Unfortunately, my previous fixes here to get gears working resulted in this problem. The flip side of that was that gears worked for quite a few cases.
Alas, it is not to be... The bug is now fixed, but gears no longer work any more. Sadly, there is not much I can do about this.
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Caching and Baking:
- The point cache is now cleared on DAG_object_flush_update(), and not cleared for time dependency graph updates.
- There is now a Bake button instead of Protect. Also cache start and end frames were added to softbody and particles.
- The cloth autoprotect feature was removed.
- The Ctrl+B menu now also bakes cloth and particles next to softbody and fluids. Additionally there are now frree bake and free cache menu entries.
- The point cache api has been changed. There is now a PTCacheID struct for each point cache type that can be filled and then used to call the point cache functions.
- PointCache struct was added to DNA and is automatically allocated for each physics type.
- Soft body now supports Bake Editing just like cloth.
- Tried to make the systems deal consistently with time ipo's and offsets. Still not sure it all works correct, but too complicated to solve completely now.
Library Linking:
- Added some more warnings to prevent editing settings on library linked objects.
- Linked objects now read from the cache located next to the original library file, and never write to it. This restores old behavior for softbodies. For local simulation the mesh and not the object should be linked.
- Dupligroups and proxies can't create local point caches at the moment, how to implement that I'm not sure. We probably need a proxy point cache for that to work (ugh).
Physics UI:
- Renamed deflection panel to collision for consistency and reorganized the buttons. Also removed some softbody collision buttons from the softbody panel that were duplicated in this panel for cloth.
- Tweaked field panel buttons to not jump around when changing options.
- Tabbing e.g. Soft Body Collision into the Soft Body panel, it now only shows Collision to make the panel names readable.
- I tried to make enabled/disabling physics more consistent, since all three system did things different. Now the two modifier buttons to enable the modifier for the viewport and rendering are also duplicated in the physics panels. Toggling the Soft Body and Cloth buttons now both remove their modifiers.
- Fixed modifier error drawing glitch.
Particles:
- Particles are now recalculated more often than before. Previously it did partial updates based on the changes, but that doesn't work well with DAG_object_flush_update() ..
- Fixed memory leak loading keyed particle system. Now keys are not written to file anymore but always created after loading.
- Make particle threads work with autothreads.
Continue Physics:
- The timeline play now has a Continue Physics option in the playback menu, which keeps the simulations going without writing them to the cache.
- This doesn't always work that well, some changes are not immediately updated, but this can be improved later. Still it's fun to get a feel for the physics.
Todo:
- Point cache can get out of sync with and undo and changing a file without saving it.
- Change the point cache file format to store a version (so old point cache files can be either converted or at least ignored), and to do correct endian conversion.
- Menu item and/or buttons for Ctrl+B.
- A system("rm ..") was changed to remove() since the former is very slow for clearing point caches. These system() calls were already giving trouble in a bug in the tracker, but really most use of this system("") should be changed and tested.
- The Soft Body Collision and Clot Collision panel titles don't mention there's point cache settings there too, doing that makes them unreadable with the default panel setup.. but may need to make the names longer anyway.
I'm not sure about the intent for this one:
warning: too many arguments for format:
sprintf(md->name, "FluidParticleSystem", BLI_countlist(&ob->particlesystem));
Something for Janne ?
-Handling of fluid particles was not coded at all
-Now things should work properly, but as fluid particles are not very familiar to me I'd appreciate some thorough testing
Unfortunately, using BUT instead of BUTM won't work for these buttons. Although they now work, there is less tactical feedback (i.e. button depresses when clicked), and their colouring doesn't suggest to the user that they do something (i.e. grey not 'orange').
Without this, animating grass would either look like seaweed (with low freq texture)
Or the grass would wrinkle up and get kinks (high freq texture)
This lets you use a high frequency texture while having straight grass.
- Added a note that force fields only affect objects on same layers
- PLAY button would just play all frames and didnt respect the end frame which is very annoying at times.
do_texture_effector assumed multitex_ext would assign r/g/b colors which isnt true for grey textures.
Fallback to PFIELD_TEX_GRAD with grey textures, node this in tooltip also.
* Transform Constraint UI drew 'VG:' field incorrectly, resulting in bad layout
* StretchTo constraint's UI has been tidied up a bit
* (TODO: MinMax's UI needs URGENT attention)
The menu listing the scripts available for use was not working correctly for newly created PyConstraints. This was caused by a missing initialisation for the 'active' index.
- Hair didn't update the visibility flag of each particle
- Changing the disp value gave a too strong update call to particles
- Changed disp value behavior for dynamic particles a bit, now all particles are always calculated for uncached frames so that every particle gets it's data cached. Now the disp value actually does what it's supposed to do, it alters the amount of particles DISPlayed in viewport, but doesn't change the simulations. (With old particles it was possible to only calculate the disp amount of particles too as everything was always recalculated from scratch anyways, but now that particles are more complicated and cached etc. it's not an option anymore.)
* Optimised transform constraint a bit
* PyConstraints now show the script-selection menu correctly when a new constraint is added (i.e. it now displays the correct initial value).
Also made rem_from_group return if it removed the object which save some looping.
Added a node in the blender help message that background mode dosnt load the .B.blend file as a bug was reported recently because of this.
