Environment lighting (aka ambient) is a key component of any renderer.
It's implemented like the Environment lighting of BI render for Approximate Gather mode. It support "Sky Color" and "White" Environment lighting modes.
It would be great if the user could see actual lighting conditions right in the Blender viewport instead of waiting for the renderer to complete the final image, exporting for external renderer or for a game engine.
Before:
{F113921}
After:
{F113922}
Example file: {F319013}
Original author: valentin_b4w
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: valentin_b4w, campbellbarton, merwin, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: panzergame, youle, duarteframos, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov, dingto, Evgeny_Rodygin
Projects: #rendering, #opengl_gfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D810
The RNA properties are still there (in case you really need them), except now
they will not be shown in the UI anymore, as this constraint really didn't
work well/at all when any of those was disabled. Most people shouldn't really
need to worry about this change.
If anyone wants a matrix-math challenge, they're welcome to try getting those
working for real, so that we can show these toggles again.
This only works in the Action and Dopesheet modes (which operate on FCurve keyframes).
Support for Grease Pencil and Mask Keyframes though is still pending.
As suggested by mendiobox:
* Don't show "enable editing" in the 3D view. You can already do this by switching
into stroke editing mode here, so no need for the duplication. (In other editors
though, this can't be done yet, so we don't do it)
* Make the "Convert" button into a dropdown so that you don't need to deal with a
a separate popup menu
* In the 3D view, don't show the selection + transform operators that can be easily
found in the menus too (as well as having commonly used shortcuts)
This new operator will delete any GP frame it finds on the current frame, regardless
of whether it's on the active layer or not. It will only remove the frames if the
layer is editable, but otherwise, it will just go for it.
The existing operator is great for use in the panel (where it only applies to the active
frame), but it was not so good for all the other places where tools can be invoked
(e.g. D-X, or Delete) as you're typically thinking about the whole scene more holisticaly
than just caring about a particular layer.
A new option for Font/Text objects vertical alignment:
* Top Base-Line (current mode)
* Top
* Center
* Bottom
The Top is the equivalent as the Top-Baseline with an empty line at the begin of the
text. It's nice to have this option too though, since if we are driving
the alignment via Python we don't want to add extra lines to the text
only to accomodate to the desired vertical alignment.
The Center and Bottom are as intuitive as their name suggest.
When working with text boxes, the vertical alignment only work for
paragraphs that are not vertically full.
Many thanks to Campbell Barton (ideasman42 / @campbellbarton) for the
code review, code comments, and overall suggestions and changes :)
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2061
In some cases when:
* the viewport was in the camera mode
* the camera was ortho
* the view was not fitting (as oppose to use HOME)
region_2d_to_origin_3d would misbehave (and consequently region_2d_to_location_3d).
Sample addon to test it:
```
import bpy
from bpy_extras.view3d_utils import (
region_2d_to_location_3d,
)
from mathutils import (
Vector,
)
class MoveXYOperator(bpy.types.Operator):
"""Translate the view using mouse events"""
bl_idname = "view3d.move_xy"
bl_label = "Move XY"
@classmethod
def poll(cls, context):
return context.object
def modal(self, context, event):
if event.type == 'MOUSEMOVE':
self.move(context, event)
elif event.type in {'LEFTMOUSE', 'RIGHTMOUSE', 'ESC'}:
return {'FINISHED'}
return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}
def invoke(self, context, event):
if context.space_data.type == 'VIEW_3D':
self.ob = context.object
context.window_manager.modal_handler_add(self)
return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}
else:
self.report({'WARNING'}, "Active space must be a View3d")
return {'CANCELLED'}
def move(self, context, event):
xy = region_2d_to_location_3d(
context.region,
context.space_data.region_3d,
(event.mouse_region_x, event.mouse_region_y),
Vector(),
).xy
self.ob.location.xy = xy
def register():
bpy.utils.register_class(MoveXYOperator)
def unregister():
bpy.utils.unregister_class(MoveXYOperator)
if __name__ == "__main__":
register()
```
This was originally supported, however relative links to examples & templates made it fail.
Now files in the source tree are copied to the build-dir, with ".." replaced with "__"
to avoid having to mirror Blender's source-layout in the Sphinx build-dir.
Also skip uploading the built docs when an SSH user-name isn't passed to sphinx_doc_gen.sh
instead of aborting (so people w/o SSH access to our servers can use the shell-script).
At the moment light shading in Blender is produced in viewspace. Apparently, that's why
shader nodes work with normals in camera space. But it is not convenient for artists.
The more convenient approach is implemented in Cycles where normals are represented in world space.
