Now the rna path to nodes happens via the node name, which is ensured to be unique via RNA.
As part of this, the node->username string has been removed, upon renaming the node itself it takes care of making sure it's unique (like bones, constraints, etc). There's currently no interactive rename tool, but you can do it via the datablocks editor.
- plus a few notifier tweaks, using the newer NC_NODE notifier to refresh graph editor etc.
* Convert all code to use new functions.
* Branch maintainers may want to skip this commit, and run this
conversion script instead, if they use a lot of math functions
in new code:
http://www.pasteall.org/9052/python
this way the UI scripts are less likely to fail silently and wont let typos work ok.
also allow subclassing of the context, added a copy function,
bpy.context.copy(), returns the context as a python dict to be modified and used in python.
This also showed up an invalid brush member in the screen context.
Still a few quirks, including redraw issues on multilayer image input nodes, but it's pretty much there.
Would also be good to wrap the input/output sockets, too, will check on it.
This fixes bug [#19740] INPUT NODE: Cannot load images / motion pictures
* Fixed the handling of the 'draw_active' flag for drawing of armatures. This is now cleared from bones in old files (so one bone always got represented as active in the viewport even when others were selected), and the flag is correctly set temporarily when drawing the bones (only one place had been done).
* Fixed typo with SplineIK that was making the root bone of the bone chains always be ignored. Similar functionality can come back at some point, but in a more useful form.
* Shortened the UI names for the F-Curve colouring modes to increase readability. The old ones were too long to be able to distinguish between entries in the UI.
- rna vars arm.bones.active & rna.edit_bones.active
- needed special undo support.
- readfile.c loads.
- duplicate and copy_armature support.
- keep the draw flag, renamed to BONE_DRAW_ACTIVE, only use for openGL drawing.
Note: it may be better to allow active/unselected as with objects.
* Draw/Inflate/Layer now keep working on the original mesh coordinates and
normals from when the stroke started. This helps avoid the mesh blowing
up, but can still be better. The old behavior is still available as
"Accumulate" in the UI.
* This requires some more memory usage for the BVH, would like to find a
way to avoid that.
* Smooth falloff is now the default.
* Spacing is now enabled by default, with a value of 7.5.
* Anchored now stores normals per node to save some memory.
* #19819: 'Select' operator for Hooks was crashing when Hooks didn't have any vertices assigned yet
* Default twist resolution mode for curves is now 'Minimise'. This seems to work better for Curve Deforms and other purposes. Can be changed if other ways are better after some more testing.
* Spline IK now has more options for controlling how the x and z axis scaling is determined. There is now a choice between using the radius of the curve, the x+z scaling from the bones, or no scaling (default). This does break old files a bit, but this is to have a more stable base for later.
* Smooth: vert-face map is now only created when this tool is used, would be
best to also avoid using it here to avoid a sudden increase in memory, but
is not trivial.
* Grab: now no longer uses active verts list and loops over nodes like other
tools.
* Layer: uses original coordinates from undo now to save memory when not
using persistent layer.
* Anchored: this option works again now, though is still quite slow as it
loops over all verts/faces.
Smooth, layer tools and the anchored option could still be improved to use
less memory and/or work faster by only doing things per node.
that it is able to store changes in the mesh more compact than global undo.
It doesn't integrate well with multires yet, will tackle that when I start
looking into multires, for now still focusing on sculpt on regular meshes.
The weak point now is the thread-safe atomic access to normals from multiple
threads, did not seem to be a bottleneck in my tests but I don't really trust
it to be fast.
Recoded the way that Spline-IK computes the x+z axes of the bones so that flipping artifacts are minimised, and the rotation of individual bones can be used to affect the results of the solution, as per requests from Cessen.
The bone matrices are now computed normally, and then made to conform to the orientation + scaling imposed by the splines, using the Damped-Track method. Previously, the axes of the bones were calculated without regarding the prior orientation of other bones in the chain, which lead to "z-twists".
Notes for further investigation:
- There appears to be some shearing that gets introduced now. Unforunately, I can't seem to isolate the cause of this, but I hope it's not going to become too much of a problem in general.
- Maybe inverse corrections for rotation will now be necessary when using transform tools?
Non-ID pointers in DNA can only point to data from own ID block, so
now instead it uses an index into the particle system list, but still
exposed as a pointer through RNA.
* Sculpting, normal update and bounding box code is now multithreaded
using OpenMP.
