Committed changes from previous weeks, biggest changes are:
* Canvas can now have multiple "surfaces" that each can have specific format, type and settings.
* Renewed UI to support this new system.
* Aside from old "image sequence" output format, Dynamic Paint can now work on vertex level as well. Currently vertex paint and displace are supported.
* Integrated vertex level painting with Point Cache.
* Added viewport preview for Point Cache surfaces.
Due to massive amount of changes, old Dynamic Paint saves are no longer supported. Also some features are temporarily missing or may not work properly.
Reviewed by Tom Musgrove and myself.
From the patch description:
ValterVB on #blendercoders submitted a long list of missing tooltips in Blender, and I went through the list and added all I knew. After that I crowdsourced the rest by putting a spreadsheet on Google docs and having people fill in the missing ones that I didn't know. So if there's some weird tooltip in there that doesn't make sense, that's why.
Thanks to Wolter, spacetug and others on BlenderArtists for contributing tooltips.
simple modifier, almost like a hook, except it can deform with 2 object source -> target, has option to preserve rotation and use different falloff types.
Coded a new modifier, "Precision UV Interpolation",
that triangulates, subdivides, then uses brecht's mean
value interpolation to interpolate face data.
Textures on ngon faces get interpolated a bit nicer, in
other words (though concave cases, e.g. 'N', don't work very well).
* This is basically a total rewrite of the edge split algorithm. The old one didn't handle tris at all and quads were cut wrong in some cases too with the addition of not handling uv coordinates at all.
* This new algorithm uses a flag system to categorize different splits and the identical but rotated cases in a similar way to how marching cubes indexes different cases.
* It cuts quads and tris and creates proper uv's for the new faces too.
* I also renamed the option to "edge cut" to differentiate if from the edge split modifier and added an option to override a uv-channel in the exploded mesh with particle age as x-coordinate so that the shrapnel can be faded out nicely etc.
- negative ray casts would invert the offset direction.
this meant if positive and negative were enabled at once and the mesh was slightly inside & outside the object it wrapped,
the offset would be applied in opposite directions.
This way the offset is always along the vertex normal.
- allow negative offset from RNA, could be useful and no benefit to disable.
Added new option for applyong modifiers on splines' points. This moves
tesselation point and path would be affected by modifiers which are applied on
splines' points.
- the invert flag was only being used for multi-modifier, but there is no reason not to use this in normal cases as well.
- Armature modifier RNA name 'vertex_group' was incorrectly named 'vertex_group_multi_modifier' (own fault), confusion was caused by 'invert_vertex_group_multi_modifier' which was correct.
* Show unborn was on by default, so smoke got emitted from all particles regardless of their birth time, not a good default in my opinion.
* What made things worse was that particles weren't shown in viewport, so you didn't even know the particles were considered alive from the very first frame! (Not rendering is a good default, but they should still be visible in viewport!)
only tags the ID and does the actual flush/update delayed, before the next
redraw. For objects the update was already delayed, just flushing wasn't
yet.
This should help performance in python and animation editors, by making
calls to RNA property update quicker. Still need to add calls in a few
places where this was previously avoided due to bad performance.
This troubles were caused by "break" of ND_OBJECT case in outliner area listener,
so not all cases were handled.
Handle more data and actions in outline listener, but not refresh when it's
actually unneeded (there where problems with it without that "break" -- extra
refreshing could be made).
