New option "move texture channel up/down" lacked redraw calls.
Featurette:
There's still no manipulator handles for lamps to set cone size, dist,
clipping. To save our poor Peach artists hours of work I've added a
quick method to at least be able to do it interactive.
Option is hidden behind Wkey, and uses a similar function like Scaling.
(Put mouse cursor close to start value, move mouse to center of lamp)
Ultimately this should move to custom manipulator handles...
It's already supported within transform, was previously known as 'tweak mode' and for some odd reason was a compile time option. This brings it to a user preference (in 'Edit Methods' section).
Basically it means that you don't need the extra click at the end to confirm a drag-move transform, if you're already dragged, you can just let go of the mouse rather than needing to click again. It's a lot more comfortable when you're used to using other applications as well as blender, and much more sensible for tablets.
This started life as patch #7144 by Ed Britton, but this implementation has been changed considerably.
Added three new tools to the WKEY menu for Armatures in EditMode/PoseMode. These add .* extensions to the names of selected bones based on their position in 3d-space on the axis considered by that tool.
The current naming schemes are based upon the extensions I normally apply. Some people may have slightly different preferences though.
There is one for:
* Left-Right names (along x-axis)
* Front-Back names (along y-axis)
* Top-Bottom names (along z-axis)
Making the mirror tool axis selection interactive instead of using a popmenu.
Mirror is now just a constant -1 scaling transform, which enables you to choose the mirror axis through hotkeys (x,y,z) and with MMB. It also means it's easier to select the correct axis if you're not sure which is which and gives access to all the orientation supported in transform (including custom user orientations).
Mesh and Object header menus still have the individual axis as options but have an added "Interactive Mirror" which just enters transform and lets user pick the axis there. Ctrl-M enters "Interactive Mirror" too.
In a nutshell, this changes adds more possible mirroring axis and unifies the mirror axis selection process with transform constraint axis selection.
* Most were uninitialised vars
* Fixed whitespace in a few places
* The change I made in rendercore.c -> do_bake_shade() was for an uninitialised var, but I hope it does't cause any rendering errors...
Since there was no easy way to apply a constraint's transformation back to the original objects transformation.
Also adjusted how Apply Scale/Rot works so that it wont change some objects then raise an error and leave others unchanged, better to check first so it changes everything or nothing.
Cleaned up bad level calls for multires; moved most of multires functions to blenkern, where they should have been in the first place. Functionality of the tool is unchanged.
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- The render and realtime button for the particle system modifier
and the enabled button for particles now work seperate again,
made a bad design decision to tie them together. Now with only
the render button and not realtime enabled it renders.
- Fix for bug #7948: particle mode crash while constraining axis.
- Fix for bug #7945: crash loading effector groups from an old file.
- Fix for bug #7942: crash for reactor particles emitting from particles.
not mirrored exactly, though the problem is not completely solved.
The way local frames are computed for particles is still not fully
symmetric, which shows especially on long hairs...
Also made the shift+o subsurf switch work recursively into
dupli-groups, did only the first level before.
Object panels were using object_data_is_libdata, which meant linked obdata could not have object settings changed.
curve2tree
- option to face leaves up or down
- random pitch and roll options
- place 2 leaves on a point for denser leaves
- random seed entry so you can get reproducible results
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Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite
of the Blender particle system. This includes:
- Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types.
- Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics.
- Various particle visualisation and rendering types.
- Vertex group and texture control for various properties.
- Interpolated child particles from parents.
- Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. .
- Explode modifier.
- Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types.
.. and lots of other things, some more info is here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewritehttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc
The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle
systems are being converted to the new system, but will require
tweaking to get them looking the same as before.
Point Cache
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The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching
on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system.
See the Cache API section on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint
Documentation
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These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help
for this is appreciated.
with many points (think treetrunk), it would be nice to take into account distance on the path when doing the curve interpolation.
Also moved added undo call's that were missing for 2 of the other curve specials.
Once again, I've recoded the constraints system. This time, the goals were:
* To make it more future-proof by 'modernising' the coding style. The long functions filled with switch statements, have given way to function-pointers with smaller functions for specific purposes.
* To make it support constraints which use multiple targets more readily that it did. In the past, it was assumed that constraints could only have at most one target.
As a result, a lot of code has been shuffled around, and modified. Also, the subversion number has been bumped up.
Known issues:
* PyConstraints, which were the main motivation for supporting multiple-targets, are currently broken. There are some bimport() error that keeps causing problems. I've also temporarily removed the doDriver support, although it may return in another form soon.
* Constraints BPy-API is currently has a few features which currently don't work yet
* Outliner currently only displays the names of the constraints instead of the fancy subtarget/target/constraint-name display it used to do. What gets displayed here needs further investigation, as the old way was certainly not that great (and is not compatible with the new system too)
This commit makes "Remove Doubles" of w menu to work again.
Also renamed "AutoMarge" to "AutoMerge".
Added shortcut of "Select Inverse" to menus and renamed
"Select/Deselect All" to be consistent with rest of Blender.
Sequencer Feature, Split Image Sequence.
Splits a image sequence into strips. useful for importing frames for animatics.
Also added undo calls in a few places that did not have it.
popup menu - more manageable when you've got a lot of scenes.
Also changed an error message from using a popup menu to the proper
error() function with icon etc.
The WKey menu was way too big and not well organized, re-arranged keys like this.
Ctrl+V - Vert Menu (remove doubles, smooth...)
