- small updates to the docs;
- Object: small fix to getMatrix: check during_script() to avoid undesired loops; added old behavior (pre 2.34) as option: .getMatrix('oldlocal');
- tentative fix for bug #1275: scene REDRAW scriptlinks were not being executed (the call to do so was missing):
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1275&group_id=9&atid=125
added the call in drawview.c, in drawview3dspace(). This causes the scriptlink to be called for each visible view3d, but that's what happens with object redraw scriptlinks, too. Anyway, this is still a test. The place was chosen based on the idea that a scene redraw scriptlink is like an object redraw one, but for all objs in the scene at once.
- Window.Theme: new submodule, to get/set theme options in Blender;
- Added the script save_theme.py (Help menu for now), to save the current theme in Blender as an executable script (currently shown in the Scripts->Misc menu).
There's more work to do for themes, like defining a proper place for them in the interface, adding documentation (for now the added script and the ones it generates can give a pretty good idea of how to use the new module), probably extending themes to support SpaceScript and so on.
Scripts:
Campbell Barton (Ideasman, thanks) updated his Wavefront OBJ importer.
BPython:
- Finally committed pending contributions:
Chris Keith wrote the Blender.Sound module -- still some testing to do this week;
Joseph (joeedh) added the OnLoad scene script event;
Satish Goda added 6 GLU functions to Blender.BGL. Great additions, thanks all!
- Small changes to Blender.Load (leave editmode as Blender wants) and Window.EditMode (allow definition of "undo string");
- Fixed bug #1539: Window.RedrawAll() crashed Blender if an empty spacescript was available while using it in a gui-less script.
- doc updates.
Scripts:
- Jean-Michel Soler probably lost some hours of sleep since Sunday,
but he managed to send me the updated path import scripts a few
hours ago. My tests with Inkscape .svg and .ps and Gimp worked fine.
He also tested a lot and sent me info about what is already
supported. I'll send Ton a doc about bundled scripts including this
info. Importers: .ai, .svg, .eps/.ps, Gimp 1-1.2.5 / 2.0.
- Jean-Michel also contributed his Texture Baker script.
- Campbell Barton contributed two new scripts: a mesh cleaner and a
vloop skinning / lofting script. He also sent updates to his obj
import / export ones.
- A Vanpoucke (xand) contributed his Axis Orientation Copy script.
And that makes 8 last minute additions. Thanks a lot to the authors
and special thanks to JMS and Campbell for their hard work : ).
BPython:
- tiny addition (I'm forced to call it a showstopper bug ;) so JMS's
path import scripts (that actually convert to obj and make Blender
load the .obj curves) can use Blender.Load() and not rename G.sce,
the default filename. Blender.Load(filename, 1) doesn't update G.sce.
Nothing should break because of this, Load(filename) still works fine.
- Made Blender complain again if script is for a newer Blender version than the one running it.
points to a Curve.
New supporting module CurNurb to provide access to the curves in a Curve
and their associated points.
Curve module now supports Python iterator and sequence protocols.
This allows typical python programming idioms using 'for' statement
and the [] operator.
# example 1
for curve in a_curve:
for point in curve:
print point
#example 2
curnurb = a_curve[0]
curnurb.append( [1,1,1,1] )
Still under construction. Epydoc will follow.
- small additions and fixes to enable the demo mode;
- Added sleep() to Blender.sys and 17 new functions to Blender.Window module:
things to help demo script writing and as a bonus read / write access to Blender's input event queue;
- updates in docs, those interested please check Window.py in python/api2_2x/doc/ to read about the new Blender.Window functions.
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Demo mode should be working well now for (I) playing rt animation -- aka ALT+A -- and (II) rendering pics and anims and playing anims. I'll still add access to radiosity data and functions.
PS: Joseph Gilbert made (II) possible with the Scene.Render module he added for 2.32. He's been coding great things for bpython, so I'd like to take the chance to point that and thank him here.
- hotkeys, obdatacopier and renameobjectbyblock, all from Jean-Michel Soler (jms);
- bevel_center by Loic Berthe, suggested for inclusion by jms;
- doc_browser, by Daniel Dunbar (Zr)
Thanks to them for the new contributions!
(I included doc_browser at 'Misc' because only users interested in script writing would actually use it, but it could also be under 'Help'. Opinions?)
BPython related:
- Added scriptlink methods to object, lamp, camera and world.
- Object: added object.makeTrack and object.clearTrack (old track method).
- sys: made sys.exists(path) return 0 for not found; 1 for file, 2 for dir and -1 for neither.
- doc updates and fixes.
- made ONLOAD event work. G.f's SCENESCRIPT bit was being zeroed in set_app_data.
- Blender: updated functions Load and Save to support the builtin importers and exporters besides .blend (dxf, videoscape, vrml 1.0, stl, ...)