* Fix a number of update issues: normals on node boundaries, outdated
bounding boxes, partial redraw, .. . There's probably still a few
left, but should be better now.
* Clicking once now does a single paint instead of two (was also
painting on mouse up event).
* Smooth shading now is enabled for the full mesh when the first face
uses it (so it can be tested at least).
Implementation Notes:
* PBVH search can now be done either using a callback or bt gathering the
nodes in an array. The latter makes multithreading with OpenMP easier.
* Normals update code is now inside PBVH, was doing it per node before but
should do all faces first and only then vertices.
* Instead of using search modes + 1 modified flag, now nodes get 4 flags
to indicate what needs to be updated for them, found that this makes it
easier for me to understand the code and fix update bugs.
* PBVHNode is now exposed as an abstract type, I think this makes it more
clear what is happening than having it's data passed as part of callback
functions.
* Active_verts list was replaced by looping over nodes and the vertices
inside them. However the grab brush still uses the active_verts system,
will fix that later.
* Some micro-optimizations, like avoiding a few multiplications/divisions,
using local variables instead of pointers, or looping over fewer vertices
to update the bounding boxes.
1) "Even Divisions" - This option ignores the length of bones when considering how they should fit along the curve. This is useful for getting a smoother curve fit without having to worry about getting the bone lengths spot on. By default, this is disabled.
2) "Keep Max Length" - This option prevents the bone chain from extending past its natural length when the spline is stretched beyond that length. When the spline length is substatially shorter though, this bones get scaled to zero; making this option possibly useful for doing "growing tips".
This is essentially a 'no scale' option, although the behaviour when the curve is shorter is really a compromise since the curve cannot be accurately satisfied + left intact without some scaling being applied due to the way this works.
3) "Radius to Thickness" - The average radius of the spline between at the head+tail of each bone determines the x+z scaling of the bone.
* Fixed crash when reloading a file with Spline IK and/or Damped Track constraints. The targets for these constraints weren't getting relinked.
* Fixed problems with removing Spline IK making some bones unable to be manipulated.
* Jotted down some comments in the Spline IK code noting places where additional tweaks will be added.
For now, this just assumes that the 'lens' parameter was animated (assuming a perspective lens was used). Unfortunately, this may not always be correct, but at least there's a path now that can lead to further tweaking.
At last, this commit introduces the Spline IK Constraint to Blender. Spline IK is a constraint that makes n bones follow the shape of a specified curve.
Simply add a chain of bones, add a curve, add a Spline IK Constraint to the tip bone and set the number of bones in the chain to make it work. Or, try the following test file:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/250_splineik_spine01.blend
Screenshots of this in action (as proof):
http://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/b250_splineik_001_before.pnghttp://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/b250_splineik_001_after.png
I've implemented this in a similar way to how standard IK solvers are done. However, this code is currently not an IK plugin, since I imagine that it would be useful to be able to combine the 2 types of IK. This can be easily changed though :)
Finally, a few notes on what to expect still:
* Constraint blending currently doesn't affect this. Getting that to work correctly will take a bit more work still.
* Options for not affecting the root joint (to make it easier to attach the chain to a stump or whatever), and non-uniform scaling options have yet to be added. I've marked the places where they can be added though
* Control over the twisting of the chain still needs investigation.
Have fun!
2.4x) from within Freestyle. Now Freestyle configuration parameters
are edited without relying on the notion of the current scene. This
resolved a few related issues as described below:
- A bug in Freestyle configuration management with respect to
multiple scenes was fixed. Now Freestyle configuration parameters
(e.g., style modules, ridges/valleys, suggestive contours) can be
specified for each render layer of each scene. Composition of
multiple render layers from different scenes should work as expected.
- A crash after undoing was fixed as well.
* Removed unused external Freestyle functions and global variables
from FRS_freestyle.h and FRS_freestyle.cpp.
Limitations:
1) Parents and children of selected objects are excluded from the pool (siblings are ok) Making it work with that would required unparenting and reparenting after transform, that would turn nasty really quick.
2) Does not support Connected (this could be done through parent links, but see 3 first).
3) Parent relationships in affected objects aren't taken into account. When parent and children in the area of effect, remember that the children will also take the motion of the parents (with additive results). This could perhaps be fixed, but it could be nasty.
Other stuff:
New BASE_EDITABLE macro that checks if base is editable (like TESTBASELIB except it doesn't check for selection)
Add scene parameter to TESTBASELIB_BGMODE macro (using it from current scope is nasty)
