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Author SHA1 Message Date
2d7e61df40 Ugly bug in ungrouping... it left freed memory in the main database. 2006-02-13 20:39:31 +00:00
ed4cc927a7 Couple of features/fixes:
- Compositor now frees memory of buffers internally used in groups
  immediately. This wasn't part of the event-based cache anyway

- New option: "Free Texture Images" (in render Output panel). This
  frees after each render of each scene all images and mipmaps as
  used by textures. As reference it prints total amount of MB freed.

- Render stage 'creating speed vectors' had no ESC checking yet

- Made drawing scanline updates during render draw 1 scanline less...
  dunno, still hunting for weird opengl crashes.

- 3D preview render didn't properly skip sequence or composit render.
2006-02-11 23:17:41 +00:00
c2bc882bb9 Bugfix: duplicate time node didn't copy the curve itself. 2006-02-11 16:52:18 +00:00
945484e92a Upgrade for Node type definitions: the min/max allowed values for input
sockets were not used yet... now they're verified on read, and written
in socket stack data on adding new nodes.
Also the buttons in Nodes use these values now. Special request from
Nathan Vegdahl who seems to be messing around with my precious nodes! :)
2006-02-10 13:57:30 +00:00
3291adc997 Compositing workflow upgrade;
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.
2006-02-09 11:07:04 +00:00
919411a32b Three fixes;
- Composit cache now gets fully freed on a render. Each output socket of a
  node stores the entire image... and while render that's a waste of memory

- Sky 'paper' render was using wrong texture coordinates

- Found missing test_break() in ztransp rendering.
2006-02-08 17:30:28 +00:00
e4a0390b39 Group Nodes made functional: each group now can be re-used (instanced)
with SHIFT+G. This works as well for local groups as library-linked
groups.

Also fixed that group nodes were copying internal data to the outside,
which made it impossible to use the socket-buttons to set individual
values for each group-instance.

Library-linked groups are prevented from editing. But, try to open a
group and it will give a request for 'make local'. The make local rule
is identical to other library data in blender, meaning:
- if all users of the library data are local -> the library data is
  flagged 'local', and if needed a unique name is made
- if there's mixed users (local and from other library data) it makes
  a full copy, and assigns this copy to all local users.
2006-02-07 15:50:55 +00:00
47054d00e6 Added "Blur factor" button in Vector Blur node, which scales the speed
vectors. It's actually shutter speed, but in this case works identical to
the old motionblur 'blur fac' button.

Note; the "Max Speed" button only clips speed, use this to prevent
extreme speed values. Max speed applied before the scaling happens.
2006-02-07 11:39:26 +00:00
f45546a1d3 iImage based Vector Blur
After a couple of experiments with variable blur filters, I tried
a more interesting, and who knows... original approach. :)

First watch results here:
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt0001_0030.avi
http://www.blender.org/bf/hand0001_0060.avi

These are the steps in producing such results:

- In preprocess, the speed vectors to previous and next frame are
  calculated. Speed vectors are screen-aligned and in pixel size.
- while rendering, these vectors get calculated per sample, and
  accumulated in the vector buffer checking for "minimum speed".
  (on start the vector buffer is initialized on max speed).

- After render:
- The entire image, all pixels, then is converted to quad polygons.
- Also the z value of the pixels is assigned to the polygons
- The vertices for the quads use averaged speed vectors (of the 4
  corner faces), using a 'minimum but non-zero' speed rule.

  This minimal speed trick works very well to prevent 'tearing' apart
  when multiple faces move in different directions in a pixel, or to
  be able to separate moving pixels clearly from non-moving ones

- So, now we have a sort of 'mask' of quad polygons. The previous steps
  guaranteed that this mask doesn't have antialias color info, and has
  speed vectors that ensure individual parts to move nicely without
  tearing effects. The Z allows multiple layers of moving masks.

- Then, in temporal buffer, faces get tagged if they move or not
- These tags then go to an anti-alias routine, which assigns alpha
  values to edge faces, based on the method we used in past to antialias
  bitmaps (still in our code, check the antialias.c in imbuf!)

- finally, the tag buffer is used to tag which z values of the original
  image have to be included (to allow blur go behind stuff).

