Available in object mode (Object -> Join as Shapes), only works for meshes at
the present. Will merge all selected objects as shape keys on the active object,
if the vertex count is the same.
This does not keep references to the external objects like in some applications,
rather it's a quick way to update the shapes on the active object (perhaps after
importing new versions from external applications).
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Theeth/Snapping
The new widget isn't there yet, but the rest works, including:
Increment (gears) is now a snap mode
Ctrl click to toggle snap on or off (in transform and 3d view)
Shift+Ctrl click to select snap mode (3d view only)
Snap status (on/off) is persisted in tool settings, no need to always turn it back on when entering transform.
It's still possible to have something resembling the old system by editing the transform modal keymap to snap on on ctrl press and snap off on key release.
the RNA constraint api was checking the current context when getting the constraint driver path and renaming constraints.
this made scripts not work properly so changed this to search for the constraint pose channel user within the object (if the object its self is not the user).
* Displacement coordinates are now stored differently, as a grid per
face corner. This means there is duplication of coordinates, especially
at low subdivision levels, but the simpler implementation justifies it
I think.
* ToDo: conversion of existing multires files (2.4x or 2.5x), loading them
may even crash now.
* Editmode preservation/interpolation code also has not been updated yet.
* Multires now works on the CCGDerivedMesh grids instead of CDDerivedMesh,
which should be more memory efficient.
* There are still bad memory peaks (if you're using 32bit) when subdividing
or propagating displacements. Though at least there should be no huge
memory blocks allocated, which windows is now to have trouble with.
* Still found some weird spike artifacts at lower multires levels, some also
happening before this commit. Perhaps computation of tangents needs to be
tweaked more.
* Multires modifier now has viewport, sculpt and render levels. Also the
levels have been made consistent with subsurf, previously the same level
of subdivision was one less for multires.
* Both multires and subsurf modifier now can have their subdivision level
set to 0 for no subdivision.
* Fixed a few compile warnings for scons+mingw
* Driver variables are now added with the ID-type set to ID_OB (objects) by default since this is more convenient
* Removed ED_anim_dag_flush_update and ED_anim_object_flush_update. These
were wrapping DAG_* calls and were intended be used instead of them when
doing a DAG update from editors. That goes against the design in my opinion,
no matter who calls the DAG, that should update the editors correctly, so
any special checks in such functions for editors should be avoided.
* Driver RNA properties now do updates again, including DAG scene sorting,
text buttons no longer update as you type anymore, so this should be
safe I think.
* Remove scene.update() RNA function, all properties/functions should do this
automatically, if changing some property or calling a function/operator
does not do the correct update, that should be fixed.
Reshuffled the code a bit so that the parent-type gets set before the parent inverse matrices are calculated.
Thanks to Claas Eicke Kuhnen (cekuhnen) on Blender Artists for catching this.
- remove functions such as operator_int(), operator_enum(), operator_string
this mixed with keyword arguments in a way that made them hard to read.
Instead, have operator() always return properties rather then needing an argument.
- rename prop_pointer() --> prop_object(), pointer is more a C thing.
- missed item_enumR(), rename to prop_enum()
* Restored Center View to 3D Cursor. For now, I've mapped this to QKEY since all other nice combinations of CKEY have been taken now.
* Fixed bug introduced in commit last night where parenting lattice to armatures with deforms would no longer work.
Rather than applying the modifier to the object data, it will create a new shape
with the deformed vertices in there. Only mesh at the moment, other object
types on the todo.
Parenting an object to some deformer (i.e. Armature, Curve, Lattice) now adds a new modifier if the object is deformable.
The advantages of this over setting PAR_SKEL mode are:
- instead of a hidden 'virtual' modifier, the user has direct feedback about what sort of modifier is being applied to deform
- most of the time in 2.4, whenever a virtual modifier was added, users would inevitably end up clicking "Make Real" on it
Of course, it's still possible to get 'virtual' modifiers by setting the parent type using the menu-property, but this just makes general setup easier.
Now shares the same operators as the modifier buttons, works context-sensitive, and uses Python menu too.
* Cleanups/tweaks in 3D View vertex group menu
* Added missing menus, 'Transform' and 'Mirror'
- mirror menu seems to be resulting in some memory leaks with RNA_enum_items_add len: 160 038832F8
* Apply Rotation operator for Objects now takes into account the different rotation modes
* Added Ctrl-G hotkey back for displaying a menu showing the available Vertex Group operators
* Added descriptions for a few Vertex Group operators. The difference between "normalize" and "clean" isn't that obvious from just reading the code, so perhaps some attention to this is needed.
* Removing duplicate api functions
* Shuffled around newly added api functions to make the ordering more consistent
* Fixes for a few bugs in the api functions as I checked over them
* Replaced most of the #defines for flags and modes with enums
- renamed .add() to .new() for rna collection functions since they dont add an existing item.
- remove 'name' as an argument from the new driver target function, better to keep the api minimal and let scripters use the data api for editing values after.
- added some api functions to keep rna api from becoming a mess.
* Renamed "Keep Max Length" to "Y Scaling" which has the opposite meaning
* Improved the way that Y-Scaling off behaves. Most of the time, bones that do not fit on the curve are now "blended off" their default rotations instead of being scaled to zero.
* Added option to offset an entire chain by moving the root bone of the chain. This is named "Chain Offset"
Added a group example
C = bpy.context
ob = C.active_object
bpy.data.groups[0].objects.add(ob)
- add_to_group and rem_from_group now take optional scene and base flags and deal with updating the object & base flags
- operators that add objects to groups were setting ob->recalc= OB_RECALC_OB; looks like its not needed.
- previously add() ignored python args, now add and remove are called like any other FunctionRNA from python.
- made the pyrna api use tp_getset's for collestions active/add()/remove()
* 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
useful for python but in rare cases this also happens for users.
Active layer getting out of sync is an old bug but hard find when it happens.
This at least fixes segfaulting on adding objects.
* #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.
Depgraph update was commented out in undo system because of globals, restored this with new context/id-based depgraph
* Fix in UV editor UV menu
* Slightly nicer default names for adding forcefields with Add menu
- split into 2 operators: object.make_links_data() & object.make_links_scene since they are quite different.
- added reusable functions RNA_group_itemf & RNA_scene_itemf which can be used for any operator that takes ID data (easy to add more types Mesh, Text etc)
- DummyRNA_NULL_items for dynamic items so each operator need not define its own empty enum.
Matt Ebb
Martin Poirier
Campbell Barton
Joshua Leung
Brecht Van Lommel
William Reynish
Joseph Eagar