Blender Git Commits

New: load cached data on file load; Fixed: Don't destroy cache on fileload, calculate normals correctly, don't reset all data when pressing partial free, making also cache free buttons available when cache is protected, duplicating cloth with shift-d should work properly now

=== Mirror Tool ===

Fix call order mix up.

That's what I get for doing "cleanup" before a commit.

Tested as working ok with this.

== Sculpt ==

Cleaned up some old parts of sculpt. Got rid of the old EditData struct in favor of two new "brush action" structures, which split the symmetry data out from everything else. Cleaned up various names and such as well. There should be no user-visible changes.

made correct physics visible on solver panel
i did not like the accusation blenders soft body module is too bad coded to not respect law of energy conservation.
well .. animators most of the times don't care if there was a theoretical physics law .. they want to get things done
hum i think
on the other hand it is for sure raising confidence to the soft body module when simple physical rules can be verified
so i won't 'turn a hand' on either approach
IMHO the inaccurate soft approach serves best to animators
anyhow
you have both so you can decide devil or Beelzebub
have fun BM

added a function to the outliner for groups - "Link Group Objects to Scene"
in some cases
removed some globals from the

minor fix

Select linked particles (Shift+L)

fix for lightwave object loader

=== Mirror Tool ===

Making the mirror tool axis selection interactive instead of using a popmenu.

Mirror is now just a constant -1 scaling transform, which enables you to choose the mirror axis through hotkeys (x,y,z) and with MMB. It also means it's easier to select the correct axis if you're not sure which is which and gives access to all the orientation supported in transform (including custom user orientations).

Mesh and Object header menus still have the individual axis as options but have an added "Interactive Mirror" which just enters transform and lets user pick the axis there. Ctrl-M enters "Interactive Mirror" too.

In a nutshell, this changes adds more possible mirroring axis and unifies the mirror axis selection process with transform constraint axis selection.

Fixes for SSS with render layers. Now in the preprocessing pass
it uses flags from all render layers added together, not fully
correct yet, but it's not so easy to separate passes cleanly with
SSS.

Phase one of better masking support while rendering.

Problem: artist wants character to walk in grass, but still have all rendered
in seperate render-layers, for postpro effects and vblur. How to efficiently
create a mask image you can put *over* the character for the grass?

Solution has two parts; this commits allows any layer inside of the renderlayers
to become a Z-mask (Z values for solid gets filled in, but not rendered).

Second part of commit is render option "Only render stuff that's in front of
a zbuffer value that was filled in (saves render time)

Added an "effector" vertex group for hair, that defines how much
influence effectors have.

Composite fix: the RenderLayer node option "rerender only this layer" did
not invoke a re-composite signal to the right window. Looked like as if the
re-render had no effect.

Fix for strand render + simplification + vector blur. With the number
of strands changing between frames, vector blur couldn't work. Now
speed vectors are interpolated from the surface. This also means
child particles don't have to be computed in the previous and next
frames, so saves time too.

svn merge -r 13357:13382 https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender

Particle instance modifier works again in path mode. There's still some work to do with rotations and twisting though.

New: Editable cache. Fixed: Don't clear cache on e.g. lamp moving. Changed: Switched to another modifier type to be more flexible (allows tearing later)

* copy python25_d.dll when building BF_DEBUG=1

part 2 of n in the process
to make the soft body UI consistent/understandable
that is ->
split material properties from solver settings
this part deals with solver settings

* Made the "mini axis" draw with lines proportional to it's size. Currently, the thick lines are a bit too thick at larger sizes, but it's better than having slower viewports.

* Fixed bug with IPO-transform. When "Switch Mouse Buttons" is on, click-drag transforms of keys didn't work.