Environment lighting (aka ambient) is a key component of any renderer.
It's implemented like the Environment lighting of BI render for Approximate Gather mode. It support "Sky Color" and "White" Environment lighting modes.
It would be great if the user could see actual lighting conditions right in the Blender viewport instead of waiting for the renderer to complete the final image, exporting for external renderer or for a game engine.
Before:
{F113921}
After:
{F113922}
Example file: {F319013}
Original author: valentin_b4w
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: valentin_b4w, campbellbarton, merwin, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: panzergame, youle, duarteframos, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov, dingto, Evgeny_Rodygin
Projects: #rendering, #opengl_gfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D810
The RNA properties are still there (in case you really need them), except now
they will not be shown in the UI anymore, as this constraint really didn't
work well/at all when any of those was disabled. Most people shouldn't really
need to worry about this change.
If anyone wants a matrix-math challenge, they're welcome to try getting those
working for real, so that we can show these toggles again.
This only works in the Action and Dopesheet modes (which operate on FCurve keyframes).
Support for Grease Pencil and Mask Keyframes though is still pending.
As suggested by mendiobox:
* Don't show "enable editing" in the 3D view. You can already do this by switching
into stroke editing mode here, so no need for the duplication. (In other editors
though, this can't be done yet, so we don't do it)
* Make the "Convert" button into a dropdown so that you don't need to deal with a
a separate popup menu
* In the 3D view, don't show the selection + transform operators that can be easily
found in the menus too (as well as having commonly used shortcuts)
This new operator will delete any GP frame it finds on the current frame, regardless
of whether it's on the active layer or not. It will only remove the frames if the
layer is editable, but otherwise, it will just go for it.
The existing operator is great for use in the panel (where it only applies to the active
frame), but it was not so good for all the other places where tools can be invoked
(e.g. D-X, or Delete) as you're typically thinking about the whole scene more holisticaly
than just caring about a particular layer.
A new option for Font/Text objects vertical alignment:
* Top Base-Line (current mode)
* Top
* Center
* Bottom
The Top is the equivalent as the Top-Baseline with an empty line at the begin of the
text. It's nice to have this option too though, since if we are driving
the alignment via Python we don't want to add extra lines to the text
only to accomodate to the desired vertical alignment.
The Center and Bottom are as intuitive as their name suggest.
When working with text boxes, the vertical alignment only work for
paragraphs that are not vertically full.
Many thanks to Campbell Barton (ideasman42 / @campbellbarton) for the
code review, code comments, and overall suggestions and changes :)
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2061
At the moment light shading in Blender is produced in viewspace. Apparently, that's why
shader nodes work with normals in camera space. But it is not convenient for artists.
The more convenient approach is implemented in Cycles where normals are represented in world space.
Blend4Web Team designed the engine keeping in mind shader parameters readability,
so normals are interpreted in world space as well. And now our users have to use some tweaks, like
empty node group with the name "Replace", which is replacing one input by another on the engine side
(replacing working configuration in Blender Viewport by the configuration that has the same behavior in the engine).
This patch adds the ability to switch to world space for normals and lamp vector in BI and Viewport.
This patch is very important to us and we crave to see this patch in Blender 2.7 because
it will significantly simplify Blend4Web material creation workflow.
{F315547}
{F315548}
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2046
Usage:
* D+X - Works anytime, anywhere
* Shift-X - Works in EditMode only
* Via Delete Menu - EditMode only
Often doing video tutorials or perhaps during dailies/shot review you want to
quickly get rid of a quick scribble you made for making a point, without having
to undo (i.e. maybe you edited some objects in between) and/or without having
to use the eraser (i.e. it'd take too long to cover the entire area).
This commit adds Peak Memory to the stamp options, the value is the same one that is already shown in the image viewer.
Requested by @nutel.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Subscribers: campbellbarton, nutel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1989
The idea of pole merge is to fade interocular distance after a certain
altitude to zero when altitude goes closer to a pole. This should prevent
annoyances looking up in the sky or down to the bottom.
Works for both panorama and perspective cameras when Spherical Stereo
is enabled.
Reviewers: dfelinto, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1998
Change the order of the bending controls ("Curve XY Offsets") so the user can activate both InX and OutX by holding down the left mouse button. This way, it's easy to bend symmetrically on X or Y.
This commit/patch/branch brings a bunch of powerful new options for B-Bones and
for working with B-Bones, making it easier for animators to create their own
rigs, using fewer bones (which also means hopefully lighter + faster rigs ;)
This functionality was first demoed by Daniel at BConf15
Some highlights from this patch include:
* You can now directly control the shape of B-Bones using a series of properties
instead of being restricted to trying to indirectly control them through the
neighbouring bones. See the "Bendy Bones" panel...
* B-Bones can be shaped in EditMode to define a "curved rest pose" for the bone.
This is useful for things like eyebrows and mouths/eyelids
* You can now make B-Bones use custom bones as their reference bone handles,
instead of only using the parent/child bones. To do so, enable the
"Use Custom Reference Handles" toggle. If none are specified, then the BBone will
only use the Bendy Bone properties.
