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- Fix for bug #7840: adding particle system to nurbs, curves crashes.
Now simply doesn't allow to add a particle system to a non-mesh
object, the current code does not support it.
- Fix for bug #7834: deleting vertices of an object with a particle
system crashes. Fixed by disabling particle display for objects in
editmode.
- Fix for the particle add brush on subsurfed objects.
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Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite
of the Blender particle system. This includes:
- Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types.
- Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics.
- Various particle visualisation and rendering types.
- Vertex group and texture control for various properties.
- Interpolated child particles from parents.
- Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. .
- Explode modifier.
- Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types.
.. and lots of other things, some more info is here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewritehttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc
The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle
systems are being converted to the new system, but will require
tweaking to get them looking the same as before.
Point Cache
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The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching
on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system.
See the Cache API section on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint
Documentation
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These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help
for this is appreciated.
This allows to mix between the result of 2 modifiers, with both
using the same input state. This is useful for having a mesh deform
and armature deform working together.
However! This functionality could have been presented better...
this is actually Node editor stuff!
Now it works by adding a "MM" button, next to the "overall vgroup"
option. If MM is pressed, the input of this modifier is the same as
the input of the previous modifier.
Only the armature modifier has this option now...
Support for using the axes of a different object as the line of mirror
symmetry for a mirror modifier. As a nice consequence, this allows
"clipping" to arbitrary planes in editmode.
A fun example of using a couple of mirror modifiers and an array
modifier to easily make a nice flower type model is here:
http://bebop.cns.ualberta.ca/~cwant/chocolateC05.blend
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Dynamic binding support. This means that the mesh can move _within_
the cage and still deform correct. If the mesh goes out of the cage,
don't expect correct result. Must be enabled with the 'Dynamic'
option, because it is slower and consumes more memory.
This is useful to use e.g. the cage mesh for main deformations and
still have shape keys for facial deformation working.
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The MeshDeform modifier can deform a mesh with another 'cage' mesh.
It is similar to a lattice modifier, but instead of being restricted
to the regular grid layout of a lattice, the cage mesh can be modeled
to fit the mesh better.
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/modifiers/
Implementation Notes:
- OpenNL has been refactored a bit to allow least squares matrices to
be built without passing the matrix row by row, but instead with
random access. MDef doesn't need this actually, but it's using this
version of OpenNL so I'm just committing it now.
- Mean value weights for polygons have been added to arithb.c, a type
of barycentric coordinates for polygons with >= 3 vertices. This
might be useful for other parts of blender too.
found by Riku Palomäki, was that "bridge" vertices (which connect two or more
faces that don't share edges) were not being included in the maximum final
vertex count calculation (used for memory allocation, hence the crashes).
Unfortunately Riku's patch actually stopped bridge vertices from being split
correctly, so I have fixed the problem by adding the maximum number of vertices
that can be generated from bridge vertices to the maximum final vertex count.
Thanks to Riku Palomäki for finding the cause!
bsystem_time was being called with an extra variable, which was useless. Most of the places that called it, were passing NULL for that variable anyway.
I've also cleaned up that function a bit, but the underlying problems with that part of the code still exist (EVIL GLOBALS that are exported for frame_to_float), for mblur and fields rendering features. That remains for another time.
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An improved CrazySpace correction is now used for Armature modifiers that use
vertex groups, and that are the first enabled modifiers in the stack. This is
a a specific case, but also a common one.
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/skinning/
Implementation Notes:
- The quaternion crazyspace correction is still used for modifiers other than
the armature modifier.
- Modifiers can now provide a deform matrix per vertex to be used for
crazyspace correction, only the armature modifier implements this now.
Copying Displace modifiers by themselves did not work correctly. The code was incorrectly just copying memory for source modifier to the new copy, causing problems due to the ModifierData struct at the start of the DisplaceModifierData struct (linked list pointers still referring to old stack).
- modifier.c: moved a check out of a loop, removed an unneeded var, made a couple cosmetic changes.
- DNA_modifier_types.h: added parentheses to cast and smooth modifier defines that used bit-shifting (like 1<<1, etc.).
Note: realized they were needed when I tried to use "flag &= ~MOD_CAST_Z" in modifier.c. Since MOD_CAST_Z is #defined as 1<<3, ~MOD_CAST_Z ended up as ~1<<3 while I wanted ~(1<<3). There are other places in that header file and others in Blender where it'd be safer to add the parentheses...
- Updated the epydoc documentation for the features added by Ben Batt to the cast modifier; fixed small typo in API_intro.py.
BTW, thanks Ben Batt (artificer) for checking, improving with a couple features and committing these modifiers :).
This patch adds an option to the wave modifier to displace along the normals
of the base mesh, rather than in the local Z direction.
Thanks to Michael Fox (mfoxdoggg) for the patch!
This patch adds vertex group functionality to the wave modifier, allowing the
user to specify a vertex group with which to modulate the wave deformation.
Thanks to Michael Fox (mfoxdoggg) for the patch!
This patch adds two modifiers: Cast and Smooth.
The Cast modifier deforms vertices into a sphere, cylinder or cuboid shape.
The location and orientation of the projection shape can be controlled by a
specified control object.
The Smooth modifier smooths the mesh in a similar way to the Edit mode "Smooth"
button.
Thanks to Willian Padovani Germano (ianwill) for the patch!
This patch makes the X, Y and Z axes of the mirror modifier individually
toggleable, so it is possible to mirror in more than one direction with a
single modifier.
Thanks to Juho Vepsäläinen (bebraw) for the patch!
NOTE: BLENDER_SUBVERSION has been incremented to support translation from old
to new axis specification.
Speed improvements to the Edgesplit modifier (changed the data structures
and memory management to avoid using slow GHash functions and large numbers
of small mallocs). In my tests, this makes the modifier approximately twice
as fast.
* Added an "Override Image" button to the UVProject modifier; this overrides
faces' currently assigned image with the one given in the modifier panel.
This provides some of the functionality previously provided by the "Add UVs"
button - you still need to add a UV layer manually, but you only need to
change the image in one place.
* Note that the "Override Image" option uses the bit position previously used
by the "Add UVs" option, so old files which had "Add UVs" enabled will now
have "Override Image" enabled.
* Removed the "Add UVs" option from the UVProject modifier
* Added a UV layer menu to the UVProject modifier
* Refactored the Displace modifier UV layer menu code to allow the UVProject
modifier to share it
* Added two CustomData functions to facilitate getting layers by name
If the "UV" texture coordinate option is selected while no UV layers exist,
the UV layer name in the modifier is blank. This is not a problem while no UV
layers exist, but if a UV layer is added the modifier code attempts to use
UV coordinates without handling the missing layer name correctly, leading to a
segfault. This only occurs when the modifier stack is recalculated before a
modifier UI redraw, as the UI redraw updates the layer name.
This fix handles a missing UV layer name by setting it to the active UV layer.
