Remove the redundant option to disable selection in order to simplify
the tools and UI, both conceptually and internally.
It was possible to disable curves selection completely by clicking on
the active selection domain. However, that was redundant compared to
just selecting everything by pressing "A". The remaining potential use
could have been saving a selection for later, but that can be done with
more complete attribute editing tools in the future.
This panel showed a duplication of options that were in the main light panel and only mistakenly shows up in the workbench engine where lights should have no options.
This panel was also used by the POV-Ray add-on but that was removed recently.
When drawing strokes in Grease Pencil, it was always a bit hard
to predict how thick the strokes would be, because there was
no visual reference of the thickness in the cursor.
This patch adds that visual reference. It shows the brush size
as a circle in the draw cursor.
Showing the brush size can be toggled in the Cursor menu
of the Grease Pencil draw tool.
Request in RCS with 26 upvotes for this option:
https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/0zfbbc
On the technical side: the brush size is calculated
in 3D space and takes zoom level into account, as well as
object/layer transfrom, layer thickness change (gpl->line_change)
and thickness scale (gpd->pixfactor).
Reviewed By: mendio, antoniov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16851
This replaces the old Edit menu, creating a menu only for catalog
operators. The Undo/Redo were already working only for catalogs, so now
this is more clear.
The menu also contains the Save and New catalog operators.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16820
Make the "Clear Motion Paths" operators more intuitive. Previously, the
only way to clear the motion path of the selected object/bone would be
to shift-click the "Clear ALL Motion Paths" button. Now there are two
"X" buttons, one for "selected" and one for "all".
The "Clear Selected" and "Clear All" buttons align with the
corresponding "Update Selected" and "Update All" buttons.
(MacOS) only: In the System tab of the user preferences the user has the
ability to select a GPU backend that Blender will use. After changing
the GPU backend setting, the user has to restart Blender before the
setting is used.
It was added to start collecting feedback on the Metal backend without
using the command lines.
By default Blender will select OpenGL as backend. When Metal is selected
(via `--gpu-backend metal` or via user preferences) OpenGL will be used as
fallback when the platform isn't capable of running Metal.
This patch allows skipping the automatic insertion of nodes on top of
links when the transform operator ends. When putting nodes into small
spaces this often gets in the way and wastes time. Now, when holding
`alt`, this is turned off.
The header text is also improved to add this shortcut and to remove
the Dx and Dy values and improve the formatting a bit.
Making this functionality optional might allow us to use it in more
places in the future, like for the nodes added by link-drag-search.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16230
This was only called once in a situation where such functions
are typically used as a dynamic enum callbacks.
Prefer keeping the items close to the EnumProperty definition &
avoid the need to note why this is a special case that doesn't follow
the common pattern for enum callbacks.
- Follow sphinx conventions for doc-strings.
- Use __slots__ for KeyframesCo as dynamically assigning new members
isn't needed.
- Import from bpy.types instead of assigning.
- Split typing imports across multiple lines as they tend to become
quite large.
* Make it clearer that contrib isn't shipped with releases, by already excluding it in beta.
* Improve the UI by hiding the "Testing" enum item in these case.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16729
Expand the motion path frame range options with an extra option "Manual
Range". When chosen, Blender will not automatically update the path
range any more.
Additionally, the start/end frame fields are greyed out in the UI when
one of the automatic range options is selected (i.e. all but the new
"Manual Range" one). It is still possible to set the start/end frame
temporarily, but the original behaviour (of recomputing those on update)
remains.
Manifest Task: T101522
Improve a few messages, but mostly fix typos in many areas of the UI.
See inline comments in the differential revisiion for the rationale
behind the various changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16716
The Blur Attribute node mixes values of neighboring elements in meshes and curves.
Currently it supports points, edges and faces on meshes and points on curves.
In theory, support for face corners could be added, but useful semantics are not
obvious yet.
The node calculates a weighted average of each element with its neighbors (based
on curve/mesh topology). The weight of the element itself is always 1, and the weight
of the neighbor elements is controlled by the weight input socket. In the future,
more options for how different elements are weight can be added (e.g. smoothing
groups and selection).
The node can perform multiple blurring iterations to achieve a blurrier result.
Generally, it is better to do multiple iterations in one node instead of using
multiple blur nodes because it has better performance in the current implementation.
