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- Normalize strand coordinates over the length of the strand, not
cut off when with e.g. length texture control.
- Weight paint and particle mode x-mirror now works with deformation
and shape keys active.
- X-ray is now disabled in particle mode, messed up depth tests.
used for clipping were being stored in the mesh, but modifiers
can result in two objects with the same mesh having a different
bounding box. Solution is to store bounding box in the object.
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- Fix crash in particle transform with the particle system not editable.
- Particle child distribution and caching is now multithreaded.
- Child particles now have a separate Render Amount next to the existing
Amount. The render amount particles are now only distributed and cached
at render time, which should make editing with child particles faster.
- Two new options for diffuse strand shading:
- Surface Diffuse: computes the strand normal taking the normal at
the surface into account.
- Blending Distance: the distance in Blender units over which to
blend in the normal at the surface.
- Special strand rendering for more memory efficient and faster hair and
grass. This is a work in progress, and has a number of known issues,
don't report bugs to me for this feature yet.
More info:
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/particles/
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- Fix crash with the cut tool and child particle drawing.
- Make the "Col" option to use material colors work for
the path/hair visualisation type.
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- Fix for bug #7837: circle drawtype + velocity crashed.
- Setting density vertex group didn't do proper refresh.
Mesh Deform Modifier
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- Make it work for nurbs and curves.
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- Fix for bug #7840: adding particle system to nurbs, curves crashes.
Now simply doesn't allow to add a particle system to a non-mesh
object, the current code does not support it.
- Fix for bug #7834: deleting vertices of an object with a particle
system crashes. Fixed by disabling particle display for objects in
editmode.
- Fix for the particle add brush on subsurfed objects.
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Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite
of the Blender particle system. This includes:
- Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types.
- Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics.
- Various particle visualisation and rendering types.
- Vertex group and texture control for various properties.
- Interpolated child particles from parents.
- Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. .
- Explode modifier.
- Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types.
.. and lots of other things, some more info is here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewritehttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc
The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle
systems are being converted to the new system, but will require
tweaking to get them looking the same as before.
Point Cache
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The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching
on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system.
See the Cache API section on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint
Documentation
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These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help
for this is appreciated.
Curve select lasso and border didnt work with hide handles enabled.
Hiding handles was using the scene->selectmode variable, but looking at this now, I see there are places where selectmode is compared with
SCE_SELECT_VERTEX, EDGE, FACE etc. as well as being.
Better to use a global flag, same as G_DRAWFACES.
This is not good since anyone using this in the few days will have an invalid selectmode variable. simple way to fix is to change modes, so do_versions shouldnt be needed.
* when setting the face, images with alpha's will set the texface's alpha option.
* added a draw even to redraw view3d and uv/image view - so the Draw Faces button redraws properly.
* made a macro for checking if the object will draw with textures
* textured meshes in editmode only draw a selected face overlay (otherwise the entire mesh would get a plue tint wich isnt
nice for viewing textures), the selected highlight is still there, this is how Face/UV mode looked.
* Alpha clipping STILL had a case where it wasnt disabled and the interface had its alpha clipped, this should be fixed now.
* Fixed crash that occurs when using an unknown constraint type or a Null constraint - missing NULL check
* ClampTo constraint now draws ok again
* Null constraints now get drawn in the stack again
Once again, I've recoded the constraints system. This time, the goals were:
* To make it more future-proof by 'modernising' the coding style. The long functions filled with switch statements, have given way to function-pointers with smaller functions for specific purposes.
* To make it support constraints which use multiple targets more readily that it did. In the past, it was assumed that constraints could only have at most one target.
As a result, a lot of code has been shuffled around, and modified. Also, the subversion number has been bumped up.
Known issues:
* PyConstraints, which were the main motivation for supporting multiple-targets, are currently broken. There are some bimport() error that keeps causing problems. I've also temporarily removed the doDriver support, although it may return in another form soon.
