New properties 'line_color' and 'line_priority' are added to Material ID data blocks.
The 'line_color' property allows users to specify a per-material line color that can be
used as a Freestyle line color through Material color modifiers of line style settings.
The new line color property is intended to provide a solution for line color
stylization when a proper Freestyle support for Cycles is implemented (likely
as part of the upcoming Blender 2.72 release; see Patch D632). Materials in
Cycles are usually set up using shader nodes, and Freestyle won't be capable
of retrieving colors and other properties from node-based materials any soon.
The new line color property of materials addresses this foreseen limitation by
providing artists with an intuitive alternative mean to specify line colors on a
per-material basis independently from node trees.
The 'line_priority' property gives users a way to control line colors at material
boundaries. When a line is drawn along a feature edge at material boundaries,
one of the two materials on both sides of the edge has to be picked up to
determine the line color. So far there was no way to control this selection
(which was in effect at random). Now the material with a higher line color
priority will be selected.
The new per-material line settings are shown in the new Freestyle Line tab in
the Material context of the Properties window (only when Freestyle is enabled).
Handling of keyword arguments in Python wrapper class constructors was revised.
This revision is mainly focused on Interface0D, Interface1D, Iterator, and
their subclasses, as well as a few additional view map component classes.
Implementation notes: Because of the extensive use of constructor overloading
in the underlying C++ classes, the corresponding Python wrappers try to parse
arguments through multiple calls of PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() if needed.
The downside of this implementation is that most argument errors result in the
same error message ("invalid argument(s)") without indicating what is wrong.
For now this issue is left for future work.
* Now the instantiation of ViewVertex is prohibited since the underlying
C++ class is an abstract class.
* Removed the .cast_to_interface0diterator() method from CurvePointIterator
and StrokeVertexIterator. Instead the constructor of Interface0DIterator now
accepts the instances of these two iterator classes to construct a nested
Interface0DIterator instance that can be passed to Function0D functor objects.
Specifically, an iterator 'it' is passed to a functor 'func' as follows:
func(Interface0DIterator(it))
instead of:
func(it.cast_to_interface0diterator())
* Boolean arguments of class constructors only accept values of boolean type.
Input values of other types are considered as error.
* Additional code clean-up was made.
The previous implementation was a quick workaround of C++ const references.
Also removed the unused 'borrowed' flag from the Python wrapper of FrsMaterial.
* Local helpers were replaced with the generic one. This also fixed a memory leak in the setter
function StrokeVertex_point_set.
* Made minor code style changes.
The API syntax of FrsMaterial was updated by means of getter/setter properties.
Python style modules (including the Parameter Editor) were updated accordingly.
(http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/doc/html/index.html) has been
incorporated into the Blender/Freestyle Python API implementation
in the form of Sphinx-based embedded docstrings. Some C++-specific
descriptions of classes and functions were revised so that they are
suitable for Python programmers. Missing docstrings were filled,
and sparse descriptions were extended. By means of the new
documentation system for Blender, an up-to-date Freestyle Python
API reference will be part of the Blender 2.5 documentation.
* Added to python/BPy_Convert.{cpp,h} 4 utility converters below for
better introspection-based automatic type conversion.
PyObject * Any_BPy_Interface0D_from_Interface0D( Interface0D& if0D );
PyObject * Any_BPy_Interface1D_from_Interface1D( Interface1D& if1D );
PyObject * Any_BPy_FEdge_from_FEdge( FEdge& fe );
PyObject * Any_BPy_ViewVertex_from_ViewVertex( ViewVertex& vv );
There are 4 corresponding converters without the "Any_" prefix. All
calls of them in the code base were replaced with these new converters
so that the introspection-based automatic conversion would take place
universally.
* python/BPy_Convert.{cpp,h}: Those C++ to Python converters having
had a "_ptr" suffix were renamed to a name without the suffix, and
their arguments were changed so as to take a reference (e.g.,
ViewVertex&) instead of a pointer (e.g., ViewVertex *). The changed
converters and their new function prototypes are listed below. These
converters now return a Python wrapper object that retains the passed
reference, instead of retaining a newly created C++ object by the
converters.
