Previously the default values were left non-zero to avoid having to
update scripts. However, this meant it wasn't possible to setup
non-modal key bindings for smooth & randomize.
Now these operators follow logic of many other operators where setting
the value executes immediately, leaving unset runs modal.
Existing keymaps & scripts will need to be updated.
Addresses issue raised in f4a4ec8425.
In Blender 2.81 Look Dev was renamed to Material Preview
also the old look dev HDRIs could also be used in both
cycles and eevee. A more generic name was need.
Currently the action channels are applied after the existing
transformation, as if the action controlled a child of the
bone. This is not very natural, but more importantly, the
transform tools are not designed to work conveniently with an
additional 'pseudo-child' transformation, resulting in effects
like an unexpected pivot location.
Implementing a Before mode that integrates the action channels
as if applied to a parent allows using the special transform
tool code intended for dealing with such constraints.
Note that in either mode, Action constraints should be added
in reverse order, putting a new constraint before the existing
ones that the Action was keyframed to work together.
In order to implement the option, extract a utility from
the Copy Transform constraint code for combining transforms
with special anti-shear scale handling that matches the
Aligned Inherit Scale mode.
The Before mode also requires switching the constraint to
the Local owner space, while the After mode can still use the
World space for efficiency as before. Since the constraint
doesn't have an Owner space option in the UI, this has to be
handled in an RNA setter.
For full backward compatibility, the original simple matrix
multiplication mode is preserved as the third option, but it
is not recommended due to creating shear.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6297
The //Distance from Object// and //Distance from Camera// modifiers still used the old 2.79 matrix multiplication syntax.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6468
Actually, to purge orphans datablock you need go to Outliner, enable Orphan mode and press Purge button (that sometimes is out of the view because the window is too narrow).
To have this option hidden make very difficult to users use and understand what means orphan data, so this patch just adds a new Clean Up menu to File menu with this option. This menu could be used in the future for more clean up options. To have a general Clean Up menu is common used in other softwares.
Reviewed By: billreynish, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6445
This feature makes it possible to do a viewport render (a.k.a.
playblast) by only rendering those frames on which the selected objects
have a keyframe.
The frames to render are stored in a `BLI_bitmap`, which has a bit for
each frame set to 0 (skip) or 1 (render). An alternative approach would
be to construct a set of all keyframes to render, but that would make
both constructing the list and looking up frames in the list more
complex.
The only thing this feature does is skip OpenGL rendering of a frame. As
a result, 'skipped' frames are still included in the output, but just
use the render result of the last-rendered frame. This is exactly what's
described in T72229.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6443
Reviewed By: zeddb
Design task: T72229
option (even though it is being used for the ADD brush)
Add the option to the UI in that single case.
Maniphest Tasks: T72473
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6418
Note that this removes image_paint.detect_data from
UnifiedPaintPanel.get_brush_mode, I can't see why it's needed,
it causes issues where the texture paint UI isn't used when it can be.
All panels were calling poll to draw in their section causing a lot of
repeated boiler plate poll functions.
Also rename 'PreferencePanel' to 'CenterAlignMixIn'
since this is it's purpose.
With the brush reorganization included in D5928, the brush panels had covered the topbar and make impossible to use the drawing tools.
Now, the options are grouped in Stroke popover, similar to Sculpt.
Also fixed some missing or wrong texts.
- Use abbreviations min/max
this is used throughout the existing API.
- Rename use_adaptive_stepping to use_adaptive_timesteps
since this is used with timesteps_min/max it's clearer
to use matching terms.
These attributes checked for any baked / baking
since this is a common test that was performed in layout code.
Also follow our naming convention - using an 'is_/has_' prefix
in this case since "cache_baked_data" reads as if it's used to access
the baked data.
With Mantaflow the current smoke modifier UI will accommodate both smoke and liquids.
In addition, there is now an option for Mantaflow liquids in the quick effects section ("Quick Liquid").
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T59995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3852
- Use the clip mask context menu for the image editor.
- Remove redundant CLIP_MT_mask_handle_type_menu.
- Remove "Add" items (was only in image mask context menu)
as the convention is not to include these in the context menu.
The tools passed to _tools_flatten, _tools_flatten_with_tool_index
already have dynamic tool items expanded, so there is no need to check
for callable tool items.
