* interactive console python console.
* display reports and filter types. defaults to operator display so you can see the python commands for tools as you use them,
eventually it should be possible to select commands and make macto/tools from them.
Example use of autocomp. b<tab>, bpy.<tab>, bpy.<tab>, bpy.data.<tab> etc.
basic instructions are printed when opening the console.
Details...
* Console exec and autocomp are done with operators written in python.
* added CTX_wm_reports() to get the global report list.
* The window manager had a report ListBase but reports have their own struct, switched to allocate and assign when initializing the WM since the type is not available in DNA.
* changed report types flags for easier display filtering.
* added report type RPT_OPERATOR
* logging operators also adds a python-syntax report into CTX_wm_reports() so they can be displayed in the console as well as calling a notifier for console to redraw.
* RnaAPI context.area.tag_redraw() to redraw the current area from a python operator.
Todo...
* better interactions with the console, scrolling, copy/paste.
* the text displayed doesnt load back.
* colors need to be themed.
* scroll limit needs to be a user pref.
* only tested with cmake and scons.
* Wave modifier speed 0.5 -> 0.25.
* Particles even and random distribution on.
* Particles normal velocity 0.0 -> 1.0.
* Particles size 1.0 -> 0.05.
* Particles draw emitter and material color on.
* Field strength 0.0 -> 1.0
* Object drawing without material was not consistent
with default material.
* Panel title 13 -> 12 points.
* Some changes to make lamp and world textures editing work.
You may have to click on another texture slot once before
being able to add a texture, and the layout is messy. Added
this so lightenv project isn't blocked by this being missing.
* Adding a new material slot now doesn't create a new material
anymore, to avoid creating unused materials.
* Tiny changes to scene/object buttons.
* UI layout for scene buttons has quite some changes, I tried to
better organize things according to the pipeline, and also showing
important properties by default, and collapsing less important ones.
Some changes compared to 2.4x:
* Panorama is now a Camera property.
* Sequence and Compositing are now enabled by default, but will only
do something when there is a node tree using nodes, or a strip in the
sequence editor.
* Enabling Full Sample now automatically enables Save Buffers too.
* Stamp option to include info in file is removed, it now simply always
does this if one of the stamp infos is enabled.
* Xvid, H.264 and Ogg Theora are now directly in the file format menu,
but still using FFMPEG. Unfortunately Ogg is broken at the moment
(also in 2.4x), so that's disabled. And Xvid crashes on 64bit linux,
maybe solvable by upgrading extern/xvidcore/, using ubuntu libs makes
it work.
* Organized file format menu by image/movie types.
Added:
* Render layers RNA wrapped, operatorized, layouted.
* FFMPEG format/codec options are now working.
Defaults changed:
* Compositing & Sequencer enabled.
* Tiles set to 8x8.
* Time/Date/Frame/Scene/Camera/Filename enabled for stamp.
* Objects now support up to 32767 material slots. It's easy to
increase this further, but I prefer not to increase the memory
usage of mesh faces, it seems unlikely that someone would
create 32767 distinct materials?
* Forward compatibility: the only thing you can potentially lose
reading a 2.5 file in 2.4 is object linking (instead of default
data), though usually that will go fine too. Reading files with
> 32 material slots in 2.4 can start giving issues.
* The ob->colbits variable is deprecated by the array ob->matbits
but I didn't remove the ob->colbits updates in very few places
it is set.
* I hope I changed all the relevant things, various places just
hardcoded the number 16 instead of using the MAXMAT define.
* Join Objects operator back. This is using the version from the
animsys2 branch coded by Joshua, which means it now supports
joining of shape keys.
* Fix for crash reading file saved during render.
- Keyed targets in one list instead of "chaining", this opens up many more possibilities than before and is much less obscure.
- Better keyed timing possibilities (time & duration in frames).
- Looping over keyed targets list.
Other changes:
- New child setting "length" with threshold (great for guard & underfur with a single particle system)
- Modularization of path interpolation code.
- Cleared "animateable" flags from many particle settings that shouldn't be animateable.
Fixes:
- Keyed particles weren't copied properly (ancient bug).