* Constraints BPy-API is currently has a few features which currently don't work yet
* Outliner currently only displays the names of the constraints instead of the fancy subtarget/target/constraint-name display it used to do. What gets displayed here needs further investigation, as the old way was certainly not that great (and is not compatible with the new system too)
this bug is in 2.45 but can work around by setting it manually
---
import sys as pysys
try:
pysys.modules['__main__'].__arm_weakrefs
except:
pysys.modules['__main__'].__arm_weakrefs = {}
---
changed how draw modes work - when displaying textured meshes in editmode, only draw selected edges when "Edge Draw" is not enabled. this makes it easy to see the texture/mapping without edges getting in the way.
This means editmode can draw like UV/Face mode did when "Draw Edges" was disabled.
Also made the active vert/edge/face color themeable, still need to set the default to somthing other then pink.
added a stap menu to the UV/Image window for snapping the selection and cursor.
reverted to drawing face dots in editmode when Limit Selection is enabled. even though its not needed for selection its consistent and dosnt look like modes are being changed.
Texture Draw; no shading only textures (better for mapping work)
Shaded Draw; textured with shading (in editmode it used to be like solid draw mode)
ZClip Option; dont draw face center dots.
* UV coord buttons overlapped others since merging uv/face and editmode.
* added some quad join and triangulate into the Ctrl+F face menu.
* active face cant be hidden anymore.
The WKey menu was way too big and not well organized, re-arranged keys like this.
Ctrl+V - Vert Menu (remove doubles, smooth...)
Ctrl+E - Edge Menu - left as is
Ctrl+F - Face Menu - (flip normals, shading, Rotate and Mirror UV's/Colors)
Wkey menu only has subdivide in it now.
filesel.c - only show the relative paths option if the file is saved, (flag on by default caused the image to silently fail loading on my system, and gave permission errors on a users), also removed a warning.
* added CustomData_set_layer_active_index and CustomData_set_layer_render_index
since they did not accept values from CustomData_get_active_layer_index and CustomData_get_render_layer_index
* fixed some warnings
* made the colored edge in active face draw mode only display when texture mode enabled.
Added copy menu for editmode for copying from the active faces material, image, UV's vcols etc,
improved on the current vertex color copy by averaging the 4th color when copying color from a tri to a quad.
And added edge crease and length copy
cerrently verts dont have a copy menu but eventually copy weights would be good.
* Does not indicate that UV's exist, nor does it add UV's when used.
* Only accessible for texturepaint, vertexpaint and weightpaint from a button in the header (Paint Selection Mask)
* Not accessible from the mode menu, this is only an option that applies to paint modes.
This dosnt effect DNA, face select (G_FACESELECT) can be enabled at any time but is only used when paint modes are enabled.
Other changes
* UKey is uv unwrap in editmode, Ukey for undo was editmode only anyway.
* UVCalc in editmode adds a UV Layer if there is not one alredy.
* texture draw in editmode does not draw the face dots (they are get in the way of texturing)
* some missing updates were added.
* removed manipulator from when paint modes are enabled since the manipulator is not drawn in the 3d view.
Notes
* you cant edit UV's in the image window in "UV Face Select" mode. (removed UV from the name)
* going into Face Select mode no longer adds UV's and does not need UV's to work.
* The UV Calculation menu is now in editmode (Alt+W)
Todo..
* Image replace - partly broken in stable also.
* Rotate/Mirror UV/VCol are still only in Face Select mode.
* Hide/Reveal is not quite right, (issue with editmode flushing)
Submitted by: David Bryant
This patch adds 2 new drawtypes for empties (circle draws a 2d-circle on the x-z plane, and cube draws a regular cube), and allows empties to be used as custom bone shapes.
I've modified the patch a bit to fix up weird formatting, optimising the circle-drawing method, but the cube-drawing function has been maintained. In the process, I also moved the mesh-specific code in draw_object_instance to draw_object_mesh_instance so that empties can be used by whatever else might use draw_object_instance too.
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- In textured drawmode it now draws the texture, with solid mode lighting.
- UVs and vertex colors for subsurf are not computed incremental yet, so
editing in textured drawmode then may not be as fast as the other modes.