Ctrl+E - Edge Menu - left as is
Ctrl+F - Face Menu - (flip normals, shading, Rotate and Mirror UV's/Colors)
Wkey menu only has subdivide in it now.
filesel.c - only show the relative paths option if the file is saved, (flag on by default caused the image to silently fail loading on my system, and gave permission errors on a users), also removed a warning.
Added copy menu for editmode for copying from the active faces material, image, UV's vcols etc,
improved on the current vertex color copy by averaging the 4th color when copying color from a tri to a quad.
And added edge crease and length copy
cerrently verts dont have a copy menu but eventually copy weights would be good.
* Does not indicate that UV's exist, nor does it add UV's when used.
* Only accessible for texturepaint, vertexpaint and weightpaint from a button in the header (Paint Selection Mask)
* Not accessible from the mode menu, this is only an option that applies to paint modes.
This dosnt effect DNA, face select (G_FACESELECT) can be enabled at any time but is only used when paint modes are enabled.
Other changes
* UKey is uv unwrap in editmode, Ukey for undo was editmode only anyway.
* UVCalc in editmode adds a UV Layer if there is not one alredy.
* texture draw in editmode does not draw the face dots (they are get in the way of texturing)
* some missing updates were added.
* removed manipulator from when paint modes are enabled since the manipulator is not drawn in the 3d view.
Notes
* you cant edit UV's in the image window in "UV Face Select" mode. (removed UV from the name)
* going into Face Select mode no longer adds UV's and does not need UV's to work.
* The UV Calculation menu is now in editmode (Alt+W)
Todo..
* Image replace - partly broken in stable also.
* Rotate/Mirror UV/VCol are still only in Face Select mode.
* Hide/Reveal is not quite right, (issue with editmode flushing)
This patch, by Juho Vepsalainen (BeBraw), introduces subdivide multi functionality for armatures. It lets you specify the number of divisions that selected bones should be divided into.
I've slightly optimised the code a bit, though the change shouldn't make much of a difference. I've also fixed a minor bug in the menu highlighting, due to duplicate menu event-codes.
Mat3ToScalef and Mat4ToScalef
These return a floating point scale value which is the average of the 3 axies.
Use this to adjust curve radius when applying scale/rot
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This is a new automatic vertex weighting method, next to the existing
envelope based method. The details are here:
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/skinning/
This is based on section 4 of the paper:
"Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters"
Ilya Baran and Jovan Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2007
Implementation Notes:
- Generic code for making mesh laplacian matrices has been added, which
is only used by bone heat weighting at the moment.
- Bone to vertex visibility checking is done with the raytracing code.
- Fixed an issue in the subsurf limit calculation function, where the
position of vertices on boundary edges was wrong. It is still not the
correct position, but at least it's in the neighbourhood now.
Trying to Clear Rotation of a armature bone while in Weight Painting mode didn't work anymore due to Bugfix #6486. Now it checks if ob==active_object and also if weightpainting is on.
After just over a week of coding, I've finished doing a major refactor/cleanup of the constraints code. In the process, quite a few old kludges and ugly hacks have been removed. Also, some new features which will greatly benefit riggers have been implemented.
=== What's New ===
* The long-awaited ``ChildOf Constraint'':
This allows you to animate parent influences, and choose which transformation channels the parent affects the child on (i.e. no translation/rotation/scaling). It should be noted that disabling some combinations may not totally work as expected. Also, the 'Set Inverse' and 'Clear Inverse' buttons at the bottom of this constraint's panel set/clear the inverse correction for the parent's effects. Use these to make the owner not stick/be glued to the parent.
* Constraint/Target Evaluation Spaces:
In some constraints, there are now 1-2 combo boxes at the bottom of their panel, which allows you to pick which `co-ordinate space' they are evaluated in. This is much more flexible than the old 'local' options for bones only were.
* Action Constraint - Loc/Rot/Size Inputs
The Action Constraint can finally use the target's location/rotation/scaling transforms as input, to control the owner of the constraint. This should work much more reliably than it used to. The target evaluation should now also be more accurate due to the new space conversion stuff.
* Transform - No longer in Crazy Space (TM)
Transforming objects/bones with constraints applied should no longer occur in Crazy Space. They are now correctly inverse-corrected. This also applies to old-style object tracking.
=== General Code Changes ===
* solve_constraints is now in constraints.c. I've removed the old `blend consecutive constraints of same type' junk, which made the code more complex than it needed to be.
* evaluate_constraint is now only passed the constraint, and two matrices. A few unused variables have been removed from here.
* A tempolary struct, bConstraintOb, is now passed to solve_constraints instead of relying on an ugly, static workobject in some cases. This works much better.
* Made the formatting of constraint code consistent
* There's a version patch for older files so that constraint settings are correctly converted to the new system. This is currently done for MajorVersion <= 244, and SubVersion < 3. I've bumped up the subversion to 3 for this purpose. However, with the imminent 2.45 release, this may need to be adjusted accordingly.
* LocEulSizeToMat4 and LocQuatSizeToMat4 now work in the order Size, Rot, Location. I've also added a few other math functions.
* Mat4BlendMat4 is now in arithb. I've modified it's method slightly, to use other arithb functions, instead of its crazy blending scheme.
* Moved some of the RigidBodyJoint constraint's code out of blenkernel, and into src. It shouldn't be setting its target in its data initialisation function based + accessing scene stuff where it was doing so.
=== Future Work ===
* Geometry to act as targets for constraints. A space has been reserved for this already.
* Tidy up UI buttons of constraints
