All in all, this patch adds an Alembic importer, an Alembic exporter,
and a new CacheFile data block which, for now, wraps around an Alembic
archive. This data block is made available through a new modifier ("Mesh
Sequence Cache") as well as a new constraint ("Transform Cache") to
somewhat properly support respectively geometric and transformation data
streaming from alembic caches.
A more in-depth documentation is to be found on the wiki, as well as a
guide to compile alembic: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/
User:Kevindietrich/AlembicBasicIo.
Many thanks to everyone involved in this little project, and huge shout
out to "cgstrive" for the thorough testings with Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini
and Realflow as well as @fjuhec, @jensverwiebe and @jasperge for the
custom builds and compile fixes.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2060
Since SDNA was allocated for each undo step,
the new address meant it was considered different and included again.
Add an option not to duplicate the DNA string when calling DNA_sdna_from_data,
as well as avoiding a redundant copy, it writes the same address each time.
Factorized writing of ID block's data (so far, only IDProps) into own helper func.
This also fixes missing IDProp (aka custom data) saving from GreasePencil and Library
datablocks (and add comment about why we do not save WM IDProps).
Finaly, it ensures all ID-related data are written immediately after the ID itself
(was not the case for all data types previously, some were writting their own data
before IDProps). This is not a fix (.blend file format does not enforce any order
on sub-data of datablocks, they only have to be after datablock struct itself in file),
but makes things more consistent.
This is purely internal sanitizing/cleanup, no change in behavior is expected at all.
This change was also needed because we were getting short on ID flags, and
future enhancement of 'user_one' ID behavior requires two new ones.
id->flag remains for persistent data (fakeuser only, so far!), this also allows us
100% backward & forward compatibility.
New id->tag is used for most flags. Though written in .blend files, its content
is cleared at read time.
Note that .blend file version was bumped, so that we can clear runtimeflags from
old .blends, important in case we add new persistent flags in future.
Also, behavior of tags (either status ones, or whether they need to be cleared before/after use)
has been added as comments to their declaration.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1683
We have currently a gooseberry file (scenes/01_island/01_meet_franck/01_01_01_A/01_01_01_A.anim.blend)
that links against two -pre repo libs, which are hence not available for common mortals,
and generate warnings and placeholders during load step.
Issue is, among those missing (directly) linked datablocks, we have two shapekeys!
This should never happen nor be possible at all. I tried understanding how this could happen,
with no luck at all, best bet would be some wild/bad call to `id_us_plus()` over those skeys
at some point...
Anyway, this commit:
- Handles a bit better those 'cases that should never happen' at load time.
- Adds several checks in ID handling code (and save/load code) to try to detect where/when
a non-linkable datablock becomes LIB_EXTERN (i.e. directly linked).
KX_IPOActuator is not used since 2.4.
This patch removes:
- KX_IPOActuator.h/cpp;
- Python doc;
- Write of IPO actuator in write.c;
- Allocation of IPOactuator in sca.c;
- Conversion in KX_ConvertActuators.cpp;
- Initialization of the python proxy in KX_PythonInitTypes.cpp;
- Other minor remove in logic_windows.c and in KX_PythonInit.cpp.
Reviewers: sybren, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Subscribers: moguri
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1603
Shutter curve now can be controlled using curve mapping widget in the motion
blur panel in Render buttons. Only mapping from 0..1 by x axis are allowed,
Y values will be normalized to fill in 0..1 space as well automatically.
Y values of 0 means fully closed shutter, Y values of 1 means fully opened
shutter.
Default mapping is set to old behavior when shutter opens and closes instantly.
This shutter mapping curve could easily be used by any other render engine by
accessing scene.render.motion_blur_shutter_curve.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht, juicyfruit, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1585
Primary goal of this commit is to fix an annoying issue - when processing and saving .blend
files in background mode you lose their thumbnails, since it can only be generated with
an OpenGL context.
Solution to that is to read .blend thumbnail while reading .blend file (only done in background
mode currently), and store it in Main struct.
Also, this lead to removing .blend file reading code from thumb_blend (no need to have doublons).
We now have a small interface in regular reading code area, which keeps it reasonbaly light
by only reading/parsing header info, and first few BHead blocks.
This makes code reading .blend thumbnail about 3 to 4 times slower than previous highly specialized
one in blend_thumb.c, but overall thumbnail generation of a big .blend files folder only grows
of about 1%, think we can bare with it.
Finally, since thumbnail is now optionally stored in Main struct, it makes it easy to allow user
to define their own custom one (instead of auto-generated one). RNA API for this was not added though,
accessing that kind of .blend meta-data has to be rethought a bit on a bigger level first.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Subscribers: Severin, psy-fi
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1469
Issue is rather well explained in T45471: our current customdata writing code easily generates several different blocks in blend file with same 'old' address. This is bad, because those addresses are used as 'uid' during reading process (it kind of work in Blender's own reading process, by mere luck mostly, but breaks the file specs).
Solution (suggested by Campbell, thanks) implemented by this patch is to avoid duplicating everything, and instead just overwrite what we needs to skip some cdlayers on write:
* the CustomData's `totlayer` number;
* the CustomData's `layers` array of CustomDataLayer (keeping its original address using the `writestruct_at_address` helper).
New design allows us to get completely rid of the no_free flag stuff in `write_customdata()`.
Note that this implies written data is **not** directly valid from Blend PoV, since its written typemap does not match written layers (this is not an issue because typemap is rebuilt on read anyway - and it's easy to fix this if really needed).
Also, the backward compatibility saving of mface data remains an issue here, see comment in code.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Projects: #bf_blender
Maniphest Tasks: T45471
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1425
This patch introduces a couple new stroke modifiers. The ones currently implemented are based on prototypes by @kjym3 and myself.
The new modifiers:
- Tangent
- Thickness noise
- Crease Angle
- Simplification
- Curvature 3D
The documentation for these new modifier types can be found [[ http://www.blender.org/manual/render/freestyle/parameter_editor/index.html | in the manual ]]:
{F134441}
(left: AnisotropicThicknessShader, right: NoiseThicknessShader)
{F140499}
(left: Curvature 3D, right: Simplification)
Author: Folkert de Vries (flokkievids)
Reviewers: kjym3
Subscribers: #user_interface, plasmasolutions, kjym3
Projects: #bf_blender
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D963
Is pretty much what it says :)
Easy subtitles for everyone!
Supports size, positioning,
a cheap shadow effect (probably will need more work),
and autocentering on x axis.
Now you can go wild with long spanish names
in your soap opera videos.
Will probably be refined as days go by,
but at least it's now ready for testing.
Use first packed image as legacy image->packedfile, so saving .blend file with
latest builds makes it so packed images are not lost when opening with previous
releases.
This will only work reliably if mutliview is not used, otherwise it'll be only
first view in the .blend file, which is rather expected since previous releases
are not aware of views.
This one was nasty, issue comes with temp/nofree CD layers that get 'removed on the fly'
from saved mesh CDData. Since mesh struct itself was written before that cleanup, it would
still have the old, invalid number of layers. That would lead to a buffer overflow when
loading data later (odd you had to do this twice (i.e. have 2 'ghost' layers) to get the crash).
New code prevents that by always making a copy of the mesh (we were already doing that mostly
anyway, since we were saving without tessfaces), copying (by ref of course) in it cddata,
and then writing mesh struct. Makes code a bit more verbose, but... it works!
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
