* Textures applied to halo materials showed influence option for normal particles. This was really confusing, and with the cleanup I revealed a couple of hidden features too!
** Particles actually allow for textures to change halo size and hardness, but my guess is that nobody knew since the names were wrong in the ui!
** I also added the option to change the "add" value with a texture, since it was just silly not to have it.
* Halo material properties are also a bit cleaner now.
* Particle age can now be used as the texture x-coordinate, and location in a particle trail as the y-coordinate.
* This finally enables particles in 2.5 to change their color (or any other texturable material property) by their age.
* In 2.4x this was accomplished with the "100 frames == particle age", but this was both non-intuitive and slow as the animation system had to be recalculated for every particle.
* Currently these are 2d coordinates (age/lifetime == x-coordinate, trail particle index/number of trail particles == y-coordinate), but other particle properties or possibly even a user definable property can be added as coordinates in the future.
* On the code side this uses the same coordinate definition number (for halo materials) as strand coordinates (for surface materials). This is also nice as they intuitively mean nearly the same thing, i.e. along strand or during particle life.
- loop over sequencer plugin and texture voxel paths.
- fix leak in python bpy.utils.blend_path() and use PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() to ensure correct paths with different encodings.
- operators to make paths absolute & relative now redraw the view.
[#24170] Camera inside volume error
[#24838] Light inside Volume material drops on it's walls - it may be double
Problem in a previous bugfix commit, reverted back, the original bug is still fixed too.
- pep8 script was giving an error on non utf8 scons source files.
- use PyList_SET_ITEM macro when list type is ensured.
- all mathutils types use subtypes to create new types when available.
- use defines MAT3_UNITY, MAT4_UNITY to initialize unit matrices.
This happened when removing vertex normal flipping in the render engine. But
actually the normal of the first face in the curve was flipped on rendering,
because it used a different vertex order than other places. Also removed the
hack that computes a face normal only from a triangle instead of a quad.
* documented and rewrote the render interface of the sequencer.
(now, the geometry / render_type / etc. settings are stored within a
seperate structure called SeqRenderData that is passed within the code.)
* that fixes
* cache problems, since the caching system didn't keep track of
proxy files vs. final renders.
* is a necessary step, to bring back frame blending in speed effect
(the SeqRenderData structure elements are already there)
* will make motion blur render options available within the sequencer!
* this patch also fixes:
* "easy retiming" using speed effects. (in Blender 2.49, you could
add a speed effect and resize the source track to retime it to that
length)
* adds labels for the Original dimensions for Image + Movie tracks
(worked in 2.49, too)
Also use const char in many other parts of blenders code.
Currently this gives warnings for setting operator id, label and description since these are an exception and allocated beforehand.
Very old bug: Material/Render: the "filter" option for transparent
absorption also works for alpha==0, but in that case another part
of render code just didn't add the faces in render list.
The main reason to have this is so renders can be scripted to write to a specific file without having to do annoying tricks like set a dummy start/end frame range, render an animation and work out the current frame image will be written to, then rename after rendering.
Also made some 'char *' args into 'const char *'
Using texture nodes for displacement crashes, a conflict between using
nodes in render and for displacement at same time. Code simply disables
texture nodes for displacement for now, until we have better handling for it.
(on our long todo)
* In addition to fixing the memleak it's much better to always copy the voxeldata to the texture. Smoke data can change at any time due to some changes, so we can't depend on that data.
* Thanks to MiikaH for finding this!
Texture Nodes didn't work for normal output anymore anymore.
It was caused by new handling of bump code using derivatives,
but that's not how texture nodes work now. In case a texture
has nodes, it uses the old (2.4) method.
The scenes 'Render' is kept by blender while blender runs but the callbacks were not cleared when the render was done.
In this case the callback would reference a freed render job.
This isn't normally a problem because on re-rendering new callbacks are set, however the sequencer can render a previously rendered scene without setting up callbacks.
Simple fix is to to dummy callbacks applied onto the scenes 'Render' struct once its finished.
* FSA and motion blur can't work nicely together the way they're currently implemented, so I disabled this in the ui and code.
* FSA is used if both are selected.
* Also changed the name "Full Sample Motion Blur" to "Sampled Motion Blur" to avoid confusion with full sample anti-aliasing.
large render sizes could cause an the threaded tile processor to hang because winx * winy wrapped into a negative value.
also convert winx/winy to floats before multiplying for vector passs.
* This fix is really only a bandage, as the underlying issue is that sequencer preview render doesn't yet use the job system.
* The sequencer preview can start a full render of the scene, and this can collide with other preview/actual renders in many cases.
* Drawing the sequencer preview is now disabled when an other render is in progress, but the sequence preview rendering could have already been started before the other render, so this doesn't really fix anything.
* For now only OpenGL rendering can be used for the sequencer preview reliably until it's reimplemented using the job system.
* Using the job system in the future can handle the clashes between different renders properly and will give users a nice progress bar to indicate something is happening while the preview is recalculated.
* The problem is that shadow pass is derived from the diffuse pass as
shad = shad'/diff, where shad' = shad*diff. In cases where diff is
0 and the division can't be done shad is left as shad' (=0).
* This all works just fine until the diffuse color is 0 on just one
channel (no red in material color for example). In this case the shadow
pass is left as 0 too regardless of the existence of an actual shadow,
so the end result is a colored shadow!
* The only real solution is to use the original shadow intensity to
determine if there actually is a shadow or not. This is now stored in
shr->shad[3] from the lamp shadow calculation.
Note: The best solution would probably be to calculate the shadow pass on
it's own and not to derive it from the diffuse pass, but I didn't dare to
start messing up the shading code totally.
