[#24601] Net rendering master node fails to send/retrieve files to/from slaves
Both Reported by Dan McGrath
The second might not actually be fixed with this, but now there is better error checking and reporting.
Misc: add poll method in Panel base class, to better support mixins with different inheritance order.
New Feature:
VCS job type
Render a file (with dependencies) from a version control system (currently only supports subversion, but system is already generic).
On client, working path, server path and current revision can be guessed from data on disk or entered manually.
On slave, a working copy is created (if needed) where specified by the job and updated to the proper revision.
On master web page, job types now appear in the job lists. The job page shows the list of dependencies for "normal" jobs or versioning information for VCS jobs.
Limitations: Need to have command line tools "svn" and "svnversion". Working copy path must be the same on client and slaves (the client gets the job path relative to the working copy). When guessing, working copy path is set to the folder where the current file is (this can be changed manually after). On the slave, it will update the working copy AS SPECIFIED to the revision, so if that path is too deep, some dependencies will not be updated properly. Doesn't support mixed revisions (and will not give any warnings for that), it will always use the first revision specified by "svnversion"
Bugfix:
Thumbnail generation doesn't chew down memory anymore and always gives correct result (thumbnail on master especially could mess up between jobs with the name result filename)
- made operator dir's into python packages
- lazy loading of module which do the actual import and export (faster blender load times)
- general maintanance and small fixes.
- bugfix for exporting x3d materials
- leak fix for exporting 3ds
Note: this is tested and work with metaclass registering. If it doesn't work with registering lists (as currently in svn), I can still commit the metaclass method...
F8 key enabled again, useful for script UI development.
- keying set freeing wasnt freeing from all scenes and the builtin list.
- PointerProperty() cant refer to a removed python srna type (fixed in rigify and netrender).
- Added a check for freeing a type used by a PointerProperty but its very slow, makes reloading take ~10sec. Only enabled this in debug mode for now.
Netrender register() function isnt re-registering the property, probably because the module is cached by python and not re-run.
Repath functionality: Edit paths in blend file on slaves to match the transfered files.
Tested with textures and point caches. Fluid should work. Point Caches with the External option might not.
This should fix previous problems when using absolute paths in blend files.
- bpy is now a python package, this makes it easier to add utility modules and adjust python startup which was previously using verbose Py/C api. Access should not be any slower since both C and Python modules use dictionary access.
- loop over scripts and load via python (currently F8 reload isnt working, will add back shortly)
- the C module is kept but renamed to _bpy and not meant for direct access from anything but the bpy package.
- bpy_types.py is an exception since it runs before the bpy package is initialized.