogram.org
The camera actuator only allows to look the object from its front face.
Given that Blender takes -Y as the default forward orientation, the current
functionality doesn't let a camera to track an actor from behind.
This patch allows for -X and -Y axis tracking. This way a camera over the
shoulders of a character is possible (without resorting to rotate the
mesh/armature original orientation.
- patch reviewed by Campbell Barton, thanks
Now all sounds that are not mono but have 3D checked automatically get reduced to mono during BGE conversion time.
Also removed the now unneeded function sound_get_channels and added a missing header file to audaspace's CMakeLists.txt.
* Pepper depends on ffmpeg 0.7.1 or higher now, windows and mac build systems set to ffmpeg-0.8
* Fixed orientation retrieval in OpenAL device code.
* Added stopAll() method to AUD_IDevice (also for Python) and call it on BGE exit
* Changed BGE to use audaspace via native C++ instead over the C API.
* Made AUD_SequencerFactory and AUD_SequencerEntry thread safe.
* Changed sound caching into a flag which fixes problems on file loading, especially with undo.
* Removed unused parameter from sound_mute_scene_sound
* Fixed bug: changing FPS didn't update the sequencer sound positions.
* Fixed bug: Properties of sequencer strips weren't set correctly.
* Minor warning fixes.
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original name: "Allow to change the strenght of the "go behind" constraint of the camera actuator"
The camera actuator is an actuator that drive the camera to follow an object, with a set of constraint.
Currently, when the object followed rotate on himself (like a person, or an helicopter), the camera is really slow to go behind (at least 10 seconds).
This patch gives the UI to tweak the strenght of the 'go behind'[named damping] constraint.
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epydocs (rst) updated too
- Object actuator rotation was being scaled by: (1/0.02)*2*PI/360 == 0.872, since revision 2.
- Remove scaling and use do_versions to adjust existing files.
- ignore MSVC warnings when FREE_WINDOWS is defined to quiet warnings.
- the CMake flags were not being set correctly making blender have weirdo colors (no -funsigned-char).
- obstacle culling for correct simulation in 3d
- flag for steering actuator termination on reaching target
- path recalculation period
- advance by waypoints (for path following)
Originally we had 2DFilters (m_filtermanager) stored in RenderTools. That way filters were stored globally and were being called once per each scene. This was producing two big problems: (1) performance and (2) flexibility of use.
(1) Performance - To run the filters 2X == 2X slower
(2) flexibility of use - Very often we want the filter in the scene but not in the UI for example.
For those reasons I believe that 2DFilters with multiple scenes was very useless or unpredictable. I hope they work fine now.
To make it work as before (2.4) you can simply recreate the 2dfilter actuators across the scenes.
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Imagine that we have:
(a) Main Scene
(b) Overlay Scene
in Main Scene the Z Buffer and RGB will be from the main scene.
in Overlay Scene the Z Buffer will be from the Overlay Scene and the RBG buffer is from both [(a + 2D Filter) + b].
So in pseudo code if we have a,b,c,d,e scenes we have: (2DFilterE(2DFilterD(2DFilterC(2DFilterB(2DFilterA(a) + b) + c) + d) + e)
- recode of the whole sequencer audio handling
- encode audio flag removed, instead you choose None as audio codec, added None for video codec too
- ffmpeg formats/codecs: enabled: theora, ogg, vorbis; added: matroska, flac (not working, who can fix?), mp3, wav
- sequencer wave drawing
- volume animation (now also working when mixing down to a file!)
- made sequencer strip position and length values unanimatable
How it works now:
whenever you have to read/write object names you can do it without the prefix "OB". (it's not hard at all to fix scripts)
How it was before:
It was a mess :)
We had an inconsistent API where sometimes you had to input "OBname" and other "name" directly to assign object as data (usually in actuators).
Justification for the change:
Talking with Campbell we had since a while ago this feeling that this should be changed any time we were going to deprecate the API. So in order to deliver Blender 2.5beta0 with a more close-to-the-final API we decided that today was a good day to implement that.
Remaining issues:
1) VideoTexture uses IM or MA to identify the output material/texture. I haven't touched that, but it does look a bit off. (i.e. I didn't changed any MA, IM naming)
2) I didn't see the code of dynamic mesh. It may need to be edited as well.
When the mesh field is left blank and Physics option is enabled, it reinstances the physics mesh from the existing mesh.
like calling gameOb.reinstancePhysicsMesh() from python.
