* move own thread handling for thumbnails to WM_jobs
* cleanup of thumbnail creation code
* added function to kill the job, which actually allows thread to terminate gracefully
vc9 projectfiles:
* fixed some missing includes for release target!
- Use BGL buffer instead of string for image data.
- Add buffer interface to image source.
- Allow customization of pixel format.
- Add valid property to check if the image data is available.
The image property of all Image source objects will now
return a BGL 'buffer' object. Previously it was returning
a string, which was not working at all with Python 3.1.
The BGL buffer type allows sequence access to bytes and
is directly usable in BGL OpenGL wrapper functions.
The buffer is formated as a 1 dimensional array of bytes
with 4 bytes per pixel in RGBA order.
BGL buffers will also be accepted in the ImageBuff load()
and plot() functions.
It is possible to customize the pixel format by using
the VideoTexture.imageToArray(image, mode) function:
the first argument is a Image source object, the second
optional argument is a format string using the R, G, B,
A, 0 and 1 characters. For example "BGR" means that each
pixel will be 3 bytes, corresponding to the Blue, Green
and Red channel in that order. Use 0 for a fixed hex 00
value, 1 for hex FF. The default mode is "RGBA".
All Image source objects now support the buffer interface
which allows to create memoryview objects for direct access
to the image internal buffer without memory copy. The buffer
format is one dimensional array of bytes with 4 bytes per
pixel in RGBA order. The buffer is writable, which allows
custom modifications of the image data.
v = memoryview(source)
A bug in the Python 3.1 buffer API will cause a crash if
the memoryview object cannot be created. Therefore, you
must always check first that an image data is available
before creating a memoryview object. Use the new valid
attribute for that:
if source.valid:
v = memoryview(source)
...
Note: the BGL buffer object itself does not yet support
the buffer interface.
Note: the valid attribute makes sense only if you use
image source in conjunction with texture object like this:
# refresh texture but keep image data in memory
texture.refresh(False)
if texture.source.valid:
v = memoryview(texture.source)
# process image
...
# invalidate image for next texture refresh
texture.source.refresh()
Limitation: While memoryview objects exist, the image cannot be
resized. Resizing occurs with ImageViewport objects when the
viewport size is changed or with ImageFFmpeg when a new image
is reloaded for example. Any attempt to resize will cause a
runtime error. Delete the memoryview objects is you want to
resize an image source object.
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.
* 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
* enabled game engine in regular build
Note1: blenderplayer hasn't been looked at yet and is not linking
Note2: KX_blenderhook and KX_converter need windowmanager include, this dependency should probably be removed.
svn merge https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender -r19820:HEAD
Notes:
* Game and sequencer RNA, and sequencer header are now out of date
a bit after changes in trunk.
* I didn't know how to port these bugfixes, most likely they are
not needed anymore.
* Fix "duplicate strip" always increase the user count for ipo.
* IPO pinning on sequencer strips was lost during Undo.
Added occlusion culling capability in the BGE.
More info: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.49/Game_Engine#BGE_Scenegraph_improvement
MSVC, scons, cmake, Makefile updated.
Other minor performance improvements:
- The rasterizer was computing the openGL model matrix of the objects too many times
- DBVT view frustrum culling was not properly culling behind the near plane:
Large objects behind the camera were sent to the GPU
- Remove all references to mesh split/join feature as it is not yet functional
User guide:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/Fisheye_Dome_Camera
Fixed two bugs from original patch:
- deleting a text will clear the warp field from Game framing settings
- removed spurious black dots along the edge of the cube map in the gameplayer
Known limitation:
- resizing of the screen doesn't work in the gameplayer
Known bugs:
- Texture with reflexion are not rendered correctly
- Spurious problems with light
This commit contains a number of performance improvements for the
BGE in the Scenegraph (parent relation between objects in the
scene) and view frustrum culling.
The scenegraph improvement consists in avoiding position update
if the object has not moved since last update and the removal
of redundant updates and synchronization with the physics engine.
The view frustrum culling improvement consists in using the DBVT
broadphase facility of Bullet to build a tree of graphical objects
in the scene. The elements of the tree are Aabb boxes (Aligned
Axis Bounding Boxes) enclosing the objects. This provides good
precision in closed and opened scenes. This new culling system
is enabled by default but just in case, it can be disabled with
a button in the World settings. There is no do_version in this
commit but it will be added before the 2.49 release. For now you
must manually enable the DBVT culling option in World settings
when you open an old file.
The above improvements speed up scenegraph and culling up to 5x.
However, this performance improvement is only visible when
you have hundreds or thousands of objects.
The main interest of the DBVT tree is to allow easy occlusion
culling and automatic LOD system. This will be the object of further
improvements.
Notes:
* Sequence transform strip uses G.scene global, this is commented
out now, should be fixed.
* Etch-a-ton code was most difficult to merge. The files already in
2.5 got merged, but no new files were added. Calls to these files
are commented out with "XXX etch-a-ton". editarmature.c and
transform_snap.c were complex to merge. Martin, please check?
* Game engine compiles and links again here for scons/make/cmake
(player still fails to link).
updated VisualStudio 9 projectfiles for blender 2.50
notes:
- still WIP
- dependencies have to be reviewed
- gameengine has been removed from build for now, needs to be added back at some point
- time, outliner and view3d editors have been added, other editors will have to be added when ported
