One of the core design aspects of the Asset Browser is that users can "mount"
custom asset libraries via the Preferences. Currently an asset library is just
a directory with one or more .blend files in it. We could easily support a
single .blend file as asset library as well (rather than a directory). It's
just disabled currently.
Note that in earlier designs, asset libraries were called repositories.
Idea is simple: In Preferences > File Paths, you can create custom libraries,
by setting a name and selecting a path. The name is ensured to be unique. If
the name or path are empty, the Asset Browser will not show it in the list of
available asset libraries.
The library path is not checked for validity, the Asset Browser will allow
selecting invalid libraries, but show a message instead of the file list, to
help the user understand what's going on.
Of course the actual Asset Browser UI is not part of this commit, it's in one
of the following ones.
{F9497950}
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9722
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Hans Goudey
The geometry-nodes features no longer depend on the point cloud object.
Therefore the point cloud object, although important in the future, can
be postponed until we have render and edit mode fully working.
This reverts commits:
* ea74ed5a7a.
* dc614c68ef.
Remove 'U.wheellinescroll' preference, currently hidden and unused.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9616
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
Small improvements to the layout of the Tooltips section in Preferences.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9772
Reviewed by Pablo Vazquez
The point cloud object is the only one that will support instancing at
first. So we can expose it as a regular object.
It is limited since it has no edit mode. But this is not different than
the volume object.
And remove Blender preference, which was expected to be set to match the system
preference for correct behavior. Instead just handle this automatically.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9402
Move the "Show Group Colors" toggle from a per-editor option to a single
user preference in the Animation preferences. The Grease Pencil
animation channel side panel allows picking a channel color; this now
shows a message when channel colors are disabled.
The old "Show Group Colors" toggle had to be set per editor, and was on
by default. This meant that disabling group colors would require an
action for every file, for every editor. It is very hard to select a
color that works both as bone color in the 3D Viewport (needs to be
bright there) as well as the channel list (needs to be dark there), most
animators turn channel list colors off.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9391
"Camera Parent Lock" can be useful when rigging cameras, but it is not
intuitive, and has also generated a lot of confusion (bug reports).
This is because it breaks the fundamental parent <-> child relationship
conventions in Blender, and there is no indication that it's intended
without diving into the preferences.
This commit moves the setting to the object level, and exposes it in
the relations panel in the property editor. It is exposed for every
object type because any object type can be "View Locked" in the 3D view.
The property description is also updated to reflect this change and be
more specific without getting too long.
In the future this could become a more general feature of the transform
system, but for now it is limited to "Lock Camera to View".
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9239
Various changes to some labels and descriptions to be more accurate, clear, or less confusing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8394
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
Approximately 141 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8392
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
All tools planned for 2.91 now have icons, so this option can be
removed.
Reviewed By: dfelinto, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9299
Those two features are not directly related and one might be activated
in master earlier than the other.
WITH_PARTICLE_NODES was removed, because we continue the project
under the name "Geometry Nodes".
With D8234 a new drawing method for UV/Image editor was introduced. For debugging
reasons we left the old drawing method in the code base. This patch will remove
the old drawing method.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9011
This adds support for pen tilt in sculpt mode. For now, pen tilt is used
by tweaking the tilt strength property, which controls how much the pen
angle affects the sculpt normal. This is available in Draw, Draw Sharp,
Flatten, Fill, Scrape and Clay Strips brushes, but it can be enabled in
more tools later.
The purpose of this patch is to have a usable implementation of pen tilt
in a painting mode, so users can test and see in which hardware and
platforms this feature is supported and how well it works. If it works
ok, more tools and features that rely on pen tilt can be implemented,
like brushes that blend between two deformations depending on the angle.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8893
The operator has some problems with Undo, so better put it in
experimental for now.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9007
This adds color tagging to collections. There are 8 color
options which are themable in the user preferences, with an additional
option for no color tag by default.
This adds a new filled collection icon and 8 colored variants of the
icon that can be themed in the user preferences.
In this commit the only interface to setting the color tags is through
Python, and there is nowhere in the interface where the collections are
shown colored. Setting and viewing the color tags from the outliner will
follow.
