* Totally new try to get cache running
* Didn't try "bake" and such things yet
Hint
* Very verbose yet
* Please do only test new blend files, not old ones!
Please give me feedback on my blog about the old crashers.
*Changed Sculpt Modes Flip Direction to an enum so that you can explicitly choose Add or Subtract.
*Expanded the sculpt tool list. I realize Nicolas has a longer term plan for the brush tools, but at least now it's useable again.
This fixes the underlying problem of the DV crashings - within blender
code.
Problem was, that we tried to seek on decode errors. (Unintentionally,
curposition wasn't advanced in that case). That triggered a bug within
ffmpeg, that made blender crash. My workaround fix for 2.49 actually only
prevented the crash, but didn't stop ffmpeg from only decoding black frames
after that point...
(The patch also cleans up the color conversion a little bit, by using
PIX_FMT_RGBA (still need to find a way to make it work with video files
that actually *have* an alpha channel. At least, latest FFMPEG-SVN swscaler
has the ability to use alpha.)
Looks like we can remove extern/ffmpeg now...
* Auto-keyframing for Paste Poses and PoseLib works again. Unfortunately, it doesn't take into account whether the transforms were changed or not...
* 'Stick to View' setting for Grease Pencil has now been inverted, since the old order was confusing.
* Fix for space init when loading with pupmenu (without operator) - parameters now get reset
* experimental: made new director operator jump directly into renaming
merging now to save confusion later since the changes between last merge and 23172 shouldn't be merged.
brings 2.4 and trunk in sync aside from sequencer edits from Peter.
Fix crash when loading old files with filebrowser UI
Partial Fix for invoking filebrowser via spacetype pupmenu: reset directory in filelist
Make paths relative in 'path' return when requested by 'relative_paths' property in operator
* Loading newly saved files (where linked-libs were used) crashed.
However, libraries still don't get loaded correctly yet for some reason...
* Pointer layout-items now draw without their UI text if their name is set to "" (i.e. text=""), making the ones with icons appear normal. This is kindof a hack, since it would be better to expose icon_only, but this way is less work.
- They were causing unnecessary visual noise, breaking up the lines of the region edges
- Now you can just drag anywhere on a region edge to resize it, like existing area edges
- To minimise a region, click once on the region edge, or resize it down to nothing. For minimised regions, a (+) icon will appear, which you can click to restore it to the size it was before it was minimised.
Appending and Linking
* Linking Operator, invokes filebrowser for Append/Link
* Separated the append/link function into three parts:
** BLO_library_append_begin finds main for appending
** BLO_library_append_named_part appends one Object,Group, Material, ...
** BLO_library_append_end actually reads and expands the libraries
NOTE 1:
I also changed the returned properties for the filebrowser operators to the following convention:
"path" - the full path to a file or directory, means what is in directory + filename buttons in filebrowser
"directory" - the content of the directory button in filebrowser
"filename" - the content of the filename button in filebrowser
Usually only path should be required, but in some cases it might be more convenient to retrieve the parts separately.
Ton, Brecht: If you have time to take a look, let me know if anything needs to be fixed.
Made some UI operators not register themselves in the console. This made macro creation a pain because the operator list would have tons of splits and other UI commends mixed in with actual data manipulation.
Moved Repeat Last from Ctrl-R to Shift-R so it doesn't conflict with loop cut, whenever it is added.
- Vkey was being caught by the vertex paint mode, blocking it for curve edit where it sets the handle type. Now mode keys pass through if they dont apply to the object type.
- set handles had invalid default
- use_radius option, off by default for 2.4x files, on by default on new curves.
- curve deform modifiers (think tentacles)
- follow path (parent mode and constraint)
- curve guides
- added back Alt+S to scale point radius
- Mat3Scale and Mat4Scale arithb.c functions to make a new uniform scale matrix.
- TODO, effectors, looks like they have no way to scale from the radius yet.
* Added a general Refresh Tag for the Property-Buttons area, needed if more than 1 property window with the same content is open. Not all RNA properties have a ND_ Notifier yet, so i guess this is the best solution for now.
* Added Transform Locks panel. The layout for rotation I'm not satisfied with yet, though it is the best alternative so far.
* Rotations can now be locked per-component for quats/axis-angle instead of going through eulers. This is currently enabled by the checkbox for the 'label' of the Lock Rotation column.
- The naming of the property in RNA + the way this is presented in the UI can get some work done.
- The setting for the 'w' component for quats/axis-angle is currently a separate flag in RNA, since I can't figure out how to lump this in under the 'lock_rotation' property instead (i.e. getting that to be either 3 or 4 components, depending on whether per-component locking is enabled).
- Editing values directly should not be possible when these locks are set...
* Fixed some tools which made use of this
* Added a few new methods for axis-angle conversions, and used these instead of manually performing those steps elsewhere
* Axis-angles to other representations now get their axes normalised to make sure that odd scaling doesn't occur.
* Made a few more tools work with axis-angles properly
* added new twist method - "Tangent", suggested by Martin.
the nice thing about this is its stable no matter how you rotate the data, rotation is local to each segment.
* added smooth option that smooths the twisting (before applying user twist), to workaround Z-Up and Tangent's ugly curve twisting. Id prefer not to have this however it makes tangent much nicer. Possibly tangent can be improved some other way and this can be removed.
A smooth value of 1.0 will iterate over and smooth the twisting by the resolution value of the spline.
* Minimum-Twist method now corrects for cyclic twist by taking the roll difference between first and last, then increasingly counter rotate each segment over the entire curve. Previously it calculated from both directions and blended them.
details
* BevPoints use quats rather then 3x3 matrix.
* added BevPoint direction "dir" and tangent "tan" used only for 3D curves.
* don't calculate BevPoint->cosa, BevPoint->sina for 3D curves.
* split bevel tilt calculation into functions.
* nurbs curves currently don't generate tangents and wont work with tangent twist method.
* some of the use of quats should be optimized.
* smoothing is not animation safe, the higher the smoothing the higher the likelyhood of flipping.
The support for this is really quite hacky, and I might disable this later if we cannot get some parts to work nicely.
Some notes:
* This is currently stored in the same variable that quaternions are stored in, since they both have 4 components. However, in RNA, I've added 2 properties specially for this.
* There are some shearing issues using certain axes - i.e. (1,1,0) - that will need to be checked on.
* Transform code is really quite temporary for this. Just a quick demo of what can be done...
