If this is needed we can add the reset button back as an option for certain operators,
but AFAICS any operator with enough settings that resetting them all would be annoying - could have presets enabled.
Code to support it was lying around for long already, but not controlled by UI nicely.
Now you have in user preferences "System" tab an option to set it.
NOTE:
- it only works saving as User startup.blend, and restart Blender.
- your system should support it, no check for it is visible in UI
- tested only on iMac OSX 10.7
Screenshot:
http://www.blender.org/bf/chinchilla.blend.png
This commit allows you to set the RGB <-> XYZ axis colours used for things like
the mini axis indicator, grid axis indicators, manipulators, transform
constraint indicators, F-Curves (when using XYZ to RGB colouring option), and
perhaps something else I've missed. Previously, these places all used hardcoded
defines (220 * i/j/k), but the readability of these colours was often quite
poor, especially when used with certain themes.
The settings for these colours can be found under the "User Interface" section
of the themes (i.e. same set of colours is used across editors). I could have
made these per editor, but since it's unlikely that these will need to be too
different across editors in practice (+ being easier to version patch), they are
stored under the UI section.
Now tile size is setting up explicitly instead of using number of tiles.
This allows better control over GPU performance, where having tiles aligned
to specific size makes lots of sense.
Still to come: need to update startup.blend to make tiles size 64x64.
This fixes some "regressions" introduced in rev50781 which lead to much
worse solution in some cases. Now it's possible to bring old behavior back.
Perhaps it's more like temporal solution for time being smarter solution is
found. But finding such a solution isn't so fast, so let's bring manual
control over reprojection usage.
But anyway, imo it's now nice to have a structure which could be used to
pass different settings to the solver.
* Add "Toggle Full Screen" and "Duplicate Area into New Window" operators to the view menu, was missing in those 2 operators. Patch [#33076] by Harley Acheson, thanks.
* Also moved those two operators to the top in text editor, for consistency.
* Patch [#33073] Remove Extra Menu Level from Object Parent and Track
* Did not commit the icon changes here, separator line should be sufficient.
Patch by Harley Acheson, thanks!
* Add 3 more operators to the Node menu.
node.join [join selected nodes in a new frame]
node.detach [remove selected nodes from their frame]
node.links_detach [remove all links to selected nodes and try to reconnect neighboring nodes together]
Patch by Philipp Oeser, thanks!
* Shader script node added, which stores either a link to a text datablock or
file on disk, and has functions to add and remove sockets.
* Callback RenderEngine.update_script_node(self, node) added for render engines
to compile the shader and update the node with new sockets.
Thanks to Thomas, Lukas and Dalai for the implementation.
Our current intl build for windows is quite old (don't know the exact version), and does not have the new setlocale overwrite. Problem is, new windows dll have no more the gettext_putenv helper, which is currently mandatory to make it work for this OS.
So back for now to the ugly long_locales for win. Best fix is probably to build our own static version of libl, but this is not trivial and will require some time. :/
PS: I had a look over i18n/translation in wxWidget, Qt and boost: all implement their own system, even though wxWidget and boost use po/mo files...
- Rename 'mesh.select_nth' operator menu item 'Every N Number of Verts' to 'Checker Deselect',
since its not just de-selecting verts (works on edges and faces too) and the term 'checker' gives a better description of the result.
- Rename 'mesh.select_by_number_vertices' to 'mesh.select_face_by_sides', since this is a face selection tool, which wasnt obvious from its name.
also remove dissolve by type menu since the option has been removed from the operator and was giving an error.
PATCH: [#32989] Activate backup files filter in File Browser
Contributed by Georg Kronthaler, many thanks!
(I just moved the icon to a different place reserved for file browser icons)
* enables the filtering of backup files in the file browser
* adds a 'filter backup files'-icon to the filter buttons
* adds new icons for backup files in list and thumbnail view
* enables file preview for the backup files
shows both title safe and action safe areas following more modern standards.
Patch #32822 by Harley Acheson, full description:
Our current "title safe" camera display option is anachronistic. It shows a
border of 10% on all edges, which used to be the recommended title safe area
for 4:3 content on standard definition CRT televisions. However we are very
unlikely to create new projects that output for SD TV at that aspect ratio.
