The problem was: the Blender default camera has DOF distance as 0.0. Since we are using this as Focal Length for the stereo calculation we had terrible stereo by default.
Fix: whenever DOF == 0.0 we use focal length as eye separation * 30.0 (known to be a reasonable value)
Rotations are now stored internally as radians, while exposing degrees in the UI -
in the graph editor and UI controls. This is done in two areas:
1) Using the unit system to convert RNA data to display as degrees in the UI controls
2) FCurves now use degrees for rotation, so you can edit in the graph editor what
you see in the UI.
All rotation data is consistently accessible in DNA and RNA as radians, degrees are only
used for the UI controls and graph editor.
This commit includes conversions will convert old files (stored data and also fcurve data)
to the new units, hopefully everything should go smoothly!
Part of this also changes a few properties that were hard-coded as degrees before (such
as IK pole angle and brush texture rotation) to also use the same consistent system of
radians (dna/rna) and degrees (ui).
Thanks to Joshua for hints and review here too.
PhysicsConstraints is documented in the Game Kit Book:
http://download.blender.org/documentation/gamekit1/
VideoTexture is documented in the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/2.49/VideoTexture
I don't think I will have time to fill the documentation. But I hope this commit helps someone interested in helping it.
Therefore volunteers to document those modules are highly welcome !!! (let's give to BGE the documentation it deserves)!
* + added GameLogic.Lave/LoadGlobalDict + some typo fixes
this bug was introduced in Blender 2.49 (probably my own fault, in other part of the code though while fixing support for IPOs in GLSL Lamps).
The good news is: GLSL Lamps looks in BGE like working perfectly now.
Multitexture on the other hand is not supporting "negative" lamps (with the checkbox option on).
From my search (svn blame+log) it looks like multitexture never had negative lamp working. Actually in Blender 2.34 when this was introduced in BGE (maybe in Blender as well?) I couldn't see negative lamps working either. It's hard to test this with Blender 2.34 though (it even crash with my test file).
(1) the new text suggest what was the default eye separation before. Now I'm confident that changing the eye separation for the UI is a good move
(2) no big deal here. It's not reading the parameter from the command line. But does it ever read it?
(3) stubs.c update and glew linking statically. patch by Mitchell Stokes, thanks for that.
And now we finish 2009 with a building blenderplayer =D
Now the default eye separation value is 0.10 (reasonable for games with 1 meter == 1 B.U.
The focallength used is the camera focal length (DOF settings). It allow you to even use different focal lengths for different scenes (good for UI)
In order to change it you can change the camera focal length or use Rasterizer.setFocalLength.
If you use the Rasterizer method it will use this value for all the cameras.
ToDo:
- Blenderplayer settings
- Update wiki documentation (any volunteer)?
* Note to stereo fans:
I don't have a real stereo environment to test it (other than cheap cyan-red glasses). If you can give it a try in a more robust system and report bugs or problems with BGE current system please let me know. I would be glad to help to make it work 100% by the time Blender 2.5 is out.
For the record, BGE is using the method known as 'parallel axis asymmetric frustum perspective projection'. This method is well documented here:
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/miscellaneous/stereographics/stereorender/
* utility function BLI_findstring to avoid listbase lookup loops everywhere.
eg:
ListBase *lb= objects= &CTX_data_main(C)->object;
Object *ob= BLI_findstring(lb, name, offsetof(ID, name) + 2);
* made some more math functions use const's, (fix warnings I made in previous commits)
Assignment to KX_GameObject localOrientation and
worldOrientation matrices was assuming row-major matrix
although reading these matrices was returning a column-major
MathUtils object.
The faulty function (PyMatTo) is fixed and all matrices
in python are now assumed column-major.
This function is also used in the following methods:
BL_Shader.setUniformMatrix4()
BL_Shader.setUniformMatrix3()
(No change in scripts if you didn't specify the optional
transpose parameter: the default value is changed so
that column-major matrices are assumed as before.)
KX_Camera.projection_matrix
(assignement to this attribute now requires a column-major
matrix and you must fix your script if you were setting
a value to this attribute.)
