Added a new script - 'Dump All Images to Path'
This script copies all the images used by 1 blend to a spesified path and references the new images from Blender
Usefull for moving projects between computers or when you reference many images. naming collisions and multiple images using the same image path are delt with properly only creating new image names when needed.
Blender images will reference the newly copied files - So be mindfull when you save your blend after running the script.
Notes, images with the path "Untitled will be ignored"
Image path collisions are managed by enumerating the path names so images will never be overwritten at the target path.
an error in Scene.c - scn.Layers disallowd all layer bits to be set.
made image_billboard.py rotate all images to be verticle for more efficient packing, added the option not to pack resulting images into 1.
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Render Billboard Script
This can texture a simple billboard mesh from any number of selected objects.
Renders objects in the selection to quad faces on the active mesh.
Usage
* Light your model or enable the shadless flag so it is visible
* Make a low poly mesh out of quads with 90d corners. (this will be you billboard mesh)
* Select the model and any lamps that light it
* Select the billboard mesh so that it is active
* Run this script, Adjust settings such as image size or oversampling.
* Select a place to save the PNG image.
* Once the script has finished running return to the 3d view by pressing Shift+F5
* To see the newly applied textures change the drawtype to 'Textured Solid'
uv_archimap still had python based line intersect
added plane2matrix function to BPyMathutils
added an optional arg to imageFromObjectsOrtho - camera_matrix
camera_matrix can be used to define a plane in 3d space where X and Y scale is used to set the width and height of the area to render.
Added Mesh .key .removeAllKeys() and .insertKey() for MDD support (was using NMesh just for keys before)
Since this is aparently an experemental feature in NMesh we may want to change this.
BPyRender.imageFromObjectsOrtho() returns an image
Made all image bake scripts ask before overwriting a file. as well as displaying the newly created image once its rendered.
import_obj - comments, docstring additions, cleanup.
OBJ export: -renamed export_obj
faster edge exporting (use edges LOOSE flag rather then finding zero face user edges)
check for file before overwriting
use object iterators
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/ScriptDev/Guidelines
* Recursive search was enabled by default, if your OBJ happened to be at root path, loading the OBJ could take ages. Made recursive searching optional.
* MAX's MTL exporter replaces spaces with underscores, image loading checks for this and loads the name with spaces if the one with underscores dosnt exist. not realy a problem with the importer but annoying to manually replace lots of images.
exactly the same as mesh_create_derived_render(ob) except it uses the view modifier settings.
Added an optional arg to getFromObject to 'render' so you can choose to get the mesh displayed in the 3d view or generate one with render settings.
Solved bug 4612 getFromObject now works with soft body meshes (error was caused by getting the derived mesh from a copy of the object)
removed workaround for softbody bug in object_apply_def.py
The original obj importer was ok but it gradually got slower
as it had to support quirks of rare files.
This importer supports these quirks without bad workarounds and ~250 less lines.
* Moved from NMesh to Mesh
* Import smooth groups as hard edges
* Import Lines from sketchup (Thanks Wavk)
* Uses less memory
* faster (On a 70meg poser test model, benchmarked from 130sec to 41.2sec)
Not yet supported from the old importer-
* Scaling down to a bounding area
* Importing multiple obj's at once
* Using existing materials in the .blend
* Importing as a group instance.
also make use of meshes faces.extend() indexList option- which means lots of checking can be removed.
indexList is not relyable at the moment so some files wont import but this will be fixed.