- Hair rotations depended on global z-axis for root rotation so downward facing strands could flip rotation randomly. Now initial hair rotation is derived from face dependent hair matrix. (This caused for example ugly flipping of child strands on some cases).
- Children from faces weren't calculated straight after activating them.
- Multiple disk cache fixes:
* Disk cache didn't work correctly with frame steps.
* Conversion from memory cache to disk cache didn't work with cloth.
* Disk cache crashed on some frames trying to close an already closed cache file.
* Trails didn't work with disk cached particles.
- Child rough effects were effected by emitter object loc/rot making them next to useless with animation, why didn't anybody tell me this!!
- Lots of random code cleanup.
* Fixed crash when anim-playback is running and a strip beside a transition gets transformed.
Transition strips no-longer assume that their neighbours are action-clips, using the standard NLA-strip evaluation function instead to evaluate their neighbours. However, a check for ping-pong recursion needed to be added there, so that a transition beside a meta-strip, with the meta having a transition nested at the start of one of its levels, wouldn't fail with stack overflow.
* Moved 'Tweak Mode' menu entry to Edit menu, since it's not really that modal.
In order to be able to better identify NLA Strips (and to reduce the complexity of the text on them), I've implemented a name property for the strips. The names are made to be unique within the AnimData block the strip comes from, though this may not always happen if not enough relevant context info is present to validate this.
Render usability:
- Option back to render to imagewindow, or fullscreen.
The latter is default. Setting is stored in Scene.
- Added button in output panel, the option "to new window" will follow!
- F11 again toggles render view
(moved MS Windows "full screen" to shift+F11 for now)
* Renamed the 'blend' blending mode to 'replace', since that's what it usually does
* Drawing a darkened rect behind the keyframes shown in the action line
--
* Fixed typo made last night which broke compiling
* Consolidated all the keyframe-shape drawing code to use a single codebase. Even if we don't ultimately go with OpenGL keyframes, there's always a tidy option for that now.
Monthly cleaning round to make it compile warning free.
Mostly it was const stuff (strings, Context), but also
a couple useful fixes, like wrong use of temp pointers.
Only Mathutils callback struct I left alone... design issue.
* Rename BIF_transform/retopo.h to ED_transform/retopo.h
for consistency.
* Move MESH_OT_duplicate_add to editmesh_add.c.
* Remove some code from BIF_gl.h which is not needed there
anymore.
* Text labels on NLA-Strips should now draw properly for most short-strips now. Previously, the padding on the text was a bit too extreme, so for very short strips (less than 4 frames or so), the text was often pushed down into the bottom-right corner of view.
* Optimised the keyframe-highlighting code for buttons a bit. Replaced the custom linear-search with the binary-search used when inserting keyframes (and for the 3d-view keyframe-indicator). There should be some theoretical improvements due to this at least...
* These settings can now be edited + keyframed (using IKEY over the button only for now... other cases will fail)
* Reshuffled some of the keyframing code to make this sort of thing easier to do. Also, restored corrections for NLA-mapping when inserting/removing keyframes.
TODOS:
* animation editors don't show these keyframes yet
* the buttons don't change colour yet to reflect this state. How to do this efficiently?
* allow keyframing of these in more places
* more robust UI handling for this.
I think its something like:
old was: 4*nlogn + 3*(n*6)
new is: (2*nlogn + 3*(n*6)) * f, with f<1
Still missing changing the sorting function to an introsort instead of qsort
Other options like bucketing sort may be worth trying (for very large trees)
F-Modifiers now work on 'all' types of NLA Strip. To get them working on Meta-strips, F-Modifiers on the Meta strip must be applied on top of those for child strips. For now, this is done by joining the lists of modifiers, and evaluating the joined list.
Currently, Transitions don't work that great with F-Modifiers yet (only the endpoints get evaluated with the F-Modifiers). Solving this is for another time...
Previously, the quick-hack I coded for Meta-strips evaluation didn't really take into account the possibilities to use Meta-Strips as strips in their own right - i.e. reversed, muted, time-mapping-curves, influence-blending - were all unavailable.
