some 3d methods change the window arrangment, thus they shouldn't
toggle on/off just because there is no 3d elements being drawn
The optimized solution would be to draw only the left eye in those
cases, but there is some issue going on with that, so this commit will
do for now.
ED_screen_duplicate() was never written to support non-fullscreen modes.
This is prior to the hidden ui fullscreen commit, and it's quite ancient
in Blender's code (since Jan/08 - 1363134d)
That's why duplicate window, and new screen operators are disabled when
screen is full.
In some cases the graphic card supports quadbuffer, but not the display.
In this case it is nice to go back to a window that does not have
quadbuffer if you change back to anaglyph, interlace, ...
Otherwise you may be stuck with a flickering window
I'll enable this mode in Release builds once I figure out how to best
handle opening files that are saved with the quadbuffer mode.
In fact I think no display mode should be saved/read from a file.
Tested in Linux with NVidia 3D Vision and NVidia 3D Vision Pro with
NVidia Quadro FX 580 and Quadro FX 4600.
(kudos for the Visgraf Lab at IMPA, for having me around with all those
gadgets ;)
Thanks for Cédric Paille (cedricp) for the code snippets and tests -
T44327
This was causing glitches when switching from/to fullscreen modes (e.g.,
side by side to anaglyph).
As for the quadbuffer errors this is part of a more complete solution to
be committed later.
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
