Grease Pencil is now available in the image editor. It is important to note that the strokes drawn WILL NOT become part of the image visible at the time.
Unfortunately, 'fancy' stroke drawing cannot be enabled for use with the 'Stick to View' setting here, as the scaling is wrong.
the features that are needed to run the game. Compile tested with
scons, make, but not cmake, that seems to have an issue not related
to these changes. The changes include:
* GLSL support in the viewport and game engine, enable in the game
menu in textured draw mode.
* Synced and merged part of the duplicated blender and gameengine/
gameplayer drawing code.
* Further refactoring of game engine drawing code, especially mesh
storage changed a lot.
* Optimizations in game engine armatures to avoid recomputations.
* A python function to get the framerate estimate in game.
* An option take object color into account in materials.
* An option to restrict shadow casters to a lamp's layers.
* Increase from 10 to 18 texture slots for materials, lamps, word.
An extra texture slot shows up once the last slot is used.
* Memory limit for undo, not enabled by default yet because it
needs the .B.blend to be changed.
* Multiple undo for image painting.
* An offset for dupligroups, so not all objects in a group have to
be at the origin.
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Merge of branch soc-2008-quorn to trunk:
Merged 14970:16308 to trunk@16307, updated to HEAD.
Merged 16318
Main features from this branch:
- Python text plugins
- Suggestions and documentation elements
- Improved syntax highlighting
- Word wrap
- Additional editing tools
- Various undo and clipboard fixes
- File header info and modification checks
Can now also convert active layer to a series of bone chains. Each stroke will be converted to a chain of connected bones.
At the moment, it is still necessary to manually recalculate roll angles after the armature has been created, as the bones are not assigned the correct roll angles yet.
In PoseMode, the Ctrl-A hotkey can now be used to apply the current pose as the new restpose for the armature.
Notes:
* Roll correction may not be totally correct on bone chains, but is ok in most cases.
* Objects that are bone parented to the armature where this is applied are not correctly adjusted yet.
* It is advisable to 'apply' the existing armature deformations to geometry deformed by the armature before applying this, to prevent unexpected results.
* No menu entry yet... will add in due course.
* New stuff: Grease Pencil strokes on the active layer can now be converted to 3d curves (geometry). More work is still needed to make the result look be more optimal (i.e. extruded curve)
* Bugfix: Spacing between collapsed layers is more compact now
Drawing Improvements:
* Single 'dots' now draw rounded
* Strokes being drawn are drawn 'solid' instead of as dotted lines
Eraser:
* Now operates interactively, so no more wait to see if stuff was erased
* An influence circle is now drawn - the radius of this is defined as the thickness^2
Adding numerical input support to edge slide (and at the same time, loop cut).
Also clean up NumInput functions for external use. I might have a second pass at this to make it even easier.
Just a little commit so that I can transfer some changes back over to laptop.
* Line drawing should now be improved for most cases, but acute angles still need more work to reduce 'shrinking' artifacts. As such, this is still hidden behind 'rt' setting
* Preparation work for Grease-Pencil in Image Editor, and also 'Stick to View' for Image/Sequence editors.
Now the vertex of the ipo handle have own color and
size, can be change from Theme -> Ipo Curve Editor:
Handle Vertex - (Default Color)
Handle Vertex Select - (Selected Color)
Handle Size - (Point size, for vertex)
Add subverion so by default the handler have the same
settings that the ipo vertex options.
* New Tool: Switch Direction
This tool switches the direction of selected bones in EditMode, and can be found under the Specials Menu (WKey). It also adjusts the parenting, so that continuous chains can still be linked.
* Bone Locking:
Removed Lock/Unlock functions from Specials menu, and moved this functionality under the Toggle/Set/Clear Bone Settings tools (Shift/Ctrl-Shift/Alt W respectively)
These are for use in pose mode or armature edit mode, to let you quickly traverse up and down a chain of bones.
It's quite useful for bones that are in hard-to-click places.