- Draw: added mouse wheel events.
- Scene: added scene.play to play back animations (like ALT+A and SHIFT+ALT+A). Makes a good counter, too, when the 'win' attribute is set to a space that doesn't "animate".
The scene.play() addition and the fix to ONLOAD scriptlinks is part of the work for a Blender demo mode. It already works, but I'll still add support for Radiosity calculations and fix a thing in main(): it executes onload scripts too early (BIF_Init), giving funny results in alt+a animations and renderings when firing up Blender. Loading after the program is up has no such problems. When I finish I'll post examples of demo mode scripts.
- Added function Blender.Save(filename) to save .blend files.
- Added scriptlink-related methods (get, clear, add) to Scene and Materials. Will still add method remove and add these methods to World, Object, Camera and Lamp.
- Updates and small fixes in docs.
- updated docs with recently added functions
- dynamic menu entries now are sorted (alphabetically, of course)
- added new menu categories for scripts: Wizards, Modifiers, Generators, Materials, Animation:
only added to list of options, didn't mess with any Blender header. They are already available from the "Scripts" menu in the scripts win, but not elsewhere.
- added option 'datadir' to Blender.Get(option):
so scripts can use .blender/bpydata for reading / writing their data files.
- Finally added Blender.Load function for loading .blend files, useful for demos, for example.
- Moved data from Blender.h to Blender.c. We'll keep doing this where it applies and someday remove all unused files at once.
ID_asPyObject and ID_getScriptlinks functions,
moved code into BPY_interface.c (where it fit better)
- EXPP_interface.c is essentially obselete now
- I didn't test this, I'm sure I broke something, if a Pythonista
could comment that would be nice (oh and the maintainer too).
- added some constants for the rendering module to blender module
- moved rendering functions from scene to scene.render
- rendering functions called from renderData struct instead of from scene directly
- getRenderingContext() returns rendering data struct
- deprecation of old scene functions
- some formatting/documentation of code
- New module + doc: Blender.Library:
It's like File->Append, loads datablocks from .blend files.
- small updates to fix warnings and accomodate for the new module, in readfile.[ch]
- New Blender.sys module function: time, a wrapper of the PIL get time function.
- Updated original makefile and scons builds.
- fixed two warnings, unused var in Object.c and undeclared function in script.c
- updated Blender.Draw doc, it was missing info about Button object
- refactored pytype initialization to try to fix for once platform (and distro!) specific crashes on startup. This asked for tiny updates in Effect.[ch] (removed static from declaration, moved definitions to the .c file) and modules.h
- fixed error I made trying to fix scripts w/ no [eol] char in menus. Thanks Michael Velikanje for reporting the problem!
- Michel's linux test builds with Python 2.3.x were crashing. This of course shouldn't happen even when Python isn't installed in the system. The problem was much probably some uninitialized internal type needed by the Mathutils module and the "fix" is stupid.
Moving the registration of Mathutils module in Blender.c to the end of the list solves the crash here.
Basically this provides three new things:
1. Choice of a list of noise-base functions, which can be used by the
current Clouds, Marble, Wood textures as well.
2. Three new texture types: Musgrave, Voronoi and DistortedNoise
3. Python access to noise functions (not for render!)
All of this together makes Blender's builtin procedural textures a LOT
more powerful. Here again, a full webpage should be made to show off all
possibilities, and explain some of the more scientific names for settings.
A good read on Musgrave textures can be found here:
http://www.ypoart.com/Downloads/Musgrave.htm
About Voronoi:
http://www.ypoart.com/Downloads/Worley.htm
I can't find official DistortedNoise docs easily... maybe its something
Eeshlo created himself.
I've spent some time to change the patch Eeshlo provided. Worth noting:
- created main texture "Musgrave" with 5 sub choices (instead of 5 new
main textures)
- added for all new textures the option to scale (zoom in out)
- added patch in do_versions to initialize variables
I hope the Python team will check on the Noise.c API. And include in docs!
- tentative fix for scripts with CR/LF endings and split lines:
in 2.32, the ac3d and vrml2 exporters, for example, had lines
split with '\\\\' and so gave syntax errors when executed on Win
platforms, because the scripts bundled with Win binaries had dos
line endings.
- Chris Keith has written code to execute Python scripts from the
command-line, with '-P ' switch: "blender -P filename":
a Blender.Quit function was also added, so Blender can quit after
running the script (end the script with Blender.Quit()), but there's
still work to be done in this part, including adding more functions,
to load / save .blend files and to run scripts. More testing and
discussions are necessary.
Thanks Chris, for both your contributions and your patience, since I
wasn't available to check / commit this for a while.
- support for quaternions, euler, vector, matrix operations.