This commit makes the aforementioned capabilities of other strips available for Meta-Strips too. The evaluation is now kind-of recursive (as with most of the other methods which take them into account) so that each 'level' of strips get evaluated correctly within their frame-of-reference.
TODO:
* F-Modifier support for Metas...
Strip-sorting code was buggy, as it was trying to access an invalid pointer, so the call to sort strips after transform was temporarily disabled in previous commits.
I needed this to make sure that BKE_copy_images works properly,
probably will be useful in future.
Using Check framework (http://check.sourceforge.net/doc/check.html/index.html).
WITH_BF_UNIT_TEST option builds 'alltest' program under [BUILDDIR]/bin,
which, when executed, runs unit tests, currently only 1.
Example output:
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Running suite(s): Image
0%: Checks: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0
tests/alltest.c:74:F:Core:test_copy_images:0: Expected //bar/image.png to be translated to /tmp/bar/image.png, got /tmp/bar/image.pn.
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Spent lots of time (a couple of days actually :) to figure out how to
link the test program with Blender libraries. As it turned out there
are circular dependencies among Blender libraries. GCC by default
doesn't expect circular dependencies - dependant libs should precede
libs they depend on.
The magical --start-group linker option helped to solve this
(http://stephane.carrez.free.fr/doc/ld_2.html#IDX122).
Also:
- added bpy.util module. bpy.sys.* functions will move here later
- added bpy.util.copy_images that uses BKE_copy_images
- export_obj.py uses bpy.util.copy_images
* Chains of selected strips are now converted to meta-strips before transforms begin, and converted back afterwards. This simplifies the transform code needed in later stages...
* Transform-flushing code for Meta-Strips should now work. There seems to be a little bit of numeric inaccuracy problems somewhere, as two strips which met at the same frame can get separated when scaling.
* Meta-strips now draw with proper text identification
* Snapping strips now properly clears meta-strips if a moved strip needs to be moved into a new track to be accomodated.
* Fixed a filter used by a selection-operator.
* Split strip (YKEY) now plays nicely with Transitions and Metas. Meta strips get split up into their child strips, while transitions are ignored.
* Wrapped Meta_Strip->strips in RNA
* Bugfixes in Meta-strip API functions to silence some runtime-errors...
* Added several API functions for Meta-Strips editing. One of these (flush transform) still needs a few tweaks before it does its job well enough for all cases.
* Meta strips are now drawn with a purple-ish colour. The start/end points of the strips they encompass are shown with lines along the length of the strips, with lines starting from the top indicating start-points and lines starting from the bottom indicating end-points.
* Meta strips can be made (i.e. strips can be assigned to meta-strips) by selecting some strips and pressing Shift-G.
Meta strips can be removed by selecting some meta-strips and pressing Alt-G.
* Strips can now be 'snapped' to start from: the current frame, the nearest frame, the nearest second, or the nearest marker; using the Shift-S hotkey.
'Islands' of adjacent selected strips occurring in the same track are moved together as a single strip so that the start-point of the first strip is on the sepcified time, but all the relative lengths of strips stay the same. Internally, temporary meta-strips are created to facilitate this.
Refactored the backend code/API's to support 'meta' strips (i.e. strips containing other strips). These have been implemented to be nested to 'unlimited' depths (in terms of common usages that is, though there is a very remote chance of stack-overflow in theoretrical evil cases only that shouldn't ever be encountered in production).
This paves the way for implementing the necessary tweaks needed for the transform code (in addition to some cool user-level tricks)
* Baked normal particles can now use the "Path" visualization.
* Path "max length" & "abs length" are now history:
- New option to set path start & end times + random variation to length.
- Much more flexible (and calculated better) than previous options.
- This works with parents, children, hair & normal particles unlike old length option.
- Only known issue for now is that children from faces don't get calculated correctly when using path start time.
* New option "trails" for "halo", "line" and "billboard" visualizations:
- Draws user controllable number of particle instances along particles path backwards from current position.
- Works with children too for cool/weird visualizations that weren't possible before.
* Normal particle children's velocities are now approximated better when needed so that "line" visualization trails will look nice.
