The work is mainly from Lukas Toenne, with some modifications from myself.
Includes following obvious changes:
- Particle system selection is now name-based, with lookup menu.
- Lots of new options to control varieties.
Changes comparing to the Gooseberry branch:
- Default values and versioning code ensures same behavior as the
old modifier.
- Custom data layers are coming from vertex color, the modifier
does not create arbitrary layers now. The hope is to keep data
more manageable, and maybe make it easier to select in the shader
later on.
This means, values are quantized to 256 values, but it should be
enough to get varieties in practice.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3157
Why exactly this happens remains unclear, found that in the
autumn.blenrig file of Spring production while working on static
overrides... Tons of ugly IDProps in that rig. xD
- Wasn't clear which functions handle edit-bones.
- Mixed both ebone and edit_bone in names.
- Didn't use ED_armature_* prefix for public API.
See P655 to apply to branches.
The new constraint is slower and not backward compatible, but should
be better, especially in the damping side. The new constraint also
has a different valid range of the damping coefficient, and a limit
implementation that bounces instead of making the object stationary.
Reviewers: sergof
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3125
WEBM is the codec name, and VP9 is the encoder (the older encoder "VP8"
is less efficient than VP9).
WEBM/VP9 and h.264 both have options to control the file size versus
compression time (e.g. fast but big, or slow and small, for the same
output quality). Since WEBM/VP9 only has three choices, I've chosen to
map those to 3 of the 9 possible choices of h.264:
- BEST → SLOWER
- GOOD → MEDIUM
- REALTIME → SUPERFAST
The VERYSLOW and ULTRAFAST options give very little extra benefit.
Reviewed by: @Severin
The encoding panel mentions "None" in a few places, which is confusing.
- "Codec: None" now reads "No Video"
- "Audio Codec: None" now reads "No Audio"
- "Output Quality: None; ..." now reads "Constant Bitrate"
When selecting "No Video" the remaining video encoding options are
hidden, making it even more explicit that there will not be video in the
output file.
The label "Codec" now reads "Video Codec" for symmetry with "Audio
Codec".
The MovieSequence and MovieClip classes now have a metadata() function
that exposes the `IDProperty *` holding the video metadata.
Part of: https://developer.blender.org/D2273
Reviewed by: @campbellbarton
This is useful to create a mapping from the frame range in the video to
frame index in the blend file.
Part of: https://developer.blender.org/D2273
Reviewed by: @campbellbarton
This is currently only supported by FFmpeg (so not frameserver, AVI RAW,
or AVI JPEG), and only seems to work when using Matroska or Ogg Theora
containers.
Only metadata that doesn't change from frame to frame is written to
video files. This distinction is visible in the UI by looking at the
stamp checkbox tooltips (they either mention "image" or "image/video").
Part of: https://developer.blender.org/D2273
Reviewed by: @campbellbarton
E.g. typing `bpy.data.bl_rna.properties[8].<tab>` in console would hard-crash
trying to dereference NULL pointer. Was a missing check in rna_Property_tags_itemf().
The list of editor-types is rather long by now, so better to arrange them into
sections.
Original patch by @jeske with updates by @Blendify and myself.
Design Task: T36028
Patch: D3112
PointCache was having a collection of items of PointCache type, having a
collection of items of PointCache type, having...
Nuff said.
For now, chose the 'ugly' way to fix it, that is, the one that changes
nothing to API and scripts using it: we define another 'PointCacheItem'
RNA type for items of our point cache collection, which has exact same
interface as PointCache except for the collection.
This is doomed to be rewritten at some point anyway, not worth spending
time trying to define a really correct data layout for now.
We had a mix of two issues here actually:
* First, Brush are currently using their own sauce for custom previews,
this is not great, but moving them to use common ImagePreview system of
IDs is a low-priority TODO. For now, they should totally ignore their
own ImagePreview.
* Second, BKE_icon_changed() would systematically create a PreviewImage
for ID types supporting it, which does not really makes sense, this
function is merely here to 'tag' previews as outdated. Actual creation
of previews is deferred to later, when we actually need them.
Main purpose is to make it possible to cover FPS detection with regression test.
But it might also be handy for some other scripters.
Thanks Campbell for review!
This started with a fix for an animated Object Hierarchy. Then i decided to cleanup and optimize a bit. But at the end this has become a more or less full rewrite of the Animation Exporter. All of this happened in a separate local branch and i have retained all my local commits to better see what i have done.
Brief description:
* I fixed a few issues with exporting keyframed animations of object hierarchies where the objects have parent inverse matrices which differ from the Identity matrix.
* I added the option to export sampled animations with a user defined sampling rate (new user interface option)
* I briefly tested Object Animations and Rig Animations.
What is still needed:
* Cleanup the code
* Optimize the user interface
* Do the Documentation
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3070
This is used to determine which voxels are to be considered empty space.
Previously it was hardcoded for converting dense grids to OpenVDB grids
to reduce disk space usage.
This value is also useful for rendering engines to know, i.e. to
optimize ray marching.
This completes twist feature, which is now possible to also control by
texture. Since textures can not easily contain negative values as well,
same trick with 0.5 neutral as vertex groups is used.
All in all, this twist features allows to do following things.
Original hair:
{F2287535}
Hair with scientifically calculated twist value of 0.5:
{F2287540}
And we can also twist braids in opposite directions dependent on left/right
side:
{F2287548}
The idea is to give a control over direction of twist, and maybe amount of
twist as well. More concrete example: make braids on left and right side of
character head to be twisting opposite directions.
Now, tricky part: we need some negative values to flip direction, but weights
can not be negative. So we use same trick as displacement map and tangent normal
maps, where 0.5 is neutral, values below 0.5 are considered negative and values
above 0.5 are considered positive.
It allows to have children hair to be twisted around parent curve, which is
quite an essential feature when creating hair braids.
There are currently two controls:
- Number of turns around parent children.
- Influence curve, which allows to modify "twistness" along the strand.
It is basically brute force volume scattering within the mesh, but part
of the SSS code for faster performance. The main difference with actual
volume scattering is that we assume the boundaries are diffuse and that
all lighting is coming through this boundary from outside the volume.
This gives much more accurate results for thin features and low density.
Some challenges remain however:
* Significantly more noisy than BSSRDF. Adding Dwivedi sampling may help
here, but it's unclear still how much it helps in real world cases.
* Due to this being a volumetric method, geometry like eyes or mouth can
darken the skin on the outside. We may be able to reduce this effect,
or users can compensate for it by reducing the scattering radius in
such areas.
* Sharp corners are quite bright. This matches actual volume rendering
and results in some other renderers, but maybe not so much real world
objects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3054
We've got quite comprehensive BMesh based implementation, which is way easier
for maintenance than abandoned Carve library.
After all the time BMesh implementation was working on the same level of
limitations about manifold meshes and touching edges than Carve. Is better
to focus on maintaining one boolean implementation now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3050
