(@plasmasolutions): When the particle emitter is parented to a fast
moving object, the emission locations will not be interpolated over
subframes. This works if the particle emitter is animated itself.
Particle system evaluates the emitter location for each subframe, but
has to do this for the parent objects as well to get reliable results.
accesses the particle lifetime/dietime data before it is actually defined! This is a design flaw, but to avoid corrupted data for now just initialize the lifetime/dietime values for particles in advance
before evaluating the texture.
Problem was introduced with r54648, which determined the initial interval for the Newton-Raphson method using the "total_time" of the collision - but this info is only defined for regular collisions, not
for the raycasting used in boids to find the "ground object". To ensure correct behavior, now clear the collision info before using it (good practice in any case), then check the inv_total_time variable
and use the standard 0.001 step if not defined.
Particle system code used global variable to sort hair by orig index,
which is not safe for threading at all.
Replaced this with usage of reentrant version of qsort, which is
now implemented in BLI. It was moved from recast navigation code
to BLI, so more areas could use it (if needed).
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Lattice deformation used to store some runtime data
inside of lattice datablock itself. It's something
which is REALLY bad. Ideally DNA shouldn't contain
and runtime data.
For now solved it in a way that initialization of
lattice deform will create a structure which contains
lattice object for which deformation is calculating
and that runtime data which used to be stored in
lattice datablock itself.
It works really fine for mesh deform modifier, but
there's still runtime data stored in particle system
DNA, It didn't look something easy to be solved, so
leaving this as-is for now.
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With deformations and on a simple cube you could get axis flipping with normal-particle alignment.
now use the normal & tangent to create the orientation to give a stable matrix that wont flip.
rendering. This used to happen in an unneeded frame change update which was
removed. For heavy particle systems this could have a bad impact on viewport
performance after rendering.
The Emission panel now has a Use Modifier Stack option to emit particles from
the mesh with modifiers applied. Previously particles would only be emitted from
faces that exist in the original mesh. There are some caveats however:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.68/Tools#Particles
generator with a local one. It's not thread safe and will not give repeatable
results, so in most cases it should not be used.
Also fixes#34992 where the noise texture of a displacement modifier was not
properly random in opengl animation render, because the seed got reset to a
fixed value by an unrelated function while for final render it changed each
frame.
This was caused by a floating point precision error. During collision detection, Newton-Raphson iteration is used to find the exact time of the collision. But when using subframes, the initial Newton step was too small. Now the initial step is given in absolute units. When subframes = 0, this should behave almost the same as before.
Thanks to Janne Karhu, Lukas Toenne and Ton Roosendaal for their help with this patch, and to AutoCRC for funding.
The classical SPH solver was not in 2.65, so this change is unlikely to affect many users. But beta users who have been trying it out will need to change the stiffness parameter to sqrt(old value).
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29681&group_id=9&atid=127
The solver was mostly implemented by John Mansour at VPAC, with help from me and with funding from the AutoCRC. The SPH formulation is due to Gingold and Monaghan, and the smoothing kernel is due to Wendland.
This solver does not replace the old one; it is available as an option. Note that the new solver uses different units than the old one. The patch page has a couple of attachments that can be used to test the new solver, particularly sphclassical_dam_s0.01_grav.blend (ignore the earlier tests). The simulation in that file compares well with a physical experimental dam break; details in a paper by Changhong Hu and Makoto Sueyoshi, also referred to on that page.
reported as [#29376] BMESH_TODO: remove tessface CD_ORIGINDEX layer
for a single mesh there could be 3 origindex mappings stored, one on the polygons and 2 on the tessfaces.
(CD_POLYINDEX and CD_ORIGINDEX).
as Andrew suggests, now tessfaces (which are really a cache of polygons), using origindex to point to polygons on
the same derived mesh, and polygons only store the original index values.
* In some cases a quad would be intersected twice so particles near this double-intersection point were not generated in grid distribution due to being marked as outside the surface.
When appling a particle system to a face whose area size is zero,
the jitter distribution failed. fmod() produces a NaN value in this
case. This commit simply checks if the jitter offset (I guess that is
"jitoff" means) and only call psys_uv_to_w() if it's a real floating
point number.
