CTRL+click on node will not only select it, but also connect the active
viewer to the top output of the node.
To evaluate: make viewing option to have this as a default on select.
Could work nice for collapsed nodes.
Press Rkey in compositor for reading back render results and invoke a compo.
This now correctly reads AO (skipped it sometimes) and it makes a correct
composite.
FSA todo:
- hotkey + button for reading all samples back + composite
- solve black border around image
Rename was changed to work on the last selected node. Also size of a couple of
character arrays was changed to avoid buffer overflows.
Custom name shows up now just fine in group header in case it is being edited
as it did not before.
This commit makes it possible to add a custom name to a node. The feature can be
accessed either by using a menu or shortcut ctrl-r. It currently works only when
a single node is selected. Invoking the feature gives a popup menu in which a new
name can be entered. If the given name is not empty, it will be shown like
"(myCustomName) NodeName" in the node header.
This feature is particularly useful when documenting complex node setups.
I also fixed the size of blur node. It was too short before due to my previous
commit.
Thanks to David Millan Escriva for contribution!
This commit alters the behaviour of "Toggle Link" tool found in the node
editor so that it only makes link between selected sockets. Links cannot
be deleted by using the tool again as before. Instead deleting links can
be done by using the old method (drag with lmb).
The delete functionality may require further investigation to see if it
should be improved.
This commit adds a new tool, Toggle Links, to the node editor. This tool
allows the user to toggle the status (linked/not linked) between desired
sockets. The tool can be used either by using the f key or the menus.
This functionality is analogue to one found in object editing modes except
for its additional toggle functionality.
To use this tool, the user has to first select an input and an output socket.
Selecting is done by clicking with right mouse button on a socket. After the
tool has been invoked, the link between those two sockets is toggled. The
result may vary based on existing linkage.
There can be only one input and one output selected at maximum in a node
tree. This means that if the user selects a socket while one of the same
type is already selected, the old one will be deselected.
The tool complements the current way of connecting nodes. One possible use
for it is to use it to review output of nodes by using a viewer node. Just
select wanted input socket of a viewer node, set it visible and use selection
of an output socket in conjuction with f key to show the output in the viewer
node. Select another output and hit f to see its output and so on.
Previously when deleting a scene, no checks were made to see if
any render layer nodes in other scenes were referencing them,
leaving them pointing to bad memory. Now, this checks all other
scenes' nodetrees and sets pointers to the to-be-deleted scene to
NULL, which gets taken care of elsewhere.
Checked every instance of testbase to see this dosnt break anything, also changed TESTBASE and TESTBASELIB, both were used incorrectly in places.
added error_libdata() for library error messages that are everywhere.
added object_data_is_libdata to test if the object and its data's are from a library.
fixed 2 crashs in adding Curve points to a library object (remember to check, verify_ipocurve returns NULL!)
made duplicating and making dupli's real for lib objects possible, disabled joining into lib armatures and meshes.
Composite: when using multiple scene render-nodes, and one of these
scenes got re-rendered (by making scene active temporary), the composite
cache should free the used buffers.
Now, on each render, all scenes in a Blender project are being checked.
Please read:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Imaging.834.0.html
Or in short:
- adding MultiLayer Image support
- recoded entire Image API
- better integration of movie/sequence Images
Was a whole load of work... went down for a week to do this. So, will need
a lot of testing! Will be in irc all evening.
- Removed stupid idea to insert convertor nodes in Node Shaders, when a
link is created by non-matching sockets. Now it works like Compositor,
doing a default conversion. Works like this:
1 from 3 or 4 values: take average
3 from 1: copy to all
3 from 4: copy 3
4 from 1: copy to 3, set alpha to 1
4 from 3: copy 3, set alpha to 1
- Added select-linked in Nodes. Lkey or Shift+L. Also in pulldown menus
- from all selected nodes
- only connections between highest order socket types; so if there's RGBA
and Value sockets, only RGBA sockets are connected. This because in
these cases the Value sockets usually are for user input.
Example: Mix node.
Thanks Trip for the hint!
although it has a lot of noise. Not to mention our bad string code gives
a load of warnings.
I've reviewed specifically:
- file reading/write
- dna and library code
- node system
- entire render module
Done a couple of files in src/ too, seemed to be nice errors.