- OK, now we're ready for accumulating! In a loop, all faces then get
  drawn (with zbuffer) with increasing influence of their speed vectors.
  The resulting image then is accumulated on top of the original with a
  decreasing weighting value.

It sounds all quite complex... but the speed is still encouraging. Above
images have 64 mblur steps, which takes about 1-3 seconds per frame.

Usage notes:

- Make sure the render-layer has passes 'Vector' and 'Z' on.
- add in Compositor the VectorBlur node, and connect the image, Z and
  speed to the inputs.
- The node allows to set amount of steps (10 steps = 10 forward, 10 back).
  and to set a maximum speed in pixels... to prevent extreme moving things
  to blur too wide.
2006-02-06 22:11:50 +00:00
98a0768028 Compositor: Added a basic "Time Node".
Just indicate start/end frame, and node outputs with Curve a value between
0.0 and 1.0.
2006-02-04 14:38:51 +00:00
6ac2c83016 Redoing the blur filters for composit;
http://www.blender.org/bf/filters/

I found out current blur actually doesn't do gauss, but more did regular
quadratic. Now you can choose common filter types, but more specifically;

- set gamma on, to emphasize bright parts in blur more than darker parts
- use the bokeh option for (current circlular only) blur based on true
  area filters (meaning, for each pixel it samples the entire surrounding).
  This enables more effects, but is also much slower. Have to check on
  optimization for this still... use with care!
2006-02-03 20:39:36 +00:00
7a7c33ea27 Crash fix! Found one unsafe malloc in allocating the Z render pass...
Brought back threaded compositing, this was blamed incorrectly.
2006-02-03 09:25:46 +00:00
8e12f750f2 - Preview images get generated on render event again
- disabled threading for composit for now, it has a memory error still...
  will work on that tomorrow more.
2006-02-02 23:55:14 +00:00
f493e8ed2e features & fixes:
- Enabled Groups to execute in Compositor. They were ignored still.
  Note; inside of groups nothing is cached, so a change of a group input
  will recalculate it fully. This is needed because groups are linked
  data (instances use same internal nodes).

- Made Composit node "Viewer" display correctly input for images with
  1/2/3/4 channels.

- Added pass rendering, tested now with only regular Materials. For
  Material nodes this is quite more complex... since they cannot be
  easily separated in passes (each Material does a full shade)
  In this commit all pass render is disabled though, will continue work on
  that later.
  Sneak preview: http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg  (temporal image)

- What did remain is the 'Normal' pass output. Normal works very nice for
  relighting effects. Use the "Normal Node" to define where more or less
  light should be. (Use "Value Map" node to tweak influence of the
  Normal node 'dot' output.)

- EVIL bug fix: I've spend almost a day finding it... when combining AO and
  mirror render, the event queue was totally screwing up... two things not
  related at all!
  Found out error was in ray-mirror code, which was using partially
  uninitialized 'ShadeInput' data to pass on to render code.

- Another fix; made sure that while thread render, the threads don't get
  events, only the main program will do. Might fix issues reported by
  people on linux/windows.
2006-02-02 17:54:22 +00:00
2f8708da02 Three-in-one commit:
- Compositor now is threaded
Enable it with the Scene buttons "Threads". This will handle over nodes to
individual threads to be calculated. However, if nodes depend on others
they have to wait. The current system only threads per entire node, not for
calculating results in parts.

I've reshuffled the node execution code to evaluate 'changed' events, and
prepare the entire tree to become simply parsed for open jobs with a call
to   node = getExecutableNode()
By default, even without 'thread' option active, all node execution is
done within a separate thread.

Also fixed issues in yesterdays commit for 'event based' calculations, it
didn't do animated images, or execute (on rendering) the correct nodes
when you don't have Render-Result nodes included.

- Added generic Thread support in blenlib/ module
The renderer and the node system now both use same code for controlling the
threads. This has been moved to a new C file in blenlib/intern/threads.c.
Check this c file for an extensive doc and example how to use it.

