If Fgon is selected in mesh tools panel, In the following cases
Quad - 2 edge Adjacent - Path
Quad - 2 edge Adjacent - Innervert
Quad - 3 edge
'extra' faces are combined to fgons. to make cleaner subdivides. Please give feedback
while sliding the edge, press P this will swap modes. while in Non prop mode, press F to change the control "side". You can still change the control edge too.
to get rid of faces with MFace.v3==0
- change all Mesh's to have ->medge now. This is forced by make_edges
on readfile, and in the various exotic important routines, and on
conversion back in python.
- make python NMesh structure always have medges now (needs testing)
- with above two changes it is guarenteed that mf->v3 is never ==0
in main blender code (i.e., all MFace's are actually triangles
or quads) and so I went through and removed all the historic tests
to deal with MFace.v3==0. Equals lots of deleting, I am in heaven!
- removed MEdge edcode flag, no longer needed
- added experimental replacement for edge flag system
Still are some inconsistencies in FACESELECT mode edge drawing to
be ironed out.
NOTE: This commit adds an experimental edge flag calc system, based
on 10-seconds-of-thought algorithm by yours truly. Would appreciate
feedback on how this system works, esp compared to old one and esp
on complex or interesting models.
To Use: New system is enabled by setting G.rt to a value between
1 and 1000 (Value of 0 uses old system). Value 1000 is reserved for
"auto" edge, which is more or less identical to old system but also
makes sure that at least 10% of edges are drawn (solves errors for
super subdivided meshes). Values between 1 and 999 act as percent
(out of 1000) of edges that should be drawn, starting with "most
interesting" edges first. Please try it and comment!
Press ALT+B in 3d window, draw a rect, and it becomes a clipping
volume of 4 planes. You then can rotate the view anyway you like.
Works for each 3d window individually.
Disable it with another ALT+B press.
Commit is huge because it had to change all selection code as well.
The user-clipping planes are in 'eye space', the other clipping
happens in projected 'viewport space'.
Nice to notice is that the 'x=3200' convention (to denote a coordinate
is clipped) now is a define. Define value is still a number though... but
we now can get up to screens of 12000 pixels without issues!
Known issue; here it refuses to draw the 'object centers' or Lamp icons
within the clipping region. Can't find any reason for it... however, we
might move to non-pixmaps for it anyway.
Testing might reveil numerous issues, will be standby for it.
Curious? Check this http://www.blender.org/bf/rt4.jpg
mapping (instead of Edit{Vert,Edge,Face} pointers)
- dropped convertToDispListMeshMapped (whew, glad of it too)
- added DerivedMesh drawMappedFaces function
- dropped EM suffix for DerivedMesh functions, it was neither
particularly correct nor descriptive
- converted test_index_mface to test_index_face that also corrects
MCol and TFace. Good thing we had three versions of this routine,
you never know when one might burn down.
- removed flipnorm_mesh, not used anymore (and was incorrect to
boot)
- Getting face select to work with modifiers turned out to be much
more complicated than expected. Reworked mapping architecture for
modifiers - basically elements in a DispListMesh are now required
to be stored in an order that corresponds exactly to original
ordering. MVert/MEdge/MFace all have a new flag ME_XXX_STEPINDEX
that is set on each element that is set on the first derived element
of each original element. I can't say the code to follow these
requirements for subsurf is particularly transparent, but on the
upside it is a reasonably consistent and simple system that is memory
efficient and allows keeping the DispListMesh structure.
- rewrote mirror modifier to be simpler/conform to new requirements
for mapped DispListMesh structure. This also means that mirror interacts
much better with incremental subsurf calculation (it used to recalc
one entire side on any topology change, now it generally avoids that).
- added EM_{init,free}_index_arrays and EM_get_{vert,edge,face}_for_index
functions to handle mapping indices back into appropriate EditMesh
structures.
- bug fix, make edges didn't recalc object data
- bug fix, initial image assignment to TFace's didn't recalc object data
- new feature, added circle select support for FACESELECT
- bug fix, creating new faces in editmode duplicated the TFACE active
flag - but there should only be one active tface
- bug fix, possible crash when deleting all faces in faceselect mode
on mesh with tfaces...