- After making a Group, internal socket values are now copied to the
group node, so an execute will give identical results
- After ungrouping, the cyclic dependency tagging didn't work well in
all cases, showing a red noodle line and giving composite errors.
For time being solved by calling the NodeSort twice.
- Viewer nodes now get previews updated always (used to be only the active)
Note: this is not for previews inside of groups!
- Image Node: after loading new file it didn't update the header name
- File-out Node: header color suggested there was only 1 'active', which
it isn't.
Reports came in that Elephants Dream files crash on quit or loading other
files. Was caused by freeing Material Nodes, which was accessing memory
that potentially was just freed before (node->id). Apparently only Windows
really gives issues then, which is actually a good thing :)
When adding a new node in a group, the call to refresh input/output
sockets was called after a compositing update was executed.
Just moved this call 2 lines up.
This also uncommits the fix from Joilnen, the stack pointers in the node
system are *per definition* set. If NULL, it's an indication something
else is wrong.
Node Editor.
Fix for a fix: cleanup of abuse of uiBlock accidentally disabled the
feature that only makes Node buttons accessible when visible. This to
allow Nodes to overlap and properly used.
When using the button in a RenderLayer node to render a single node, the
new 'render to fullscreen' crashed in end. Reason; the node editor was
still handling events after a render, as if the node editor was still open.
naming convention for Compositing:
- Render Result node -> Render Layers node (name only appears in Add menu)
- Compositor image -> Viewer Node image
I've also added a version patch (2.41 saved files only) to rename existing
"Compositor" Images.
The buttons uiBlock was stored in a Node, for retrieval of node buttons,
however that won't work when multiple windows show same Nodes.
Now implemented more correct unique Block names (as all over in UI), and
use that name to retrieve buttons with API call uiGetBlock().
- removed "Unified" button, replaced with "HD" preset for 1920x1080 output
- removed the unused "Pass" options
- removed the unused "Strands" render-layer option
Because the internal render pipe supports this already; added two more
render-layer options:
- "Sky", to enable/disable sky render in a layer (this was part of "Solid"
before, not so correct... to ensure previously saved files work, the
"Sky" option is set by default when "Solid" was set. The version patching
will do this temporally always, until we've bumped up version to 2.42
- "Edge", to enable/disable edge render in a layer. Nice for compositing.
Also in this commit: fixed warnings for exported functions for the new
Node Editor pull-down menus.
Compositor:
Viewer Nodes inside of Groups now work too. To not frustrate interactive
speed, the following rules apply:
- Making a Group editable (or closing) doesn't signal recalculation of
composite
- clicking on an Input socket always checks changes and calulcates
- When there are Viewers inside an edited Group, Viewers in the main tree
are not executed.
Also added: a "hide unused sockets" icon in the header of Viewer nodes.
This allows cleanup of Groups, to prevent these sockets get reveiled.
all RenderResult nodes (when "Save Buffers" used) at once.
Before it only read 1 Scene... not too useful.
Also: added wait-cursor for saving images in UV/Image Editor.
New option "Save Buffers", in first Output panel of renderbuttons, will not
allocate all render buffers, but instead save the rendered tiles to exr.
For each scene rendered, a single exr file then is created.
After rendering, the files get read, and only then the memory allocation is
done.
The exr files are saved in the temp dir (from user settings), and have
names derived from the filename+scene name. That way these buffers remain
relatively unique, and can be re-used later too.
Saving all render-layers and passes in a single file (as F3 command) will
be done later. Also reading back the current muli-layer exr files is not
supported yet (will read black). The purpose is that these files then can
be used as input for the Compositor.
One fun thing I added; after rendering once with this option, close
Blender, and restart it. If you have a Composite set up press 'R' on an
active RenderResult node. This will refresh the node(s) and load the exr,
so you can composite again without a re-render.
- Bug fix: the upper tile in a collumn for Panorama render didn't put the
mainthread to sleep properly. Now panorama renders 25% faster if you had
set Y-Parts to 4.
- Enabling Compositing in Scene for first time now adds a "Composite" node
too, so render output gets applied.
- An attempt to render with "Do Composite" without "Composite" node will
throw an error and stops rendering. In background mode it will just not
render at all, and print errors.
- Errors that prevent rendering now give a popup menu again.
- Having MBlur or Fields option on will now normally render, but with an
error print in console (not done yet...)