The current implementation for Compositing allows unlimited amount of
threads. For rendering it is still tied to two threads, although it is
pretty easy to extend to 4 already. People with giant amounts of cpus can
poke me once for tests. :)

- Bugfix in creating group nodes
Group node definitions demand a clear separation of 'internal sockets' and
'external sockets'. The first are sockets being linked internally, the latter
are sockets exposed as sockets for the group itself.
When sockets were linked both internal and external, Blender crashed. It is
solved now by removing the external link(s).
2006-01-29 11:36:33 +00:00
45c7b2c5c2 Orange: made Compositing more interactive. It now has an event based
system tracking changes in nodes, making sure only these nodes and
the ones that depend, are executed.

Further the 'time cursor' now counts down to indicate which node is being
done.

Also: you now can disable the "use nodes" button in the header, edit all
changes, and when you press that button again it nicely executes the
changes.

Still on the todo:
- make compositing threaded
- find a way to nicely exit compositing on input events... so the UI
  keeps being responsive
- idea; a 'percentage' menu in header to enforce calculations on smaller
  images temporally
2006-01-28 15:21:04 +00:00
4a52c6ac6f Orange; more render & compo stuff!
-> Rendering in RenderLayers

It's important to distinguish a 'render layer' from a 'pass'. The first is
control over the main pipeline itself, to indicate what geometry is being
is rendered. The 'pass' (not in this commit!) is related to internal
shading code, like shadow/spec/AO/normals/etc.

Options for RenderLayers now are:
- Indicate which 3d 'view layers' have to be included (so you can render
  front and back separately)
- "Solid", all solid faces, includes sky at the moment too
- "ZTransp", all transparent faces
- "Halo", the halos
- "Strand", the particle strands (not coded yet...)

Currently only 2 'passes' are exported for render, which is the "Combined"
buffer and the "Z. The latter now works, and can be turned on/off.

Note that all layers are still fully kept in memory now, saving the tiles
and layers to disk (in exr) is also todo.

-> New Blur options

The existing Blur Node (compositor) now has an optional input image. This
has to be a 'value buffer', which can be a Zbuffer, or any mask you can
think of. The input values have to be in the 0-1 range, so another new
node was added too "Map Value".
The value input can also be used to tweak blur size with the (todo)
Time Node.

Temporal screenies:
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt1.jpg
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt2.jpg

BTW: The compositor is very slow still, it recalulates all nodes on each
change still. Persistant memory and dependency checks is coming!
2006-01-26 22:18:46 +00:00
74f76981bf Orange: preparation commit for Output nodes type "Render" and "File".
They dont work yet, but i accidentally committed parts of it with a bugfix.
2006-01-24 17:09:04 +00:00
26b718654d Orange: fixes in Compositor:
- Curves in Image window didn't copy alpha (when no 32 bits rect for
  display was made already).
- Code was missing to validate grouped nodes in Compositor, didnt work
  at all yet
- Loading new Images in a Node (using filewindow) didn't assign the image

Image window now displays Alpha for float images too
2006-01-24 15:24:38 +00:00
042d612df2 Giant commit!
A full detailed description of this will be done later... is several days
of work. Here's a summary:

Render:
- Full cleanup of render code, removing *all* globals and bad level calls
  all over blender. Render module is now not called abusive anymore
- API-fied calls to rendering
- Full recode of internal render pipeline. Is now rendering tiles by
  default, prepared for much smarter 'bucket' render later.
- Each thread now can render a full part
- Renders were tested with 4 threads, goes fine, apart from some lookup
  tables in softshadow and AO still
- Rendering is prepared to do multiple layers and passes
- No single 32 bits trick in render code anymore, all 100% floats now.

Writing images/movies
- moved writing images to blender kernel (bye bye 'schrijfplaatje'!)
- made a new Movie handle system, also in kernel. This will enable much
  easier use of movies in Blender

PreviewRender:
- Using new render API, previewrender (in buttons) now uses regular render
  code to generate images.
- new datafile 'preview.blend.c' has the preview scenes in it
- previews get rendered in exact displayed size (1 pixel = 1 pixel)

3D Preview render
- new; press Pkey in 3d window, for a panel that continuously renders
  (pkey is for games, i know... but we dont do that in orange now!)
- this render works nearly identical to buttons-preview render, so it stops
  rendering on any event (mouse, keyboard, etc)
- on moving/scaling the panel, the render code doesn't recreate all geometry
- same for shifting/panning view
- all other operations (now) regenerate the full render database still.
- this is WIP... but big fun, especially for simple scenes!

