(prevents crash reported by sgefant!)
- Selection outline for Curve objects didnt draw right after leave
editmode
- outliner now default when first viewing Oops window (dangerous?)
- Zoom with ctrl+middlemouse works in Oops again
hopefully prevents weird results in grabber... error was that the
editNurb was not used for triangulating.
Also; added drawing the wire as extra in solid display editing curves...
that for unfilled curves as well.
Colorband sliders now activate automatic on a click closer than 12 pixels
away from it. No more clumsy 'act' button stuff.
BTW: Error in utildefines.h, ABS() was defined incorrect.
- in Solid draw mode, curves without faces draw as wireframe now
- in Solid draw mode, curves without faces don't get fat outline on select
- in Solid draw mode, editing curves shows filled now!
CIRCLE, ARC, ELLIPSE and LWPOLYLINE.
I made some modifications to it to clean it up a bit.
I entend to do some more dxf stuff in the near future but figured
this is ready to go for now, and trying to clean up a bunch of small stuff
I've had sitting around for awhile. ;)
Kent
adds new features for indenting and commenting.
Note: I am not sure if the best menu spot for these features
is under the Select menu, but we can argue about that later.
They do work on a selection, though.
from the mailing list post:
1&2. Added Indent/Unindent under Edit->Select
just select the text you want to indent and go to the menu (
note if nothing is selected Indent will just indent ( tab )
the line the line )
3&4. Added Comment/Uncomment to the same menu
same applies as above
5. Added Tab setting on the menu bar in text editor
Sets the number of spaces a tab ==
changing the setting will change the hole script
6. Added Auto indent
when you hit enter it goes to the next line at the same
tab number and the line above it ( needs more testing and input)
Field render, and field option for image texture, had error due to
returns in middle of calls... this bug was there already for long
while, not much used eh ;)
weakness in design.
Issue was: if you delete the 'mother metaball', which is an object with
name without a number, the entire metaball family isn't polygonized. Sofar
so good, where it not that rendering still worked, because it searches all
objects in the scene for a family member with lowest name.
Doing such a search within the main drawing loops will become a major
slowdown, so this better isn't done.
I don't mind sticking to (documented) consistant behaviour. Alternative is
a flag in object to denote it's a Mother Ball, and check for that instead.
This isn't nice to code in current Blender though... we don't have a signaling
system where to insert such tests reliably, making it very hackish.
Jiri; I hope you can agree with the solution! :) Just want to have tracker
cleaned up, refine it to real bugs.
- bug #1307; copy full scene didn't update links in constraints
(was an oldie bug!)
- also fixed same for Hooks, which even't didn't duplicate yet
- HOME in outliner (show hierarchy) now only does current scene
As a means to indicate items in the Outliner to do operations on, you can
select with RMB items. Works like FileSelect here. Since selection in
Outliner is only on outliner level, no further UI updates happen. That is
reserved for LMB actions.
Implemented right now are only few operations... they can be called up with
the WKEY (the famous spare key :)
- if objects selected, a menu appears with choices
- if materials or textures selected, a meny appears to unlink them
If you make mixed or confusing selections you get a warning message.
TODO: add selection color in theme, and of course more operations.
from within mesh_modifiers (kernel deform.c). It copies vertices to a
temporal particle system (struct SoftBody with BodyPoint structs) to do
physics tricks with it.
For each frame change the delta movements (based on standard ipo anim or
even other deforms (later) are applied to the physics system. How to apply
and calculate satisfying results is not my thing... so here I'll commu-
nicate with others for.
Since it's in the modifier stack, the SoftBody code can run entirely on
original data (no displists!).
Right now I've implemented 2 things;
- "Goal" which is a per vertex value for how much the current position
should take into account (goal=1 is without physics). This is a powerful
method for artists to get control over what moves and not. Right now i
read the vertex color for it.
- And some spring stuff, which now only works based on force moving it to
the originial location. This doesnt work with 'goal'... erhm.
- You can re-use physics vars from engine, used right now is (in Object)
- damping
- springf (spring factor)
- softflag (to set types, or activate softbody for it
- The SoftBody pointer in struct Object is only runtime, nothing saved in
file
To prevent all users going to complain it doesn't work, I've hidden the
functionality. :)
The buttons to set softbody 'on' only show now (psst psst) when the object has
name "soft" as first 4 characters. You can find the buttons in the F7 Particle
Interaction Panel (which should be renamed 'physics properties' later or so.
