This commit integrates the work done so far on the new dependency graph system,
where goal was to replace legacy depsgraph with the new one, supporting loads of
neat features like:
- More granular dependency relation nature, which solves issues with fake cycles
in the dependencies.
- Move towards all-animatable, by better integration of drivers into the system.
- Lay down some basis for upcoming copy-on-write, overrides and so on.
The new system is living side-by-side with the previous one and disabled by
default, so nothing will become suddenly broken. The way to enable new depsgraph
is to pass `--new-depsgraph` command line argument.
It's a bit early to consider the system production-ready, there are some TODOs
and issues were discovered during the merge period, they'll be addressed ASAP.
But it's important to merge, because it's the only way to attract artists to
really start testing this system.
There are number of assorted documents related on the design of the new system:
* http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Aligorith/GSoC2013_Depsgraph#Design_Documents
* http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/DependencyGraph
There are also some user-related information online:
* http://code.blender.org/2015/02/blender-dependency-graph-branch-for-users/
* http://code.blender.org/2015/03/more-dependency-graph-tricks/
Kudos to everyone who was involved into the project:
- Joshua "Aligorith" Leung -- design specification, initial code
- Lukas "lukas_t" Toenne -- integrating code into blender, with further fixes
- Sergey "Sergey" "Sharybin" -- some mocking around, trying to wrap up the
project and so
- Bassam "slikdigit" Kurdali -- stressing the new system, reporting all the
issues and recording/writing documentation.
- Everyone else who i forgot to mention here :)
Previously makesrna would have generated code expecting DNA structure from
RNA_def_struct_sdna_from() to be passed to it. This was wrong because actual
PointerRNA points to a "parent" structure, making it impossible to add
functions to certain RNA structures.
It so far never needed and we didn't notice this issue, but it's needed for
some ongoing development now.
This causes trouble with Cycles because the C++ API uses the returned pointer to determine validity - if no item is found the pointer should be NULL for checking.
* It was not clear that RNA_parameter_length_get() & co only affected dynamic properties, renamed them to RNA_parameter_dynamic_length_get() and such.
* Fixed RNA_function_find_parameter(), we can't use BLI_findstring() here, need to call RNA_property_identifier()!
* Fixed RNA_parameter_get() and RNA_parameter_set(), which were completely wrong for dynamic properties.
* Fixed RNA_parameter_dynamic_length_get/set_data(), they did not check the property was actually a dynamic one and were using again ugly blackmagic casting intead of ParameterDynAlloc structure!
* makesrna was still using an ugly hackish (and perhaps not always working) code when handling dynamic parameters, now synchronized with RNA_parameter_dynamic_length_get_data and RNA_parameter_get code.
and RNA for it independent of the build flag for enabling Freestyle. Suggested
by Sergey Sharybin through a code review of the branch.
* Many #ifdef WITH_FREESTYLE blocks were removed to always have Freestyle-specific
DNA file specification and RNA for it built in Blender. This will allow Freestyle
setting survive even when a non-Freestyle build is used for loading and saving
files. It is noted that operations are still conditionally built through #ifdef
WITH_FREESTYLE blocks.
* To this end, new blenkernel files BKE_freestyle.h and intern/freestyle.c have
been added. All API functions in FRS_freestyle_config.h as well as some of those
in FRS_freestyle.h were moved to the new files. Now the relocated API functions
have BKE_ prefix instead of FRS_.
Resolved conflicts:
release/datafiles/startup.blend
source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c
Also updated source/blender/blenkernel/intern/linestyle.c as a follow-up of
recent changes for the use of bool.
I've added a separate camera unit type. It's a bit strange to have an exception for
this but it ensures units are shown in familiar millimeters and it also ensures
backwards compatibility.