Compositor
- Using same node system as now in use for shaders, you can composit images
- works pretty straightforward... needs much more options/tools and integration
  with rendering still
- is not threaded yet, nor is so smart to only recalculate changes... will be
  done soon!
- the "Render Result" node will get all layers/passes as output sockets
- The "Output" node renders to a builtin image, which you can view in the Image
  window. (yes, output nodes to render-result, and to files, is on the list!)

The Bad News
- "Unified Render" is removed. It might come back in some stage, but this
  system should be built from scratch. I can't really understand this code...
  I expect it is not much needed, especially with advanced layer/passes
  control
- Panorama render, Field render, Motion blur, is not coded yet... (I had to
  recode every single feature in render, so...!)
- Lens Flare is also not back... needs total revision, might become composit
  effect though (using zbuffer for visibility)
- Part render is gone! (well, thats obvious, its default now).
- The render window is only restored with limited functionality... I am going
  to check first the option to render to a Image window, so Blender can become
  a true single-window application. :)
  For example, the 'Spare render buffer' (jkey) doesnt work.
- Render with border, now default creates a smaller image
- No zbuffers are written yet... on the todo!
- Scons files and MSVC will need work to get compiling again

OK... thats what I can quickly recall. Now go compiling!
2006-01-23 22:05:47 +00:00
104ab9b103 Orange:
- New UI element: the "Curve Button".

For mapping ranges (like 0 - 1) to another range, the curve button can be
used for proportional falloff, bone influences, painting density, etc.
Most evident use is of course to map RGB color with curves.

To be able to use it, you have to allocate a CurveMapping struct and pass
this on to the button. The CurveMapping API is in the new C file
blenkernel/intern/colortools.c
It's as simple as calling:

   curvemap= curvemapping_add(3, 0, 0, 1, 1)

Which will create 3 curves, and sets a default 0-1 range. The current code
only supports up to 4 curves maximum per mapping struct.
The CurveMap button in Blender than handles allmost all  editing.
Evaluating a single channel:

   float newvalue= curvemapping_evaluateF(curvemap, 0, oldval);

Where the second argument is the channel index, here 0-1-2 are possible.
Or mapping a vector:

   curvemapping_evaluate3F(curvemap, newvec, oldvec);

Optimized versions for byte or short mapping is possible too, not done yet.

In butspace.c I've added a template wrapper for buttons around the curve, to
reveil settings or show tools; check this screenie:

http://www.blender.org/bf/curves.jpg

- Buttons R, G, B: select channel
- icons + and -: zoom in, out
- icon 'wrench': menu with tools, like clear curve, set handle type
- icon 'clipping': menu with clip values, and to dis/enable clipping
- icon 'x': delete selection

In the curve button itself, only LMB clicks are handled (like all UI elements
in Blender).

- click on point: select
- shift+click on point: swap select
- click on point + drag: select point (if not selected) and move it
- click outside point + drag: translate view
- CTRL+click: add new point
- hold SHIFT while dragging to snap to grid
  (Yes I know... either one of these can be Blender compliant, not both!)
- if you drag a point exactly on top of another, it merges them

Other fixes:

- Icons now draw using "Safe RasterPos", so they align with pixel boundary.
  the old code made ints from the raster pos coordinate, which doesn't work
  well for zoom in/out situations

- bug in Node editing: buttons could not get freed, causing in memory error
  prints at end of a Blender session. That one was a very simple, but nasty
  error causing me all evening last night to find!
  (Hint; check diff of editnode.c, where uiDoButtons is called)

Last note: this adds 3 new files in our tree, I did scons, but not MSVC!
2006-01-08 11:41:06 +00:00
3153a238b3 Orange: more Node goodies;
- New Node: "Mapping". Allows input vector to be translated, rotated and
  scaled. And optional be clipped to a range. Works for colors too!

