This patch adds the feature of IPO curve mirroring. It mirrors the selected keyframes in the active ipo curves over a user-nominated mirror-line.
Options are:
- Mirror over current frame
- Mirror over vertical axis (X = 0)
- Mirror over horizontal axis (Y = 0)
Functionality can be accessed from:
- Hotkey M in IPO editor
- Submenu in header of IPO editor
- A new Save image function, next to the existing Save As.
- Shortcut keys Alt+S, Alt+R, Alt+O and Alt+N for Save, Reload, Open
and New image respectively, consistent with the text editor window.
- Hide Select and UVs menus when UV editing isn't active.
- Removed duplicate and unused code, also moved some functions.
This is another proportional edit falloff that slightly randomises the
influence. It's not strictly random, it's blended with linear falloff so that
it's a bit smoother. The nice thing is that it works with all transforms, axis
locking etc, including the special ones like to sphere, shrink/fatten/etc. It
can be used for all sorts of things like roughening surfaces. I most recently
used it to add a bit of randomness to the folds of some cloth. I
made a short demo video here: http://mke3.net/blender/etc/prop_random-h264.mov
Also included nicer icons for the falloff types.
exception of the clone tool.
One level undo for image- and texturepaint, only storing those tiles
that changed.
Test to improve texturepaint performance using glTexSubImage2D, only
enabled with 2^n sized textures and mipmapping off. Painting a 2048x2048
texture is then pretty smooth here, as long as the geometry is not too
complex.
This is a much faster and easier way to give a bevelled curve a taper, without
using taper curves. Each point on a curve now has a 'radius' value that you can
shrink and fatten using Alt S, which will influence the taper when the curve is
bevelled (either with a bevob, or with front/back turned off and a bevel dept
set). Alt S shrinks and fattens the selected points in an interactive transform,
and you can set an absolute radius for selected points with 'Set Radius' in the
curve specials menu.
See demo: http://mke3.net/blender/etc/curve_shrinkfatten-h264.mov
This can be a quick way to create revolved surfaces (eg.
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/wineglass-h264.mov ) and it would be very
interesting to use this radius value in other tools, such as a 'freehand curve'
tool that would let you draw a curve freehand, with the radius affected by pen
pressure, or even using the radius at each point to control curve guides for
particles more precisely, rather than the continous maxdist.
- pending commit for OSX intel systems, with intel graphics. These now call
an extra swapbuffers after glFlush(). Code is ifdeffed, and doesnt affect
other systems.
- show-off commit: option to have transparent nodes over the composite
result. Only draws Image for active Viewer Node now, and image doesnt
translate nor zoom (which isnt bad though).
Set in themes the alpha color of "node backdrop" to make nodes
transparent.
- Code for brush spacing and timing was rewritten, making spacing more even.
Example: http://users.pandora.be/blendix/brush_spacing.jpg
- Instead of Stepsize for regular brushes and Flow for airbrushes, there is
now Spacing for both, and Rate for airbrushes.
- Airbrush now works more like it does in the Gimp now, by maintaining the
spacing even if the brush moves faster than the painting rate.
- Some preparations to make brushes work in texture paint mode.
- Added a new Brush datablock, only used by image paint, but intended
to be used in texture paint, vertex paint, weight paint and sculpt
mode also.
- Being a datablock, these brushes can be saved, appended and linked.
They have a fake user by default, to make sure they are saved even if
not selected.
Image Painting:
- Replaced the img module with C code in imagepaint.c
- Airbrush is no longer a separate tool, but rather an option that can
be used for soften, smear and clone also.
- Blend modes mix, add, subtract, multiply, darken and lighten have been
added, code taken directly from vertex paint.
Note to project files maintainers:
- The img module was removed from SCons and Makefiles, and this should
be done in other build systems also. I'll wait to remove the module
from cvs, to not break compilation.
Using "Deselect all" pulldown in Node Editor crashed when no nodetree is
visible.
Bugfix #4753
Hotkey SHIFT+P in buttons window started game engine, which it should not.
Outliner happened in Oops block view. I found this was caused by commit of
of a new .B.blend in may 2005 (after 2.36, before 2.37). That file had
already opened Oops views stored, which have to remain that way of course.
A full cleanup of .B.blend i rather not do now, so I've added a patch in
code that on read of the built-in .B.blend it sets all existing Oops
windows to Outliner.
And while working on it anyway, on first opening of a new Outliner, the
current Scene level is opened, but showing objects closed.
Another outliner + buttonswindow select error:
When clicking on lamp icon, the buttons window shows material, not lamp
buttons. Same happened for F5key btw, when buttons were showing world.
Also fixed: when switching to world buttons with F8key, the preview was
not re-rendered.
A subsequent hotkey press like F5 now cycles through the sub-context in
buttons. However, this should not happen when clicking on Material icon
in outliner!
I was having to switch out of face select to undo then go back into face select mode.
FaseSelect+WeightPaint is very usefull, while wait painting its very unlikely youd want to be UV mapping faces.
