- Sync Markers option works for local markers (or any other list of
markers in future) too now.
- Apply Pose to Restpose operator now displays a warning if an action
was found (warning about the action now being invalid)
Drivers for Scene, World, and Compositing Nodes now "work" (well,
sort-of)! Previously they were strictly restricted to object-
accessible data only; now they can function across the board (give or
take some weak spots).
Although there is still no depsgraph support so that these properties
update properly when their source controls are changed (this will
probably require a lot more work), they can still update under other
circumstances (i.e. frame change and/or manual refresh flushing via
mouse movement, etc.)
As the depsgraph tagging support is lacking, these just get always
executed for now, which might potentially be quite sluggish, though it
is hoped that there are so few of these top-level datablocks with
drivers hooked up that this is barely an issue in practice. At least I
haven't noticed any substantial slowdowns for animation playback, so
it should probably be fine.
These should not have any effect on render results, except in some cases with
you have overlapping faces, where the noise seems to be slightly reduced.
There are some performance improvements, for simple scenes I wouldn't expect
more than 5-10% to be cut off the render time, for sintel scenes we got about
50% on average, that's with millions of polygons on intel quad cores. This
because memory access / cache misses were the main bottleneck for those scenes,
and the optimizations improve that.
Interal changes:
* Remove RE_raytrace.h, raytracer is now only used by render engine again.
* Split non-public parts rayobject.h into rayobject_internal.h, hopefully
makes it clearer how the API is used.
* Added rayintersection.h to contain some of the stuff from RE_raytrace.h
* Change Isect.vec/labda to Isect.dir/dist, previously vec was sometimes
normalized and sometimes not, confusing... now dir is always normalized
and dist contains the distance.
* Change VECCOPY and similar to BLI_math functions.
* Force inlining of auxiliary functions for ray-triangle/quad intersection,
helps a few percentages.
* Reorganize svbvh code so all the traversal functions are in one file
* Don't do test for root so that push_childs can be inlined
* Make shadow a template parameter so it doesn't need to be runtime checked
* Optimization in raytree building, was computing bounding boxes more often
than necessary.
* Leave out logf() factor in SAH, makes tree build quicker with no
noticeable influence on raytracing on performance?
* Set max childs to 4, simplifies traversal code a bit, but also seems
to help slightly in general.
* Store child pointers and child bb just as fixed arrays of size 4 in nodes,
nearly all nodes have this many children, so overall it actually reduces
memory usage a bit and avoids a pointer indirection.
Since 2.5x blender has been using CD_MASK_BAREMESH for updating objects since object_handle_update() no longer has access to G.curscreen to calculate the mask from viewports.
The problem with this is after an initial calculation, CD_MASK_MTFACE may be required on draw, so it would recalculate the modifier stack multiple times per frame.
One case which caused this is armature animated mesh with texface in a dupligroup.
Fix this by having customdata_mask member in the scene, this isn't great design but at least fixes the bug and only changes a few files.
Surprising this wasnt noticed in a much more obvious case:
- Key Location, Move, Rotate, Undo-Rotate >> Resets to keyed location as well.
This was happening because DAG_on_load_update() was called on read_undosave(), flagging 'ob->adt->recalc |= ADT_RECALC_ANIM;'
Fix by adding an option to DAG_on_load_update(), not to recalculate time flags.
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.
Also use const char in many other parts of blenders code.
Currently this gives warnings for setting operator id, label and description since these are an exception and allocated beforehand.
Both stored the filename of the blend file, but G.sce stored the last opened file.
This will make blender act differently in some cases since a relative path to the last opened file will no longer resolve (which is correct IMHO since that file isnt open and the path might not even be valid anymore).
Tested linking with durian files and rendering to relative paths when no files is loaded however we may need to have some operators give an error if they are used on the default startup.blend.
- removed deprecated bitmap arg from IMB_allocImBuf (plugins will need updating).
- mostly tagged UNUSED() since some of these functions look like they may need to have the arguments used later.
- next_object() now loops through all set scenes, not just the first one.
- removed F_SET, rather them having a mode for looping on a set, just use the set when the first scene ends.
- metaballs can now glob between scenes however there are still some depsgraph issues that existed before.
- python change, dont import 'bpy' by default, initially I thaught this would make scripting easier but it ends up being annoying when you want to register a script or if you want to import it. (more trouble then its worth to save 1 line, also not very pythonic).
Now object layers and scene-base layers are now always synced. In 2.4x, they were only synced if there was animation for layers, but it's probably not worth checking for this these days...
Finally we can close this bug report :)
* Fractional frames support has been changed to use a new var, scene->r.subframe.
This is a 0.0-1.0 float representing a subframe interval, used in generating a final float
frame number to evaluate animation system etc.
* Changed frame_to_float() and some instances of bsystem_time() into a convenience function:
float BKE_curframe(scene) which retrieves the floating point current frame, after subframe
and frame length corrections.
* Removed blur_offs and field_offs globals. These are now stored in render, used to
generate a scene->r.subframe before render database processing.
- bugfix for copying a scene with FFMPEG properties set (wasnt copying the ID properties, could crash blender)
- relative path option for adding sequence strips and replaceing images.
- Remove SEQ_DESEL, better not have a flag which includes ~, use ~SEQ_ALLSEL instead.
- Rename recurs_dupli_seq -> seqbase_dupli_recursive
- Rename deep_dupli_seq -> seq_dupli_recursive
- obstacle culling for correct simulation in 3d
- flag for steering actuator termination on reaching target
- path recalculation period
- advance by waypoints (for path following)
The most useful effect of this is that set scenes can take the simplify settings from the current scene (render team doesnt have to worry about animators simplify settings).
details...
- updating on frame change now passes the parent scene to object update function. (this was alredy happening for updating tagged objects)
- set scenes objects update first so scenes can depend on set objects however this only happened at once level, now set scenes are updated recursively, so deepest level is updated first.
- collision objects used to only look through the current scene, now set objects are included.
* The test is now only done when some object that uses cache has actually changed.
* The added scene->physics_settings->quick_cache_step is only an internal counter, not a user changeable value.
