The work i did end of may on render normals (displacemap especially)
caused refraction code to work wrong... took a while to find out, but
just removed a couple of lines too much.
Added clear comment there what it is, and what danger of removing is!
Campbell Barton updated his Wavefront OBJ scripts and Ben Omari updated his DirectX 7 and 8 ones (thanks both). The other listed scripts had minor updates to accomodate the menu changes.
- Scripts in menus:
renamed Tools to Object, Generators to Add, and Modifiers to Mesh (Metaball, Curve, Surface can be added later), to integrate better in the interface.
- Fixed a bug in Blender.sys.makename: last letter of file extension was being cut out.
When changing subsurf level, in shaded mode, and with Mesh that has more
users... the shaded displist of the other meshes are corrupt, potentially
causing crash.
And: small improvement in select-outline: when drawtype-extra Wire is set,
it skips it. Not needed, looked a bit ugly.
- lowered tooltip-update delay loop to 0.02 sec (was 0.05), which showed
up 'trails' while going over pulldowns with tooltips
- changed tooltip calculation for size, it was drawing the labels far too
large (height). Made sure text prints in middle too.
- by default tooltips print 12 pixels below button now
This for all current NKEY menus by default. Can be standard for each hotkey
controlled Panel from now on; use toggle_blockhandler() for it.
Another popular request: hotkey enabled Panels now optionally reopen on
the previous location, instead of under mouse. This option "Pinned" is a
user option now. Optional for later; have it as per-panel option... dunno!
The last request, close on mouse-exit, won't be implemented, this intrudes
with Panel consistancy, and is pretty OK solved with NKEY-NKEY now.
- Font object didn't support draw xtra wire yet
- removed drawing the circles from MBall object, except in editmode
- little cleanup in draw_object() call, it had a weird exception for
mball drawing
this consists of 22 different ways to sweep from 1 strip to another. For you windows lovers: it's like "Blinds" in Powerpoint :)
- in the NKEY menu you can choose which type you want perform, vertical, horizontal, in/out etc. it's too much to decribe.
Credits for this go to Kent 'Sirdude" Mein who coded the sequence plugin I stole the code from.
To allow certain sequence effects to have settings, I also added a "varstr" void pointer to the Sequence DNA, that can point to a special struct for each effect. This is similar to how plugins are handles.
more neat effects to come....
- Change the name of a strip in the NKEY menu of the strip.
- If a strip HAS a name, it will be displayed in the strip, instead of all that garbage that was previously there (image locations, lengths, whatever)
Still TODO: while adding new effects to the sequencer I will also add this for effect strips. at the moment it's not clear yet what should go in the NKEY menu.
Just making sure memory is always allocated and freed in the same
binary object, which seems to be mandatory on msvc if you don't have
the comercial version. If you are using this code you need to
syncronize with yafray cvs also, or it won't work. Binaries for os x
are updated in the link I gave in my last commit.
Needs latest yafray, you can get it from cvs, but I have also binaries
for os x here:
http://www.coala.uniovi.es/~jandro/noname/downloads/yafray-0.0.6-3.pkg.zip
To use it, go to yafray panels (global settings) and uncheck the "xml" button.
That would tell the export code to avoid xml export and use the yafray plugin
instead. You'll see the render being draw while running and you can even stop it
with ESC key.
Since I'm sure problems will appear, expect updates soon.
Remember: does not work on win32
types:
- Continue: is default, old style
- Dolly: is like previous, but not continuous
- Scale: is the new method. Name is based on fact it scales view
PupStrInput, a wrapper for the Blender String popup (thanks!)
- Fixed bug #1374 reported by Gabriel Beloin (gabio, thanks too):
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=125&aid=1374&group_id=9
There was a minor mistake in the import menu: vrml called dxf and vice-versa and shortcuts were wrong (removed them).
- Doc updates, minor updates elsewhere.
Wim Van Hoydonck contributed the famous Knife script (put under Modifiers group) developed by Stefano Selleri and himself (thank to both!)
- Added helper function Blender.sys.makename, updated docs and script ac3d_export to use it (shall update other exporters too):
this function is just a simple helper to format a filename as needed (change extension, strip dirname, it defaults to use G.sce as path).
- Added a test method: Blender.Scene.getScriptlinks(eventName):
just testing, if this path proves useful other functions will be added and made general, for objects, etc.
Displace mapping + Map-Input using Object wasn't working. This caused
by the inverse matrix of an Object potentially not being calculated when
displace was calculated.
Solved by moving imat calculus to the top of the main function.
Yafray note: the convention to hack out all transformations from
renderconverter could be implemented more elegant, by moving this to
the yafray section (and just matrix-transform back). Makes code less
unreadable, but also support displacement then (and might solve other
errors).
Envmap render error; when no (f10) envmap option was used, it could give
a 'stripe' effect based on a non-initialized global value. Only happens
for transparant layers...
Recalculate normals (mesh editmode) had some weak points, as demonstrated
in the bug report sample file. It appeared to be 2 aspects that could be
simply fixed:
- for calculation of the most outer face (to set normal outside) it used
a manhattan distance. making it real distance helped quite some
- but most important: the routine only took triangles into account, which
didn't work proper with very irregular quads, especially with non-flat
quads. It now calculates both trias in a quad individually.
-- new try so that scripts place their guis and file selectors in proper places:
should be ok now for any but the really weirdest screen layouts, will be updated when scripts are added to other menus in the interface.
* Added items for importing DXF, VRML, etc. in the File->Import menu, that just call the normal Open function. Most people don't even know that you can open these formats through the normal Open fileselect, so this will make it more obvious.
* Removed the 'Export Selected' menu, and put poor old lonely STL in the Import and Export menus too. Most of the exporters export only the selected object anyway, so it's not really a necessary distinction to make.
- added function Blender.sys.exists(path) to check if a given file exists;
- forgot to mention: in my previous commit the blender.html file was also updated slightly.
- tiny updates for better behavior, unix line endings, cvs Id tags;
- Updated DX7 exporter (thanks to author Ben Omari who's also working on a DX8 one);
- added sysinfo script;
Interface (scripts):
- changed behavior for which win is chosen for script guis:
Now there's a smarter order, guis will use either:
- Scripts win
- Buttons win (if not a script from groups Wizards or Utils)
- Text win
- Closest bigger area
- Added a button to the scripts header so that it's faster to return to the buttons win (this can be made general), if that was the previous win used.
Solaris and a bunch of the others were out of date....
I guess we should change them back for platforms that don't work out
with 2.3 but I'm guessing that things will get updated better this way
then asking everyone to update their own platforms.
Kent