Demo file:
http://www.blender.org/bf/softbody.blend
actually, adding vertices and edges to displist.
Now the subsurfer gives editvertices a pointer to the subsurfed vertex
location; allowing not only vertices in 'optimal' draw to show correct, but
also gives proper handling of borderselect and lasso for edges. :)
- edges now sample on three locationsm gives more hits
- own version of glPolygonOffset remains cumbersome... but for select
now the selection routine gets more offset than draw.
- first attempt to clean drawobject.c and displists
- generic call for draw object in backbuf for select purposes, cleans up
a lot in the other calls.
- also to verify if we can (in future) use this for vertex/edge/face
select, but the whole drawobject code works against me... this is
for another refactory (incl. displist) and out of the focus for now
- subsurf.c: now creates new faces in order of original. Not used yet, but is
handy to recover the original order for selection/paint purposes.
- when adding creases in editmode, and separating that part, displists
did weird things... separate is hackish anyway
- draw faces (transparant) didnt do triangles correctly
- vertex hidden, always means edge is hidden too
- edge hidden, always means face is hidden too
- face hidden, only means face hides
This means, that in face mode you can hide a face, whilst in edge mode
the edges will still display.
Please note, that when you have no edges saved in a Mesh, it also doesnt
store the hide flags for it, causing in/out editmode too reset hidden
edges.
- Zbuffer clipped selection
Based on same algos as for drawing (blender polygon offset) vertices, edges
and faces now are clipped for draw and selection when Zbuffer is used.
Note that it works for endpoint vertices of edges, and for facecenters.
Also works for border and circle-select
- Optimal draw subsurfs
This now draws optimal with faces and edges selected/unselected, hiding the
original 'cage' (mesh) completely.
TODO: edge select, which still uses original (invisible) edge.
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Mesh_editing_rewrite.425.0.html
The changelog is very long... it's on the web too:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Mesh_editing_rewrite.425.0.html
EditMesh refactor notes (user)
**** New selection modes
When entering Edit Mode for a Mesh, you now have the choice for three selection modes. These are shown as icons in the 3D header (hotkey is being searched for!).
- Vertex Select
Select vertices as usual, fully compatible with how previous version work
- Edge Select
Vertices are not drawn anymore, and selections happen by default on the edges. It is a true edge select, meaning that you can select three out of four edges in a face, without automatic having the 4th edge selected.
- Face Select
Instead of vertices, now selection 'points' are drawn in the face centers. Selected faces also get a colored outline, like for edges. This also is true face select, for each face individual regardless selection status of its vertices or edges.
While holding SHIFT, and press a selection mode, you can also combine the above choices. Now selection becomes mixed, and will behave as expected.
For example; in Edge+Face select mode, selecting the 4 edges of a face will select the face too.
The selection modes and optional drawing modes (like transparant faces, normals, or solid drawing) all work together. All of Blender's mesh editing tools now react to the correct selection mode as well.
Most noticeable it's in:
**** Extrude
Extruding in Edge or Face Select mode allows much more precise control over what's extruded and what should be excluded. Try for example a checker pattern selection, and extrude it.
New is the fixed translation when faces are extruded. This always follows the (averaged) face normal(s) of the old face(s), enabling much easier working in 3D views . A single 'G' (Grab) or 'R' (Rotate) or 'S' (Scale) will change transform modus as usual.
**** Other things to note
- Hiding edges/faces will also behave different based on Select Mode.
- while editing, normals of faces are updated always now
- Border select (BKEY) has 2 different rules for edges; when one edge is fully inside of the border, it will only select edges that are fully inside. Otherwise it selects each edge intersecting with the border.
- in face mode, adding vertices, edges or a circle is invisible...
- "Add monkey" now works as a normal primitive (rotated and on 3d cursor)
- Mesh undo was fully recoded, hopefully solving issues now with Vertex Keys and Groups
- Going in and out of editmode was fully recoded. Especially on larger models you'll notice substantial speed gain.
**** Todo
Add 'FaceSelect mode' functionality in EditMode, including zbuffered selection, display and editing of UV texture.
EditMesh refactor notes (coder)
**** Usage of flags in general
The "->f" flags are reserved for the editmesh.c and editmesh_lib.c core functions. Actually only selection status is there now.
The "->f1" and "->f2" flags are free to use. They're available in vertex/edge/face structs. Since they're free, check carefully when calling other functions that use these flags... for example extrude() or subdivide() use them.