Still todo: TFace edge drawing is still not always correct in face
mode, in particular with a mirror modifier when mesh has edges (and
no preceeding subsurf). Have not yet decided how to deal with this.
Best solution is probably to do switch to meshes all having MEdge's,
in which case I can get rid of TFace edge flags (and need to recalc
modifiers on tface selection change).
way. Requested for low-poly modeling.
- fix: on exit editmode, the code always created a mesh->dvert block...
silly, this made other code confused which decided whether to use
dverts (vertex groups) or not.
- removed obsolete call from armature.c. Also fixed name of function there,
preparation work for nicer support in Blender for "deform envelopes"
object cos into screenspace without mucking with gl matrices.
- added view3d_project_ functions, take arguments instead of using
globals
- removed View3D.{mx,my,mxo,myo}
- switch drawobject foreachScreenVert functions to use new projection
functions
- switch edge slide to use new projection functions, fixes erratic
behavior (project was using wrong mat I believe)
- bug fix in edgeslide, nearest edge to start was one-off
"convert to triangles" check for shortest diagonal to decide how the
triangles will be made.
Fun todo for another occasion; check on facenormals too...
- removed {lattice,curve}_modifier functions
- changed render code to use displist for curve rendering
instead of making its own. required adding a bevelSplitFlag
field to DispList. I also fixed the bevel face splitting
which did not work correctly in many situations.
- changed so all curve data creation happens in makeDispListCurveTypes,
includes making bevel list and filling polys
- changed render code to use displist for surface rendering
- removed Curve.orco variable, built as needed now
- removed stupid BLI_setScanFill* functions... why use a function
argument when you can use a global and two functions! Why indeed.
(this fixed crash when reloading a file with filled curves and
toggling editmode)
- bug fix, setting curve width!=1 disabled simple bevel for no
apparent reason
- cleaned up lots and lots of curve/displist code (fun example:
"if(dl->type==DL_INDEX3 || dl->type==DL_INDEX3)"). Hmmm!
- switched almost all lattice calls to go through lattice_deform_verts,
only exception left is particles
- added DBG_show_shared_render_faces function in render, just
helps to visualize which verts are shared while testing (no
user interface).
- renamed some curve bevel buttons and rewrote tooltips to be
more obvious
- made CU_FAST work without dupfontbase hack
Also by the way I wrote down some notes on how curve code
works, nothing spiffy but it is at:
http://wiki.blender.org/bin/view.pl/Blenderdev/CurveNotes
but including "virtual" modifiers (for example, an object skel-parented
to a lattice has a virtual first lattice modifier)
- removed mesh_modifier(), all functionality has been incorporated into
modifier stack (well, keys still don't exist as a modifier, but I am
not sure if they should).
- added interface option to convert a virtual modifier into a real modifier
- added option to parent to lattice object or lattice with deform
- bug fix, patch of hook indices patched all hooks (oops) not just ones
for edited mesh
NOTE: Files saved with 2.38 that include an object parented to a lattice
will not load correctly, because it will look like the object is parented
only to the object (i.e. without deform). Can be simply fixed by reparenting
or adding a lattice modifier. Older files are handled automatically.
can only follow deform (for example, they store mesh vertex
indices)
- added ModifierType.foreachObjectLink for iterating over Object
links inside modifier data (used for file load, relinking, etc)
- switched various modifiers_ functions to take object argument
instead of ListBase
- added user editable name field to modifiers
- bug fix, duplicate and make single user didn't relink object
pointers in modifier data
- added modifiers to outliner, needs icon
- added armature, hook, and softbody modifiers (softbody doesn't
do anything atm). added conversion of old hooks to modifiers.
NOTE-THE-FIRST: User name field is not initialized on loading 2.38 files
so if you have saved stuff with a cvs blender you will see blank names.
NOTE-THE-SECOND: Since modifiers aren't evaluated yet for non-Mesh
objects, hooks for lattices and curves are broken. Don't updated if
you actually, say, *use* Blender.
NOTE-THE-THIRD: Old hooks used a quirky weighting system during
deformation which can't be extended to modifiers. On the upside,
I doubt anyone relied on the old quirky system and the new system
makes much more sense. (Although the way falloff works is still
quite stupid I think).
