- use NULL rather then 0 where possible (makes code & function calls more readable IMHO).
- set static variables and functions (exposed some unused vars/funcs).
- use func(void) rather then func() for definitions.
The changes here were breaking old rigs, for example the right eyeball
in the Sintel rig (which uses the Mirror Modifier and its vertex-group
mirroring functionality)
* Particle duplis are now always created with render percentage if G.rendering is set.
* This is not yet a perfect solution (hair for example won't yet work correctly), but
it's good to have even partial functionality here until a proper way to handle this
is implemented.
* Greetings from farsthary: particle rotation is now taken into account for particle effector direction.
** This gives all kinds of new possibilities as he shows in his blog http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/vortex-particle-simple-tut/.
**The only modification I made to his patch was to use the actual rotated particle direction as the effector direction as this defaults to the particle velocity vector, so no actual new options are needed.
* I also added an "effector amount" setting for particle effectors so that only a part of the particles can be considered as effectors. This makes it possible to create simple "farsthary vortexes" with only one particle system.
* Also some tiny reorganization of the falloff min/max values for a nicer ui.
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Removed limitation of armatured-only objects for sculpting -- now all
deformation modifiers are allowed in sculpt mode. Use crazyspace corrections
like from transformation modules was used to support all deformation modifiers.
Internal change: all crazyspace-related functions were noved to crazyspace.c
P.S. Brush could make quite unexpected deformation for meshes which are
deformed in specified way. Got patch for this and discussing with Brecht
if it's really needed or maybe it could be done in better way.
- modifier code was using sizeof() without knowing the sizeof the array when clearing the modifier type array.
- use BLI_snprintf rather then sprintf where the size of the string is known.
- particle drawing code kept a reference to stack float values (not a problem at the moment but would crash if accessed later).
* Effecting particle properties with textures was possible in 2.49,
but not in 2.5 anymore.
* Now particles have their own textures (available in texture panel
for objects with particle systems), which are totally separate from
the material textures.
* Currently a basic set of particle properties is available for
texture control. Some others could still be added, but the whole
system is not intended as an "change anything with a texture" as
this kind of functionality will be provided with node particles in
the future much better.
* Combined with the previously added "particle texture coordinates"
this new functionality also solves the problem of animating particle
properties through the particle lifetime nicely.
* Currently the textures only use the intensity of the texture in
"multiply" blending mode, so in order for the textures to effect
a particle parameter there has to be a non-zero value defined for
the parameter in the particle settings. Other blend modes can be
added later if they're considered useful enough.
* External caches didn't load for smoke straight away. Smoke caches store all necessary info in every file, so no need to try to look for an info file.
tested that correcting invalid meshes works by generating random meshes and checking that only the first call to mesh.validate() makes changes.
found 2 bugs in mesh validation.
- face sorting array wasn't assigned correct indices.
- removing invalid edges used wrong comparison.
- Tidying up some inconsistent formatting
- Names of old IPO blocks are now included in the names used for new
actions. These are included after a "CDA:" prefix, (i.e. "_C_onverted
_D_ata _A_ction:"), which makes it easier to browse through these
actions later.
-> 2.50
Actionified ShapeKey IPO-blocks (i.e. "Shape Key Actions") would have
an action channel with the hardcoded name, "Shape", and this action
would be assigned to Object level (although ShapeKey blocks had their
own IPO-block slot, only Objects could have actions, so actionifying
ShapeKey IPO-blocks would wrap a ShapeKey block's IPO's to an Object-
level action).
Hence, the path conversions code would wrongly interpret this action
channel as referring to a Pose Channel instead, thus creating some
invalid paths with a 'pose.bones["Shape"]' prefix wrongly getting
tacked on. To ensure that the converted animation can work out of the
box, a 'data.shape_keys' prefix is now used instead so that these
actions can still be Object-rooted while still being able to correctly
control the Shape Keys. This is because there's no easy way to
identify and then shift such action from Object-level to ShapeKey-
level within the conversion code. The consequence though is that such
converted ShapeKey actions CAN ONLY BE USED THROUGH OBJECT LEVEL (i.e.
via Action NOT ShapeKey editor).
Secondly, the Action/ShapeKey editor version patching code has been
modified so that if a ShapeKey editor view was active when loading an
old 2.4x file, the action gets cleared from the view. This is because
of this didn't make semantic sense: the ShapeKey editor is for
ShapeKey-rooted actions, while the Action Editor is for Object-rooted
actions. The converted files though let Object-level actions be shown
in either one.
mode with drivers
ChildOf constraints added using the PoseBone.constraints.new() method
via Python scripts instead of using the operator (this latter method
is still the preferred/recommended method) were not getting some
critical flags set, causing errors arising from space conversions
being performed more than once.
- negative ray casts would invert the offset direction.
this meant if positive and negative were enabled at once and the mesh was slightly inside & outside the object it wrapped,
the offset would be applied in opposite directions.
This way the offset is always along the vertex normal.
- allow negative offset from RNA, could be useful and no benefit to disable.
When using masks or other simple 3D elements in composites, doing
a layer re-rendering on a node is a bit clumsy all the time.
This commit does two things to help:
- new hotkey "Z" in node editor automatically finds render layer
that changed and re-renders it + composites
- option "Auto Render" does same, but then after every transform
edit in 3D window
The latter is experimental; real & proper system for this requires
full threaded render support (like previews). But it works!
Demo file:
http://download.blender.org/demo/test/auto_composite.blend
Important fix:
After any render, all the render layers were tagged "changed", which
caused any edit to first totally recomposte everthing. Now it only
composites changes.
Implementation notes
- DAG scene flush now sets 'changed' flags in render layer nodes
- Added notifier for 'transform finished' to trigger the update,
this is temporarily.
Drivers for Scene, World, and Compositing Nodes now "work" (well,
sort-of)! Previously they were strictly restricted to object-
accessible data only; now they can function across the board (give or
take some weak spots).
Although there is still no depsgraph support so that these properties
update properly when their source controls are changed (this will
probably require a lot more work), they can still update under other
circumstances (i.e. frame change and/or manual refresh flushing via
mouse movement, etc.)
As the depsgraph tagging support is lacking, these just get always
executed for now, which might potentially be quite sluggish, though it
is hoped that there are so few of these top-level datablocks with
drivers hooked up that this is barely an issue in practice. At least I
haven't noticed any substantial slowdowns for animation playback, so
it should probably be fine.
* There were a lot of settings in the particle panels that made no sense for simple hair and only cluttered up the ui.
* Now these settings are hidden by default unless "advanced" hair options are shown.
* Without advanced options the particle velocity controls are replaced by a simple "hair length" value, which actually corresponds to the grown hair length in blender units.
* Some hair effector options that are actually very useful were not shown in ui. These are now found in the "field weights" panel.
Probably wouldn't cause a problem but manually editing these types through python could easily crash blender.
also changed cmake, stub-makefile default build dir to be lower case and leave out architecture string, easier for documentation.
Use ../build/linux/ rather then ../build/Linux_i686/