- The button "Normal" now allows incremental input, so a click in the
  button won't change the normal anymore

- Connecting wires now show selection state for Nodes, with nice blended
  colors. Both colors were added in Themes, but default to black and white
2006-01-04 12:13:13 +00:00
4bc4eac1e5 Orange; tweaks for further integrating node editing in UI
- Previews inside groups now get updated too
- Activating nodes inside of groups updates UI and preview render correctly
- Entering/leaving groups updates UI and previewrender
- Material Node: now draws socket name next to colorpicker for inputs
2006-01-03 11:34:28 +00:00
85f089f3b9 Node render: a fix in threading, groups had a stack counter issue... :) 2006-01-02 21:04:33 +00:00
0943a0249c Orange: enabled thread render for node trees.
Works with groups too! But, discovered a bug with texture nodes inside
of groups... will do that next.
2006-01-02 19:09:37 +00:00
763695c0e8 Orange; made Node types Texture and Geometry integrated in render. Means
the coordinate outputs now have correct dx/dy vectors for Image AA, and
texture delivers correct intensity, rgb, alpha and normal.

Note; we need a "Vector Mapping" node, to do 2d/3d mapping, like in the
Material "Map In" panel.
2006-01-02 15:32:17 +00:00
ea7538dca6 Orange: more noodle updates!
**** NEW: Group Nodes

Node trees usually become messy and confusing quickly, so we need
not only a way to collapse Nodes into single 'groups', but also a
way to re-use that data to create libraries of effects.

This has been done by making a new Library data type, the NodeTree.
Everything that has been grouped is stored here, and available for
re-use, appending or linking. These NodeTrees are fully generic,
i.e. can store shader trees, composit trees, and so on. The 'type'
value as stored in the NodeTree will keep track of internal type
definitions and execute/drawing callbacks. Needless to say, re-using
shader trees in a composit tree is a bit useless, and will be
prevented in the browsing code. :)

So; any NodeTree can become a "Goup Node" inside in a NodeTree. This
Group Node then works just like any Node.
To prevent the current code to become too complex, I've disabled
the possibility to insert Groups inside of Groups. That might be
enabled later, but is a real nasty piece of code to get OK.

Since Group Nodes are a dynamic Node type, a lot of work has been
done to ensure Node definitions can be dynamic too, but still allow
to be stored in files, and allow to be verified for type-definition
changes on reloading. This system needs a little bit maturing still,
so the Python gurus should better wait a little bit! (Also for me to
write the definite API docs for it).

What works now:

- Press CTRL+G to create a new Group. The grouping code checks for
impossible selections (like an unselected node between selected nodes).
Everthing that's selected then gets removed from the current tree, and
inserted in a new NodeTree library data block. A Group Node then is
added which links to this new NodeTree.

- Press ALT+G to ungroup. This will not delete the NodeTree library
data, but just duplicate the Group into the current tree.

- Press TAB, or click on the NodeTree icon to edit Groups. Note that
NodeTrees are instances, so editing one Group will also change the
other users.
This also means that when removing nodes in a Group (or hiding sockets
or changing internal links) this is immediately corrected for all users
of this Group, also in other Materials.

- While editing Groups, only the internal Nodes can be edited. A single
click outside of the Group boundary will close this 'edit mode'.

What needs to be done:

- SHIFT+A menu in toolbox style, also including a list of Groups
- Enable the single-user button in the Group Node
- Displaying all (visible) internal group UI elements in the Node Panel
- Enable Library linking and prevent editing of Groups then.


**** NEW: Socket Visibility control

Node types will be generated with a lot of possible inputs or outputs,
and drawing all sockets all the time isn't very useful then.

A new option in the Node header ('plus' icon) allows to either hide all
unused sockets (first keypress) or to reveil them (when there are hidden
sockets, the icon displays black, otherwise it's blended).

Hidden sockets in Nodes also are not exported to a Group, so this way
you can control what options (in/outputs) exactly are available.

To be done:
- a way to hide individual sockets, like with a RMB click on it.

**** NEW: Nodes now render!

This is still quite primitive, more on a level to replace the (now
obsolete and disabled) Material Layers.