* New particle instance modifier options:
- "path"-option works better and has controllable (max)position along path (with random variation possible).
- "keep shape"-option for hair, keyed, or baked particles allows to place the instances to a single point (with random variation possible) along particle path.
- "axis" option to make rotation handling better (still not perfect, but will have to do for now).
Some fixes & cleanup done along the way:
* Random path length didn't work for non-child particles.
* Cached & unborn particles weren't reset to emit locations.
* Particle numbers weren't drawn in the correct place.
* Setting proper render & draw visualizations was lost somewhere when initializing new particle settings.
* Changing child mode wasn't working correctly.
* Some cleanup & modularization of particle child effector code and particle drawing & rendering code.
* Object & group visualizations didn't work.
* Child simplification didn't work.
* Fix crash in python with enum properties, and don't throw
error if no matching identifier is found. This shouldn't
happen, but it should break a python script either, which
is not at fault.
* Fix a wrong variable initialization in fluidsim.
* Lattices: properties editable, editmode operators, menus working
again. As a bonus you can now edit u/v/w in editmode.
* Shape Keys: some code cleanup, and added more buttons. The
value/min/max buttons don't work correct yet though.
* Fix issue with uv textures, vertex colors not being visible outside
editmode, and a few other issue. Mesh.edit_mesh is now NULL when
not in editmode.
Groups (the Action variety) can now be muted, and also be set to not be drawn in the Graph Editor. These settings get applied to all the F-Curves within the group, overriding any settings individual F-Curves might have, allowing users to quickly mute or hide groups of curves without having to go through clicking on all of them.
Also, added a flag that can be used to set the curve visiblity on AnimData level too. This will be enabled in a future commit.
The 'pin' icon beside the name of the active Action when tweaking some strip's action can be used to toggle between editing the Action's keyframes in 'mapped' time or in 'un-mapped' time.
* Made NLA Editing functions more aware of transitions.
- A transition can only be added between a pair of action-clips. Previous, two transitions could be added next to each other, which has undefined behaviour
- Deleting a strip with transition(s) on either side will remove the transitions too. Feedback welcome on this
- The 'type' setting for NLA-Strips is no longer editable. This was dangerous as it could result in transitions with undefined behaviour (though nothing would happen).
* Menus for adding F-Modifiers now only show relevant modifiers (i.e. 'Invalid' is not included in the list, and 'Cycles' doesn't need to be shown for NLA since we've got repeat)
* Function Generator and Noise F-Modifiers now have complete GUI's. A few settings were missed during the porting process.
* F-Modifier buttons now have their source-ID's included in the RNA Pointers used. This didn't get them animateable directly, but is a step closer.
All kinds of changes to get it ready for UI layouts. This means RNA
and operators should be working correct, but most buttons are still
not actually there yet.
* Added near empty soft body, fluid, field and collision panels,
tweaks to cloth panels.
* Fluid bake works, but without escape or showing any progress.
* Fluid/Softbody/Cloth/Collision can now be both added as modifiers
or in the physics panels.
* Missing: fields & soft body for particles.
* Missing: proper updating softbodies, guess this code still needs
updates after pointcache refactor?
More toolbar functionality for workflow review.
- Split the region in two parts, bottom has the Tool Properties, the
top part shows 2 panels, one for python defined tools, other for a
"tool shelf" which (later) will get saved in files.
- Added a full context driven framework for this toolbar, showing
the tools depending on 3D window 'mode'. Both python defined tools
as the shelf respect this. So - for example - you will see different
tools in editmode mesh, as in vertex paint mode, etc.
- First template for the python tools will be committed after this commit;
it has placeholder tools to just show/test functioning.
NOTE: if you had saved a layout that shows tools region, open/close it
once to get the new region created for properties.
TODO:
- Moving paint properties to tool settings
- Test a layout with horizontal toolbar (without properties)
- Bring back floating panels, and put tool-properties here. (as option)
* F-Modifier API is now in its own file in blenkernel
* Renamed and refactored these so that they're no dependent on F-Curves, since all they really used was the fcu->modifiers list
* Added missing license blocks to a few files
