fixed some other UI logic in the python menu script
Added an option to use a vertex group for a reduction weight map to force reducing some areas more then others.
Mesh epydocs activeGroups can be None as well as string.
Bugfix #4605: mball_to_mesh() doesn't create edges for new mesh, so
me.getFromObject() wouldn't display the new mesh until edit mode was entered.
Added a call to displistmesh_add_edges() to calculate them and then insert
into the new mesh.
Takes a list of polylines and returns a list of face index triplets.
Added this so using mesh.fill() could be avoided since it requires making an object, linking to the scene and cycling editmode for every NGon imported.
Since this is so close to release, It might be good if ken, willian or stivs takes a look at the function to make sure its ok. - Ran 100's of times for importing lightwave models but would be good to doublecheck.
Blender.sys.splitext() raises an error if the path is longer then 80 chars. seems a bit short, noted this anyhow end added an example.
(hope its okay to do small doc corrections as I notice them.)
Bug #4484:
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=4484&group_id=9&atid=125
A recent update to Draw.c made the button attr setter function not exit
where it should for one of the cases, when new and old strings had
same length (code was missing a "return 0;" line in one of the if
cases). Should work fine now, I don't get the error under linux anymore.
Also saw in the same function that a py object could be created but
was not being decref'ed in two other 'if' cases.
Thanks elbarto for reporting the bug.
A problem with the current flag seting in Mesh is that Mesh needs to know of all possible flags or setting a flag can raise an error from the faces own unrecognezed flag.
also stopped the active face flag raising an error so pythoners can do face1.flag |= face2.flag without checking for active face flags. if the flag is a part of the arg its removed quietly.
Checked Mesh flags, face modes and edge flags, should all be ok now.
Window.py added note about the view offset being flipped.
editview.c Fly mode timed redraws so motion is the same speed erespective of scene complexity.
documented a workaround for python drawinf pixel aligned text in teh 2d view
Added links from Draw.Test to the OpenGL functions that set the location and color.
- Jean-Michel Soler updated the svg to obj module used by Paths
Importer (thanks!)
- user request: added option to control whether user prefers per face
(uv face select "TwoSided" toggle) or per mesh ("Double Sided") single /
double face info in ac3d exporter.
BPY:
- Blender_ShowHelp() was now crashing Blender when called for the
second time, due to EXPP_dict_set_item_str decrementing the reference
count of an object passed as argument to Blender_ShowHelp() (so not
owned by that function).
Moved .up() and .down() methods from Constraint API to Constraint sequence
API (also renamed them to moveUp() and moveDown() ). Again, methods which
modify the "parent" structure didn't seem consistent.
Moved .up() and .down() methods from Modifier API to Modifier sequence
API (also renamed them to moveUp() and moveDown() ). Locating methods
which modify the "parent" structure in objects didn't seem consistent.
Nkey "Properties Panel" now has Dimension ("Dim") buttons too.
This reads from the actual bounding box value to see the size. Note that
dimensions for animated & deformed objects will change per frame.
(Cleaned up buttons layout for patch, and added support for Curve, Text and
Surface objects)
Next to the "DispWindow" there are now two new choices:
- Display render output to Image Editor
- Display render output to Screen-sized Image Editor
Both options won't open a 2nd window anymore, which makes work quite more
smooth even, especially because 'focus' isn't lost. Further it fits in the
'single window UI' paradigm of Blender. Should have been done 10 years ago!
Lastly it might bypass issues with X11... having 2 windows with opengl
context is not always stable in Linux.
This option uses an identical trick as for the Compositor viewer, using an
Image block with a fixed name ("Render Result").
The flow, when invoking a Render, goes as follows:
- first it checks if there's an Image Editor visible displaying the "Render
Result", if so then it uses that area-window.
(Use this option for dual-monitor setups for example, a render will always
go to the same location then)
- else it checks if there's an Image Editor open in general, it then
assigns that window the "Render Result" Image.
- else: it searches for the largest Area in the screen, and turns that into
a temporal Image Editor showing render output.
After a render, an ESC will push back the former view, if the Area type has
changed.
Same rules apply for the "Full Screen" option. Here an ESC will always go
back to the regular Screen, and restore Area type if required.
While rendering, the queue for the renderwindow isn't handled yet, so you can
not zoom (nor get full redraws), as for the regular render window.
Existing conflicts:
- in FaceSelect mode, the Image editor enforces to display the face texture
after rendering again.
- when using an Image window for compositing, you'll lose the Viewer output
on a render.
Implementation note:
While rendering updates, nothing is drawn in frontbuffer anymore. That's
good news for b0rked OpenGL drivers (and faster). However, for the few
OpenGL cards that don't do a "swap copy" but a "swap exchange" you get
issues... has to be worked on. I'm afraid we have to drop frontbuffer
drawing altogether.
Other fixes:
- Hotkeys NumPad 1, 2, 4, 8 will set zoom levels (was half coded only?)
Use SHIFT to zoom out (smaller).
- Rendering Tile updates still had draw errors on edges of tiles, in OSA
only. (Caused by commit 4 days ago)
Users can write any valid Python expression (that evals to an int or float) inside Blender's gui number buttons (preceded by #) and have them evaluated to their actual int or float value.
Button Evaluation has access to the same modules as PyDrivers.
For example:
#1.0*9-2.3
#ob("Camera").LocZ
#1.0/ob("Cube").LocX
#math.sin(math.pi) -- or simply #m.sin(m.pi)
etc
Removed recently added Material API methods getRbFriction() and
getRbRestitution(). Erwin had already added attributes rbFriction and
rbRestitution, and current API design goal is to eventualy replace
all getStuff()/setStuff() with attributes.
Added patch by Matt Ebb, that enhances the sequencer GUI in several ways:
- It looks a lot better
- Strip colours are themeable.
- The drawing code is more readable.
- The background of the timeline makes now distinguishing the channels easier
by alternating between different shades of gray.
- Handle-scaling is clamped to min and max-values, making it possible to
grab strips at large zooming levels more easily.
- Preview-images can be panned by dragging it with the middle mouse button.
Home-Key resets the position.
- Since some people can't grab the meaning of "C 0", it is renamed to "Chan: 0"
- Effect strips have slightly different colors to distinguish them better.
Additionally:
- fixed an off by one error in Matt's patch
- Scene-rendering saves CFRA to avoid jumping current-scene on scrub
(might be academic fix, since most likely it only happens if you add
the sequencer-scene to the timeline... But nevertheless it bugs you on
testing the GUI ;-)
Define macros for Py_RETURN_TRUE and Py_RETURN_FALSE (for Python 2.3). Also
make Py_RETURN_NONE macro a little safer. Current macro will not work as
expected in situations like below since it expands to two C statements:
if( !attr )
Py_RETURN_NONE;