Synopsis: plot(brush,width,height,x,y,mode)
plot(imgbuff,x,y,mode)
The first form uses a byte array containing the brush shape.
The second form uses another ImageBuff object as a brush.
The ImageBuff object must be initialized before you can call
these methods. Use load(rgb_buffer,sizex,sizey) method to create
an image buffer of given size (with alpha channel set to 255).
The brush is plotted directly in the image buffer. The texture
is updated only when the VideoTexture.Texture parent object is
refreshed: this will download the image buffer to the GPU.
brush: Byte array containing RGBA data to be plotted in image buffer.
The data must be continuous in memory, organized row by row
starting from lower left corner of the image. Each pixel is
4 bytes representing RGBA data in that order.
width: Horizontal size in pixels of image in brush.
height: Vertical size in pixels of the image in brush.
imgbuff:Another ImageBuff object that is used as a brush. The object
must have been initialized first with load().
x: Horizontal position in pixel from left side of the image buffer
where the brush will be plotted. The brush is plotted on pixels
positions x->x+width-1. Clipping is performed if the brush falls
partially outside the image buffer.
y: Vertical position in pixel from bottom side of the image buffer
where the brush will be plotted.
mode: Mode of drawing. Use one of the following value:
0 : MIX
1 : ADD
2 : SUB
3 : MUL
4 : LIGHTEN
5 : DARKEN
6 : ERASE ALPHA
7 : ADD ALPHA
1000 : COPY RGBA (default)
1001 : COPY RGB
1002 : COPY ALPHA
Modes 0 to 7 are 'blend' modes: the brush pixels are combined
with the image pixel in various ways. Refer to Blender documentation
to learn more about these modes.
Even a static mesh can be used as replacement: the mesh
will be instantiated with the soft body settings of the
object. The position and orientation of the soft body
is preserved after the replacement.
Known limitation: the velocity of the soft body is reset
aftet the replacement. This is because soft body don't
have a well defined velocity.
patch from Mitchell Stokes (moguri)
simple use case
scene.post_draw = [pyOpenGLFunc]
this only needs to be set once, then the funcion runs each redraw.
note, this patch also changes how python scripts run (not modules): Dont clear the namespace after running a script, since functions still use the namespace, BGE API is now better when dealing with stale data.
made some changes to this patch.
- assigning a list didnt decrement the existing list.
- initialize as NULL rather then a blank list
- dont use string comparisons for the callbacks, pass the python list to use instead.
- dont check the list items are callable. python will display an error if they are not.
- use python list macros that dont do any type checking sine blender does this when assigning the list
---- from tracker, edited since an updated patch changes some things.
Here is a patch to be able to draw to the screen with BGE Python. This will be very handy for GUI stuff. This patch
works by having the user register a callback in the scene. Two options are available KX_Scene.pre_draw
and KX_Scene.post_draw. The difference between these is when Python draws to the screen (before or after the BGE).
Each can take a list of functions. Here is an example that draws a blue semi-transparent
* Added GLEW_STATIC where necessary to make Blender compile again
* First attempt at compiling blenderplayer again - compiles, but doesn't link yet
* removed deprecated SND_ functions from blenderplayer
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.
GLEW update to version 1.5.1 [11-03-08]
this opens room for Geometry Shader support.
* - Brecht, Campbell told me you did some local changes in order to make it right in Linux. I get to you in order to know what those changes are (or feel free to commit them directly)
This bug was introduced after commit # 24102 (BGE: when letterbox is enabled use the camera framing as a clipping area) reported in IRC by Pete Carss (domejunky)
*) an extra stub fix for recent commit. By the way: we want to have blenderplayer running in blender 2.5 beta0. Therefore if you are doing big changes in the last minutes (Friday, Saturday??) It would help a lot if you could enable blenderplayer in your builds. links problems are really easy to fix)
**) an typo I spotted in recent mesh dynamic load in bge.
1) SetDisplayArea was created in Blender but we forgot to set it in the player
2) Fix some SCons incs (using lists instead of strings)
3) added more nasty stubs calls (this file is getting big)
* typo fix from last commit
**) it's raining with bolts here and I have to turn the internet off. I couldnt hard test this commit but it looks like working. sorry if sometihng go wrong
