Now a small threshold is used for mouse input,
avoiding delay when gizmos are activated on drag.
Tablet input threshold remains unchanged since
it's easier to make small movements when using a tablet.
A larger threshold for non-cursor input is now used (typically keyboard)
which improves usability when the "Pie Menu on Drag" key-map preference.
The idea is to share a mesh data-block as a result across all objects
which are sharing same original mesh and have no effective modifiers.
This mesh is owned by an original copy-on-written version of object data.
Tricky part is to make sure it is only initialized once, and currently a
silly mutex lock is used. In practice it only locks if the mesh is not
already there.
As an extra bonus, even viewport memory is also lower after this change.
Reviewers: brecht, mont29
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4954
When rendering viewport to an offscreen buffer the buffer was
constructed for non anti aliasing (0 samples). This made the objects
that are drawn by the `object_mode` including `wireframe` draw type
non-anti-aliased.
The offscreen buffers will be constructed based on the user setting for
viewport multisampling (`U.ogl_multisamples`). The same setting will
also be used when previewing scene strips in the sequencer. For now
this only improves wireframe drawing in the scene strips. To improve the
Anti aliasing in the scene strips we need to get finer control in the
draw manager. This will be part of a different patch I am preparing.
Please note that this patch also cleansup some unused code in the offscreen rendering (FSAA code was still existing, but never called)
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T64849
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4907
See T64324 for discussion re improving normal editing ui.
As next step, remove the face_strength tool settings because
menu operator now includes that. Move face_strenth enum to
better place.
Remove normals toolbar panel because only thing left
(normal_vector) can stay hidden for copy/paste.
Remove add vector and multiply vector menu entries as
they are useless without ui method for specifying operand,
and they are very low utility operations anyway.
This also replaces the Use Alpha setting. We now have these alpha modes:
* Straight: store RGB and alpha channels separately with alpha acting as a
mask, also known as unassociated alpha.
* Premultiplied: transparent RGB pixels are multiplied by the alpha channel.
The natural format for renders.
* Channel Packed: different images are packed in the RGB and alpha channels,
and they should not influence each other. Channel packing is commonly used
by game engines to save memory.
* None: ignore alpha channel from the file and make image fully opaque.
Cycles OSL does not correctly support Channel Packed and None yet, we are
missing fine control over the OpenImageIO texture cache to do that.
Fixes T53672
There is now a checkbox to enable/disable depth of field per camera. For Eevee
this replace the scene level setting. For Cycles there is now only an F-Stop
value, no longer a Radius.
Existing files are converted based on Cycles or Eevee being set in the scene.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4882
This is to simplify the usage of Volumetrics.
Now it automatically detect if there is any Volumetric material in the
view and allocate the needed buffer if any.
One of the usecases is to create mesh from an object is a manner similar to
how Apply Modifiers does it, and have it in the bmain so it can be referenced
by other objects.
This usecase is something what went unnoticed in the previous API changes, so
here is a followup.
Summary of changes:
* bpy.meshes.new_from_object() behaves almost the same as before this change.
The difference now is that it now ensures all referenced data-blocks are
original (for example, materials referenced by the mesh).
* object.to_mesh() now creates free-standing Mesh data-block which is outside
of any bmain. The object owns it, which guarantees the memory never leaks.
It is possible to force free memory by calling object.to_mesh_clear().
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4875
* Change circle to roundbox around active icons, so they don't overflow.
* Change text color to indicate selected and active state.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4650
This new filter allows to select only some type of keyframe (keyframe, breakdown, etc).
This was a request of artists that are used to work with other 2D softwares.
Also some cleanup to remove aninmatable option to some properties.
The choices are now World, View and 3D Cursor.
This breaks Python API compatibility, add-ons that add objects with this
parameter will need to be updated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4706
This is the angular diameter as seen from earth, which is between 0.526° and
0.545° in reality. Sharing the size with other light types did not make much
sense and meant the unit was unclear.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4819
No major API change here, only in the outliner restriction column
variables (e.g., show_restrict_column_selectable > show_restrict_column_select).
