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- ColaMD moved from OpenNL to extern/.
It'll be needed for libmv. Also, it's a bit updated from
year 1999 to 2007.
Need to be tested for regressions.
- Updated bundling script for libmv. Now it uses fuller
subset of this library.
- Bundled new libmv.
- Request from Keir: add command line argument to toggle logging
stuff on. Currently, if Blender is launched with -d argument
libmv would start printing logging messages. There's no
argument to increase verbosity, but there's API in libmv-capi,
so it'll be easy to add.
- Finally fixed crash when ibuf is acquiring with user=NULL.
- Added ActiveClip property to the scene. This clip is used
as default value for new match-moving constraints.
- Added some flags to Display panel of View3D. Related on
displaying match-moving stuff.
- Internal change: bundles data moved inside to MovieTrackingTrack.
- Initial implementation of 3d reconstruction.
- Added constraint "Camera Solver". This constraint is supposed
to be used to make camera follow the reconstructed camera path.
- Added "reference" property to "Follow Track" constraint.
Now object could be "parented" to 2D track position or to
3D bundle position.
The very quick guide:
To use reconstruction you should have footage with tracked markers,
choose two keyframes in "Tracking settings" panel. There should be
quite noticeable parallax effect between this two frames. This
is used to initialize reconstruction stuff.
Camera data (focal length and optical center) should be filled in
"Camera Data" panel. Optical center is often the center of image,
so it'll be filled in automatically.
You should also set values for undistortion (K1, K2 and K3). Currently,
there's no any visualization for this parameters and approach of
"change value -> reconstruct -> see what've changed" is the only way
for now.
Libmv team is working on auto-calibration tool, so it should be
easier to gather this coefficients in nearest (i hope) future.
There's also no scene orientation stuff.
Basic workflow:
- Open footage.
- Set markers and track them.
- Fill in camera data and keyframes.
- Hit "Solve Camera" button.
- Add "Camera Solver" constraint to camera in scene.
- Choose movieclip in that constraint.
- To see bundles in 3D viewport active clip should be set
in scene buttons.
Python:
* adds bpy.app.handlers which contains lists, each for an event type:
render_pre, render_post, load_pre, load_post, save_pre, save_post
* each list item needs to be a callable object which takes 1 argument (the ID).
* callbacks are cleared on file load.
Example:
def MyFunc(scene): print("Callback:", data)
bpy.app.handlers.render_post.append(MyFunc)
C:
* This patch adds a generic C callback api which is currently only used by python.
* Unlike python callbacks these are not cleared on file load.
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- Added missed stub for blenderplayer, so it should
compile again fine.
- libmv is added to extern/.
Script for bundling needed subset of sourcses from
libmv repo is included there.
- Eigen3 is also added to extern/.
libmv depends on Eigen3 (which isnt't compatible with Eigen2
from API point of view). So both of versions are going to
be in worktree for time (until code which used Eigen2 would be
ported to Eigen3).
- Added some functions to libmv-capi, so some things from
this library could already be used.
- Added the very basic implementation of 2D tracking.
It should be treated as draft for tracking architecture
which probably would be cleaned up, changed or whatever else.
Current implementation was supposed to demonstrate that our
structures and understading is correct to interact with libmv easily.
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- Initial implementaiton of new ID named MovieClip.
Currently it has plactically the same functionality as
images, but this functionality would be widen in nearest future.
- Initial implementation of SpaceClip.
This space is supposed to be used for acting with MovieClips
(opening, playbacking, math-moving interaction and so on).
Currently you could open image sequence/movie file here, pan/zoom,
use a playback here.
I've added cache visualizer to this space, but it's currently more
a developer's feature to see how cache system works, but it could
be adopted for further artists' usage (something like cache visuzlizer
for simulations).
- Added new theme area for Space Clip.
No special colors were defined here yet.
- Implementation of basic cache system for movies.
This cache system is very familiar with sequence cache system,
but it supposed to be more portable: at least cache keys aren't
limited with sequence-based data and current seqcache could
became an interface between sequencer and moviecache without
much logic (only logic related on keys handling would be necessary
here).
Implemented basic limitors (ab\mount of cached imbuf's), so it'll
be a bit more difficult to go out of memory when playing long
animations in Image Editor (this cache system could be used for
images too, in the future).
- Very basic tools implementation -- only sceletion added, no
real tool implemented (only camera focal length added to the UI
which hasn't got real affect on anything).
Assorted notes:
- Not sure about best behaviour for Unlink clip button: should
it be imageeditor-like (with de-referencing only) or text-editor
like (with removing datablock from file).
- Also not sure if tools/properties should be splitted into
different areas or it'll be better to have tools and settings
for this tool/item/etc in the same area (tools at the top,
properties are under them).
Code for properties area is '#if 0'-ed.
- Sound isn't supported during playback in movie clip.
* Windows installer not working for non-admin users and multiple users
* Addon scripts not installing next to user configuration
* Portable install not being taken into account in all places
The main problem was the windows installer was installing system scripts in
AppData next to the user configuration directory, which is not shared between
users. Now these are installed in ProgramFiles, and only addon scripts added
by the users go to AppData.
On all platforms, addon scripts were sometimes getting installed between
system scripts, because the scripts folder in the executable directory was
given precedence over the user configuration folder, that is no longer done
now. So addons now behave like user configuration, they are preserved even
if you download a newer build of the same blender version.
If you have an installation of 2.57 on windows, the addon install location
will not change until we do the version bump to 2.58, to avoid conflicts with
the existing the installed 2.57 version.
The old behavior of giving precedence to the local folder was done to support
portable install, where all configuration is written to the local folder. This
is now implemented differently: if and only if a "config" folder exists in the
local folder, portable install will be assumed, and files will only be written
to that local folder.
Nothing is changed by default but some linux distributions want to have executing python be opt-in.
This keeps the same functionality but disables auto-run from factory settings and in background mode unless its enabled as a command line argument.
This CMake option is marked as advanced and wont show in the regular options list so its less likely to be enabled by people that like to turn everything ON without reading descriptions :)
