Render pipeline: setting option "Single layer render" and having the active
layer disabled, crashed blender. It's a non-option anyway, so on a single
layer render, that layer is enabled by default now.
Fixed bug #5756, Rendering artifacts when MRM is not set to maximum
Several changes were made:
* Added function multires_level_n to get the nth level from a multires mesh
* Removed the changes I made some time ago to init_render_mesh for multires meshes. Previously it was making a full copy of the mesh object in order to be able to apply deformations to the Pin level and propagate them to the Render level.
* Added two functions to DerivedMesh.c, multires_render_pin and multires_render_final. These two functions work together in the mesh_create_derived_*_render functions to apply all modifiers to the Pin level, then create the DerivedMesh from the Render level, and lastly restore the mesh to its original (undeformed) state.
* Added a check in multires_del_lower and multires_del_higher to ensure that level indices are properly clipped to the actual range of available levels.
Render: Vector blur didn't work proper for Ztransp (accidentally was
antialising speed, which should not happen).
Also added speed-pass clearing in render, this to elimate the 'tsk tsk'
print in the Vector Blur node. :)
<sob>the 'time cursor' for bake-render has to go... it is being called
inside of a thread (even whilst thread is mutex locked), but that's not
supported in X11. It might be even instable in OSX/Windows even...
Only way to bring it back is to have the main loop (not in thread) update
the time cursor like each second. Would still mean to add a counter var...
will think it over. First want to have confirmed this is stable.
Composite: when using multiple scene render-nodes, and one of these
scenes got re-rendered (by making scene active temporary), the composite
cache should free the used buffers.
Now, on each render, all scenes in a Blender project are being checked.
Render: Ambient Occlusion was being triggered now with the Material flag
(Shader panel) "Shadow". Nice idea, but that was not so in 2.42a and
before, breaking how previously renders looked.
Now the "Shadow" button in Shaders panel only triggers shadow again.
(Note: the Ambient slider in material triggers AO)
UV rendering error: the third value of a UV texture coordinate should be
set to zero always, this enables 3d textures to work uniform with UV.
Also fixed: UV pass output for non_OSA is now equal to OSA, meaning only
used UV face values are in such passes.
(Empty space will get OSA options, that I add tomorrow or so)
- Removed a lot of old unused variables in renderdata. Also meant I had
to remove this from python API... please check if this gives valid
scripts?
- Cleaned up bad formatted code for FFMPG buttons (spaces instead of tabs)
Updated Python Mesh API to support UV and Color layers with names.
Similar to vertex group's
renamed a function in customdata.c CustomData_free_layers -> CustomData_free_layers_active and made CustomData_free_layers accept an index, this is needed so python could free layers that arnt active.
Ztransp Mask issue: now I did all this work to solve the exceptions, but
forgot the most simple case: regular alpha-over :)
This solves for example AA issues in ztransp-hair over solid faces.
Added support for multiple UVs in the render engine. This also involved
changing the way faces are stored, to allow data to be added optionally
per 256 faces, same as the existing system for vertices.
A UV layer can be specified in the Map Input panel and the Geometry node
by name. Leaving this field blank will default to the active UV layer.
Also added sharing of face selection and hiding between UV layers, and at
the same time improved syncing with editmode selection and hiding.
Still to do:
- Multi UV support for fastshade.
- Multires and NMesh preservation of multiple UV sets.
Please read:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Imaging.834.0.html
Or in short:
- adding MultiLayer Image support
- recoded entire Image API
- better integration of movie/sequence Images
Was a whole load of work... went down for a week to do this. So, will need
a lot of testing! Will be in irc all evening.
These can be created and deleted in the Mesh panel in the same place as
before. There is always one active UV and vertex color layer, that is
edited and displayed.
Important things to do:
- Render engine, material support
- Multires and NMesh now lose non active layers
Also CustomData changes to support muliple layers of the same type, and
changes to layer allocation, updated documentation is here:
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/BlenderArchitecture/CustomData
Plumiferos request: Made individual duplicated group objects still check on
the restriction flag, *after* the group-duplicator itself was checked for.
So it works both. (Matt; was urgent feature, hope you're OK? These options
showed in outliner for groups anyway :).
#5417: Only Shadow material gave shadow outside of Spot bundle
#5414: Material Nodes: sockets without input were always treated as single
value inputs, ignoring color or vector. (Caused by commit to do
automatic conversions of socket links).
#5420: When reading with old Blender a new file that has a new window type,
saving it over, and read back in current Blender, the window type
should be reset to EMPTY, because all its data got lost.
Material Nodes still have undefined output to the passes. Currently only
the active Material node gives pass info. Bug was that check for active
was wrong, giving stripes because of hanging variables.
I'll work soon on providing all pass options in the Material nodes. This
fix at least correctly provides passes for active material, and clears
memory of pass info in advance.
Also: outliner view "current scene" did not show render layers.
ALso: outliner click on renderlayer now activates it (for UI)
Also: zbuffer for transparent was not initialized to 'infinity' correctly
- New Passes: UV and Rad(iosity)
- New Nodes: UV Map and Index Mask
- Z-combine now is antialiased
As usual, please check the log. Has nice pics!
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Composite__UV_Map__ID.830.0.html
For devs: the antialias code from Vector Blur is now exported in compo
too. Works pretty good. Even fixed a bug in antialias, so vectorblur
will be better.
Also: found out that OpenGL display list speedup accidentally was still
triggered with the rt button... so it did not work by default.
Irregular Shadow Buffer: doesn't support wire shadow, but also should not
crash then!
Note that ISB works with real face coverage, not zbuffering faces at all.
For wires to work in this method, we have to introduce a wire thickness,
but that will give endpoint condition troubles.
Functionality was a bit limited still; now added the option to bind
a group of Lamps entirely to a Material, excluding them from any other
Material. Note that Lamp visibility layer options still work as for
Lamps usually.
In preview.blend: made a lightgroup for all lamps, and set them to be
the "RenderLayer override". That way it will ignore local material
lightgroups for previews.
- Bug: material emit was ignored (showed in preview render backdrop)
- Bug: world exposure was ignored
- Bug: lamp halo was ignoring 'render layer light override'.
Further reshuffled the way shadows are being pre-calculated, this to enable
more advanced (and faster) usage of Material lightgroups. Now shadows are
being cached in lamps, using a per-sample counter to check if a recalc is
needed. Will also work (later) for Raytracing node shaders.
- New: Material LightGroup option "Always", which always shades the lights
in the group, independent of visibility layer. (so it allows to move such
lights to hidden layer, not influencing anything).
Adds a button next to the threads button to disable texture processing
in a render. If anyone doesn't like the button feel free to revert this
one, its pretty simple.
Kent
Full log:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Render_Passes.829.0.html
In short:
- Passes now have option to be excluded from "Combined".
- RenderLayers allow to override Light (Lamp groups) or Material.
- RenderLayers and Passes are in Outliner now, (ab)using Matt's nice
'restriction collumns'. :)
- Unitialized variable in new shadow code caused Sun lamp shadow to not
work.
- Ipo handle bug: when the handle was vertical it flipped around
- Loop select: unitialized variable caused it to work unpredictable in
cases. Also found an unitialized var in collaps_edgeuvs().
- Crash, caused by commit of 1 hour ago to fix 'All Z' render problem
- Bug: yesterday's fix for node material renders caused some issues with
precalculating correct shadow.
- Composite Translate node: input sockets allowed multiple inputs