This patch change the option to "safe areas" with and indicates the
"title safe" area (also known as "graphic safe") as well as the "action safe"
area. "Title Safe" is an area visible by all reasonably maintained sets, where
text was certain not to be cut off. "Action Safe" is a larger area that
represented where a "perfect" set (with high precision to allow less
overscanning) would cut the image off.
The current recommendation for Action Safe is 3.5% on all edges, which is the
maxiumum overscan for TVs now. The recommended title safe is now 5% vertically
and 10% horizontally for content that is of wider aspect ratio than 4:3. The
reason for the difference between horizontal versus vertical margin is because
wider content would be letterboxed on an older 4:3 television, giving it
additional margin.
- Disabled "Quick Cache" option. It was causing ridiculous updates
on the entire animation system for start-end frame on every user
event causing changes here (like during transform). Worst was that you
couldn't transform animated objects for that reason either.
Most of the code is still there, waiting for a moment to revise it...
- Constraint "Follow Track" (marker) wasn't using inverse matrix code
in transform, making it wacko to use (wrong pivot, crazyspace)
Added option to display object's diffuse color multiplied by sculpting
mask. This option could be found in Options panel of toolshelf when in
sculpting mode.
Thanks to Nicholas and Brecht for reviewing the patch!
* Separated bookmarks managed by the OS (System Bookmarks) and bookmarks managed by Blender (Bookmarks).
* Added user pref to hide (or show) system bookmarks to allow users doing a video tutorial for example to hide their private system bookmarks
This feature should help especially MAC users who reported excessively long list of bookmarks which were added to Blender.
Made it so meshes, curves, surfaces and metaballs are scaling to a grid cell size,
which makes them behave consistently now.
There're still issues to be resolved still:
- Lattice is not scaled to grid cell size yet, it uses slightly different add
function which makes scaling a bit tricky and hacky. Would prefer to do a
bit bigger refactor here, so it's a TODO for now.
- Cameras, speakers and other helpers are not scaling. They don't have data
on which scale could be applied and perhaps it should be some kind of draw
scale. Also would consider it's a TODO for now.
don't think its needed to print the full path of each addon.
also remove the __MACOX check, its harmless and people can make sure there zips dont have cruft in them before distributing them.
the render branch.
When a material is linked in and has a light group override, this can now use
a local group in the scene file, by replacing the linked light group with a
local group that has the same name. A use case might be controlling the specular
highlight on linked character's eyes per scene.
Patch from render branch by Pablo Vazquez.
This makes it possible to do a border render inside a viewport even
when not looking through the camera.
Render border could be defined by Ctrl-B shortcut (works for both
camera render border and viewport render border).
Camera render border could still be defined using Shift-B (so no
muscule memory would be broken). Currently used a special flag of
operator to do this, otherwise you'll need to either two operators
with different poll callback or it could go into conflict with a
border zoom,
Border render of a viewport could be enabled/disabled in View
panel using "Render Border" option.
* The symmetrize operation makes the input mesh elements symmetrical,
but unlike mirroring it only copies in one direction. The edges and
faces that cross the plane of symmetry are split as needed to
enforce symmetry.
* The symmetrize operator can be controlled with the "direction"
property, which combines the choices of symmetry plane and
positive-negative/negative-positive. The enum for this is
BMO_SymmDirection.
* Added menu items in the top-level Mesh menu and the WKEY specials
menu.
* Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nicholasbishop/Symmetrize
* Reviewed by Brecht:
https://codereview.appspot.com/6618059
This operator used to be called "Jump to Frame". It basically takes the midpoint
(frame number and/or value) of selected keyframes, and positions the current
frame (or2d-cursor in Graph Editor) at this point.
The hotkey for this is now Ctrl-G (i.e. as it's similar to a "Goto Frame"
feature). It is also now in the Key menu instead of in the relatively obscure
View menu, even though it doesn't actually result in any keyframe edits taking
place.
