-starting updates and new additions for Blender 2.34:
Some of the new scripts require Python modules not builtin with Blender, so you either need a full Python install or the needed extra modules. This is an ongoing work, there should be more scripts, better testing and also proper ways to tell users they don't have all expected modules. It's expected that Win users won't need full Python installs, since we can provide a minimal zip with the needed modules from 2.34 on.
Thanks to Anthony D'Agostino (scorpius), Jean-Michel Soler (jms) and Campbell Barton (Cam / ideasman) for donating the scripts now added / updated.
BPython:
-added two new script menu groups: Tools and Utils. We still need to find places elsewhere in the gui where the groups can be put.
prevented rvk editing to work in the action window.
Please not that "if (act) {" (Does the object have an action? Currently
only true for some armatures) and "if (key) {" (does the object have
rvk's keys? Currently only true for meshes) are never both true at the
same time so in the following snippet, the function foo_key() never gets
executed:
if (act) {
if (key) {
foo_key();
else
foo_bar();
}
}
Better is this:
if (key) {
foo_key();
else if (act) {
foo_bar();
}
messages and pupmenu()s. Edited spelling and grammar,
stylistic consistency, etc.
I added the guidelines and rationale that I used to the
CMS here:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Language_and_terminology.338.0.html
Next step is to get icons in there, to make it easier to see
at a glance what sort of message (and how much attention
should be paid to it, or if it can be dismissed with a flick
of the mouse, eg. boring remove doubles notifications)
mockup: http://mke3.net:9000/blender/ui/controls/error_ok_icons.png
big, since a float can go to 10^-37. And, this value is still squared, so
a square root will not frustrate it.
Limit now is 10^-35, fixing disappearing faces in extreme small object
thats extreme close to a camera. (thanks OOPz!)
Switched order of routines for displacement and autosmooth, where the
autosmooth will be last now. This prevents displaced (loose) faces, and
might give attractive sharp edges in other cases too.
Key alpha (render) set alph component at '1' for sky... this is an old
convention from NeoGeo days, and I have absolutely no clue whatfor...
maybe for some antique amiga iff format or so. Made it zero now.
is calculated in where_is_object.
Negative scale is found by a cross product of first 2 rows in matrix, and
comparing that (dot product) with third row.
OpenGL draw.
(BTW: the previous commit also solves raytrace errors with negative scaled
objects...)
Further a cleanup of displaylist flags and object/base flags. The #define
ACTIVE is moved to filesel.c (only used here).
The GONNA_MOVE #define got a OB_ added in front.
conversion. Old method tried to solve it per object, detecting a flipped
matrix. Since we have displacemapping and raytracing this is too inaccurate.
Also, flipping normals should alsways result i correct flipped vertex-
normals too.
Solution is to completely recalcuate the 'puno' (vertex normal) flags in
renderHelp.c now (set_normal_flags). The face normals themselves are not
flipped until that stage.
Second major improvement involves the calculation of correct splitted
triangles, when a quad is not flat. It now creates triangles based on the
vertex normals, which have actual information on surrounding geometry, thus
resulting in much smoother results.
Without this you get errors in ray-shadow, with light shining almost
parallel to a face. But again, displacement mapping improves with it too.
Third fix is that by removing normal flipping from displace code the result
is much better now.
Implicit declaration of swab in Linux, needs to define __USE_XOPEN at
source/blender/src:
I also added #includst <stdlib.h> to this file to fix it on solaris as well.
Kent
switches (glMaterial) inbetween a glBegin and glEnd. Combined with a
switch of glShadeModel however, on recent Nvidia it caused faces not
to be drawn... dunno if this is official compliancy, but not too
complex just to correct.
Blender.Draw.Button() was not showing up. Seems to be an epydoc
issue with Button() being both a module method and the name of a class.
I changed Button to Button_ and added a usage note.
Yes, this is lame.
might be only an edge was missing in one of the loops.
Fix a crash that would sometimes happen when clicking the texture painting
button in the image window header. Made headerbuttons_packdummy a static
variable again. The uiDefBut call for the texture painting button stores a
reference to it, so it must be kept in memory.
- Campbell Barton contributed another function (thanks again), the Image.reload method:
with this a script can keep an image that is being edited and saved by an external program updated in Blender.
in the UV/Image editor 'UVs' menu
Script authors can use:
Group: 'UV'
in the headers of their scripts to let them appear in
this menu.
* Updated the UV Face Layout script to reside in the UVs
menu, rather than the (incorrect) File->Export menu.
- updated docs with recently added functions
- dynamic menu entries now are sorted (alphabetically, of course)
- added new menu categories for scripts: Wizards, Modifiers, Generators, Materials, Animation:
only added to list of options, didn't mess with any Blender header. They are already available from the "Scripts" menu in the scripts win, but not elsewhere.
- added option 'datadir' to Blender.Get(option):
so scripts can use .blender/bpydata for reading / writing their data files.
needs cleared. Timings go down nice:
octree new 2.33a
128 0:04.2 0:07.5
256 0:06.5 0:20.0
512 0:18.0 2.06.9
Time is including initialize renderfaces etc. 100k quads.
-- Added two new functions to the Draw module, to display int and float popup buttons:
Both contributed by Campbell Barton, thanks!
-- Fixed a couple warnings.
