* The breakdowner tool will no longer operate directly on properties
of type "enum", as this doesn't make sense most of the time. This
is still not much use though when custom properties (ints) are used
to drive some underlying enum property though (as in blenrig)
* The breakdowner no longer tries to perform any blending if the
start and end values are the same, to avoid float precision issues.
D1002 by @plasmasolutions, with own refactoring.
Note, needed to do a bad-level call here (IMB -> BLF)
Also can't use the BLF API directly because its not thread-safe.
So keep the function isolated (blf_thumbs.c).
* Don't grey multiview options in file browser and in Node Editor Properties out if multi-view is disabled, hide them completely (I think greying out single buttons is fine, but in case of entire blocks we should just hide to save space)
* Move multiview settings in Node Editor Properties above alpha settings to prevent the alpha buttons from appearing above multiview settings if multiview is enabled and Stereo 3D format is chosen (making them appear below is much nicer)
I found this while investigating why the backdrop shows 'blank' while I
update a node influence factor. This problem still persist, but maybe it
was there before multiview. In release it is not noticeable, but in my
debug build is quite evident.
There are a few things here which are not so nice:
* Position of proportional edit circle is not centered on data
(difficult to predict positions here since those are completely custom,
will probably be positioned at center of area later instead)
* Result is flushed to curve handles only at the end of the transform,
so if people have the graph editor open they will see handles lagging behind.
This patch adds a new API function to get the actual display dimensions in pixels.
Reviewers: dfelinto, sybren, lordloki, moguri
Reviewed By: lordloki, moguri
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D648
stupidity casting from Scene to Editing in RNA)
Move versioning for proxy storage to multiview version check (not really
correct but it was orphaned before and it doesn't hurt either).
Our current keymap doesn't give us enough room to make such changes in
the event system. To fix small issues caused by this, we would need to do
drastic changes in Blender's keymaps and internal handling. It was worth
a try, but it didn't work.
I can write down a more descriptive statement in a few days, but for now
I need a break of this stuff.
Issue was caused by mismatched logic in counting child/parent particles in
job initialization and actual job execution. Confusion here came from mixed
usage of psys->renderdata and G.is_rendering.
We need to get rid of G.is_rendering and use eval_ctx if it's really needed,
but we also might just use psys->renderdata check since it's expected psys
to have this structure anyway.
Speedup is non-linear, 2x-10x faster is quite normal.
Patch T43678.
- Switched from an Octree to BVH.
- Finding first points of surface no longer "wastes" density function evaluation: every result is cached.
- Use MemArena instead of using own memory management.
- Correct calculation of metaelem bounding box.
- Remove mball_count(): mballs are now counted "on the go".
* Revert 776bfa64a5 and c3dad7953a (some X11 systems are doing
stupid things forcing me to do an extra check that completely breaks the
click type handling on other systems using the slightly changed
implementation from those commits - see T44278)
* Fix sample lines in Compositor+VSE
(And yes, this time I tested on both of my systems to make sure
everything is fine)
Originally we thought it's needed in order to distinguish builtin file from
filename which starts with '@', but the filepath is actually full path there
and it's unlikely to have file system where '@' is a proper root character.
Surprisingly this does not give visible speed differences, but it's still
nice to get rid of redundant check.
KX_Scene::addObject: Changed the parameter "other" to "reference", as "other" doesn't mean anything.
KX_Scene::AddReplicaObject: Changed the parameter "parentobject" to "referenceobject", as the parameter did NOT contain a parent object in any way.
Now both functions use the same kind of name for the same thing.
Thanks to panzergame / Porteries Tristan.
There were two major problems with the interactivity of material previews:
- Beckmann tables were re-generated on every material tweak.
This is because preview scene is not set to be persistent, so re-triggering
the render leads to the full scene re-sync.
- Images could take rather noticeable time to load with OIIO from the disk
on every tweak.
This patch addressed this two issues in the following way:
- Beckmann tables are now static on CPU memory.
They're couple of hundred kilobytes only, so wouldn't expect this to be
an issue. And they're needed for almost every render anyway.
This actually also makes blackbody table to be static, but it's even smaller
than beckmann table.
Not totally happy with this approach, but others seems to complicate things
quite a bit with all this render engine life time and so..
- For preview rendering all images are considered to be built-in. This means
instead of OIIO which re-loads images on every re-render they're coming
from ImBuf cache which is fully manageable from blender side and unused
images gets freed later.
This would make it impossible to have mipmapping with OSL for now, but we'll
be working on that later anyway and don't think mipmaps are really so crucial
for the material preview.
This seems to be a better alternative to making preview scene persistent,
because of much optimal memory control from blender side.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, campbellbarton, dingto
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1132
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
It is still possible to free a bit more memory by detecting buildin images
which are not used by shaders, but that's not going to improve memory usage
that much to bother about this now.
Such change brings peak memory usage from 4.1GB to 3.4GB when rendering
01_01_01_D layout scene from the Gooseberry project. Mainly because of
freeing memory used by rather huge environment map in the viewport.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1215
Seems like a fix that is needed for some X11 systems causes this bug on
others :| Not sure if the systems that needed this fix are now still
fine (since I did a slight change to the click type check procedure),
but I need to check that on my system in the institute in a bit.
