===== Situation before this patch =====
in the current situation inside the node editor there is a properties panel (press 'n'-key). This pabel displays some information about the node, backdrop and grease pencil. The UI of the property panel is typically vertical oriented. Nodes in the other hand are not oriented in a direction. Both area's are draw via the same draw function.
With some nodes this will create not user-friendly UI. Try the color-balance for instance). The 3 color circles are drawn next to each other, it would be better to draw them below each other.
When creating more complex nodes you don't want to display all handles in the node-panel and in the properties panel. For instance fine-tuning handles you only want to appear in the property panel to reduce place in the node itself.
===== Situation after this patch =====
This patch separates the draw functions of the property panel and the node panel.
When no special draw function is created for the property panel, the draw function of the node will be used as 'fallback'
===== Impact =====
==== BKE_node.h ====
add a new uifunc (called uifuncbut) to the bNodeType struct. The definition is the same as the uifunc.
==== node_buttons.c ====
if the uifuncbut is set, call it. currently calls the uifunc method
==== drawnode.c ====
static void node_composit_set_butfunc(bNodeType *ntype). set the uifuncbut function where needed. When at the end of the method uifuncbut is still empty, set uifuncbut to the uifunc.
===== Final note =====
! PS. this is not limited to the compositor it also works for Materials and Textures !
! PPS. For other branching creating their own node-tree. Please make sure that your uifuncbut is set NULL or a valid draw function !
added a label for image sequence images showing the image file's frame, even when not able to load, this also gives realtime feedback to the user while dragging the frame offset/start/duration buttons about so they can better understand how these settings work.
- made EXPANDED_AGRP take bAnimContext as an argument.
- remove unneeded NULL check drawFacesColored functions.
- comment some vars which are set but not used.
+ changed lines connecting nodes:
they now use a linewidth of 1.5px for the light foreground and 4px for the dark background.
this should fix node-lines not being visible on almost black or all white backdrops.
+ muted nodes now also show a red tinted header if they are hidden (collapsed)
+ both active and selected nodes show a (now properly antialiased) highlighting frame
+ fixed a small error in dropshadow code resulting in a gap at borders
+ fixed a tiny error for the collapsing indicators (triangles) - they were not symmetrical.
Ton will add proper theme colors for the node-editor in the coming days.
ZCombine node in compositor ignored alpha values. Enabling it
would break compatibility though, so it's a tickbox option now.
Patch provided by reporter, Martin Lubich. Thanks!
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- fixed some off by 1 bugs copying strings. setting curve font family for instance was 1 char too short.
- replace strncpy and strcpy with BLI_strncpy
- made interface, windowmanager, readfile build without unused warnings.
- re-arranged CMake's source/blender build order so less changed libs are build later, eg: IK, avi
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despill into consideration (handled elsewhere). Simplified user
interface for pieces not used.
- remove brush array for each Paint struct, just use a single brush pointer.
- removed rna function based template filtering.
- filter brushes using a flag on the brush and the pointer poll function.
- set the brushes using a new operator WM_OT_context_set_id().
TODO
- remake startup.blend, currently brush groupings are lost.
- rewrite WM_OT_context_set_id() to use rna introspection.
Fairly closely match some mac application colin has called 'Looks', to give better results.
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- change the color wheel to preserve the luminance of the gamma and gain values, this stops the color from being set too dark (option for the color wheel template).
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This change will make existing node and sequencer setups lift render slighly differently however discussed this with Ton and he's ok with it.
* Division by zero fix for TNT SVD code.
* Sound fix, in case ffmpeg decode fails, don't use the samples.
* Fix for incorrect bounds of transformed objects in new raytracing code.
* Gave memory arena's a name used for allocations for easier memory
usage debugging.
* Dupligroup no_draw option was using layers but not restrict view/render
setting. (not a bugfix exactly but would do display list context switching
while drawing for no reason).
* Fix objects instanced on hair particles not giving consistent results
when the object is transformed.
* New math functions: madd_v4_v4fl, len_squared_v3v3, interp_v4_v4v4v4,
mul_v4_m4v4, SH and form factor functions, box_minmax_bounds_m4.
* mul_m4_m4m4 and mul_m3_m3m3 now accept the same pointers for multiple
arguments.
* endjob callback for WM jobs system.
* Geometry node uv/color layer now has search list/autocomplete.
* Various small buildsystem tweaks, not strictly needed yet in trunk.