This makes a number of changes to the tool settings brush UI:
- All brush-related controls are now grouped together, so you can see which items are brush settings are which are not. Previously it was all jumbled together.
- The brush picker is in a separate panel, so that you can switch brushes without worrying about the settings, or vice versa.
- Custom Icon settings moved from the Display settings(now known as Cursor) to the Brushes panel.
- UnifiedPaintSettings panels are removed and the contained options are now next to their relevant setting with a globe icon toggle. This is not displayed in the header.
- 2D Falloff and Absolute Jitter toggles were changed into enums, to make it clearer what happens when they are on or off.
- Adjust Strength for Spacing option was in the Options panel in some modes, but in the Stroke panel in others. It is now always under Stroke.
- Display (now Cursor) panel was reorganized, settings renamed.
- 2-option enums are annoying as a drop-down menu, so they are now drawn with expand=True.
- Smooth Stroke and Stabilizer options in grease pencil and other paint modes are now both called "Stabilize Stroke", for consistency and clarity.
- De-duplicated some drawing code between various painting modes' brush options. I tried to keep de-duplication reasonable and easy to follow.
- A few more tweaks - see D5928 for the extensive list.
Most of the patch is written by Demeter Dzadik, with some additions by myself
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5928
Reviewers: Pablo Dobarro, Bastien Montagne, Matias Mendiola
This was causing errors to show in the terminal.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T72409
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6407
This commit introduces the first version of an exporter to Pixar's
Universal Scene Description (USD) format.
Reviewed By: sergey, LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6287
- The USD libraries are built by `make deps`, but not yet built by
install_deps.sh.
- Only experimental support for instancing; by default all duplicated
objects are made real in the USD file. This is fine for exporting a
linked-in posed character, not so much for thousands of pebbles etc.
- The way materials and UV coordinates and Normals are exported is going
to change soon.
- This patch contains LazyDodo's fixes for building on Windows in D5359.
== Meshes ==
USD seems to support neither per-material nor per-face-group
double-sidedness, so we just use the flag from the first non-empty
material slot. If there is no material we default to double-sidedness.
Each UV map is stored on the mesh in a separate primvar. Materials can
refer to these UV maps, but this is not yet exported by Blender. The
primvar name is the same as the UV Map name. This is to allow the
standard name "st" for texture coordinates by naming the UV Map as such,
without having to guess which UV Map is the "standard" one.
Face-varying mesh normals are written to USD. When the mesh has custom
loop normals those are written. Otherwise the poly flag `ME_SMOOTH` is
inspected to determine the normals.
The UV maps and mesh normals take up a significant amount of space, so
exporting them is optional. They're still enabled by default, though.
For comparison: a shot of Spring (03_035_A) is 1.2 GiB when exported
with UVs and normals, and 262 MiB without. We probably have room for
optimisation of written UVs and normals.
The mesh subdivision scheme isn't using the default value 'Catmull
Clark', but uses 'None', indicating we're exporting a polygonal mesh.
This is necessary for USD to understand our normals; otherwise the mesh
is always rendered smooth. In the future we may want to expose this
choice of subdivision scheme to the user, or auto-detect it when we
actually support exporting pre-subdivision meshes.
A possible optimisation could be to inspect whether all polygons are
smooth or flat, and mark the USD mesh as such. This can be added when
needed.
== Animation ==
Mesh and transform animation are now written when passing
`animation=True` to the export operator. There is no inspection of
whether an object is actually animated or not; USD can handle
deduplication of static values for us.
The administration of which timecode to use for the export is left to
the file-format-specific concrete subclasses of
`AbstractHierarchyIterator`; the abstract iterator itself doesn't know
anything about the passage of time. This will allow subclasses for the
frame-based USD format and time-based Alembic format.
== Support for simple preview materials ==
Very simple versions of the materials are now exported, using only the
viewport diffuse RGB, metallic, and roughness.
When there are multiple materials, the mesh faces are stored as geometry
subset and each material is assigned to the appropriate subset. If there
is only one material this is skipped.
The first material if any) is always applied to the mesh itself
(regardless of the existence of geometry subsets), because the Hydra
viewport doesn't support materials on subsets. See
https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/issues/542 for more info.
Note that the geometry subsets are not yet time-sampled, so it may break
when an animated mesh changes topology.
Materials are exported as a flat list under a top-level '/_materials'
namespace. This inhibits instancing of the objects using those
materials, so this is subject to change.