- added several useful utility functions to editmesh,
these can simplify/clarify a lot of mesh code, check them
out
- cleaned up EdgeSlide a bit to be clearer/shorter
o bug fix, EdgeSlide did not always cancel correctly
o bug fix, EdgeSlide did not choose initial "control" edge
correctly after calc_meshverts_ext change
worked properly with modifiers. Needs more testing I am sure.
No, honestly, I wasn't just cleaning for the hell of it, it
was *necessary* (I would never do such a thing). Selection should
work completely with cage options of modifiers now.
- added DerivedMesh foreach functions to iterate over mapped
verts/edges/face centers. These replaced some of the drawing
functions and are more general anyway. Special edge drawing
functions remain for performance reasons.
- removed EditFace xs, ys fields
- added general functions to iterate over screen coordinates of
mesh/curve/lattice objects
- removed all calc_*verts* functions that were used for storing
screen coordinates in objects. they were recalc'd on the fly
for most situations anyway, so now we just always do that.
calc_*verts_ext was one of those calls that did dirty things
deep down in the callstack (changing curarea and poking at
matrices)
- rewrote all vertex level selection routines (circle, lasso, bbox)
and closest vertex routines (rightmouse select) to use the new
system. This cleaned up the selection code a lot and the structure
of selection is much easier to see now. This is good for future
work on allowing modifiers to completely override the selection
system. It also points out some discrepancies in the way selection
is handled that might be nice to resolve (mesh vertex selection has
fancy stuff to try to help with selecting overlapping, but it only
works w/o bbuf select, and curves/lattices don't have at all).
- had to remove ton's code to move Manipulator to cage location, this
is not reliable (can come up with a different method if requested)
- as it happens BezTriple.s and BPoint.s are basically available to
be removed, just need to rewrite editipo code that still does
background calc of screen coordinates
- MVert.{xs,ys} are still around because they are abused in some places
for other info (not sure if this is safe actually, since they are
short's and the mvert limit went up).
And did I mention this commit is comes out to -305 lines? Well it does.
SUBDIV_SELECT_ORIG - Retain selection to look like original selection
SUBDIV_SELECT_INNER - New selection is all the new inner edges
SUBDIV_SELECT_INNER_SEL - New selection is all the new inner edges except where only 1 edges was selected on a face
Loopcut now uses SUBDIV_SELECT_INNER_SEL for better interaction with edgeslide
may request info from the derived surface, this means we have to
force a manual recalc before we enter transform... proper design
of mesh data invalidation/recalc should make this unnecessary...
When choosing Subdivide from the w menu or Confirming the number of cuts in a subdivide multi, hold down the CTRL key and
instead of getting the original selection recreated on the new edges, get the "inner edges" as you would get if doing a loopcut. UI for this may change before release (perhaps a toggle button in edit buttons)
Edgeslide movement is now controlled by a line drawn between the endpoints of the 2 control rail edges. Edgeslide will
try to pick a control rail pair (will color green ATM) if you don't like the edge it picked, use the mouse wheel up to change it.
have to code mouse wheel down to go other direction still. Just ran out of time ATM and wanted to get this in for movement testing.
movement is in 1% per edge (so 1% out of -1 to 1)
CTRL makes it 10%
SHIFT makes it .1%
Se what you think and give me some feedback on functionality :) Code needs cleanup and comments, so don't crit that too much yet.
- Bug #2857: Spin didn't create nice consistant normals
- removed unnecessary call to where_is_object() in init-render phase.
- Added DAG_scene_sort() calls when objects were removed (join cases)
- When using texture fonts, the file window header didn't display OK
- Saving a file didn't set the 'wait cursor' anymore (oldie!)
to normalised coordinate (convention in blender, helps with
halo)
- removed vertexnormals(), vertexnormals_mesh()
- removed CTX_NO_NOR_RECALC (always assume already calculated)
- change NMesh.c to call mesh_calc_normals
- chance load_editMesh to call mesh_calc_normals after done
converting instead of using editmesh normals
- update recalc_editnormals to also calc vertex normals (whats
4 more adds and a sqrt among friends)
Its hard to believe, but it just might be the case that there
are only two places mesh normals are calculated now (renderer
and kernel)