(Also, fixed a typo/grammer issue with one of Remove Bone Group operator)
The Ctrl-G menu for managing Bone Groups has always been a bit clunky,
especially when compared to the Hooks menu (Ctrl-H). This was because the old
menu was more data-orientated (Bone Group Management, Membership to these
groups) whereas this new arrangement should be a bit more task-orientated (Add
to new group, Add to active group, Remove from all groups, Remove active group).
Alt+V will fill the area inbetween the ripped faces - a bit like extrude.
faces are flipped to match existing geometry and customdata (uv, vcols etc) is copied from surrounding geometry too.
This operator (Ctrl-F) allows you to flip the lattice coordinates without
inverting the normals of meshes deformed by the lattice (or the lattice's
deformation space for that matter). Unlike the traditional mirror tool, this
tool is aware of the fact that the vertex order for lattice control points
matters, and that simply mirroring the coordinates will only cause the lattice
to have an inverted deform along a particular axis (i.e. it will be scaling by a
negative scaling factor along that axis).
The problems (as I discovered the other day) with having such an inverted
deformation space are that:
- the normals of meshes/objects inside that will be incorrect/flipped (and will
disappear in GLSL shading mode for instance)
- transforming objects deformed by the lattices will become really tricky and
counter-intuitive (e.g. rotate in opposite direction by asymmetric amounts to
get desired result)
- it is not always immediately obvious that problems have occurred
Specific use cases this operator is meant to solve:
1) You've created a lattice-based deformer for one cartoonish eye. Now you want
to make the second eye, but want to save some time crafting that basic shape
again but mirrored.
2) You've got an even more finely crafted setup for stretchy-rigs, and now need
to apply it to other parts of the rig.
Notes:
* I've implemented a separate operator for this vs extending/patching mirror
transform tool as it's easier to implement this way, but also because there are
still some cases where the old mirroring seems valid (i.e. you explicitly want
these sort of distortion effects).
* Currently this doesn't take selections into account, as it doesn't seem useful
to do so.
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
Documentation & Test blend files:
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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:MiikaH/GSoC-2012-Smoke-Simulator-Improvements
Credits:
------------------
Miika Hamalainen (MiikaH): Student / Main programmer
Daniel Genrich (Genscher): Mentor / Programmer of merged patches from Smoke2 branch
Google: For Google Summer of Code 2012
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.
from Kesten Broughton (kestion)
Usage: In weight paint mode, select the mesh to have its weights culled. Click on "Limit Weights" button. A sub-panel will appear "Limit Number of Vertex Weights" with a slider field "Limit" which you can set to the appropriate level. The default level is 4, and it gets executed upon pressing "Limit Weights" so you will need to do an "undo" if your max bone limit is above 4. The checkbox "All Deform Weights" will consider all vertex weights, not just bone deform weights.
By default, this is enabled, so that newbie users who are most likely to be
caught short by this will get the benefits of this option, while seasoned
animators are likely to know where to go to turn things off (i.e. the scratch-
an-itch urge is quite a powerful motivating force...)
Added a convenience operator to the Follow Path constraint which adds a F-Curve
for the path (or the operator's "fixed position" value if no path is assigned),
with options for setting the start frame and length of motion. This makes it
easier for common users to just set up a quick follow-path animation where the
camera (e.g. flying around a set over certain number of frames).
A key advantage of this is that it takes care of the underlying math required
for setting up the generator curve accordingly (I've got some plans for making
this a bit friendlier to use later). Now, animating the paths is a one-click
operation, with the start and length properties able to be controlled using the
operator properties.
* Get rid of ED_object_add_generic_invoke() and all invoke callbacks using it, it was doing nothing exec() callbacks would not do. In fact, its only action (setting part of common add ops properties, like loc, layers, etc.) was needed too by direct exec call, so it was done twice in case of using invoke()!
* Replace custom invoke code for metaballs by WM_menu_invoke helper (as already used by lamps).
* Add a new OBJECT_OT_empty_add op, to allow direct addition of empties of a given drawtype.
* And some general code cleanup (like trailing spaces, empty lines, ...).
