-> Any Group Duplicate now can get local timing and local NLA override. This
enables to control the entire animation system of the Group.
Two methods for this have been implemented.
1) The quick way: just give the duplicator a "Startframe" offset.
2) Advanced: in the NLA Editor you can add ActionStrips to the duplicator
to override NLA/action of any Grouped Object.
For "Group NLA" to work, an ActionStrip needs to know which Object in a
group it controls. On adding a strip, the code checks if an Action was
already used by an Object in the Group, and assigns it automatic to that
Object.
You can also set this in the Nkey "Properties" panel for the strip.
Change in NLA: the SHIFT+A "Add strip" command now always adds strips to
the active Object. (It used to check where mouse was). This allows to add
NLA strips to Objects that didn't have actions/nla yet.
Important note: In Blender, duplicates are fully procedural and generated
on the fly for each redraw. This means that redraw speed equals to stepping
through frames, when using animated Duplicated Groups.
-> Recoded entire duplicator system
The old method was antique and clumsy, using globals and full temporal
copies of Object. The new system is nicer in control, faster, and since it
doesn't use temporal object copies anymore, it works better with Derived
Mesh and DisplayList and rendering.
By centralizing the code for duplicating, more options can be easier added.
Features to note:
- Duplicates now draw selected/unselected based on its Duplicator setting.
- Same goes for the drawtype (wire, solid, selection outline, etc)
- Duplicated Groups can be normally selected too
Bonus goodie: SHIFT+A (Toolbox) now has entry "Add group" too, with a
listing of all groups, allowing to add Group instances immediate.
-> Library System
- SHIFT+F4 data browse now shows the entire path for linked data
- Outliner draws Library Icons to denote linked data
- Outliner operation added: "Make Local" for library data.
- Outliner now also draws Groups in regular view, allowing to unlink too.
-> Fixes
- depsgraph missed signal update for bone-parented Objects
- on reading file, the entire database was tagged to "recalc" fully,
causing unnecessary slowdown on reading.
Might have missed stuff... :)
- fix DerivedMesh.getMinMax implementations to set min & max when
there are no vertices
- mesh boundbox calc was wrong in some cases, messed up HOMEKEY
and localview zooming
alone with the following flags :
-Wall -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-missing-braces.
the only one still worrying me is in rand.c line 57 :
rand.c:57: integer constant is too large for "long" type
but i have no clue about how correct cross-compiler and 32/64 bits friendly
see also my mail to commiter list for signed/unsigned issues
source/creator/creator.c
changed ifdef's around fpe_handler to match when its actually used.
intern/SoundSystem/intern/SND_AudioDevice.cpp
Changed: SND_SoundObject* oldobject = oldobject = pIdObject->GetSoundObject();
to: SND_SoundObject* oldobject = pIdObject->GetSoundObject();
intern/SoundSystem/openal/SND_OpenALDevice.cpp
removed unused var.
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/mball.c
initalized a couple of vars that might have been used uninitalized.
The rest were changing types to match, most of them were something like
was short * should have been unsigned short *.
Kent
It is useful for large scenes, when you work with lot of MetaElems. Example:
http://e-learning.vslib.cz/~hnidek/pics/deer.jpg
(PildaNovak's model)
- shortcuts for hiding of MetaElems:
H ......... hide all selected MetaElems
Shift-H ... hide all unselected MetaElems
Alt-H ..... unhide all hidden MetaElems
- items in header menu of 3dview
MetaElems aren't truncated. It was caused by bad filling of octal tree.
- bug fix: when non basis mball is in edit mode, then it is polygonised again.
- bug fix: fixed some other unexpected disappearing of MetaBalls caused by bad filling of octal tree.
polygonization of 512 MetaBalls:
- version 2.33a: 76 s
- current cvs version 8 s
- button "Never" is added in button window: Metaballs are polygonized only during render time (it is useful for particle animation) http://e-learning.vslib.cz/hnidek/misc/bowl_metaballs.blend
different objects shouldn't share flags this way (still sharing of
other mesh flags in renderer... ickity pickity, but I'm not fixing now)
- removed some unnecessary uses of DNA_mesh_types.h
- MetaBalls/MetaElems with too small stiffness are not polygonized, but still can influence others MetaBalls/MetaElems
- better behavior of negative MetaBalls/MetaElems
even for each redraw! Now its all smooth & fast again.
introduced new kernel API call: int is_basis_mball(ob), this provides a
quick check of the object is the actual basis for the displaylist and
polygonization.
- added new MetaElem types (plane, elipsoid and cube) old TubeX, TubeY and TubeZ will not be supported
- new buttons in Edit button window (dx, dy, dz)
- added new items into the headers menu and toolbox menu
more details at: http://blender.webpark.cz
outside of the old boundbox of the Object.
it's a small fix, the code is still commented in... need further
work to find out why sometimes balls disappear
