The improved Hosek / Wilkie model was added during my GSoC 2013 and the default since then.
The older model was kinda kept for compatibility, but after more than 2 years it's time to remove it.
The Hosek / Wilkie model is more realistic anyway, and people who really want a day / night transition can mix the Sky Shader with another one (e.g. color) and fade between the two.
This patch adds support for coloring point density textures based on several mesh vertex attributes.
* Vertex Color: Use a vertex color layer for coloring the point density texture
* Vertex Weight: Use a weights from a vertex group as intensity values. (for Blender Render engine the additional color band is used)
* Vertex Normals: Use object-space vertex normals as RGB values.
The vertex color source enum is stored separately from the particle color source, to avoid invalid values when switching.
Note that vertex colors are technically "corner colors" (MLoop), so each vertex can have as many colors as faces it is part of.
For the purpose of point density the mloop colors are simply averaged, which is physically plausible because corners can be viewed
as multiple points in the same location.
This was we don't have re-compo or viewport re-rendering happening when changing
nodes which are not connected to the output at all (for example when adding new
nodes or changing settings for unconnected nodes).
Only basic operations are covered for now. checks could be added to more tools
when needed.
Currently it's not fully optimal implementation, but seems to work fast enough.
Don't see reliable alternative to that -- keeping tag in the node wouldn't work
because of the node groups (which are probably already broken, but should be
easy to solve with current approach). So guess it's more matter of optimizing
path search from a node to output.
Before processing forward let's check whether it's indeed something we want
and whether the approach is indeed not fully bad.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, mont29
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1765
Each LINES draw call is now responsible for its own line width. No need
to set it back to its 1.0 default after every draw.
This eliminates half our calls to glLineWidth , similar to last week’s
work on glPointSize.
This commit removes the experimental CUDA kernel, making SSS and CMJ
regular features.
Several improvements have been made in the past few
weeks (thanks Sergey!) which make SSS render several times faster (2-3x
compared to 2.76b) on the GPU, and the increased VRAM usage has also been
fixed. Therefore the experimental kernel is no longer needed.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1726
Manual has been updated: too:
https://www.blender.org/manual/render/cycles/features.html
It is handy when doing some roto work and it's required to blur some
mask or overaly before alpha-overing it on top of the footage.
Quite straightforward option with the only limitation that variable
size blur is not supported.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Subscribers: hype, sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1663
While SCons building system was serving us really good for ages it's no longer
having much attention by the developers and started to become quite a difficult
task to maintain.
What's even worse -- there started to be quite serious divergence between SCons
and CMake which was only accumulating over the releases now. The fact that none
of the active developers are really using SCons and that our main studio is also
using CMake spotting bugs in the SCons builds became quite a difficult task and
we aren't always spotting them in time.
Meanwhile CMake became really mature building system which is available on every
platform we support and arguably it's also easier and more robust to use.
This commit includes:
- Removal of actual SCons building system
- Removal of SCons git submodule
- Removal of documentation which is stored in the sources and covers SCons
- Tweaks to the buildbot master to stop using SCons submodule
(this change requires deploying to the server)
- Tweaks to the install dependencies script to skip installing or mentioning
SCons building system
- Tweaks to various helper scripts to avoid mention of SCons folders/files
as well
Reviewers: mont29, dingto, dfelinto, lukastoenne, lukasstockner97, brecht, Severin, merwin, aligorith, psy-fi, campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1680
This commit adds "Bands Saw" and "Rings Saw" to the options for the Wave texture node in Cycles, behaving similar to the Saw option in BI textures.
Requested by @cekuhnen on BA.
Reviewers: dingto, sergey
Subscribers: cekuhnen
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1699
This is purely internal sanitizing/cleanup, no change in behavior is expected at all.
This change was also needed because we were getting short on ID flags, and
future enhancement of 'user_one' ID behavior requires two new ones.
id->flag remains for persistent data (fakeuser only, so far!), this also allows us
100% backward & forward compatibility.
New id->tag is used for most flags. Though written in .blend files, its content
is cleared at read time.
Note that .blend file version was bumped, so that we can clear runtimeflags from
old .blends, important in case we add new persistent flags in future.
Also, behavior of tags (either status ones, or whether they need to be cleared before/after use)
has been added as comments to their declaration.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1683
Nodes have a feature for moving existing links to unoccupied sockets when connecting
to an already used input. This is based on the standard legacy socket types (value/float,
vector, color/rgba) and works reasonably well for shader, compositor and texture nodes.
For new pynode systems, however, the hardcoded nature of that feature has major drawbacks:
* It does not take different type systems into account, leading to meaningless connections
when sockets are swapped and making the feature useless or outright debilitating.
* Advanced socket behaviors would be possible with a registerable callback, e.g. creating
extensible input lists that move existing connections down to make room for a new link.
Now any handling of new links is done via the 'insert_links' callback, which can also be
registered through the RNA API. For the legacy shader/compo/tex nodes the behavior is the
same, using a C callback.
Note on the 'use_swap' flag: this has been removed because it was meaningless anyway:
It was disabled only for the insert-node-on-link feature, which works only for
completely unconnected nodes anyway, so there would be nothing to swap in the first place.
Apparently this is the result of some sloppiness during 2.5 project and since then it confused people who were trying to understand the area-region relation (myself included).
Sorry if this causes merge conflicts for anyone, but at some point we really had to do it :/
We have callbacks for that, they also do some checks and help ensure things are done
correctly. Only place where this is assumed not true is blenloader (since here we
may affect refcount of library IDs as well...).
This appears to be really common workflow when you stabilize shot to make compo
easier (roto, some effects and so) and then re-introduce the motion back.
Surely it's doable with some magic nodes and manual network for transforming
but such workflow is too common in VFX to resist adding one small option in
single node for this.
This commit exposes the interpolation parameter for environment textures (requested by DolpheenDream on IRC), just as it already is for image textures.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1544
Compositing might make main thread so busy that animation is considered done due to duration before final position is reached.
Also added check to avoid unnecessary redraws.
It's needed especially for the menu entry "recover auto save" where you'd like to have the files sorted by date most of the time but it could be useful in other places too.
There should be no functional change in other areas, I just added the missing parameter (FILE_SORT_ALPHA).
Was a request from @sebastian_k at #BCon13, so at least one guy needs it ;)
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1476
- Add blentranslation `BLT_*` module.
- moved & split `BLF_translation.h` into (`BLT_translation.h`, `BLT_lang.h`).
- moved `BLF_*_unifont` functions from `blf_translation.c` to new source file `blf_font_i18n.c`.
The issue was caused by the following construction:
def = env['SOMETHING']
defs.append('SOMETHING_MORE')
Since first assignment was actually referencing environment option it was totally
polluted hawing weird and wonderful side effects on all other areas of Blender.