What needs to be done:

- make the "Geometry" node work properly, also for AA textures
- make the Texture Node work (does very little at the moment)
- give Material Nodes all inputs as needed (like Map-to Panel)
- find a way to export more data from a Material Node, like the
  shadow value, or light intensity only, etc

Very important also to separate from the Material Buttons the
"global" options, like "Ztransp" or "Wire" or "Halo". These can not
be set for each Material-Node individually.

Also note that the Preview Render (Buttons window) now renders a bit
differently. This was a horrid piece of antique code, using a totally
incompatible way of rendering. Target is to fully re-use internal
render code for previews.

OK... that's it mostly. Now test!
2006-01-02 13:06:05 +00:00
d921d6be6f Orange: daily noodle updates;
- Texture Node: now displays 'intensity values' in node too, and has input,
  and shows in buttons when activated in Node editor. (no browsing buttons
  yet...)

- New: "Normal Node". This uses a new UI button, which allows to quickly
  input a normal vector, based on spherical coordinates.
  The Normal Node has optional vector input, and delivers a dot product
  then. This can be used as a blending factor between nodes, or for fake
  extra light in a certain direction.

- New: "Geometry Node". This actually replaces the Input node. It offers
  all coordinates (vectors) as being the starting point for shading and
  for textures. Note: for preview render this doesn't give much different
  results yet... this is the start for real render support!

- http://www.blender.org/bf/rt5.jpg
  The two new nodes in action

- Bugfix: the "Block" button (which delivers popups) did not return a
  correct event when nothing happened (mouse moved out), which could
  cause mouse clicks to be passed on to the queue.
2005-12-30 11:25:15 +00:00
8d35213990 More node goodies!
First note; this is a WIP project, some commits might change things that
make formerly saved situations not to work identically... like now!

------ New Material integration ------

Until now, the Node system worked on top of the 'current' Material, just
like how the Material Layers worked. That's quite confusing in practice,
especially to see what Material is a Node, or what is the "base material"

Best solution is to completely separate the two. This has been implemented
as follows now;

- The confusing "Input" node has been removed.
- When choosing a Material in Blender, you can define this Material to be
  either 'normal' (default) or be the root of a Node tree.
- If a Material is a Node tree, you have to add Nodes in the tree to see
  something happen. An empty Node tree doesn't do anything (black).
- If a Material is a Node Tree, the 'data browse' menus show it with an
  'N' mark before the name. The 'data block' buttons display it with the
  suffix 'NT' (instead of 'MA').
- In a Node Tree, any Material can be inserted, including itself. Only in
  that case the Material is being used itself for shading.

UI changes:

Added a new Panel "Links", which shows:
- where the Material is linked to (Object, Mesh, etc)
- if the Material is a NodeTree or not
- the actual active Material in the Tree

The "Node" Panel itself now only shows buttons from the other nodes, when
they are active.

Further the Material Nodes themselves allow browsing and renaming or adding
new Materials now too.

Second half of today's work was cleaning up selection when the Nodes
overlap... it was possible to drag links from invisible sockets, or click
headers for invisible nodes, etc. This because the mouse input code was
not checking for visibility yet.
Works now even for buttons. :)
2005-12-29 18:08:01 +00:00
9df1460777 Christmas coding work!
********* Node editor work:

- To enable Nodes for Materials, you have to set the "Use Nodes"
  button, in the new Material buttons "Nodes" Panel or in header
  of the Node editor. Doing this will disable Material-Layers.

- Nodes now execute materials ("shaders"), but still only using the
  previewrender code.

- Nodes have (optional) previews for rendered images.

- Node headers allow to hide buttons and/or preview image

- Nodes can be dragged larger/smaller (right-bottom corner)

- Nodes can be hidden (minimized) with hotkey H

- CTRL+click on an Input Socket gives a popup with default values.

- Changing Material/Texture or Mix node will adjust Node title.

- Click-drag outside of a Node changes cursor to "Knife' and allows to
  draw a rect where to cut Links.

- Added new node types RGBtoBW, Texture, In/Output, ColorRamp

- Material Nodes have options to ouput diffuse or specular, or to use
  a negative normal. The input socket 'Normal' will force the material
  to use that normal, otherwise it uses the normal from the Material
  that has the node tree.