Implementation Notes:
- Added textured drawing functions to the editmesh and subsurf derivedmeshes.
- Removed some unused, legacy subsurf code that directly used Mesh.
- Restructured texture drawing a bit to make it more clear and allow for
editmode drawing.
(Peach feature request)
bsystem_time was being called with an extra variable, which was useless. Most of the places that called it, were passing NULL for that variable anyway.
I've also cleaned up that function a bit, but the underlying problems with that part of the code still exist (EVIL GLOBALS that are exported for frame_to_float), for mblur and fields rendering features. That remains for another time.
After just over a week of coding, I've finished doing a major refactor/cleanup of the constraints code. In the process, quite a few old kludges and ugly hacks have been removed. Also, some new features which will greatly benefit riggers have been implemented.
=== What's New ===
* The long-awaited ``ChildOf Constraint'':
This allows you to animate parent influences, and choose which transformation channels the parent affects the child on (i.e. no translation/rotation/scaling). It should be noted that disabling some combinations may not totally work as expected. Also, the 'Set Inverse' and 'Clear Inverse' buttons at the bottom of this constraint's panel set/clear the inverse correction for the parent's effects. Use these to make the owner not stick/be glued to the parent.
* Constraint/Target Evaluation Spaces:
In some constraints, there are now 1-2 combo boxes at the bottom of their panel, which allows you to pick which `co-ordinate space' they are evaluated in. This is much more flexible than the old 'local' options for bones only were.
* Action Constraint - Loc/Rot/Size Inputs
The Action Constraint can finally use the target's location/rotation/scaling transforms as input, to control the owner of the constraint. This should work much more reliably than it used to. The target evaluation should now also be more accurate due to the new space conversion stuff.
* Transform - No longer in Crazy Space (TM)
Transforming objects/bones with constraints applied should no longer occur in Crazy Space. They are now correctly inverse-corrected. This also applies to old-style object tracking.
=== General Code Changes ===
* solve_constraints is now in constraints.c. I've removed the old `blend consecutive constraints of same type' junk, which made the code more complex than it needed to be.
* evaluate_constraint is now only passed the constraint, and two matrices. A few unused variables have been removed from here.
* A tempolary struct, bConstraintOb, is now passed to solve_constraints instead of relying on an ugly, static workobject in some cases. This works much better.
* Made the formatting of constraint code consistent
* There's a version patch for older files so that constraint settings are correctly converted to the new system. This is currently done for MajorVersion <= 244, and SubVersion < 3. I've bumped up the subversion to 3 for this purpose. However, with the imminent 2.45 release, this may need to be adjusted accordingly.
* LocEulSizeToMat4 and LocQuatSizeToMat4 now work in the order Size, Rot, Location. I've also added a few other math functions.
* Mat4BlendMat4 is now in arithb. I've modified it's method slightly, to use other arithb functions, instead of its crazy blending scheme.
* Moved some of the RigidBodyJoint constraint's code out of blenkernel, and into src. It shouldn't be setting its target in its data initialisation function based + accessing scene stuff where it was doing so.
=== Future Work ===
* Geometry to act as targets for constraints. A space has been reserved for this already.
* Tidy up UI buttons of constraints
[ #6620 ] Problems to select faceloops in Select Only Visible mode
[ #6131 ] Vertex snapping broken in shaded face + edge select mode
Second bug was already "fixed", but that caused the other problem. Forced me to look more deeply into it find the real cause. So, faceloop problem is fixed by revert, the other is fixed by drawing vertice selection colors when in transform (previously was only when vert select was on).
using mface->flag for both.
Also found that the cdDM_drawMappedFaces and cdDM_drawFacesTex_common could get normals mixed up when rendering hidden faces. because hidden/invisible faces used continue without advancing to the next normal.
Crash entering faceselect mode in shaded mode.
The cause here is the new system that only preserves data through the
modifier stack as needed. The DerivedMesh and shaded colors could get
freed while still being used elsewhere.
