New "face marks" and "edge marks" have been introduced in mesh data
blocks. In the edit mode of a mesh object, face marks can be put
to selected faces by choosing Mesh >> Faces >> Mark Freestyle Face
from the menu of a 3D View window or Ctrl-F >> Mark Freestyle Face
from the context menu. Similarly, edge marks can be put to selected
edges by Mesh >> Edges >> Mark Freestyle Edge or Ctrl-E >> Mark
Freestyle Edge. These marks should work fine with the Subdivision
surface modifier.
Moreover, two new conditions for feature edge selection have been
added to the Parameter Editor mode as described below:
1. The Selection by Edge Types option has now the new Edge Mark type,
which can be used to (de)select feature edges having edge marks.
This option can be used to add to (or remove from) the view map
arbitrary edges of mesh objects.
2. Selection by Face Marks option has been newly introduced, in which
face marks are used for feature edge selection in two ways. One
option is called "One Face" which is to (de)select feature edges if
one of faces on the left and right of each feature edge has a face
mark. The other option is "Both Faces" to (de)select feature edges
if both faces on the left and right have a face mark.
- make ortho grid drawing use vertex arrays
- make perspective view floor drawing cache result of UI_ThemeColorShade so its not called on every line.
- make perspective view floor only loop once on each axis when the grid floor isnt being drawn (was looking over all grid lines for no reason).
- add UI_GetColorPtrShade3ubv() to replace UI_GetColorPtrBlendShade3ubv() when no blending is needed.
Diff Keymaps
User edited keymaps now no longer override the builtin keymaps entirely, but
rather save only the difference and reapply those changes. This means they can
stay better in sync when the builtin keymaps change. The diff/patch algorithm
is not perfect, but better for the common case where only a few items are changed
rather than entire keymaps The main weakness is that if a builtin keymap item
changes, user modification of that item may need to be redone in some cases.
Keymap Editor
The most noticeable change here is that there is no longer an "Edit" button for
keymaps, all are editable immediately, but a "Restore" buttons shows for keymaps
and items that have been edited. Shortcuts for addons can also be edited in the
keymap editor.
Addons
Addons now should only modify the new addon keyconfiguration, the keymap items
there will be added to the builtin ones for handling events, and not get lost
when starting new files. Example code of register/unregister:
km = wm.keyconfigs.addon.keymaps.new("3D View", space_type="VIEW_3D")
km.keymap_items.new('my.operator', 'ESC', 'PRESS')
km = wm.keyconfigs.addon.keymaps["3D View"]
km.keymap_items.remove(km.keymap_items["my.operator"])
Compatibility
The changes made are not forward compatible, i.e. if you save user preferences
with newer versions, older versions will not have key configuration changes that
were made.
handle/key
This used to be a weird per-curve setting which would happen to get
applied/work correctly if handles were set to "auto", and was a source
of constant confusion for both old and new animators. The main effect
of this handle-type/option was really to just ensure that auto-handles
stayed horizontal, instead of tilting as the keys were moved.
This commit simply changes this from a per-curve to per
keyframe/handle setting.
Some people like curved lines, other hate them. This commit will let the user change the level of curving.
In UserPreferences=>Themes=>Node editor=>Noodle curving the level can be modified. Allowed range is 0-10 with the default on 5
The patch will default everything to the way blender works ATM.
File subversion has been increased otherwise older 258 files got straight lines.
The data is stored in the ThemeSpace.noodle_curving
the bezierdrawing is done in the drawnode. Also tested the Line cut tool
This patch adds anisotropic filtering of textures in the viewport and the BGE. The quality of the filtering is adjustable in the user preferences under System. For more information on anisotropic filtering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering
One current limitation of this setup (having the option a user preference) is it makes runtimes more troublesome. Runtimes don't have user preferences set, so for now the blender player defaults to 2x AF. Options will be added later to change this value (probably a command line option).
- fix: user pref, window title was reset to 'Blender' on tab usage
- Undo history menu back:
- name "Undo History"
- hotkey alt+ctrl+z (alt+apple+z for mac)
- works like 2.4x, only for global undo, editmode and particle edit.
- Menu scroll
- for small windows or screens, popup menus now allow to display
all items, using internal scrolling
- works with a timer, scrolling 10 items per second when mouse
is over the top or bottom arrow
- if menu is too big to display, it now draws to top or bottom,
based on largest available space.
- also works for hotkey driven pop up menus.
- User pref "DPI" follows widget/layout size
- widgets & headers now become bigger and smaller, to match
'dpi' font sizes. Works well to match UI to monitor size.
- note that icons can get fuzzy, we need better mipmaps for it
Bone Color Sets weren't set in the call used here. This seems to be a
newish operator that didn't exist in the past, so this error didn't
really show up in the past.
Scene (Toolsettings, i.e. alongside "layered" option for using NLA
while doing auto-keying)
This option makes all Auto-Keying operations use the active Keying Set
to carry out keyframing operations instead of picking and choosing
their own Keying Sets to use, thus cutting down on the number of
unwanted keys.
Warning: if the older userpref option was enabled in an old
startup.blend, it may be difficult to turn this option off.
also minor functional changes
- OBJECT_OT_make_links_data() type property is now assigned to the operator property (so popup menu can find it)
- removing BG image now returns cancelled if no image is removed.
Drag/drop now has a User preset for dragging threshold.
Noticed this was set to 3 pixels even, made it 5 as default.
Tablet owners can put it larger too :)
Note: the tweak-threshold (3d win) is 10 pixels now, I think
this needs another preset too, leave this for now.
Also: fixed crash in filewindow: drag .blend icon and drop it.
You can't test anything in Blender or you get a bug :)
- made theme colors for mesh edge len & face angle/area display.
- use %g rather then %f for float display, trims unneeded zeros.
- store cached 2d and 3d text color as bytes rather then floats, compare when drawing to avoid setting the context.
- use unsigned char for more color functions, avoids casting to glColorubv().
Drawing the view axis went to a lot of trouble to create a color which didnt look very good if the grid had a color other then grey set.
Simplify the function and just use the same colors as the manipulator, also use 2px fixed line width.
The UserPrefs Default was never getting initialised correctly, so new scenes would not get the default AutoKeying mode set correctly ("add but off"). I remembered fixing some problems like this before, but it seems that fix only fixed old files vs the user-prefs for new scenes.
- re-arranged UI in a way that gave far too much vert scrolling.
- was added all over for simple things like making text="", layout engine should handle this.
- Ton and Brecht are ok with removing this now. Ton would like to work on the layout engine to make it better support these cases.
