- KeyingSetInfo classes are now collected like Panels, Operators etc so bpy.utils.register_module() can be used.
- move bpy.types.register() to bpy.utils.register_class
This removes auto-registration, committed by Martin r30961.
Realize this is a contentious topic but Brecht and myself both would rather opt-in registration.
TODO:
- addons need updating.
- class list will be modified to use weakrefs (should have been done for existing system too).
- will move bpy.types.(un)register functions into bpy.utils.(un)register_class, currently including these functions in a type list is internally ugly, scripts which loop over types also need to check for these.
Downloading results for jobs from blender now uses the current output settings, it doesn't just download the multilayer exr as it used to.
Render output panel now visible under the jobs panel in client mode.
Bugfix for job cancellation (reported by Carsten in email)
Ended up recoding part of the communication pipe (use json more consistently)
Fix bpy data modifications where it shouldn't happen (as a bonus, thumbnailing is now done out of process)
[#24601] Net rendering master node fails to send/retrieve files to/from slaves
Both Reported by Dan McGrath
The second might not actually be fixed with this, but now there is better error checking and reporting.
Misc: add poll method in Panel base class, to better support mixins with different inheritance order.
New Feature:
VCS job type
Render a file (with dependencies) from a version control system (currently only supports subversion, but system is already generic).
On client, working path, server path and current revision can be guessed from data on disk or entered manually.
On slave, a working copy is created (if needed) where specified by the job and updated to the proper revision.
On master web page, job types now appear in the job lists. The job page shows the list of dependencies for "normal" jobs or versioning information for VCS jobs.
Limitations: Need to have command line tools "svn" and "svnversion". Working copy path must be the same on client and slaves (the client gets the job path relative to the working copy). When guessing, working copy path is set to the folder where the current file is (this can be changed manually after). On the slave, it will update the working copy AS SPECIFIED to the revision, so if that path is too deep, some dependencies will not be updated properly. Doesn't support mixed revisions (and will not give any warnings for that), it will always use the first revision specified by "svnversion"
Bugfix:
Thumbnail generation doesn't chew down memory anymore and always gives correct result (thumbnail on master especially could mess up between jobs with the name result filename)
poll() function is now a static method in python, this is more correct, matching C where the operator is not created to run poll.
def poll(self, context): ...
is now...
@staticmethod
def poll(context): ...
Pythons way of doing static methods is a bit odd but cant be helped :|
This does make subclassing poll functions with COMPAT_ENGINES break, so had to modify quite a few scripts for this.
Note: this is tested and work with metaclass registering. If it doesn't work with registering lists (as currently in svn), I can still commit the metaclass method...
- multires cache files and image .tex cache support in dependency list
- Compare md5 of files before using a local copy (not one transfered by netrender). Could be changed to a simpler CRC if speed is an issue. The goal is not to have a strong crypto signature but just to detect outdated local files.
- Reduce slave timeout to 5 minutes (down from 30). Slaves should report at most every 30s, there's no reason for a value to be that high.
- Reorder the presentation tables on the main web page (job list is more important)
- Collapse dependency list by default on job page (only show main file and headers for other files, point cache and fluid cache)
- Slave option (default: True) to also output render log to the console (as well as the usual copy to the master)
* Client connection is made from panel poll functions even if
netrender is disabled
* Network render slave should print when it has connected to server,
now it says "node initiation", I initially thought this meant it was
not connected yet.
* Web interface should auto-refresh, I got confused if job and slaves
were actually found or not.
Slave and Master options to delete files when closed (default True for slave, False for Master)
Web interface option to remove files (on master) when deleting a job (or all jobs)
Web interface button to pause a job
- Add "Get Result" button after a job has been sent (this calls Animate and fetches the results back as render result buffers)
- Rendering (animate or single frame) without an active job was broken. Note that this launches a new job for each frame (it's impossible in a render engine to know if an animation is being rendered or a single frame only).
Display job status in web interface
Better use of Reports api for errors and success notifications
Don't show some Client options if server address is default (hasn't been scanned or entered manually yet)
* Some code cleanups to match layout file code guidelines.
* Ported Operator Labels to op file itself.
* Added some Tooltips, theeth: Feel free to change/improve them as you like. :)
