The Emission panel now has a Use Modifier Stack option to emit particles from
the mesh with modifiers applied. Previously particles would only be emitted from
faces that exist in the original mesh. There are some caveats however:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.68/Tools#Particles
Made it more consistent with blender convensions
and now it's very familiar to curve's python api.
- Made it spline.points.add(count) wich is more
efficient in cases lots of points are adding.
(points.new was removed tho).
- Removed mask_layer.splines.add(), now it's only
mask_layer.splines.new(), which is how splines
are adding for curves.
- Added MaskLayer.splines.new (which creates single spline
and returns pointer to it).
- Added MaskLayer.splines.remove() to remove given spline.
- Added MaskSpline.points.new() which creates new point
in the origin and returns pointer to it.
- Added MaskSpline.points.remove() to remove given point.
of threads to the number of cores when the fluid is created. Rather it is now
set to 0 which means "use the number of threads specified for the scene".
Previously it was nearly impossible to have fast moving objects emitting smoke or they would just leave behind a row of smoke poofs instead of continious stream of smoke. Now it's possible to set number of subframes for each smoke flow.
Another new thing is ability to set size of smoke flow particles instead of using closest smoke cell. This also works with my earlier "full sample" commit, so no more blocky particles either. :)
For more info check my blog post: http://www.miikahweb.com/en/blog/2013/05/17/blender-smoke-subframes
This commit also includes couple of fixes I spotted while testing:
* Fix: dissolve was applied at different time for low res and high res simulations.
* Fix: full sample setting didn't get copied with domain.
So now, in the new "other" tex context, you can (depending on active data) have direct access to modifiers', force's or brushes' textures...
I also refactored a bit how texture contexts are handled (once again, we had some quite similar code in both space_buttons and RNA sources). This should also solve some harmless glitches like "no texture context selected in UI" sometimes when you remove data related to current texture (see e.g. after removing the material from default cube, in startup scene).
This usage of two different systems for textures, and the handling of switches between them, has been a bit tricky to get working right, but it is OK now I think. I also had to add a bool flag to buttons space, SB_TEX_USER_LIMITED (use_limited_texture_context in RNA), which indicates "new shading" texture code whether it has to ignore materials, lamps etc. (BI) or not (Cycles).
Btw, pinned textures from modifiers/force/etc. were also broken (showing nothing), now it should work too.
Thanks to Brecht for reviewing.
* Editing number of segments for particle hair did not update the viewport.
* Hidden particles were confusing, the paths were drawn but without the points.
Now it draws the path faded to indicate that they are hidden/locked.
* Select tips/roots operators now have options to select/deselect/toggle/invert.
down, this time by the operator properties getting converted to a string for
display in the info window.
With 1000+ stroke points this can get slow, and takes up too much space anyway,
so now it's (somewhat arbitrarily) limited to printing only 10 points.
Straightforward patch, point tructure was already defined,
was just matter of defining RNA collection property for
mask spline.
Available via: mask.layers[0].splines[0].points
Fix turned out to remove as much "manual UI" from 3D view header as possible. Mode selector and all transform manipulators/orientations stuff are now RNA-based UI (leaving basically only edit mesh select modes with custom handlers, as they have some quite specific features).
To achieve this, four main modifications were done:
* enum-operator-generated menus are now MENU (i.e. dropdown lists) in headers too.
* All bit-flag enums expanded in ROW buttons now have a handling consistent with e.g. layers, or what we already have for transform manipulators, i.e. clicking select only one element, shift-click to select multiple ones.
* Consequently, the three RNA booleans manipulators flags are merged into a single bit-flag enum (yes, this is also an API change, though I doubt many scripts use it).
* Now the width of enum-based dropdown lists is computed from longest item name in enum, no more from a dummy place holder string (when no label/name is given).
All this allows to remove some code from 3DView/transform areas, that was actually mostly duplicating RNA/operator one.
Also done a few optimizations here and there (among others, do not pass &numitems to RNA_property_enum_items() when you do not need it, saves at least an iteration over enum items to count them).
Many thanks to Brecht for the reviews!
If you have three scenes, current is A, others are B and C.
B uses C as background, and C uses B as a background.
(which is possible via linked libraries)
If you then try to use B or C as background of A, code went to eternal loop.
This is hopefully the ultimate solution against smoke blockiness near emitter.
Previously high resolution flow/emitter voxels were generated based on the low resolution ones. So if you had 32 resolution and 4 division high resolution, it still used smoke flow generated from those 32 resolution voxels. Now I introduced a new sampling method called "Full Sample" that generates full resolution flow for for high resolution domain as well.
Read more about it in my blog post: https://www.miikahweb.com/en/blog/2013/05/10/getting-rid-of-smoke-blockiness
Also changed "quick smoke" operator default voxel data interpolation mode to "Cubic B-Spline" to smoothen out it even more.
This modifier uses a mask set in the modifier settings
and multiplies strip by it. Alpha channel will also be
multiplied by mask, which makes it easy to mask some
objects on footage and alpha-over them in sequencer.
Actually, this modifier sets alpha for byte strips
directly (since byte is always straight alpha) and
multiplies float buffer by mask (flaots are premulled)
so in both cases masked strip could be easy alpha-overed
without any artifacts.
It uses own structure with only SequenceModifierData
property in to preserve both forward and backwards
compatibilities (using new structure ensures modifier
will be ignored on load in older blenders, the same
happens for mesh modifiers actually).
Request from Pablo Vazquez.
Issue was caused by ntreeUpdateTree calling for a ntree
which is not in G.main.
This lead to issues in ntreeVerifyNodes (which is called
from ntreeUpdateTree).
Made is so ntreeUpdateTree now accepts main as an argument.
Will work for the release, later we could either solve the
TODO mentioned in ntreeUpdateTree which will eliminate need
in main there or make it so context's main is used from all
over where ntreeUpdateTree is called (currently there're
still some usages of G.main).