**** Selection flags
EditVert: eve->f & SELECT
EditEdge: eed->f & SELECT
EditFace: efa->f & SELECT
- Selection is only possible when not-hidden!
- Selection flags are always up-to-date, BUT:
if selection mode >= SELECT_EDGE vertex selection flags can be incorrect
if selection mode == SELECT_FACE vertex/edge selection flags can be incorrect
This because of shared vertices or edges.
- use for selecting vertices:
eve->f &= SELECT
- use for selecting edges always:
void EM_select_edge(eed, 1) // 1 = select, 0 = deselect
- use for selecting faces always:
void EM_select_face(efa, 1) // 1 = select, 0 = deselect
- To set the 'f' flags in all of the data:
void EM_set_flag_all(int flag);
void EM_clear_flag_all(int flag);
- the old faceselectedOR() and faceselectedAND() are still there, but only
to be used for evaluating its vertices
**** Code hints for handling selection
If the selectmode is 'face'; vertex or edge selections need to be flushed upward. Same is true for 'edge' selection mode. This means that you'll have to keep track of all selections while coding... selecting the four vertices in a face doesn't automatically select the face anymore.
However, by using the above calls, at least selections flush downward (to vertex level). You then can call:
void EM_selectmode_flush(void);
Which flushes selections back upward, based on the selectmode setting. This function does the following:
- if selectmode 'vertex': select edges/faces based on its selected vertices
- if selectmode 'edge': select faces based its selected edges
This works fine in nice controlled situations.
However, only changing the vertex selections then still doesn't select a face in face mode! If you really can't avoid only working with vertex selections, you can use this call:
void EM_select_flush(void);
Now selection is flushed upward regardless current selectmode. That can be destructive for special cases however, like checkerboard selected faces. So use this only when you know everything else was deselected (or deselect it). Example: adding primitives.
**** Hide flags
EditVert: eve->h
EditEdge: eed->h
EditFace: efa->h
- all hide flags are always up-to-date
- hidden vertices/edges/faces are always deselected. so when you operate on selection only, there's no need to check for hide flag.
**** Unified undo for editmode
New file: editmode_undo.h
A pretty nice function pointer handler style undo. Just code three functions, and your undo will fly! The c file has a good reference.
Also note that the old undo system has been replaced. It currently uses minimal dependencies on Meshes themselves (no abuse of going in/out editmode), and is restricted nicely to editmode functions.
**** Going in/out editmode
As speedup now all vertices/faces/edges are allocated in three big chunks. In vertices/faces/edges now tags are set to denote such data cannot be freed.
ALso the hashtable (lookup) for edges uses no mallocs at all anymore, but is part of the EditEdge itself.
- EditVlak -> EditFace
- variables called 'evl' -> 'efa'
- functions with 'vlak' in it now have 'face'
Just thought was nice starter for editmesh recode...
detected as others, LR_COMMANDKEY
Unline previous commit, Apple key doesnt map to control anymore, but is
handled separate where needed. Now only for undo (Apple-Z)
- Made unified API for undo calls, to be found in space.c
BIF_undo_push(char *str)
BIF_undo(void)
BIF_redo(void)
These calls will do all undo levels, including editmode and vpaint.
The transition is work in progress, because mesh undo needs recode.
- New global hotkey CTR+Z for undo
Note: 'shaded draw mode' still is SHIFT+Z, the old CTRL+Z was to recalc
the lighting in shaded mode, which already became much more interactive,
like during/after any transform().
Recalc hotkey now is SHIFT+ALT+Z
CTRL+<any modifier>+Z is redo.
- For OSX users; the Apple-key ("Command") now maps to CTRL as well. This
disables the one-mouse-button hack for rightmouse btw, will be fixed in
next commit. At least we can use Apple-Z :)
- Old Ukey for undo is still there, as a training period... my preference is
to restore Ukey to "reload original data" as in past, and only use new
CTRL+Z for undo.
- Added undo_push() for all of editobject.c and editview.c. Meaning we can
start using/testing global undo in the 3d window. Please dont comment on
missing parts for now, first I want someone to volunteer to tackle all of
that.
- Since the global undo has a full 'file' in memory, it can save extremely
fast on exit to <temp dir>/quit.blend. That's default now when global undo
is enabled. It prints "Saved session recovery to ..." in console then.
- In file menu, a new option is added "Recover Last Session". Note that this
reads the undo-save, which is without UI.