- When drawing a link between two not-matching sockets, Blender inserts
  a converting node (now only for value/rgb combos)

- When drawing a link to an input socket that's already in use, the
  old link will either disappear or flip to another unused socket.

- A click on a Material Node will activate it, and show all its settings
  in the Material Buttons. Active Material Nodes draw the material icon
  in red.

- A click on any node will show its options in the Node Panel in the
  Material buttons.

- Multiple Output Nodes can be used, to sample contents of a tree, but
  only one Output is the real one, which is indicated in a different
  color and red material icon.

- Added ThemeColors for node types

- ALT+C will convert existing Material-Layers to Node... this currently
  only adds the material/mix nodes and connects them. Dunno if this is
  worth a lot of coding work to make perfect?

- Press C to call another "Solve order", which will show all possible
  cyclic conflicts (if there are).

- Technical: nodes now use "Type" structs which define the
  structure of nodes and in/output sockets. The Type structs store all
  fixed info, callbacks, and allow to reconstruct saved Nodes to match
  what is required by Blender.

- Defining (new) nodes now is as simple as filling in a fixed
  Type struct, plus code some callbacks. A doc will be made!

- Node preview images are by default float

********* Icon drawing:

- Cleanup of how old icons were implemented in new system, making
  them 16x16 too, correctly centered *and* scaled.

- Made drawing Icons use float coordinates

- Moved BIF_calcpreview_image() into interface_icons.c, renamed it
  icon_from_image(). Removed a lot of unneeded Imbuf magic here! :)

- Skipped scaling and imbuf copying when icons are OK size


********* Preview render:

- Huge cleanup of code....

- renaming BIF_xxx calls that only were used internally

- BIF_previewrender() now accepts an argument for rendering method,
  so it supports icons, buttonwindow previewrender and node editor

- Only a single BIF_preview_changed() call now exists, supporting all
  signals as needed for buttos and node editor


********* More stuff:

- glutil.c, glaDrawPixelsSafe() and glaDrawPixelsTex() now accept format
  argument for GL_FLOAT rects

- Made the ColorBand become a built-in button for interface.c
  Was a load of cleanup work in buttons_shading.c...

- removed a load of unneeded glBlendFunc() calls

- Fixed bug in calculating text length for buttons (ancient!)
2005-12-28 15:42:51 +00:00
ce52827a05 Orange; daily noodler update commit.
- Adding execution code for Node trees. Was a bit a puzzle, since I want
  it to be multithreading by design. This now is solved by defining a
  stack per tree for all data that's being written into. This stack, which
  resides now in the NodeTree itself, then can be allocated per thread.

- For testing pleasure, I've added a 'mix node' and a 'show node', so
  you can already see it do something. :)

- reshuffled structure, to put things nice together, and have easier node
  adding. Current state is still WIP though, structure might change.
  For the record; new file node_shaders.c will contain all shader node
  definitions, apart from the drawing callbacks.

Next: I'm going to check on Andrea's work on icons now, since this is very
much needed for true shader/composit work.
Now back to release work...
2005-12-21 14:24:51 +00:00
b33c68c906 Orange: daily commit of continuing work on noodle editor.
- delete/duplicate with connection links
- type awareness for sockets
- make connections checks for max amount of possible connections
- added dependency sorting of node list
- cyclic connections are drawn red now, press Ckey to see the other bad
  cycles.
- added UI toolkit support in nodes (try shift+a)

So, almost ready for execution code. :)
2005-12-20 15:43:55 +00:00
be0b59ea6d Orange; update commit on WIP project for Noodle editing. :)
- Grabbing works (Gkey) or tweak (LMB) or use RMB click-drag for grab
- Shift+d works
- Akey: select all
- Drawing links works too now!
2005-12-18 23:08:22 +00:00
e14ff3de3d Orange:
- Sunday merger with bf-blender

- Foundations for new Node editor in Blender, generic framework that can
  be used for Material/Texture, Compositing, Logic or maybe even Sequencer.
  Note: this doesn't do anything yet, nor save! Is just to get this nice
  in CVS now. :)
2005-12-18 13:46:01 +00:00