* Get rid of _INSTANCE (introduced on b1af682001).
* Differentiate (everywhere but the API) between HIDE (temporary) and VIEWPORT (global).
* Use the expected icon for restrict viewport (same as objects and modifiers).
* selectable > select
Since drivers on Bone properties are really supposed to be stored
in Armature data and access bones via its bones[] collection, this
lookup path should work efficiently.
Mass lookup of bones by name was already done through hashes,
but they were built temporarily every time that was needed. This
simply replaces it with a common hash table computed immediately
after file load, copy, or Edit to Object mode switch.
New option to disable the follow drawing path. Before it had only a switch property, now there is a list of options.
Modes:
Path: Follows drawing stroke and rotate with object.
Object: Only follows object rotation.
None: Don't rotate.
Cycles now uses the color space on the image datablock, and uses OpenColorIO
to convert to scene linear as needed. Byte images do not take extra memory,
they are compressed in scene linear + sRGB transfer function which in common
cases is a no-op.
Eevee and workbench were changed to work similar. Float images are stored as
scene linear. Byte images are compressed as scene linear + sRGB and stored in
a GL_SRGB8_ALPHA8 texture. From the GLSL shader side this means they are read
as scene linear, simplifying the code and taking advantage of hardware support.
Further, OpenGL image textures are now all stored with premultiplied alpha.
Eevee texture sampling looks a little different now because interpolation
happens premultiplied and in scene linear space.
Overlays and grease pencil work in sRGB space so those now have an extra
conversion to sRGB after reading from image textures. This is not particularly
elegant but as long as engines use different conventions, one or the other
needs to do conversion.
This change breaks compatibility for cases where multiple image texture nodes
were using the same image with different color space node settings. However it
gives more predictable behavior for baking and texture painting if save, load
and image editing operations have a single color space to handle.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4807
Expose REPLACE and CYCLE_AWARE, and add AVAILABLE for completeness.
These flags are generic and safe to use, and necessary to match
the behavior of certain UI options.
See T61578 for discussions and mockups.
Visibility Options
==================
We are adding more granular control over restriction columns in the outliner,
exposing "indirect only" and "holdout" as options, and change the way
users enable/disable collections in a viewlayer.
We also rename the object viewport restriction to hide instance.
So the options we have are:
Collection
----------
* Render Visibility
* Instance Visibility
* Selectable
(View) Layer Collection
-----------------------
* Enable
* Holdout
* Indirect Only
* Viewport
Shortcuts
=========
Isolate Collection
------------------
* Ctr + click isolates the collection.
It turns all its parents and children "visible", and all the other
collections "invisible".
If ALL the collections were already properly set, we re-set the
collections to their default value.
Set Collection Inside Collections and Objects
---------------------------------------------
* Shift + click: Set/unset inside collections and objects.
We only set objects values as well when we are in View Layer mode and
(obviously) when the objects have a matching property.
Icons
=====
Little reminder that we will need better icons for holdout, indirect only, and
probably instanced (nothing wrong with the current, but it differs from
the proposal when it is turned off).
Also, we need to decide where do we want the modifier/bones/... icons to
be (in which column) and ideally make sure their icons match the ones we
use for collections/objects.
At the moment those are using the screen icon, which is not being used
by collections.
Reviewers: brecht, billrey
Subscribers: pablovazquez
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4823
Monochrome colored icons don't work well on a dark background, so now we can
add a border around them. Note that most icons in the interface will remain
without a border, just the outliner and properties editor navigation have
colored icons and those will get a border. Other icons continue to be drawn
in the text colored without a border.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4787
In recent changes the viewport_quality setting was not working what
users expected. This change will separate the anti-aliasing method that
is being used.
We now have three settings:
* scene.display.render_aa: Will be used during `Render Image`.
* scene.display.viewport_aa: Will be used during `Viewport Render Image`.
* userpref.viewport_aa: Will be used in the 3d view.
The viewport_quality setting has been replaced by the viewport_aa
setting as it was the only thing in currently controlled.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T64132
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4828