Also Made all space.c's c++ comments into C style.
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)
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 ;-)
Sequencer:
A call to view2d_do_locks() got accidentally added in main drawing loop,
causing an infinite loop of redraws when this option was used with more
sequence windows open.
Added missing view2d_do_locks() to zooming in Sequence window. Also
cleaned this call a bit.
submitted by Davide Vercelli
This replaces (as a user preference) the static icon shown in the bottom-left of the 3D View with a small rotating axis that updates live in all ortho/perspective modes
I made several modifications to the original patch. In the patch, it displayed the axis on top of the 'object info' text since when floating panels are minimised, they sit in the bottom corner and cover the axis up. This annoyance is not limited to the axis, it also covers the frame number and info text, which can be frustrating. Sending them to the bottom is not that useful either, since it's quicker (with esc) and just as much movement to close and re-open them again.
I decided to solve this problem at the cause: Now when using the disclosure triangle on floating panels, they 'minimise in place' rather than going to the bottom.
User preferences are in the 'View & controls' section to:
- Display either the 3D axis or the old icon
- The size of the axis
- the brightness of the axis (colours are taken from grid theme settings)
* patch #3801: Option to show view direction in 3D View
submitted by Daniele Fornaciari
Simple one, just adds an user pref to show the name of the view's direction as text in the top left corner.
NLA and Action window sometimes suffered from very weird scaled display,
caused by making the subwindow very small. Was a missing check for small
sizes.
Also in this commit removal of debug print N_T left in for ipos.
- Added part of Austin's msvc8 fixes (vector::erase function
was "misused"), hopefully compiles better now.
- Ctrl-b now also bakes a selected fluidsim domain
similar to the softbodies.
- Added surface smoothing option for domains: default is
1, higher values result in a smoother surface (and probably
slightly higher comupation times), while 0 means the surface
is not modified at all.
- Added BLENDER_ELBEEMBOBJABORT environment variable in readBobj,
if >0 quits blender when a not yet existing fluidsim
frame should be loaded. Useful for rendering simulations
as far as possible from the command line.
- Surface normals pointer is now set to NULL in readfile.c
- Fixed win32 error string handling, now uses a function
to return the string from the solver.
- Fixed fluidsim particle halo scaling problem.
- Solver update
This patch is mostly a usability patch for the sequencer, mainly written by
Anders Gudmundson and twisted a little bit by me.
- Lock Time to other windows
- Possibility to switch the X-Axis between frames and seconds-display
- IPO-Frame Locking for plugins (T-Key)
- Additional Popup to add HD-Sound and Movie at once
- In Timeline-Window: Sequencer windows only playback
- Make the IPOs a little bit IPO-Frame-Lock friendlier (doesn't jump;
the frame that is drawn has the right dimension)
- Wheel-Mouse buttons make the sequencer window zoom again.
- The "This is not a sound/movie-file message" now reads "... or
FFMPEG-support not compiled in!" since I learned some prominent
people who complained, that hdaudio does not work for them ;-)
- Make SPACEKEY open up the "Add Strip"-Popup on the timeline and start
playback in the preview window.
- Texture Node
Allows to use any Blender Texture block as input for masks or color
blending. The texture node doesn't generate a real image, but adjusts to
the size as mapped with during an operation. So it won't work to use it
as Image input for Blur or Filter nodes.
Note; the Vector inputs for this node only work with manual input now!
- Translation Node
Give any image an offset in X or Y direction
For the Texture node to work, I needed to move the central 'pixel
processor' up one level... to allow differently sized images to merge
and allow 'procedural images' without size.
Temporal image of the day: http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg
You now can set a Preview panel in the Image window, to define a sub-rect
of an image to be processed. Works like the preview in 3D Window. Just
press SHIFT+P to get it activated. Very nice speedup!
This is how it works:
- The compositor still uses the scene image size (including % setting) for
Viewer or Composite output size
- If a preview exists, it calculates the cropped rect from its position
in the Image window, and stores that in the Scene render data
- On composite execute, it copies only this part from the 'generator nodes',
right now Images or Render Results. That makes the entire composite tree
only using small rects, so it will execute fast.
- Also the render window will only display the cropped rect, and on F12
only the cropped part is being executed
- On rendering in background mode, the cropping is ignored though.
Usability notes:
- translating or zooming view will automatically invoke a recalculation
- if you zoom in on details, the calculated rect will even become smaller
- only one Imagewindow can have this Preview Panel, to prevent conflicts of
what the cropped area should be. Compositing is on Scene level, not local
per image window. (Note; 3D Previews are local per window!)
- Closing the preview panel will invoke a full-size recalculation
- All passes/layers from rendering are nicely cropped, including Z and
vectors.
The work to make the compositor do cropping was simple, but getting the
Image window displaying correctly and get all events OK was a lot of work...
indeed, we need to refactor Image Window usage once. Sorry for making the
mess even bigger now. :) I've tried not to interfere with UV edit or Paint
though... only when you're in compositing mode the panel will work.
