A full detailed description of this will be done later... is several days
of work. Here's a summary:
Render:
- Full cleanup of render code, removing *all* globals and bad level calls
all over blender. Render module is now not called abusive anymore
- API-fied calls to rendering
- Full recode of internal render pipeline. Is now rendering tiles by
default, prepared for much smarter 'bucket' render later.
- Each thread now can render a full part
- Renders were tested with 4 threads, goes fine, apart from some lookup
tables in softshadow and AO still
- Rendering is prepared to do multiple layers and passes
- No single 32 bits trick in render code anymore, all 100% floats now.
Writing images/movies
- moved writing images to blender kernel (bye bye 'schrijfplaatje'!)
- made a new Movie handle system, also in kernel. This will enable much
easier use of movies in Blender
PreviewRender:
- Using new render API, previewrender (in buttons) now uses regular render
code to generate images.
- new datafile 'preview.blend.c' has the preview scenes in it
- previews get rendered in exact displayed size (1 pixel = 1 pixel)
3D Preview render
- new; press Pkey in 3d window, for a panel that continuously renders
(pkey is for games, i know... but we dont do that in orange now!)
- this render works nearly identical to buttons-preview render, so it stops
rendering on any event (mouse, keyboard, etc)
- on moving/scaling the panel, the render code doesn't recreate all geometry
- same for shifting/panning view
- all other operations (now) regenerate the full render database still.
- this is WIP... but big fun, especially for simple scenes!
Compositor
- Using same node system as now in use for shaders, you can composit images
- works pretty straightforward... needs much more options/tools and integration
with rendering still
- is not threaded yet, nor is so smart to only recalculate changes... will be
done soon!
- the "Render Result" node will get all layers/passes as output sockets
- The "Output" node renders to a builtin image, which you can view in the Image
window. (yes, output nodes to render-result, and to files, is on the list!)
The Bad News
- "Unified Render" is removed. It might come back in some stage, but this
system should be built from scratch. I can't really understand this code...
I expect it is not much needed, especially with advanced layer/passes
control
- Panorama render, Field render, Motion blur, is not coded yet... (I had to
recode every single feature in render, so...!)
- Lens Flare is also not back... needs total revision, might become composit
effect though (using zbuffer for visibility)
- Part render is gone! (well, thats obvious, its default now).
- The render window is only restored with limited functionality... I am going
to check first the option to render to a Image window, so Blender can become
a true single-window application. :)
For example, the 'Spare render buffer' (jkey) doesnt work.
- Render with border, now default creates a smaller image
- No zbuffers are written yet... on the todo!
- Scons files and MSVC will need work to get compiling again
OK... thats what I can quickly recall. Now go compiling!
PupBlock method. This wraps the "clevernumbut" code to allow scripters to use popup blocks for user input instead of a sequence of multiple different popups.
See the blend file for a comprehensive test and example file.
TypeError for pythonCoder error.
RuntimeError for blender not being able to be joined. (Sorry stivs, no BadJuJu yet)
Documented this in the epydocs also.
Object.GetSelected now dosnt return None if there is no 3d view. - wasnt documented and likely would mess up scripts that always expected a list. - Just return an empty list instead.
getting 7200 objects did take: 1.18 sec, now 0.0012 sec
It was doing a full object list lookup for every object in the scenes base using the name to compare.
now it just gets the object directly from the base and converts it to a python object, adding it to the list.
- Cam
eg.
ret_val = ob.join(objects)
Now it dosent depend on the current selection, or change the selection context.
Made respective join_* functions return 0 if the join was not mode, 1 when it workes.
Changed Pythons Object.Duplicate() to take keyword parms to enable duplication of spesific data.
Eg- Object.Duplicate(mesh=1) # to duplicate mesh data also.
NMesh lists before trying to build a new mesh (used by mesh.PutRaw() and
mesh.update()). It was possible to put junk into the NMesh lists, resulting
in some messed-up meshes.
even though its error messages suggested it did. Thanks to Yann for the
patch (I also added the ability to accept parameters without requiring
them to be in a tuple). Also documented the New() function.
Object.Join()
Seperated the join calls from space.c and view3dmenu into join_menu() in space.c, like the select_group_menu(),
okee's from join_curve, join_mesh.. etc are in join_menu() so python can call them without UI menu's in the way.
this is also a bit neater since there were 2 places that were doing what join_menu() does now.
- Cam
Object.Duplicate(linked=1)
Basicly a wrapper for adduplicate();
There was previously no easy way to copy objects in python. even the ways that do exist dont take modifiers, particles etc into account.
Uses the current selection.. epydocs included also.
- Cam
Still need to do Mball and Text.
Ken- this is fairly straight fwd but if you dont like it - its line 4867 of Mesh.c and 1 block that can be removed.
I tested for memory leaks and correct material user adjustment.
This is realy needed for using getFromObject to export to external rendering engines.
- Hope its ok.
Cam
There is a lot of very dangerous (and slow) string manipulation code in
there. I do not want to appear arrogant, but a bit of basic code QA in this
module certainly can't hurt.
Please see the diff for further explanation ;-)
- Sunday merger with bf-blender
- Foundations for new Node editor in Blender, generic framework that can
be used for Material/Texture, Compositing, Logic or maybe even Sequencer.
Note: this doesn't do anything yet, nor save! Is just to get this nice
in CVS now. :)
a the beztriple, so things like the hidden and handle select states were
set to random values. Added a beztriple.hide attribute so that the
hide attribute can be set/cleared from the BPy API.