We use the term "Blur" (instead of "Smooth") because smoothing is generally more
related to removing roughness from surfaces. When viewing the result of the
Blur Attribute node in the viewport, it looks like an image is blurred. While the
node can also be used to smooth surfaces, other/better algorithms exists for that
purpose (which e.g. don't reduce the volume of the mesh to zero with too many
iterations).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13952
**Problem**:
Area lights in Cycles have spread angle, in which case some part of the area light might be invisible to a shading point. The current implementation samples the whole area light, resulting some samples invisible and thus simply discarded. A technique is applied on rectangular light to sample a subset of the area light that is potentially visible (rB3f24cfb9582e1c826406301d37808df7ca6aa64c), however, ellipse (including disk) area lights remained untreated. The purpose of this patch is to apply a techniques to ellipse area light.
**Related Task**:
T87053
**Results**:
These are renderings before and after the patch:
|16spp|Disk light|Ellipse light|Square light (for reference, no changes)
|Before|{F13996789}|{F13996788}|{F13996822}
|After|{F13996759}|{F13996787}|{F13996852}
**Explanation**:
The visible region on an area light is found by drawing a cone from the shading point to the plane where the area light lies, with the aperture of the cone being the light spread.
{F13990078,height=200}
Ideally, we would like to draw samples only from the intersection of the area light and the projection of the cone onto the plane (forming a circle). However, the shape of the intersection is often irregular and thus hard to sample from directly.
{F13990104,height=200}
Instead, the current implementation draws samples from the bounding rectangle of the intersection. In this case, we still end up with some invalid samples outside of the circle, but already much less than sampling the original area light, and the bounding rectangle is easy to sample from.
{F13990125}
The above technique is only applied to rectangle area lights, ellipse area light still suffers from poor sampling. We could apply a similar technique to ellipse area lights, that is, find the
smallest regular shape (rectangle, circle, or ellipse) that covers the intersection (or maybe not the smallest but easy to compute).
For disk area light, we consider the relative position of both circles. Denoting `dist` as the distance between the centre of two circles, and `r1`, `r2` their radii. If `dist > r1 + r2`, the area light is completely invisible, we directly return `false`. If `dist < abs(r1 - r2)`, the smaller circle lies inside the larger one, and we sample whichever circle is smaller. Otherwise, the two circles intersect, we compute the bounding rectangle of the intersection, in which case `axis_u`, `len_u`, `axis_v`, `len_v` needs to be computed anew. Depending on the distance between the two circles, `len_v` is either the diameter of the smaller circle or the length of the common chord.
|{F13990211,height=195}|{F13990225,height=195}|{F13990274,height=195}|{F13990210,height=195}
|`dist > r1 + r2`|`dist < abs(r1 - r2)`|`dist^2 < abs(r1^2 - r2^2)`|`dist^2 > abs(r1^2 - r2^2)`
For ellipse area light, it's hard to find the smallest bounding shape of the intersection, therefore, we compute the bounding rectangle of the ellipse itself, then treat it as a rectangle light.
|{F13990386,height=195}|{F13990385,height=195}|{F13990387,height=195}
We also check the areas of the bounding rectangle of the intersection, the ellipse (disk) light, and the spread circle, then draw samples from the smallest shape of the three. For ellipse light, this also detects where one shape lies inside the other. I am not sure if we should add this measure to rectangle area light and sample from the spread circle when it has smaller area, as we seem to have a better sampling technique for rectangular (uniformly sample the solid angle). Maybe we could add [area-preserving parameterization for spherical
ellipse](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.09048.pdf) in the future.
**Limitation**:
At some point we switch from sampling the ellipse to sampling the rectangle, depending on the area of the both, and there seems to be a visible line (with |slope| =1) on the final rendering
which demonstrate at which point we switch between the two methods. We could see that the new sampling method clearly has lower variance near the boundaries, but close to that visible line,
the rectangle sampling method seems to have larger variance. I could not spot any bug in the implementation, and I am not sure if this happens because different sampling patterns for ellipse and rectangle are used.
|Before (256spp)|After (256spp)
|{F13996995}|{F13996998}
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16694
This updates the libraries dependencies for VFX platform 2023, and adds various
new libraries. It also enables Python bindings and switches from static to
shared for various libraries.
The precompiled libraries for all platforms will be updated to these new
versions in the coming weeks.
New:
Fribidi 1.0.12
Harfbuzz 5.1.0
MaterialX 1.38.6 (shared lib with python bindings)
Minizipng 3.0.7
Pybind11 2.10.1
Shaderc 2022.3
Vulkan 1.2.198
Updated:
Boost 1.8.0 (shared lib)
Cython 0.29.30
Numpy 1.23.2
OpenColorIO 2.2.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenImageIO 2.4.6.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenSubdiv 3.5.0
OpenVDB 10.0.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OSL 1.12.7.1 (enable nvptx backend)
TBB (shared lib)
USD 22.11 (shared lib with python bindings, enable hydra)
yaml-cpp 0.8.0
Includes contributions by Ray Molenkamp, Brecht Van Lommel, Georgiy Markelov
and Campbell Barton.