BUG fix:
3D Preview render didn't work when multiple layers were set in the current
scene.
- Mark Border Seam: mark edges on the border of face selection as seam.
- Clear Seam: clears seams in selected faces.
Hotkey: Ctrl+E
- Alt+RMB Click: mark/clear edge as seam
- Alt+Shift+RMB Click: mark/clear seams along the shortest/straightest path
from last marked seam. The cost of the path also includes some measure of
'straightness' next to the typical distance to make things work more
predicatble and edgeloop friendly. Note that this cuts a path from edge to
edge, not vertex to vertex. That gives some nice control over the direction
of the seam.
Also includes:
- Removed old LSCM code.
- Fix updates glitches with DerivedMesh/Subsurf drawing in FaceSelect mode.
Now there's a drawMappedFacesTex instead of drawFacesTex.
- Minimize Stretch menu entry called Limit Stitch.
- Removed the lasttface global, was being set before it was used anyway, so
might as wel return from a function.
- Moved some backbuf sampling code to drawview.c from editmesh, so it can be
used by Faceselect and VPaint.
- Use BLI_heap in parametrizer.c.
- ZTransp render now also delivers Z values and Speed vectors in passes
Note that speed vectors accumulate within a pixel to store the minimum,
so rendering ztransp on top of a non-moving plane won't give speed...
Best results you get is by rendering it in a separate layer.
The Z value stored is the closest visible transparent face in the pixel.
Fixes:
- Render to 'spare page' has been enabled again. Because of the strict
separation of Render and UI, but especially because a 'render result' now
can consist of unlimited images, I've not made this a Render feature.
Instead, the render-window itself stores the 'spare' image... I also
had to change the convention for it a bit.
Now, instead of having two "render buffers" (which was a render feature),
the RenderWindow will store each previous frame on a re-render. This
storing will only start after you've pressed 'Jkey' once, but then always
will happen for as long the rendered image is same size as previously.
For clarity, I've also renamed the window title, to 'previous frame'.
- RenderWindow shows alpha again on Akey
- Display of the Zvalues in ImageWindow has been tweaked. White now denotes
closest, and the color range goes from camera clip-sta to clip-end.
- Bugfix: on splitting/merging/duplicating windows, the 3D Previewrender was
not always freed correctly, potentially causing crashes or memory leaks.
* Large sequencer rewrite to support:
- Audio-tracks, which are not completely loaded into memory (hdaudio) but
kept on disk instead.
- A dependency tree, that builds only the Imbufs, that are really needed
- Cleaner sequencer code
- Per instance data in sequencer plugins (without this, the Dynamic
Noise Reduction plugin would be impossible)
- A Luma Waveform display
- A U/V scatter plot display
- Memcache limiting in sequencer
- Buttons changed according to the boosted framecount limit
- Set local sticky in the uv editor as default.
- Don't do live unwrap on fully selected charts or charts with no pins
selected.
- Fixed bug with live unwrap not respecting transform cancel in some cases.
- "View Home" didn't work without an image.
- Move UV Calculation settings (cube size, cylinder radius, ..) into the scene
toolsettings, instead of global variables
- Remove the name LSCM from the UI (and python docs on seams), and replace it
with 'Unwrap', with upcoming ABF this didn't make sense anymore.
- Move the Old/New LSCM switch into the UV Calculation panel. New LSCM is the
default now. Also renamed LSCM there to "Conformal".
- Made some room in the UV Calculation panel by removing the buttons to execute
the UV calculation, only leaving the settings.
Fill Holes:
- LSCM now has an option to fill holes in the chart before unwrapping. This on
by default, and enables two things:
- Prevent internal overlaps (e.g. eyes, mouth) for LSCM unwrapping.
- Allow the internal boundaries to move freely during stretch minimize.
- The possibility to switch it off is there because it is not always possible
to define which the outer boundary is. For example with an open cylinder
where there are two identical holes.
- Scene support in RenderLayers
You now can indicate in Compositor to use RenderLayer(s) from other scenes.
Use the new dropdown menu in the "Render Result" node. It will change the
title of the node to indicate that.
The other Scenes are rendered fully separate, creating own databases (and
octrees) after the current scene was finished. They use their own render
settings, with as exception the render output size (and optional border).
This makes the option an interesting memory saver and speedup.
Also note that the render-results of other scenes are kept in memory while
you work. So, after a render, you can tweak all composit effects.
- Render Stats
Added an 'info string' to stats, printed in renderwindow header. It gives
info now on steps "creating database", "shadow buffers", and "octree".
- Bug fixes
Added redraw event for Image window, when using compositor render.
Text objects were not rendered using background render (probably a bug
since depsgraph was added)
Dropdown buttons in Node editor were not refreshed after usage
Sometimes render window did not open, this due to wrong check for 'esc'.
Removed option that renders view-layers on F12, with mouse in 3d window.
Not only was it confusing, it's now more efficient with the Preview Panel,
which does this nicely.