// Interface0D converters
PyObject * BPy_Interface0D_from_Interface0D( Interface0D& if0D );
PyObject * BPy_CurvePoint_from_CurvePoint( CurvePoint& cp );
PyObject * BPy_StrokeVertex_from_StrokeVertex( StrokeVertex& sv );
PyObject * BPy_SVertex_from_SVertex( SVertex& sv );
PyObject * BPy_ViewVertex_from_ViewVertex( ViewVertex& vv );
PyObject * BPy_TVertex_from_TVertex( TVertex& tv );
PyObject * BPy_NonTVertex_from_NonTVertex( NonTVertex& ntv );
// Interface1D converters
PyObject * BPy_Interface1D_from_Interface1D( Interface1D& if1D );
PyObject * BPy_Chain_from_Chain( Chain& c );
PyObject * BPy_FEdge_from_FEdge( FEdge& fe );
PyObject * BPy_FEdgeSharp_from_FEdgeSharp( FEdgeSharp& fes );
PyObject * BPy_FEdgeSmooth_from_FEdgeSmooth( FEdgeSmooth& fes );
PyObject * BPy_Stroke_from_Stroke( Stroke& s );
PyObject * BPy_ViewEdge_from_ViewEdge( ViewEdge& ve );
PyObject * BPy_directedViewEdge_from_directedViewEdge( ViewVertex::directedViewEdge& dve );
// some other converters
PyObject * BPy_ViewShape_from_ViewShape( ViewShape& vs );
PyObject * BPy_SShape_from_SShape( SShape& ss );
PyObject * BPy_FrsMaterial_from_FrsMaterial( FrsMaterial& m );
PyObject * BPy_StrokeAttribute_from_StrokeAttribute( StrokeAttribute& sa );
* Added a "borrowed" flag to the definitions of Python types being
used to wrap C++ components of Freestyle's internal data structures.
The flag indicates whether or not a Python wrapper object has a
reference to a C++ object that comprises the internal data structures.
The deallocation routines of the Python types check this flag and
release a wrapped C++ object only when it is not part of the internal
data structures. The following files were modified:
python/BPy_FrsMaterial.{cpp,h}
python/BPy_Interface0D.{cpp,h}
python/BPy_Interface1D.{cpp,h}
python/BPy_SShape.{cpp,h}
python/BPy_StrokeAttribute.{cpp,h}
python/BPy_ViewShape.{cpp,h}
python/Interface0D/BPy_CurvePoint.cpp
python/Interface0D/BPy_SVertex.cpp
python/Interface0D/BPy_ViewVertex.cpp
python/Interface0D/CurvePoint/BPy_StrokeVertex.cpp
python/Interface0D/ViewVertex/BPy_NonTVertex.cpp
python/Interface0D/ViewVertex/BPy_TVertex.cpp
python/Interface1D/BPy_FEdge.cpp
python/Interface1D/BPy_FrsCurve.cpp
python/Interface1D/BPy_Stroke.cpp
python/Interface1D/BPy_ViewEdge.cpp
python/Interface1D/Curve/BPy_Chain.cpp
python/Interface1D/FEdge/BPy_FEdgeSharp.cpp
python/Interface1D/FEdge/BPy_FEdgeSmooth.cpp
* view_map/Interface[01]D.h, python/BPy_Interface[01]D.cpp: Removed
from the Interface0D and Interface1D C++ classes a back pointer to a
Python wrapper object and all "director" calls. These classes (and
their subclasses) are used to build Freestyle's main data structures
(such as a view map and strokes) and their class hierarchy is static.
Python wrappers of these C++ classes are only used to access the data
structures from the Python layer, and not intended to extend the data
structures by subclassing the Python wrappers. Without the necessity
of subclassing in the Python layer, the back pointer to a wrapping
Python object and "director" calls would be useless (actually they
were not used at all), so they were all removed.
* python/Director.{cpp,h}: Removed the definitions of directors that
were no longer used.
* stroke/Stroke.{cpp,h}: Removed an (unused) back pointer to a Python
wrapper object.
* python/BPy_ViewMap.cpp: Fixed a possible null pointer reference.
* python/Interface1D/BPy_FEdge.cpp: Fixed parameter checking in
FEdge___init__().
All of the reference to the original Material class were renamed to FrsMaterial to resolve a name collision with Blender. To keep the window context necessary to draw the strokes after RE_Database_FromScene has been called, the display_clear function is used.