Did quite a bunch of tests/verifications, but obviously could not tackle all possible scenarios... Anyway, if any, bugs should arize quite quickly (but I don’t expect any! :p ).
On second thought, perhaps it is more convenient/natural if this was shown in
both places, given that many
people may only find the motion paths options through the UI now.
There was strange context changes in the Add menu... Now everything uses the EXEC_REGION_WIN one (no need to invoke here, and metaballs have a strange specific invoke func...). This fixes the problem when using Add menu from a 3D view. Obviously, it still doesn't work when used from Info window's header, but that can't be helped for now (and never worked for any kind of object).
Anyway, imho all this "add object" code could use some review/cleanup, both on py menu and C ops side, but this is obviously postponed to after 2.64!
from special NDOF menu, added them in user preferences as well now. Also made it do
proper version patch for conversion from old user preferences, and changed turntable
choice from a boolean to enum for consistency.
Main problem was in py UI code (has to set the context to INVOKE_REGION_PREVIEW for the shortcut lookup to succeed).
Also moved the N properties item into SequencerCommon keymap, and removed the View Selected menu entry from preview-only mode View menu (thx to Ejner Fergo for pointing this out).
updating data was only being done on the active object but sticly was being calculated for the selection.
split this into 2 operators, one that works on the selection and another that operates on the active object - so we can have a button in the mesh panels that calculates sticky.
also note that there was no way to calculate sticky from the UI - perhaps this feature should die a quiet death?
anyway - it works better then it used to for now.
currently can remove sticky/mask/skin vertex layers.
regarding the skin layer - while adding and removing the modifier normally works fine, its not 100% reliable since the mesh may be linked into another scene, or be a linked duplicate and the object with the modifier deleted.
Replace old color pipeline which was supporting linear/sRGB color spaces
only with OpenColorIO-based pipeline.
This introduces two configurable color spaces:
- Input color space for images and movie clips. This space is used to convert
images/movies from color space in which file is saved to Blender's linear
space (for float images, byte images are not internally converted, only input
space is stored for such images and used later).
This setting could be found in image/clip data block settings.
- Display color space which defines space in which particular display is working.
This settings could be found in scene's Color Management panel.
When render result is being displayed on the screen, apart from converting image
to display space, some additional conversions could happen.
This conversions are:
- View, which defines tone curve applying before display transformation.
These are different ways to view the image on the same display device.
For example it could be used to emulate film view on sRGB display.
- Exposure affects on image exposure before tone map is applied.
- Gamma is post-display gamma correction, could be used to match particular
display gamma.
- RGB curves are user-defined curves which are applying before display
transformation, could be used for different purposes.
All this settings by default are only applying on render result and does not
affect on other images. If some particular image needs to be affected by this
transformation, "View as Render" setting of image data block should be set to
truth. Movie clips are always affected by all display transformations.
This commit also introduces configurable color space in which sequencer is
working. This setting could be found in scene's Color Management panel and
it should be used if such stuff as grading needs to be done in color space
different from sRGB (i.e. when Film view on sRGB display is use, using VD16
space as sequencer's internal space would make grading working in space
which is close to the space using for display).
Some technical notes:
- Image buffer's float buffer is now always in linear space, even if it was
created from 16bit byte images.
- Space of byte buffer is stored in image buffer's rect_colorspace property.
- Profile of image buffer was removed since it's not longer meaningful.
- OpenGL and GLSL is supposed to always work in sRGB space. It is possible
to support other spaces, but it's quite large project which isn't so
much important.
- Legacy Color Management option disabled is emulated by using None display.
It could have some regressions, but there's no clear way to avoid them.
- If OpenColorIO is disabled on build time, it should make blender behaving
in the same way as previous release with color management enabled.
More details could be found at this page (more details would be added soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Color_Management
--
Thanks to Xavier Thomas, Lukas Toene for initial work on OpenColorIO
integration and to Brecht van Lommel for some further development and code/
usecase review!
- sample weight didnt work when the object was transformed.
- sample weight didnt work when vertex selection was enabled.
- 'All faces' option is used by weight paint mode, but there was no UI access.
add ED_mesh_pick_face_vert(). which uses the face selection buffer but returns the closest vertex.
