node materials.
Area and region listener callbacks now get the screen and area pointers passed, so
they can do more fine grained checks to see if redraw is really needed, for example
depending on the 3D view drawtype.
It removes buttons_header.c file, adds a (small) space_properties.py one, with a PROPERTIES_HT_header class, which simply uses the RNA enum to draw the context buttons.
It also fixes that enum, btw, it always featured all contexts, which means you could (try to!) set through RNA invalid contexts...
Thanks to brecht and dingto for the reviews.
After the paint refactoring for 2.67, the OpenGL texture was getting updated for
every stroke point, rather than once for every redraw. With a small brush radius
and low spacing the number of stroke points can be quite large, which might have
a big performance impact depending on the graphics card / drivers.
Also for 2D image paint, avoid redrawing the button panels and properties editor
during painting.
There is another possible cause for slowdowns with 3D texture painting which was
not fixed. Projection painting is creating and destroying threads for every stroke
point. Depending on the CPU/OS there might be a lot of overhead in doing that if
the brush size is small.
* Split and moved Cycles’ render layers panels into the render_layer
context as well (would be nice to hide this context when not needed,
e.g. with the BGE, but this is not so easy to do nicely...).
* Fixed some inconsistencies with trunk (probably due to svn merge
glitches) using r52858 as reference. Also recovered the missing
release/bin/blender-softwaregl file.
* A bunch of style code fixes in Blender's own code (not Freestyle
itself yet): line lengths, spaces around operators, block formatting,
headers, etc. In rna_linestyle.c, color_blend_items was replaced by
ramp_blend_items (exported from rna_material.c).
This commit makes a set of fixes and improvements based on the results of
Freestyle branch review by Brecht. The discussion thread is:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2012-October/037927.html
* The Layers panel and Freestyle-related panels in the Render tab of the
Properties window were moved to the newly created Render Layers tab.
The idea is to separate per render layer rendering options into a distinct
Properties window tab, and use the existing Render tab to accommodate
per scene rendering options.
* The new Freestyle panel was added in the Render tab. The panel header
contains a toggle button for globally enabling Freestyle, with the aim of making
Freestyle easier to find. Those Freestyle options in the Post Processing panel
were also moved to the new panel.
* GUI code was updated so that UI controls will be greyed out (instead of
being hidden) when Freestyle is disabled. Additional UI changes were also
made to reduce space consumption.
* The list of line sets was moved from the Freestyle panel to the Freestyle:
Line Sets panel.
* Old ray-casting algorithms were removed from the UI. Now only two
algorithms (culled and non-culled cumulative visibility detection algorithms)
are available, and the selection is done by the new "Culling" toggle button
within the edge detection options.
When you group objects with CTRL+G and have the properties
space --> object tab --> groups panel visible there is a redraw
missing.
Patch by Philipp Oeser. Thanks!
Conflicts resolved:
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/material.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c
source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
source/blender/editors/animation/anim_channels_defines.c
source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_scene.c
Additional changes:
* Fix for recent changes of BKE_* function renaming.
* Fix for an "attempt to free NULL pointer" in BlenderStrokeRenderer::RenderStrokeRepBasic().
effect for a render engine using new shading nodes. In short:
* No longer uses images assigned to faces in the uv layer, rather the active
image texture node is what is edited/painted/drawn.
* Textured draw type now shows the active image texture node, with solid
lighting.
* Material draw mode shows GLSL shader of a simplified material node tree,
using solid lighting.
* Textures for modifiers, brushes, etc, are now available from a dropdown in
the texture tab in the properties editor. These do not use new shading nodes
yet.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/TextureWorkflow
Improving UI visualization of using Material nodes:
- Property editor: the context top line now shows the linkage path
(in material and texture view mode)
- Activating new material node refreshes preview in property editor
when in texture mode.
This should make editing textures with node materials a bit more clear.
* Effecting particle properties with textures was possible in 2.49,
but not in 2.5 anymore.
* Now particles have their own textures (available in texture panel
for objects with particle systems), which are totally separate from
the material textures.
* Currently a basic set of particle properties is available for
texture control. Some others could still be added, but the whole
system is not intended as an "change anything with a texture" as
this kind of functionality will be provided with node particles in
the future much better.
* Combined with the previously added "particle texture coordinates"
this new functionality also solves the problem of animating particle
properties through the particle lifetime nicely.
* Currently the textures only use the intensity of the texture in
"multiply" blending mode, so in order for the textures to effect
a particle parameter there has to be a non-zero value defined for
the parameter in the particle settings. Other blend modes can be
added later if they're considered useful enough.
Auto-texture space now is more responsive and correct.
- on transforming it, the buttons get redrawn to show option was reset
- on enabling option, texture space is recalculated/reset
Object color option now is incorporated in preview render, and
in display in 3D window.
Note that Object-color is "modulating" the render result, it just
multiplies... which is very limited for practical use. This was
added for Apricot game project. The original meaning however was
to replace diffuse only... so specular and light work still correct.
ALso made header for properties editor start on top, to reflect
default (report in tracker).
- New Node editor now opens with larger view, the default
was like zoomed in factor 2.
- Add node via menu now shows new node more visible
- Click on (material) node now doesn't re-render the entire
tree anymore, much nicer.
- Duplicate node creates preview image immediate
