When initially coding this functionality, I was aware of the potential for
infinite recursion here, just not how frequently such setups are actually
used/created out in the wild (nodetree.ma_node -> ma -> ma.nodetree is all too
common, and often even with several levels of indirection!).
However, the best fix for these problems was not immediately clear. Alternatives
considered included...
1) checking for common recursive cases. This was the solution employed for one
of the early patches committed to try and get around this. However, it's all too
easy to defeat these measures (with all the possible combinations of indirection
node groups bring).
2) arbitrarily restricting recursion to only go down 2/3 levels? Has the risk
of missing some deeply chained/nested drivers, but at least we're guaranteed to
not get too bad. (Plus, who creates such setups anyway ;)
*3) using the generic LIB_DOIT flag (check for tagged items and not recurse down
there). Not as future-proof if some new code suddenly decides to start adding
these tags to materials along the way, but is easiest to add, and should be
flexible enough to catch most cases, since we only care that at some point those
drivers will be evaluated if they're attached to stuff we're interested in.
4) introducing a separate flag for Materials indicating they've been checked
already. Similar to 3) and solves the future-proofing, but this leads to...
5) why bother with remembering to clear flags before traversing for drivers to
evaluate, when they should be tagged for evaluation like everything else?
Downside - requires depsgraph refactor so that we can actually track the fact
that there are dependencies to/from the material datablock, and not just to the
object using said material. (i.e. Currently infeasible)
In the file included with the bugreport, framerates were dropping from 60fps to
11fps for an armature with several lattices parented, and a 5fps drop everytime
an object was parented to the armature.
Upon (re-)inspection of the code, it became apparent that this was being caused
by a block of code that would recalculate the parent (perhaps recursively) as it
thought the parent state was for the wrong timestamp. However, the timestamps
this was using was never really updated (except for a single place, which set it
to a single fixed value to force recalculations to take place), which meant that
this branch was run all the time. AFACT, this is a remnant from some of the old
timeoffset stuff + pre-Depsgraph timestamping hacks that are no longer used/set.
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The linear and angular thresholds set the speed limit (in m/s) and rotation limit (in rad/s)
under which a rigid body will go to sleep (stop moving) if it stays below the limits for a
time equal or longer than the deactivation time (sleeping is disabled is deactivation time is
set to 0).
These settings help reducing the processing spent on Physics during the game.
Previously they were only accessible from python but not working because of a bug.
Now the python functions are working and the settings are available in the Physics panel
of the World settings when using the Blender Game render engine.
Python API:
import PhysicsConstraints
PhysicsConstraints.setDeactivationLinearTreshold(float)
PhysicsConstraints.setDeactivationAngularTreshold(float)
Conflicts resolved:
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/material.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c
source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
source/blender/editors/animation/anim_channels_defines.c
source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_scene.c
Additional changes:
* Fix for recent changes of BKE_* function renaming.
* Fix for an "attempt to free NULL pointer" in BlenderStrokeRenderer::RenderStrokeRepBasic().
... instead add scene.sequencer_editor_create / clear, these match id.animation_data_* functions.
- refactor for names, for scene level functions call them BKE_sequencer_*
data, and tool settings.
What exactly should be copied is a bit up to interpretation, but I think these make
sense, and things like audio or game data used to be part of render settings which
do get copied so at least for those it was a regression.
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Documentation: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Psy-Fi/UV_Tools
Major features include:
*16 bit image support in viewport
*Subsurf aware unwrapping
*Smart Stitch(snap/rotate islands, preview, middlepoint/endpoint stitching)
*Seams from islands tool (marks seams and sharp, depending on settings)
*Uv Sculpting(Grab/Pinch/Rotate)
All tools are complete apart from stitching that is considered stable but with an extra edge mode under development(will be in soc-2011-onion-uv-tools).
- editmesh smooth & subdivide were using old mirror axis flag still.
- removed colbits from outliner and object code.
- commented some other parts of the code which access deprecated members and aren't called anywhere.
