The camera actuator only allows to look the object from its front face.
Given that Blender takes -Y as the default forward orientation, the current
functionality doesn't let a camera to track an actor from behind.
This patch allows for -X and -Y axis tracking. This way a camera over the
shoulders of a character is possible (without resorting to rotate the
mesh/armature original orientation.
- patch reviewed by Campbell Barton, thanks
Instead of generally hiding all unused sockets in collapsed mode, the sockets now have a new explicit flag SOCK_AUTO_HIDDEN, which is only toggled when the hide_toggle operator is called. This way the auto-hidden sockets stay as they are when nodes are duplicated etc. The new flag is necessary to distinguish between manually hidden sockets (via hide_sockets_toggle operator) and automatically hidden sockets and restore the node state when unhiding a node.
comparing bmesh to trunk, mesh_calc_normals() in bmesh is a much more comprehensive function, calculating mpoly,mface normals, where trunk only calculated vertex normals.
renamed:
* mesh_calc_normals() --> mesh_calc_normals_mapping_ex
* mesh_calc_tessface_normals --> mesh_calc_normals_tessface() - only calculates normals from tessface
* added mesh_calc_normals() - only calculates normals from poltys
this way we can have mesh_calc_normals() remain fast for parts of the code which only need vertex normals to be updated.
only refactor, no func changes- didnt replace mesh_calc_normals_mapping_ex() with mesh_calc_normals() anywhere yet.
Interface:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=23785
Simple test file:
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/10616
(I'll commit this to the text suite later)
Code Explanation:
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(1) it adds a toggle to add/remove a "Text" gameproperty.
- internally this property is just another game property (so we can find it within the game.properties lookup).
- the property itself has no 'value', the interface shows the content of ob.data.body instead (why? because gameproperties are per object, while the text is per data).
(2) at BGE converter time it sets the current value of the object.data.body to the ["Text"] property.
(3) if you change object.text (bge text property) it automatically convert ["Text"] to a CStringValue.
*** that means if the original property was a CIntegerValue, it will be converted to CStringValue forever ***
* the only to do I can think of is to add a warning at doversion time if user has ["Text"] property for a Font object *
* when that happens we print a warning in console/popup.*
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This was a test drive to see how painful the merge will be.
Next batches are:
- use desktop option for fullscreen
- multisampling option
- bullet collision mask
- python
- storage (vbo, dl, ...)
- lighting
[lighting still needs review]
[python could use review, although it should be straightforward]
[storage should be tested more I think]
Merged /branches/soc-2011-cucumber:r
36991,37059,37157,37416,37497-37499,37501,37522,39036,40593
36991:
==UI==
* Made some options available in Blender Game that were only available in Blender Render (camera resolution, animation fps)
* Created a panel for the embedded player
* Renamed the FPS option for the standalone player to Refresh Rate
* Moved framing options to display
* Made a button to launch the blender player from within blender (only tested on windows for now)
37059:
==UI==
* Added the option to change the exit key for the BGE. The UI currently just sets a number, and this feature most likely does not work for blenderplayer yet. More work on this to come.
* Removed the physics settings from the scene panel for the BGE.
* Added an Add menu in the logic brick header.
37157:
Making the bake options available in Blender Game
37416:
Making the exit key UI element accept key presses instead of numbers. It still does not work for the Blenderplayer, and it does not limit the input to key presses (other events don't work for exiting)
37497:
Some more work on getting the exit key to work in the Blenderplayer.
Input is now restricted to keyboard events only for the exit key UI.
37498:
Some clean up from the last commit.
The exit key setting affects the Blenderplayer now.
37499:
Cleaning up some duplicate code. Now the reverseTranslateTable for converting blender key codes to ketsji key codes is only defined in BL_BlenderDataConverter.
37501:
Centralizing the exit key methods to the keyboard devices. This should make it easier to get exit key control to the python API.
[37517: committed previously]
37522:
Moved control of the exit key away from the keyboard devices, and moved it to ketsjiengine.
Added setExitKey and getExitKey to the python API
39036:
A couple of the doversions were in the wrong spot. This should fix some issues with the exit key not being set.
[not committed entirely, see below]]
40552: space_logic.py (* fixed an error in space_logic.py *)
40593:
launch blenderplayer from ui not working in OSX fix - by Daniel Stokes and me
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code left behind (to be included in next commit):
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{
/* Initialize default values for collision masks */
Object *ob;
for(ob=main->object.first; ob; ob=ob->id.next)
ob->col_group = ob->col_mask = 1;
}
Added slider to define scale of object solution which is used to define
"depth" of object relative to camera position. This slider effects on all
"users" of object solution such as bundles display, constrained objects and so.
Added new operator called "Set Solution Scale" to set real scale for object
solution based on real distance between two bundles reconstructed for this object.
New slider and operator can be found on "Object" panel in toolbox when in
reconstruction mode and active tracking object isn't a camera.
The hiding code uses the SOCK_IN_USE flags already present. These were only temporarily set by the shader node code for determining needed texture coordinate types. Now they are used persistently and updated along with the sock->link pointers.
Made Object Solver operator parent object to scene's camera. Behavior is pretty much
familiar to Child Of constraint -- it stores inverted transformation matrix which gives
constant offset in parent's space.
Current files would open incorrect, to make object aligned well again, just press
"Set Inverse" button in Object Solver constraint.
Fixed orientation operators so now they should work in all cases.
Also changed behavior of Set Origin operator which now sets origin to the median
point of all selected tracks/
use more api functions more (some vertex group editing functions were copied about), also make some functions int oapi calls.
- remove defgroup_find_index(), use BLI_findlink instead since they both work the same way.
- move static function getNearestPointOnPlane() to BLI_math api function closest_to_plane_v3()
- ED_vgroup_give_parray() added option to return an array where unselected verts are NULL (simplifies code & works for lattice when it didn't before).
- more consistant error checking of ob->actdef.