Blend4Web Team designed the engine keeping in mind shader parameters readability,
so normals are interpreted in world space as well. And now our users have to use some tweaks, like
empty node group with the name "Replace", which is replacing one input by another on the engine side
(replacing working configuration in Blender Viewport by the configuration that has the same behavior in the engine).
This patch adds the ability to switch to world space for normals and lamp vector in BI and Viewport.
This patch is very important to us and we crave to see this patch in Blender 2.7 because
it will significantly simplify Blend4Web material creation workflow.
{F315547}
{F315548}
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2046
Usage:
* D+X - Works anytime, anywhere
* Shift-X - Works in EditMode only
* Via Delete Menu - EditMode only
Often doing video tutorials or perhaps during dailies/shot review you want to
quickly get rid of a quick scribble you made for making a point, without having
to undo (i.e. maybe you edited some objects in between) and/or without having
to use the eraser (i.e. it'd take too long to cover the entire area).
This commit adds Peak Memory to the stamp options, the value is the same one that is already shown in the image viewer.
Requested by @nutel.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Subscribers: campbellbarton, nutel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1989
The idea of pole merge is to fade interocular distance after a certain
altitude to zero when altitude goes closer to a pole. This should prevent
annoyances looking up in the sky or down to the bottom.
Works for both panorama and perspective cameras when Spherical Stereo
is enabled.
Reviewers: dfelinto, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1998
Change the order of the bending controls ("Curve XY Offsets") so the user can activate both InX and OutX by holding down the left mouse button. This way, it's easy to bend symmetrically on X or Y.
This commit/patch/branch brings a bunch of powerful new options for B-Bones and
for working with B-Bones, making it easier for animators to create their own
rigs, using fewer bones (which also means hopefully lighter + faster rigs ;)
This functionality was first demoed by Daniel at BConf15
Some highlights from this patch include:
* You can now directly control the shape of B-Bones using a series of properties
instead of being restricted to trying to indirectly control them through the
neighbouring bones. See the "Bendy Bones" panel...
* B-Bones can be shaped in EditMode to define a "curved rest pose" for the bone.
This is useful for things like eyebrows and mouths/eyelids
* You can now make B-Bones use custom bones as their reference bone handles,
instead of only using the parent/child bones. To do so, enable the
"Use Custom Reference Handles" toggle. If none are specified, then the BBone will
only use the Bendy Bone properties.
* Constraints Head/Tail option can now slide along the B-Bone shape, instead of
just linearly interpolating between the endpoints of the bone.
For more details, see:
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/bendy-bones-dev-update.html
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/an-in-depth-look-at-how-b-bones-work.html
-- Credits --
Original Idea: Daniel M Lara (pepeland)
Original Patch/Research: Jose Molina
Additional Development + Polish: Joshua Leung (aligorith)
Testing/Feedback: Daniel M Lara (pepeland), Juan Pablo Bouza (jpbouza)
I'm still not happy with this layout as it is now, but it seems a bit less unbalanced
than what I'd been trying before. So, let's leave this as-is for now.
This commit adds some of the initial support for a properties region in the
Action Editor. There are currently no panels to display, as there is still
a lot of work required to port over the required internal architecture to
support the panels seen in the Graph Editor.
After some test, a new iteration parameter has been added in order to
apply repetitive smoothing to the stroke. By default 1 iteration is applied,
but can used any number between 1 and 3.
The repetition uses different levels of intensity from 100% of the defined smooth
factor for the first loop, 50% for the second and 25% for the third. We use in each
loop a smaller value in order to avoid deform too much the stroke.
Now, stroke-related things (thickness, volumetric, points) and fill-related things
(HQ fill) are in the relevant columns, instead of having some in each column.
Improve filling for concave shapes using a triangulation of the stroke.
The triangulation information is saved in an internal cache and only is
recalculated if the stroke changes.
The triangulation is not saved in .blend file.
Reviewers: aligorith
Maniphest Tasks: T47102
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1705
Request by Andy, should help him a lot doing weird and wonderful hair styles.
A bit experimental yet, details of behavior might be changed after some real
usage feedback.
Normal Map node support for GLSL mode and the internal render (multiple tangents support).
The Normal Map node is a useful node which is present in the Cycles render.
It makes it possible to use normal mapping without additional material node in a node tree.
This patch implements Normal Map node for GLSL mode and the internal render.
Previously only the active UV layer was used to calculate tangents.
The 'precision' and 'dynamic' settings for binding are now always visible.
The settings that can not be edited after binding are disabled (not inactive).
I find it useful to see with what settings a mesh was bound, in case
the file is not mine or if I simply lost track of it.
While other borders are more like a toggle, it is an intrinsic behavior
of those operators. Render Border is intrinsicly split into two operators
and trying to expose it as a toggle will end up with rather confusing
situation when shortcut listed in the menu changes depending on the
context.
