Genscher made me do it the same way that the other 10 modifiers do.
The reason why I initially choosed memcpy was so that if anyone added
parameters on DNA there would be no need to update _copyData, unless
if it was a feature related to memory (eg.: point cache)
This patch adds the ability to specify a falloff radius in the Wave modifier.
Currently only linear falloff is supported.
Thanks to Michael Fox for the patch!
Changed code to remove faces (now quad faces that got one vertice projected are turned on tri)
Merge option is still not very usefull since shrinkwrap does not yet moves unprojected vertices
This patch re-assigns the mirrored data to use vertex groups with "mirrored"
names (e.g. L_arm -> R_arm, Leg.R -> Leg.L etc.). Vertex groups with the
"mirrored" names must already exist in the base mesh.
This means that it is no longer necessary to apply the mirror modifier in order
to rig the mirrored data independently.
Thanks to Michael Fox for the patch!
Some more Bmesh custom data functions and
structures. This still does not do anything
yet because the various conversion functions
don't bother making use of the new custom data
functions. Hooking them up should be fairly
simple though.
Also note that the custom data code is mostly
copy/pasted from the existing custom data
functions for editmode with a few modifications.
Duplicating code like this isn't nice, but I
felt it was better to keep things for Bmesh
'standalone' for the moment and take only what is
immediatly needed instead of creating
a tangle of interdependant code.
Added a new pooling allocator for Bmesh based upon
the pool allocator availible in the Boost C++ library
as described here:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_0/libs/pool/doc/concepts.html
Each pool allocates elements of a fixed size, so every
element type in a mesh gets its own pool. For instance
verts occupy a different pool than edges. Each pool
is comprised of multiple arrays of a fixed size and allocating
/freeing elements is simple as removing or adding a head
to a linked list. Since the list of free elements is interleaved
throughout the unused space in the arrays, the overhead
for storing the free list is only 1 pointer total per pool.
This makes building/destroying bmesh structures much faster
and saves quite a bit of memory as well.
+ Nearest surface point
+ Normal projection
+ Nearest vertex (gives similar results to nearest surface if the target mesh has many vertexs and is a lot faster to calculate)
^^ all bruteforce calculation for now
+ fixed matrix order multiplication
+ request for CD_MDEDEFORMVERT
+vertex weights supported
+target object now saves to file: load/save works :)
for now simple moves objects vertexs to the nearest vertexs on target object
(so that I can test if its working correctly with the modifier API)
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Caching and Baking:
- The point cache is now cleared on DAG_object_flush_update(), and not cleared for time dependency graph updates.
- There is now a Bake button instead of Protect. Also cache start and end frames were added to softbody and particles.
- The cloth autoprotect feature was removed.
- The Ctrl+B menu now also bakes cloth and particles next to softbody and fluids. Additionally there are now frree bake and free cache menu entries.
- The point cache api has been changed. There is now a PTCacheID struct for each point cache type that can be filled and then used to call the point cache functions.
- PointCache struct was added to DNA and is automatically allocated for each physics type.
- Soft body now supports Bake Editing just like cloth.
- Tried to make the systems deal consistently with time ipo's and offsets. Still not sure it all works correct, but too complicated to solve completely now.
Library Linking:
- Added some more warnings to prevent editing settings on library linked objects.
- Linked objects now read from the cache located next to the original library file, and never write to it. This restores old behavior for softbodies. For local simulation the mesh and not the object should be linked.
- Dupligroups and proxies can't create local point caches at the moment, how to implement that I'm not sure. We probably need a proxy point cache for that to work (ugh).
Physics UI:
- Renamed deflection panel to collision for consistency and reorganized the buttons. Also removed some softbody collision buttons from the softbody panel that were duplicated in this panel for cloth.
- Tweaked field panel buttons to not jump around when changing options.
- Tabbing e.g. Soft Body Collision into the Soft Body panel, it now only shows Collision to make the panel names readable.
- I tried to make enabled/disabling physics more consistent, since all three system did things different. Now the two modifier buttons to enable the modifier for the viewport and rendering are also duplicated in the physics panels. Toggling the Soft Body and Cloth buttons now both remove their modifiers.
- Fixed modifier error drawing glitch.
Particles:
- Particles are now recalculated more often than before. Previously it did partial updates based on the changes, but that doesn't work well with DAG_object_flush_update() ..
- Fixed memory leak loading keyed particle system. Now keys are not written to file anymore but always created after loading.
- Make particle threads work with autothreads.
Continue Physics:
- The timeline play now has a Continue Physics option in the playback menu, which keeps the simulations going without writing them to the cache.
- This doesn't always work that well, some changes are not immediately updated, but this can be improved later. Still it's fun to get a feel for the physics.
Todo:
- Point cache can get out of sync with and undo and changing a file without saving it.
- Change the point cache file format to store a version (so old point cache files can be either converted or at least ignored), and to do correct endian conversion.
- Menu item and/or buttons for Ctrl+B.
- A system("rm ..") was changed to remove() since the former is very slow for clearing point caches. These system() calls were already giving trouble in a bug in the tracker, but really most use of this system("") should be changed and tested.
- The Soft Body Collision and Clot Collision panel titles don't mention there's point cache settings there too, doing that makes them unreadable with the default panel setup.. but may need to make the names longer anyway.