Initial idea of this input was re-designed in a bit more flexible
way using modifiers.
Also since Color Balance (which was the only thing using effect
mask input) was moved to the modifiers, this input field became
rudiment.
It's pretty tricky to write versioning code to prevent possible
data in cases this field was used, but hope it wouldn't be difficult
to switch to modifiers masks.
Having two ways to control color balance now seems a bit overkill
and not clear.
Removed old Color Balance settings from the interface and logic,
added versioning code to convert this settings to modifier.
Unfortunately, since color balance was a pointer, it's not actually
possible to preserve compatibility of old files saved in new
blender and opened back in old blender.
Hopefully there's no regressions :)
- Even preserves thickness but can give unsightly loops
- Smooth gives nicer shape but can give unsightly feather/spline mismatch for 'S' shapes created by beziers.
This is an example where smooth works much nicer.
http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/mask_compare.png
Behaves in exactly the same way as bright/contrast compositor node.
Some code could be de-duplicated, like contrast formula and mask
influence, but wouldn't call it stopper for commit since it's
already needed for grading Mango.
After 2.63 there was a bugfix to take object scale into account for the duplicated
objects, but this breaks compatibility on earlier files. Now there is an option to
control if the scale should be used or not.
Scale is used by default on newer files, and not used on older ones.
This implements basic color grading modifiers in sequencer, supporting
color balance, RGB curves and HUE corrections.
Implementation is close to object modifiers, some details are there:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/SequencerModifiers
Modifiers supports multi-threaded calculation, masks and instant
parameter changes.
Also added cache for pre-processed image buffers for current frame,
so changing sequence properties does not require rendering of original
sequence (like rendering scene, loading file from disk and so)
Additional changes:
- Option to the ndof menu letting you pick turntable/trackball independently
of the mouse viewport navigation style
- Option to change the rotation sensitivity separate from the panning
Holding shift + moving the ndof does just as before locking it to panning
Holding ctrl + moving will lock it to only rotation
Patch by Fredrik Hansson, thanks!
Reviewed by self and Mike Erwin.
Before this overlay would happen only for defined rectangle area,
now it's possible to show current / reference frames only, which
makes it possible to do more real slit view involving even displaying
frames on different monitors.
Still some work need to be done to clean interface up and support
displaying color information for reference shot.
This implements option which could be used to color balance only
specified area. Currently done by adding Mask input to Adjustment
effect. Affects on color balance and multiply settings.
Supporting masked saturation control is in the list, not supported
in this commit.
Also show value slider in the right of color wheel.
This is needed in cases when using blender camera with different
resolution than original footage. Behaves in the same way as
background picture framing.
The 'Add' menu in the node editor now has an option 'Search' at the top, which opens a separate popup for searching node types by name.
The operator for this is implemented completely in Python (this could also be done for the regular menu-based Add options in the future). There are a few necessary extensions to the RNA as well:
* The View2D struct in regions is now exposed. Currently only contains converter functions for coordinates from the region to the view (i.e. scrolled and zoomed view space). Used for converting mouse location to node space.
* The SpaceNode exposes the existing 'cursor_location' for operators to store mouse position beyond invoke calls. Not used for anything else (transforms) so far.
* The edit_tree in SpaceNode is also exposed, this is needed for operators to work correctly inside node groups.
Useful in cases when masking stuff like self-intersecting
ropes. This could probably be smarter option, but can't
currently think about robust approach here.
- Fix for copy default settings from active track operator
- Add meaningful tracking presets
API changes:
- Added parameter exact to Marker.find_frame, so now it's
possible to get estimated marker
- Added Marker.pattern_bound_box to get pattern's bound box
Currently does not support copying of animation data. This would require copying of individual fcurves etc. between data block, which is not implemented yet.
Also it is currently possible to circumvent some constraints of the nodes, in particular for node groups (e.g. no groups inside groups, render layer not inside groups).
- image space used wrong notifiers.
- image notifier now checks for mask mode before listening to mask edits.
- mask keyframes now draw in the image space.
