Previously mesh vertices imported from vlak nodes were transformed
from the camera coordinate system to the object local coordinate
system. This causes a difficulty in recovering object local vertices
when mesh deforming modifiers (e.g., curve, cloth, and soft body) have
been applied. Now the view map creation is done based on mesh
vertices in the camera coordinate system. Advantages of this approach
includes: 1) faster mesh importing because of less matrix-based
transformations; and 2) proper handling of meshes with deforming
modifiers.
A straightforward clipping algorithm was implemented to
eliminate vertices that are out of the interval from the
near to far clipping distance defined by the active camera.
Previously, objects that come behind the camera could lead
to a crash. The changes in this commit is intended to
address this issue. When meshes are partially clipped, new
edges are added. These edges can result in visible strokes
if they are within the camera view.
instability issues regarding the view map creation. A new iterative
solver of the 2D-to-3D inverse projection transformation problem was
implemented. Instead of directly solving the problem in the direction
from the 2D to 3D space, the new solver starts with an initial guess of
an approximated solution and asymptotically approaches to the true
solution by iteratively performing the forward 3D-to-2D projection
transformation and improving the approximation. Preliminary tests with
one simple and another complex scenes showed that the solver converges
quickly (more and less 20 iterations in many cases, with a stopping
criterion of a residual distance between the true and approximated
solutions less than 1e-6 Blender Unit).
The following files were according to the Math Lib reorganization
(see the commit log of revision 24464 for more information):
source/blender/freestyle/intern/blender_interface/BlenderFileLoader.cpp
source/blender/freestyle/intern/blender_interface/BlenderFileLoader.h
The file release/scripts/ui/properties_render.py was also updated
according the RNA UI API renaming in revision 24795.
