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Brecht Van Lommel 7da56f4a9b Particles
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Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite
of the Blender particle system. This includes:

- Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types.
- Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics.
- Various particle visualisation and rendering types.
- Vertex group and texture control for various properties.
- Interpolated child particles from parents.
- Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. .
- Explode modifier.
- Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types.

.. and lots of other things, some more info is here:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc

The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle
systems are being converted to the new system, but will require
tweaking to get them looking the same as before.

Point Cache
===========

The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching
on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system.

See the Cache API section on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint

Documentation
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These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help
for this is appreciated.
2007-11-26 22:09:57 +00:00
bin/.blender Cleaned up some case issues with language files... 2007-07-24 15:24:19 +00:00
blenderplayer CMake: Fix build after nodes changes (including GE linking) 2007-04-09 11:30:06 +00:00
CMake CMake: Move genrated dna.c and cmake_blender_libs.txt to binary directories to keep source dir pristine. Also flag removed libraries as status and not "error" messages. 2006-12-07 00:18:57 +00:00
config == FFMPEG == 2007-09-27 07:19:10 +00:00
doc add the option of not installing to scons build system 2007-08-14 20:55:59 +00:00
extern Tweaks I needed to get blender compiling on my new macbook running leopard. 2007-11-05 17:27:11 +00:00
intern Bugfix: Wrong 32/64bit check was used which resulted in a 2GB limit for some 64bit architecture 2007-11-25 17:10:11 +00:00
po svn-commit.2 2007-09-01 18:50:40 +00:00
projectfiles == Sequencer == 2007-10-02 12:36:53 +00:00
projectfiles_vc7 Particles 2007-11-26 22:09:57 +00:00
release Particles 2007-11-26 22:09:57 +00:00
source Particles 2007-11-26 22:09:57 +00:00
tools put the revision number in the splash screen (scons and make) 2007-11-15 12:16:03 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Tweak for MSVC2005 people: 2007-11-05 16:46:48 +00:00
COPYING Biiig commit! Thanks to 2-3 weeks of cvs freeze... 2004-12-27 19:28:52 +00:00
Makefile Clean up for Makefiles: some of the directories were being printed 2005-04-09 22:40:34 +00:00
README Test commit, nothing to see here. 2004-08-24 02:51:07 +00:00
SConstruct scons clean would throw an error if there was nothing to do. print a message instead. 2007-08-31 19:17:22 +00:00

Welcome to the fun world of open source.

For instructions on building and installing Blender, please see the file named
INSTALL.


---------------------.Blanguages and the .blender directory---------------------

The .blender directory holds various data files for Blender.
In the 2.28a release those are the .Blanguages file containing a list of
translations, the translations themselves and a default ttf font.

Blender checks for the presence of this directory in several locations:
	- the current directory
	- your home directory
	- On OSX, the blender bundle is also checked 
	- On Windows, the installation dir is checked.

If you get a 'File ".Blanguages" not found' warning, try to copy the .blender
dir to one of these locations (your home directory being recommended).



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