Manifest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T77777
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8622
This patch reverses use draw manager for image editor the
experimental feature. Now the new drawing is enabled by default.
Inside the experimental tab in the user preferences there is now an
option to revert back to the old drawing method.
Using this option we can easilly check if all drawing features have been
migrated over. The plan is to remove the legacy drawing before BCon 3.
This project moves the current UV/Image editor drawing to the draw manager.
Why would we do this:
**Performance**:
Current implementation would draw each texel per time. Multiple texels could be
drawn per pixel what would overwrite the previous result. You can notice this
when working with large textures. Repeat image drawing made this visible by
drawing for a small period of time and stop drawing the rest. Now the rendering
is fast and all repeated images are drawn.
**Alpha drawing**:
Current implementation would draw directly in display space. Giving incorrect
results when displaying alpha transparent images.
This addresses {T52680}, {T74709}, {T79518}
The image editor now can show emission only colors. See {D8234} for
examples.
**Current Limitations**
Using images that are larger than supported by your GPU are resized (eg larger
than 16000x16000 are resized to 8k). This leaves some blurring artifacts. It is
a low priority to add support back of displaying individual pixels of huge
images. There is a design task {T80113} with more detail.
**Implementation overview**
Introduced an Image Engine in the draw module. this engine is responsible for
drawing the texture in the main area of the UV/Image editor. The overlay engine
has a edit_uv overlay which is responsible to draw the UV's, shadows and
overlays specifically for the UV Image editor. The background + checker pattern
is drawn by the overlay_background.
The patch will allow us to share overlays between the 3d viewport and UV/Image
editor more easily. In most cases we just need to switch the `pos` with the `u`
attribute in the vertex shader.
The project can be activated in the user preferences as experimental features.
In a later commit this will be reversed.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8234
This removes from the UI all tools with missing icons and hides them
under a "Tools with missing icons" experimental option.
We agree on not making available by default tools in master without icons.
Having this experimental flag will allow to commit new tools as soon as the
technical design and implementation is finished so development can
continue, without adding broken icons to the UI.
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8831
Final releases (including beta) should strictly show features that are
finalized to prevent loss of data, old API clanging around, and the
overall quality of the product (Blender) presented.
Note that rendering should never be affected by user preferences, so
this is only changing things in the UI level.
Development note: This is reset experimental UI on file load.
Also note: to hide RNA (needed for hair and particles) will be done as a
separate patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8606
Status Bar can show scene statistics, memory usage, version, etc set by context menu. Part two of T75672.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7557
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
This disables all Sculpt Vertex Colors tools, operators, panels and rendering capabilities and puts them under the "Use Sculpt Vertex Colors" experimental option.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8239
Right now not all the features available there have the same level of
polishing. So I split the existing options in:
* New Features [Particles Nodes]
* Prototypes [Hair]
* Debugging [Undo]
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8121
This replaces the cmake options `WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES` and
`WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE` with two experimental userpref settings:
* `use_new_particle_system`: Enables the point cloud type and the simulation editor.
* `use_new_hair_type`: Only displays the add-operator in the add menu for now.
Note, in the current state you can't do anything productive with the new particle
system or the new hair type. Features will be added step by step in the upcoming
weeks and months.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8096
This consolidates the UI code for NDOF input settings, making all
settings accessible from the preferences. This works around an issue
where the Space Navigator's "Menu" button doesn't trigger the settings
menu in Blender.
I also took the opportunity to redo the UI layout.
Note: Separate commit for 2.83 because UI layouts features
have diverged.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7806
This consolidates the UI code for NDOF input settings, making all
settings accessible from the preferences. This works around an issue
where the Space Navigator's "Menu" button doesn't trigger the settings
menu in Blender.
I also took the opportunity to redo the UI layout.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7806
The old value (1.0) was often too large in practice. When many collection
instances are created, the large empties create a mess in the viewport.
This adds a new preference setting in `Editing -> Objects -> New Objects`
called `Instance Empty Size`.
The value will be used as display size for new empties containing a
collection instance.
Reviewers: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7650
Sequencer related properties were not grouped together, and it wasn't
clear that the disk cache settings were about the sequencer. Now moved
sequencer settings into own panel.