- With such nice new features we then can also kill the disputed
Cancel/Confirm menu on Q-KEY.
- Added fix which initializes seam/normal theme color on saved themes.
They showed black now.... (Note: that's in usiblender.c!)
1) Curve deform
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Curve_Deform.392.0.html
Works simple as expected, but keep track of the rotation axis
in F7 buttons (Track X Y Z)
Only Mesh deform supported now.
Code changes:
- centralized deformation calls in curve_modifiers() mesh_modifiers()
etcetera. Here also other effects can be added like wave. Now the
evaluation order is fixed, but should become optional. It also doesnt
use the Displist anymore as deform-input. That latter part is unfinished
yet.
This code also is used for Hooks and will be needed for softbody
- made convention stricter that displists are being checked on in
drawobject(), this to prevent routines to make new displists recursively
(like armature does). Now a freedisplist() is sufficient to signal that
a new displaylist should be made.
2) Object Hooks
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Object_Hooks.391.0.html
Support for Hooks is added to Mesh, Lattice, Curve and Surface objects.
For Armatures this would require some more work & research.
Main goal for this feature is to provide quick & simple access to the
underlying geometry in Objects on Object level, supporting hierarchies and
Ipos etc.
Some implicit cast warnings and more importantly, changed the parameter type to int for functions passing the particles random number seed around. No need to use floats there, it's an int anyway.
Effect.c is now warning free (on MSVC 6.0 at least)
Read today's meeting minutes for a description.
Bjornmose: We'll need some example and screenshots for the dev pages of blender3d.org. If you can do some, neat, if not, I'll do them.
Matt, Emilie and Chris: Please review UI addition. Pixel alignement and all that fun stuff has not be overly looked for (though I did some cleaning by adding alignment blocks).
- file-to-memory save
- incremental difference steps (compression)
everthing has been tightly coded to use minimum of memcpy or allocs. In
fact this system works with a single full buffer (=file) in memory, and undosteps as differences from it.
Speed gain is factor 4-8 faster. I've added it in CTRL+ALT+T timer menu for
a test. Please note the gain is especially in the undo-storing, not in
retrieving undo.
Also new: file read option to skip UI read (file menu). This now also is
default for the undo system.
Next to the "BevOb" button you now have a "TaperOb" button to give a name
of a curve object which defines the width of extrusion of the 'BevObj'
along the curve. The TaperOb curve typically is horizontal, where the
height denotes the width.
Important rules;
- Only the firste curve in TaperObj is evaluated
- the first width is left, last width is right
- it scales the width of normal extrusions based on evaluating the taper
curve; which means sharp corners in taper curve won't be easily visible
(That latter feature could be improved by extrusing based on the points
in the taper curve; this is a *lot* more work)
Moved get_con_target from editconstraint to constraint kernel file and renamed to get_constraint_target
Make scene.c use constraint functions from kernel instead of doing the switch itself (regrouping specific constraint code in one file).
Add LockTrack as an option in the Make Track menu (Ctrl-T)
Adding fun for vortex forces in 3D window, the representation now match the orientation and direction of the force (this is code will need optimisation). I'll probably be slapped for mixing two things in one commit but some function calls needed to be fixed for the new spelling and since this is really isolated code I didn't feel like wasting time getting a fresh copy, doing the changes and then readded this after commiting.
Fixed some warning regarding implicit casts and constants (this last one is a MSVCism where you need to explicitely tell the compiler to use floats with an f. AFAIK, it doesn't affect/bother other compilers).
Removed a useless commented piece of code in readfile (there was an uncommented copy a couple of lines before)
* Quaternion action ipos accidently got swapped in the Ipo module
* Ipos not editable if not linked to a datablock (was possible in 2.33a)
Also fixed a typo in Object.getMatrix(): localespace -> localspace
And I add:
* channels Key 32 through Key 63 for relative vertex keys
* LarstiQ patched SConstruct to have it name tarballs and zips better for 'scons release'
* bump version numbers to 234
* added splash.jpg and datatoc'ed version
* add release notes
People can now do still some final tests. Can you feel the heat?
New objects were not created with correct 'ipowin' value, to denote the
default ipo to show. That caused sometimes wrong display with weird empty
menu button in header.
- now more than 31 channels possible for ipos
- added lotsa new channels all over
- Texture block has ipo now too
- recoded getname_ei functions
(Will ask nathan to give release log info when he's back!)