== Hair ==
Only the parent strands are exported, and only with a constant colour.
No UV coordinates, no information about the normals.
== Camera ==
Only perspective cameras are supported for now.
== Particles ==
Particles are only written when they are alive, which means that they
are always visible (there is currently no code that deals with marking
them as invisible outside their lifespan).
Particle-system-instanced objects are exported by suffixing the object
name with the particle's persistent ID, giving each particle XForm a
unique name.
== Instancing/referencing ==
This exporter has experimental support for instancing/referencing.
Dupli-object meshes are now written to USD as references to the original
mesh. This is still very limited in correctness, as there are issues
referencing to materials from a referenced mesh.
I am still committing this, as it gives us a place to start when
continuing the quest for proper instancing in USD.
== Lights ==
USD does not directly support spot lights, so those aren't exported yet.
It's possible to add this in the future via the UsdLuxShapingAPI. The
units used for the light intensity are also still a bit of a mystery.
== Fluid vertex velocities ==
Currently only fluid simulations (not meshes in general) have explicit
vertex velocities. This is the most important case for exporting
velocities, though, as the baked mesh changes topology all the time, and
thus computing the velocities at import time in a post-processing step
is hard.
== The Building Process ==
- USD is built as monolithic library, instead of 25 smaller libraries.
We were linking all of them as 'whole archive' anyway, so this doesn't
affect the final file size. It does, however, make life easier with
respect to linking order, and handling upstream changes.
- The JSON files required by USD are installed into datafiles/usd; they
are required on every platform. Set the `PXR_PATH_DEBUG` to any value
to have the USD library print the paths it uses to find those files.
- USD is patched so that it finds the aforementioned JSON files in a path
that we pass to it from Blender.
- USD is patched to have a `PXR_BUILD_USD_TOOLS` CMake option to disable
building the tools in its `bin` directory. This is sent as a pull
request at https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/pull/1048
This patch contains the work that I did during my week at the Code Quest - adding support for tiled images to Blender.
With this patch, images now contain a list of tiles. By default, this just contains one tile, but if the source type is set to Tiled, the user can add additional tiles. When acquiring an ImBuf, the tile to be loaded is specified in the ImageUser.
Therefore, code that is not yet aware of tiles will just access the default tile as usual.
The filenames of the additional tiles are derived from the original filename according to the UDIM naming scheme - the filename contains an index that is calculated as (1001 + 10*<y coordinate of the tile> + <x coordinate of the tile>), where the x coordinate never goes above 9.
Internally, the various tiles are stored in a cache just like sequences. When acquired for the first time, the code will try to load the corresponding file from disk. Alternatively, a new operator can be used to initialize the tile similar to the New Image operator.
The following features are supported so far:
- Automatic detection and loading of all tiles when opening the first tile (1001)
- Saving all tiles
- Adding and removing tiles
- Filling tiles with generated images
- Drawing all tiles in the Image Editor
- Viewing a tiled grid even if no image is selected
- Rendering tiled images in Eevee
- Rendering tiled images in Cycles (in SVM mode)
- Automatically skipping loading of unused tiles in Cycles
- 2D texture painting (also across tiles)
- 3D texture painting (also across tiles, only limitation: individual faces can not cross tile borders)
- Assigning custom labels to individual tiles (drawn in the Image Editor instead of the ID)
- Different resolutions between tiles
There still are some missing features that will be added later (see T72390):
- Workbench engine support
- Packing/Unpacking support
- Baking support
- Cycles OSL support
- many other Blender features that rely on images
Thanks to Brecht for the review and to all who tested the intermediate versions!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3509
Also adds a generic popover that can be used whenever an active tool has too
many settings than can fit in the horizontal area. The popover calls the active
tool's draw_settings with "extra" set to True.
Users should be able to know explicitly what they are testing.
By having them all enabled we run into a scenario where a new
experimental feature may have been introduced, and the user
is now using it without being even aware of that.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6404
It seems it does work along multiple axes in some cases, but not at all. So
restored the UI for now, waiting for a better fix.
This reverts commit 9569425b02.
Part of T70240
This is the initial implementation of Weld Modifier.
New features will be added later.
ToDo:
- Seams: restrict welding to vertices along boundary edges.
- Edge Collapse: collapse edges below the length threshold.
- New icon.
- Some customdata are not being correctly interpolated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6383