* Constraints Head/Tail option can now slide along the B-Bone shape, instead of
just linearly interpolating between the endpoints of the bone.
For more details, see:
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/bendy-bones-dev-update.html
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/an-in-depth-look-at-how-b-bones-work.html
-- Credits --
Original Idea: Daniel M Lara (pepeland)
Original Patch/Research: Jose Molina
Additional Development + Polish: Joshua Leung (aligorith)
Testing/Feedback: Daniel M Lara (pepeland), Juan Pablo Bouza (jpbouza)
I'm still not happy with this layout as it is now, but it seems a bit less unbalanced
than what I'd been trying before. So, let's leave this as-is for now.
This commit adds some of the initial support for a properties region in the
Action Editor. There are currently no panels to display, as there is still
a lot of work required to port over the required internal architecture to
support the panels seen in the Graph Editor.
After some test, a new iteration parameter has been added in order to
apply repetitive smoothing to the stroke. By default 1 iteration is applied,
but can used any number between 1 and 3.
The repetition uses different levels of intensity from 100% of the defined smooth
factor for the first loop, 50% for the second and 25% for the third. We use in each
loop a smaller value in order to avoid deform too much the stroke.
Now, stroke-related things (thickness, volumetric, points) and fill-related things
(HQ fill) are in the relevant columns, instead of having some in each column.
Improve filling for concave shapes using a triangulation of the stroke.
The triangulation information is saved in an internal cache and only is
recalculated if the stroke changes.
The triangulation is not saved in .blend file.
Reviewers: aligorith
Maniphest Tasks: T47102
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1705
Request by Andy, should help him a lot doing weird and wonderful hair styles.
A bit experimental yet, details of behavior might be changed after some real
usage feedback.
The 'precision' and 'dynamic' settings for binding are now always visible.
The settings that can not be edited after binding are disabled (not inactive).
I find it useful to see with what settings a mesh was bound, in case
the file is not mine or if I simply lost track of it.
While other borders are more like a toggle, it is an intrinsic behavior
of those operators. Render Border is intrinsicly split into two operators
and trying to expose it as a toggle will end up with rather confusing
situation when shortcut listed in the menu changes depending on the
context.
* Reshuffled code for existing "View Frame" implementations, and removed leftover
comment from some of the the copy-and-paste used to build it.
* Added support for this operator in the NLA and Timeline
- Access with Shift-LMB or from the 'Create' toolbar tab.
- Uses curve fitting for bezier curves, with error and corner angle options.
- Optional tablet pressure to curve radius mapping.
- Depth can use the cursor or optionally draw onto the surface,
for the entire stroke or using the stroke start.
- Stroke plane can optionally be perpendicular to, or aligned to the surface normal.
- Optional radius tapering and for start/end points.
- Supports operator redo and calling from Python.
This patch depends on D1747, which upgrades the Recast version. It exposes the new Recast partitioning methods in the navmesh generation.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, moguri
Reviewed By: moguri
Projects: #bf_blender
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1748
This never really worked that well, and often ended up being far too strong
to be of practical use. The new options do similar things, but with greater
control, so removing this old method now.
On second thought, these might be better names for these... I'm still not 100%
happy with these, but they will do for now.
(Best results currently seem to be with smooth 0.7, and subdivision steps 1 or 2)
Improve the quality of current grease pencil strokes adding a new dynamic smooth and subdivision. The level of smooth and subdivide can be adjusted using UI parameters. These options are disabled by default in order to keep the grease pencil stroke compatible with any existing add-on.
Both parameters are defined at layer level.
Reviewers: aligorith
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1866
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.
Thanks to D1080 by @rockets, I've now been able to easily implement the
ability to type multiple word snippets/partial words into the text filter
field (in the Animation Editors), and have it filter the channels which
contain just some of those parts (instead of having to match everything).
For example, the following search strings will now work:
* "loc rot" or "lo ro" will now filter all location and rotation FCurves
* "col loc" will filter all location and color FCurves
* "scale" will also work as before to filter all scale FCurves
But, the following will not work:
* "lc rt" will NOT filter all location and rotation, as the fuzzy search only
breaks down the search string based on whitespace placement
By default, this is not enabled when using name filtering (i.e. magnifying glass is checked,
and some filtering text is specified). Instead, you need to enable the "AZ" toggle beside
the name field. This fuzzy matching is not enabled by default as it could end up being
quite a bit slower on really heavy scenes. (There are probably some optimisation
opportunities, but that's only a future option if someone really needs it)
While this isn't essential, accessing this setting required navigating to each scene and using render menu.
Expose in sequencer UI for more convenient access.
As suggested by Sergey, do not register those anymore, this way we keep undo step,
but user cannot 'redo' them (does not work, since cached DM in particle modifier data
is not yet re-created by depsgraph update after undo when operator is redone).
UI now has two buttons, one to (dic)connect current psys, the other to (dis)connect all.
Also fixed similar issue with Connect Hair op.
* Don't show name of keyframe type in timeline header. It's getting a bit too crowded
for that, so just show the keyframe icon. Hopefully that will be enough.
* Tweaked the tooltip and label to make it clearer what the setting is for