The tools are:
*Select parent/child ( [ and ] )
selects the parent or child of the active bone, deselecting the original active bone
* Extend select parent/child (shift [ and shift ] )
selects the parent or child of the active bone, adding to the selection
Thanks to Joshua for reviewing this so promptly!
PS. I'd like to use these [ and ] keys more widely in blender as consistent 'select next / previous' tools. I can imagine it being very useful for a lot of things like keyframes, nodes, mesh edges, etc.
Improved accuracy of the eraser a bit. Now it does a boundbox test first before trying to erase strokes, which means that other (rather unrelated) strokes are less likely to be affected as well.
This commit introduces the ability to erase strokes. Admittedly, the code for this is not totally stable yet, and doesn't always produce optimum results. I'm committing now for backup purposes.
It currently uses the lasso code to check whether segments of the strokes (a segment occurs between two recorded points) occur inside a region defined by the 'eraser' stroke, or any intersections it makes with the 'eraser' stroke.
There are multiple ways to erase strokes:
* With 'Draw Mode' on, use RMB-drag to erase
* With a tablet, use the 'eraser' end of the stylus
* Hold the Alt Key, and use the 'selection' mouse-button (i.e. LMB if mouse-button swapping is on, RMB otherwise) to erase. For this one, this is necessary to avoid overriding the view-rotation hotkey combo for 2-button mice!
Todo:
* 3d-strokes are not correctly mapped back to screen-space for sampling yet
* Drawing of eraser strokes is still not distinctive enough
* After running a few times, may cause stack corruption/segfaults, so be careful!
== Bugfixes ==
* Grease-Pencil Onion-Skinning works again. Onionskining was being supplied the wrong frames, and the alpha factor was still the old one used for 0-255 ranged colour values
- Takes less than half the time to format a full document
- Where possible only the required lines are re-parsed when text is changed (was the whole file, for every key press!)
- Memory is allocated in one place only (there were all sorts of problems here)
- Should be easily extensible for other scripting languages
- Lots of comments to make it very easy to follow / change
- def and class are now properly coloured. They had a theme colour but the checks didn't work.
Submitted by: Lorenzo Pierfederici (lento)
This patch adds the ability to lock transformation on bones in edit mode, to protect them from accidental editing.
Bones can be locked from the editing buttons, the transform property panel, the specials popup menu or the python api.
Based on user feedback, I've made some changes to the Grease Pencil UI (most notably in 'Time Editing' facilities).
* 'Edit Timing' button gone
* Pin button and '<Grease Pencil Data' string gone from Action Editor
* Action Editor in 'Grease Pencil' mode now displays all grease-pencil datablocks for current screen.
* AE: GP-Datablocks are drawn like 'groups', with an expand/collapse button to show/hide layers. Its name shows the type of space it comes from, and shows indicative status info (i.e. for 3d-view, it shows view-angle)
* Added refresh calls for action editor after editing relevant data.
I haven't tested all tools yet, but most should be stable.
Also, I've removed some unnecessary buttons, and added a few tooltips. There's also some experimental code to try to get clearer indication of 'active' layer.
Grease Pencil is a tool which allows you to draw freehand in some views, allowing you to annotate/scribble over the contents of that view in either 2d or 3d. This facilitates many easier communication and planning abilities.
To use, simply enable it from the View menu (choose 'Grease Pencil...' and click 'Use Grease Pencil'). Then, click+drag using the left-mouse button and the shift-key held to draw a stroke.
For more information, check the following page on the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Aligorith/247_Grease_Pencil
Space types that are to support shortcuts like this should call BPY_menu_do_shortcut(...) from the event queue read method (See winqreadtextspace in drawtext.c for example)
When the NKEY is pressed in the Action Editor while hovering over the keyframes area, a floating properties panel can now be accessed. It shows relevant properties for the active channel, however this is currently only for Action Groups. Action Channel support will come later.
The key benefit of this panel is that it is now possible to edit the colour set used by a group. Also, there is a button for selecting all the channels in that group (which can also be done by simply Ctrl-Shift clicking on any group).
