Blender Git Commits

NLA:

Some more action channel protection stuff

== Action Editor - Collapsable Action Channels ==

Action Channels can now be collapsed/expanded to show/hide Constraint Channels, lessening clutter. In future, this could (will probably be) expanded to
show the show/hide individual transform channels.

User Notes:
* Expansion is off by default
* NKEY popup now features option to turn expansion on/off
* Changed behaviour of protection a bit - now if an action channel has protection
on, constraint channels under it are also automagically protected

Developer Notes:
* I've gone through doing a lot of whitespace/linebreak tweaking to get the code looking more consistent with itself
* To save typing (and to make it easier to make future revisions), a set of macros
is now used to check for some commonly-checked settings (i.e. selection, visibility,
and protection).

Geometry.c - rewrote my python box-packer algo in C,
packing 2400 rectanges is about 38x faster.

Use the C implimentation in uvcalc_lightmap and uvcalc_smart_project

Blender.c - filename returning None raises errors with existing scripts, just return "" so string functions on the filename dont raise an error.

Minor modification of foreground processing code in the defocus node.
Now uses a fixed value instead of a value based on the closest object.
Should eliminate sudden jumps in blur amount from frame to frame when used
in animations.

cleanup compiler warnings for
missing virtual destructors
out of order initializers

==== blenlib ====
- added replacement BLI_snprintf for snprintf to avoid MSVC specific #defines for snprintf.
- BLI_snprintf also ensures trailing zero, so helps preventing buffer overflows

==== MSVC 7.1 projectfiles ====
- added new file Config.c for Python API

Patch #3126

Option to draw object name in 3d window corner, now also displays for
meshes the (pinned) shape key name.

Threads: warning fix, added (void) for function declaration.

Patch #6123m by Leandro Inocencio

Sound Window now has option "lock view to other 2d windows" too.

Preview Range Bugfix:

Removed some code that was causing problems and wasn't even needed.
Now, there are no more problems when setting the preview range from the Action Editor when it was displaying an action that was scaled in the NLA.

Patch by Juho V,

Colorband: nodes now show an "Add" button too.

== Preview Range ==

Preview Range is a useful tool for animating (espcially on longer timelines). It allows you to only run through a limited set of frames to quickly preview the timing of a section of movement without going through the whole timeline. It means you don't have to set/reset start/end frame for rendering everytime you wish to only preview a region of frames.

Hi Ton,

Attached is a patch (I know you've already got lots of them in the tracker ;-) ) for a feature that I've sometimes wanted. It seems that this sort of thing is supported in other packages, but I can't be sure.

Note: I may have left in a few bits and pieces I didn't mean to in the patch (this is off a source tree which had quite a few revisions in it, all of which was experimental)



== Preview Range ==
Preview range is useful for animating (espcially on longer timelines). It allows you to only run through a limited set of frames to quickly preview the timing of a section of movement without going through the whole timeline. It means you don't have to set/reset start/end frame for rendering everytime you wish to only preview a region of frames.

* 'Ctrl P' in Action/NLA/Timeline sets preview range. Click+drag to form selection-box defining region of frames to preview
* 'Alt P' in Action/NLA/Timeline to clear preview range
* 'Pre' button beside Start/End fields in timeline toggles whether start/end fields refer to scene or preview
* 'Ctrl Rightarrow' and 'Ctrl Leftarrow' jump to start/end of preview region when it is set
* 'S' and 'E' set the start/end frames of preview region when it is set (just like normally) in Timeline only
* In Action/NLA editors, frames out of preview region are now drawn darkened when preview-region is set


See the following page for more info later:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Aligorith/Preview_Range

Fixing a few more gcc warnings by adding pointer casts.

addad e new macro - BASE_SELECTABLE for checking if an object is selectable (restrict visible and restrict selected are off and its in the current view layer)

Made "Select Grouped" functions and "Select Linked" use BASE_SELECTABLE macro so they wont select objects they shouldent.
Made "Select Grouped" push an undo

Made "Select Grouped" and "Select Linked" only push add an UNDO if they make a change to the selection.

Fix for own bug. "Select Group" -> Hooks option could crash blender if an objetc hook was in another scene.

added mesh skin to the face key menu and added a python slot here.

[ #4227 ] Determine the "real" current filename via Python
applied. tested and this is how "filename" should work, so changed Blender.Get("filename") to return None instead of the last opened file.

=== View Orbit Around Active ===

Changed to Orbit around Selection, using transform code to calculate the selection center (using Median center method).

=== Constraints ===

Patch by Juho Vepsäläinen (bebraw)
[ #5850 ] Inverted axis' buttons to Copy Rotation and Copy Location constraints

This patch adds the options to invert the value being copied from each axis of the Copy Rot/Copy Loc constraints.


This commit also includes some slight code sanitization and tool tips cleanup (for the two track constraints, the tool tips were really unuseful).

== Edgesplit modifier speed improvements ==
Speed improvements to the Edgesplit modifier (changed the data structures
and memory management to avoid using slow GHash functions and large numbers
of small mallocs). In my tests, this makes the modifier approximately twice
as fast.

== Mirror modifier upgrade ==
Upgraded the Mirror modifier to support mirroring of UV coordinates in the
faces created by the modifier.