Currently the volume variation feature in stretch constraints is
unlimited. This has to be compensated by riggers by adding scale limit
constraints, but these are unaware of the stretch orientation and can
lead to flipping. Also the stretch calculation itself is not working
properly and can lead to collapsing volume.
The patch fixes this with several modifications:
- Interpret the volume variation factor as exponent, which works better
with large values for artistic purposes.
- Add integrated limits to the volume "bulge" factor, so secondary
constraints for compensation become unnecessary
- Add a smoothness factor to make limits less visible.
Eventually a generic volume preservation constraint would be nicer,
because multiple constraints currently implement volume variation of
their own. This feature could actually work very nicely independent from
other constraint features.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D826
This commit adds a confirm threshold property to pie menus.
Basically, this will confirm the pie menu automatically when
the distance from the center of the pie exceeds that threshold without
a need to release the pie button.
The confirm threshold will only work if it is larger than the pie
threshold.
The confirmation actually occur when the mouse stops moving, to
allow multiple pie menus to be better linked together, (see below)
This functionality also facilitates the ability for chained pie menus by
dragging. Basically, a pie menu item can be a call_menu_pie operator and
the new pie menu will still use the original pie menu release event for
confirmation. This should allow for quick, gesture based navigation in
pie menu hierarchies (going back in the hierarchy is still not supported
though)
There will be a demonstration pie in the official add-on soon
Basically the title tells it all, quite straightforward implementation.
The only thing is the image.render_slot which used to represent the active
render slot index is now moved to image.render_slots.active_index.
Reviewers: venomgfx, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D821
Do not generate materials/images/UVs if they are missing.
Now we spawn a panel ("Missing Data") with operators to generate the missing data and
pop a warning if user tries to paint without them.
The reason we have reverted this is that it is too easy to end up with more textures
than we wanted. It was impossible to enter texture paint without having textures added,
and code makes too many assumptions about what user may want.
Discussed during Sunday's meeting.
This might be a candidate for 2.72a but I'm not sure how other artists will take this
(and how refined and crash-free it is), better make a few iterations first.
And for interested parties...test please, don't wait until after a release to poke with such issues.
Also, add slot operator now adds a new unconnected image node in cycles. Only
used in the "Missing Data" panel. This should be a separate commit but I am squashing it into the same commit because
it relies too much on changes done here and can be reverted easily if complainstorm occurs again.
New render layer option named "View map cache" is added to reuse a
previously computed view map for subsequent rendering. The cache is
automatically updated when the mesh geometry of the input 3D scene has
been changed.
This functionality offers a major performance boost for Freestyle
animation rendering when camera-space mesh geometry is static, as well
as for repeated still renders with updates of line stylization options.
Although the "View map cache" toggle is a render layer option, the cache
memory is shared by all render layers and scenes. This means that if
Freestyle is used for two or more render layers (possibly in different
scenes through the compositor), then the cached view map for one render
layer is replaced by a new view map for another render layer and hence
no performance gain is expected.
The following two sort keys are added for sorting chains.
* Projected X - Sort by the projected X value in the image coordinate system.
* Projected Y - Sort by the projected Y value in the image coordinate system.
A new line style option for the selection of first N chains is also added.
Moreover, the chain sorting and chain selection operations are now executed
in this order instead of the reverse order used previously. The UI has also
changed accordingly. This functional change is backward compatible and
won't result in visual differences.
Some nodes only work in certain node trees, so don't show them in the Add Node menu when this is the case.
This can probably be expanded to Input Nodes too, but need to double check some cases here still.
On 4k devices the default pixel size leads to tiny OpenGL drawing
that is hardly usable without doubling the DPI. The retina system
on OSX aims to alleviate this problem by introducing a general 2x
pixel size.
No equivalent feature exists on other platforms so far. However,
to emulate the effect this patch introduces a "virtual" pixel size
factor for OpenGL drawing.
Note that the user currently has to enable this manually by selecting
the "Virtual Pixel Mode" in the user preferences (defaults to native).
All windows of a Blender instance share the same virtual pixel size as well.
It may be possible to handle this on a per-window basis and automate
the selection somewhat (if enabled by the user), so working with
multiple screens becomes more convenient, but technical limitations
make this a bit difficult (on X11 with nvidia drivers the actual screen size
is not reported correctly).
Reviewers: ton, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D669
Currently, this pointer prop is not editable, and making it so does not seem
to be trivial (sound strip seems to use the filepath path, not the soundID pointer?),
so just hide the matching UI item.
* Improved Cycles fire, patch by Gottfried Hofmann. Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D777
* Added Smoke + Fire type to the operator too.
* Cleanup.
* Add Density multiplier.
* Use Smoke color attribute.
Patch by Gottfried Hofmann, with some small tweaks by myself.
Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D776
Since the choice to link or append has been removed in the file browser operator panel,
there was no way to tell whether as a user you were linking or appending.
To fix this the proposed patch separates the operators.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, carter2422, venomgfx
Subscribers: fsiddi
Maniphest Tasks: T41593
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D770
Include explicit control for texturing:
This commit introduces a painting mode option, available in
the slots panel. The default value "Material" will create slots from the
blender material, same as just merged from the paint branch.
The new option "Image", will use an explicit image field that artists can use
to select the image to paint on. This will should allow painting regardless
of the renderer used or for use in modifiers.
Remotely based on patch by kevindietrich (Kévin Dietrich), but using
a single generic panel here, as suggested by UI team.
Note we add this panel in all modes (only one tweak in scuplt mode,
where there is no history menu generated it seems, unlike other
'paint-like' modes), we can decide to move it into its own tab later.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D733
Modeling tool to cut intersections into geometry (like boolean, without calculating inside/outside).
Faces are split along intersections, leaving new edges selected.
Access from Face menu.
