Blender Git Commits

Bugfix:

Line-bones without any constraints-colours/custom-colours were being drawn the wrong colour (i.e. they insides were drawn black)

== Action Editor Drawing - Optimisations (Part 2 out of ?) ==

Keyframes are now checked for whether they are visible or not before they are prepared for drawing. This should provide some improvements for large data-sets...

In general there don't appear to be any major issues, although in a few situations, long-keyframes may end up appearing/disappearing.

particle draw was doing glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST) which messed up the wire view, if this is needed for some particle drawing it needs to test the 3dview state.

svn merge -r 13382:13415 https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender

solaris was crashing on file open because of statfs, aparently linux-standards-base and solaris have depricated statfs so probably all unix os's should use statvfs. for now only solaris does.

feature request-(PapaSmurf)
tiny little little thing
allow negative gravity on input
for hot air balloons or under water plants

render touch didnt work when the directory wasnt there.

added function to get the full path for a rendered frame (before its rendered)

== Action Editor Drawing - Optimisations (Part 1 out of ?) ==

Now the Action Editor doesn't bother drawing channels which are out of view. This should give some performance improvements when there are many channels with heaps of keyframes, as the keyframes that occur in that channel don't need to be sampled (which is a major performance bottleneck).

Improvements in Zmask feature of yesterday:

- zmask now allows to have solid faces included too
- ctrl+click on render-layer layers (whats in a name!) now works better

Here's the revised and extended doc:

http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/rendering-features/

It's a difficult to explain feature... but important for a good compo pipeline
here. Being tested still!

Bugfix #8155:

Selecting markers in the sequencer crashed Blender

== Mirror Modifier & Subdivide ==

Vertices that are newly created by a subdivision of a mesh object
with mirror modifiers (with clipping option set) are projected to
the plane of symmetry when they are created on edges that lie on
that plane.

For regular subdivide this is trivial by linearity, so this mainly
effects subdivide smooth, loopcut smooth, and subdivide fractal.
This commit basically prevents nasty seam rips on the mirror when
doing these operations.

untested fixes for vgroups

sorry about this, 3rd commit to fix this small error.

Weekend commit -> New: 3rd tab for advanced users mit many things to play with. Fixed: Free modifier correctly when deactivating cloth on panel, be carefull: could eventually put weird values on the GUI due to changed DNA

New feature: Zmask rendering

It's quite a complex feature for simple log, so here's the log as
it should be, with images:

http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/rendering-features/

Feature: we're using "non linear lighting" now, using exposure/range in
world. That allows more extreme lamps (areas too).

To make it work more intuitive, the preview renders in buttons now use
the settings for exposure too.

Two bugfixes:
* Buttons to change position of constraints in constraint stack are now totally hidden if they don't do anything valid. It'll have to be this way until we get grey-able buttons.

* Duplicating keyframes in Action Editor now sets correct undo-string

== Limit Distance Constraint ==

Added a new constraint, "Limit Distance". This constraint defines a 'virtual sphere' around the target which the owner can be made to stay inside, outside, or on the surface of it.

This constraint is best used when applied using the Ctrl-Alt-C hotkey, as the radius is set correctly that way.
One usage, is to prevent the target of an IK-chain from straying away from the chain. Care should be taken to not use a member of the IK-chain as the target though.

Description of Variables:
* 'Dist' - Radius of virtual sphere
* 'R' - Click on this to recalculate the 'Dist' value (note: like the 'R' button in the StretchTo constraint, this is currently buggy)
' Mode' - This menu gives different options for how the limiting sphere should act. The mode names are self explanatory.
* 'Soft' and 'SoftDistance' - currently not functional (so settings are hidden). These are used to define a smaller radius around the sphere of influence where a non-linear relationship between input and resulting locations occurs to prevent the owner 'crashing' into the sphere.

Fix: clear cache button works again even with protected cache, edited cache doesn't get saved to wrong frame anymore when moving frames forward in editmode