Ref T99618
Remove most of the old (pre-3.0) pose library:
- Remove The entire `editors/armature/pose_lib.c` file
- Deprecate `Object::poselib` in DNA
- Remove Operators marked as deprecated in T93405
- Remove RNA property `Object.pose_library`
- Add comment to clarify that the call `BLO_read_id_address(reader,
ob->id.lib, &ob->poselib);` handles deprecated data.
Note that this functionality has been documented as deprecated since
Blender 3.2.
What remains of the old pose library: The DNA for action markers
(`bAction::markers`) and the corresponding Python API. This will allow
future versions of Blender to still convert old pose libraries to new
ones (via the Pose Library panel in the Action editor).
Manifest task: T93406
rB8b7cd1ed2a17 broke this for the paint slots
rB4669178fc378 broke this for regular attributes
Name filtering in UI Lists works when:
- [one] the items to be filtered have a name property
-- see how `uilist_filter_items_default` gets the `namebuf`
- [two] custom python filter functions (`filter_items`) implement it
themselves
-- if you use `filter_items` and dont do name filtering there, the default
name filtering wont be used
So, two problems with rB8b7cd1ed2a17:
- [1] items to be listed changed from `texture_paint_images` to
`texture_paint_slots`
-- the former has name_property defined, the later lacks this
- [2] the new `ColorAttributesListBase` defined a `filter_items` function,
but did not implement name filtering
And the problem with rB4669178fc378:
- it added `filter_items` functions, but did not implement name filtering.
These are all corrected now.
Fixes T102878
Maniphest Tasks: T102878
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16676
This unassign the Alt+D shortcut from the detach operator. Right now the
operator has to be accessed via the menu.
Alt+D is left for duplicate link, following the other editors.
`is_internal` is supposed to mean that the attribute shouldn't be
visible in lists or the spreadsheet by default, and that it can't be
accessed in geometry nodes. But the value was reversed, which
just happened to work because the list filtering was swapped.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16680
When entering paint modes the paint pivot was cleared,
which broken rotate around pivot. Fixed for all paint modes.
PBVH modes set the pivot to the PBVH bounding box
while texture paint uses the evaluated mesh bounding box.
a5e7657cee missed this call where clamped slicing is necessary.
The subdivision of a segment purposefully modifies the handle types of
the other side of the following control point, but that didn't work for
the final cyclic segment.
With the asset identifier introduced in the previous commit, we can now
locate an asset just from its `AssetRepresentation`, without requiring
information from the asset library and the file browser storage. With
this we can remove some hacks and function parameters. A RNA/BPY
function is also affected, but I didn't remove the paramter to keep
compatibility. It's simply ignored and not required anymore, noted this
in the parameter description (noted for T102877).
When applying the "Bake Action" operator in pose mode
it could throw an error saying "Nothing to Bake"
even though bones are selected
That is because the code was looking for a selected armature
But in Pose Mode, clicking into empty space to de-select would also
deselect the armature.
Then box selecting would not make the armature selected again
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16593
When applying the "Bake Action" operator in pose mode
it could throw an error saying "Nothing to Bake"
even though bones are selected
That is because the code was looking for a selected armature
But in Pose Mode, clicking into empty space to de-select would also
deselect the armature.
Then box selecting would not make the armature selected again
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16593
Actually, the interpolation can be done only between keyframes different of breakdown type,
but in some cases, this is not convenient.
Now, a new option is displayed to allow the interpolation using breakdown keyframes
as interpolation extremes.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16515
This patch makes the Bake Actions operator fills the Start Frame & End From with that of the Preview Range if "Use Preview Range" is enabled.
{F13973619}
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16630
When accessing certain structure fields from Python, they return
mathutils types instead of generic arrays (this is based on subtype).
This exposes this information in the Python API documentation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16626
When in greasepencil sculpt-/vertexpaint mode and using selection
masking, picking points wasnt working correctly.
So regular gpencil.select (without modifier keys) was not enabled for the
keymap. This only really makes sense for RCS (right click select) atm
(and not using RC fallback tools - which I dont think are present in
these modes anyways). With RCS, this can be supported and afaict, this
does not cause conflicts.
NOTE: prior to D16576, one could use the ALT modifier key (this
combination was actually in the keymap) -- but it should select the
entire stroke, which is handled in D16576.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16577