- euler supports unique rotation calculation
- new matrix memory construction and internal functions
- quaternion slerp and diff calculation
- 2d, 3d, 4d vector construction and handling
- full conversion support between types
- update to object/window to reflect to matrix type
- update to types/blender/module to reflect new module
- enabled all the Lattice methods in Object.c
- added Lattice types to Types.c
- add Lattice initialization to Blender.c
- updated makefile for new lattice file
- added Lattice.c/Lattice.h
- Window: added .GetCursorPos()
- Lamp: updated for NoDiffuse and NoSpecular modes
- Registry: new module to handle persistent data
- vector: made it correctly print only 3 values when vec->size==3:
Fixes nmvert coords printed with a 4th 0.0 coordinate
- Text: fixed crash on startup (Python 2.3, linux):
added definition of the Text pyobject earlier, in Types.c
* Moved public declarations in camera and lamp to a new file: bpy_types.h.
* Fixed minor bugs in material, rgbTuple and Lamp + other minor changes.
* Made part of the changes to conform to decided naming conventions.
Now Blender.NMesh.PutRaw() doesn't destroy vertex color info anymore.
Both exppython's NMesh.c and bpython's opy_nmesh.c were updated.
* Minor changes in other files.
Jacques Guignot (guignot) sent updated files for his Curve module.
* Module Armature (and its submodule Bone) added:
Jordi Rovira i Bonet (bandoler) contributed both modules, which
are NEW additions to Blender Python, not available in Blender 2.27.
* Added function to NMesh.c:
Jordi again. He added the function NMesh_getVertexInfluence().
time.
* Created the M_ObjectCheckPyObject and M_ObjectFromPyObject functions. These
are needed for interfacing to other modules.
* The Object methods have been created. Not all of them are implemented yet.
Partially implemented. Most of it comes from opy_nmesh.c, plus needed
changes to integrate in into exppython.
* Added helper submodule vector, needed by NMesh.
* Minor changes in other files.
Callbacks registered with Draw.Register in Python are called now.
That should fix submodule Blender.Draw.
* Added a few other missing functions to BPY_interface.c
* Finished implementing Get() function for Camera, Lamp, Image and Text:
Both the .Get(name) and .Get() cases are handled now.
* Added function Blender.ReleaseGlobalDict():
This function should give script writers control over whether the
global Python Interpreter Dict should be cleared after the script is
run (default is to clear). This is a test.
Most of the code comes from bpython/intern/opy_window.c, but two
new functions were added, to access the file and image selector
windows in Blender.
* Added submodules Draw (gui) and BGL (OpenGL wrapper):
The code comes from bpython/intern/opy_draw.c, with minor changes
to integrate it in the new implementation.
* Made changes to Camera, Lamp and Image submodules:
The implementation was improved. These files should be good
starting points for interested new coders to look at, now.
* Renamed interface.[ch] to EXPP_interface.[ch] to avoid conflict:
There is another interface.h file in source/blender/include.
* Split Blender.c (created Blender.h)
* Followed a naming convention suggested by Willian for Modules and Classes.
* Implemented New, Get and GetSelected functions for the Object module.
* Implemented most of the attributes in the Get and Set functions for the
Object module.
* Hopefully fixed a link error on OS X.
Declared g_blenderdict externally in modules.h and moved the real
declaration to Blender.c
* Implemented BPY_end_python function.
* Implemented error handling. This results in rerunning a script after an
error has occurred. No need to restart blender anymore.
* Camera module supports dir()
* variable assignment now calls the Python equivalent function - this has
type checking and should be safer now.
* Implemented the Lamp module. Used the Camera module as a template.
* Implemented the Image module.
* Added EXPP_ClampFloat and EXPP_intError functions to gen_utils.[ch]
* Implemented 'constant' object.
gen_utils.c (GetObjectByName).
* Blender.link, Blender.bylink and Blender.event should work. Somehow the
only event coming through now is only REDRAW.
* Added include path to /intern/guardedalloc
Michel
* Object.Get("") should work.
* Many variables from module Object are implemented.
* Updated build environment to generate more warnings (-Wall)
Michel
wrapper functionality by hand.
* Removed the swig files (*.i and *_wrap.c)
* Created initial datablock functionality. Most of it has been copied from
the old implementation.
* Created some general functions in gen_utils.[ch]
* Blender.Get(), Blender.Set() and Blender.Redraw functions should work in a
script now.
* Started implementation on an Event function call (BPY_do_pyscript)
Michel
Blender.
* Moved api2_2x/interface.c to ./BPY_interface.c
This will be the general api layer from which all variants of the Blender
api. Currently only the 2.2x variant is initialised.
* Used swig (www.swig.org) to create Python wrappers for a couple of dummy
functions.
* Started implementation of the Blender and Blender.Object modules.
Michel
