Blender Git Commits

-> Fix for bug #5472

Vertex snapping now works with backbuffered selection modes. Previously
backbuffer sampling had no way to check whether or not the indices that
it retrieved were selected or not. To resolve this I added two optional
arguments to sample_backbuf_rect in drawview.c. The first argument tells
the function that some additional testing of the retrieved index values
needs to be done and the second argument is a pointer to a function to
do the testing. findnearestvert() in editmesh_mods.c now makes use of this
and passes sample_backbuf_rect() the appropriate argument when being used
for vertex snapping.

== Armature Ghost and Path Drawing ==

The Plumiferos Team have requested some improvements to the
ghost and path drawing tools for armatures. These changes make
these more useful, with more customisable settings. A new panel in
the editing panels for armatures has been added to house these
settings.

-> Ghosts
In addition to the existing method of showing ghosts either side of the
current frame, it is now possible to show ghosts from a given frame range.
This is useful for visualising how the poses in another part of the animation
changed, while editing another part. The colour of ghosts goes from light
(earlier on) to darker (later on).

-> Paths
Several new options for path drawing have been added.
* It is now possibly specify a frame range in which to calculate paths too.
This offers speedups for longer timelines as a shorter span of time can be
sampled.
* Keyframes from the active action/action strip can be shown in a different
colour (in the default theme, this is yellow) on the path.
* Frame numbers for the highlighted positions on the path can be drawn.

Two notes of caution:
* For ghost range: keep the frame ranges relatively small (20-50 frames),
otherwise you will experience a slowdown.
* For path frame numbers: if you have a graphics card which is picky about
text in the 3d-view (like x,y,z labels on empty), this may cause issues.

Added support for load/save of multires edge flags

->Fix for bug #5542

Missing a check for non-manifold edges in new alt-j code. Fixed now.

== Action Editor ==

Little cleanup to the drawing-internals removing the need for a little
hack I put in for drawing keyframes in the NLA editor for active action
strip.

Fixed bug #5557, retopo - toggling fullscreen shifts painted lines

Added Ctrl+FKey shortcut for rotating the brush texture. Also improved the drawing of rotated brushes in propset mode.

Fixed bug #5556, sculpt - rotated texture is shown unrotated in the brush image

== Sequencer ==

Bugfixes:
* The speed controller changes now dynamically the IPO-curve range to
it's needs. (Frame matching and negative velocities didn't work...
Obviously nobody tried ;-)
* Fixed some redraw bugs. The IPO window is correctly updated if one pushes
the IPO Frame locking button.

Extended the brush texture rotate option to work with Tile mode.

Bugfix for sculptmode texture tiling: tile size should not be affected by brush size.

Prevent user from applying editmode operations that will be ignored by multires.

Added propagation of the edge seam flag for multires. Note that the flag is only stored for level 1.

== Bugfix #5550 ==

* UV and Radiosity passes are now visible in Outliner (like for other passes)

* Changed tooltip of overwrite material to:
"Name of Material to use as Materials instead"

* Also, fixed Reflection and Refraction passes in the Outliner - flags were
mixed up, so turning on Reflection turned on Refraction and vica-versa.

== Compositor ==
* Added a new top-level add menu category for compositing nodes: Distort

It currently contains Translate, Rotate, Scale, Flip, Displace and Map UV

Also did some cleaning up of the ordering of add node menu items to be a
bit better organised.

Python API:

-Added missing access to Node win theme (thanks Mickaël Le-bihan for pointing) and also options group and group_active.
-Added Node space to Window.Types dict.
-Tiny update to the save theme script version numbers (keeping 2.42 for now to avoid popups, but should change to 2.43 right before release).

BTW: Happy New Year everyone :).

=== Code Fixes ===

Adding missing define for displace node (Matt can change the number when he gets back, this is just to fix compilation)

Removing "#pragma mark" from node.c. IIRC, that's XCode leaving crap around, so be sure to remove them when you commit (it outputs warnings on other compilers).

== Compositor ==
* Displace Node

Displaces an input image's pixels based on an input vector mask. This can be
useful for a lot of things, like hot air distortion, quick-and-dirty compo
refraction, compositing live footage behind refracting objects, and more!

The amount of displacement in the X and Y directions is determined by:
* The value of the mask's channels
- (red) channel 1's value determines displacement along the positive or
negative X axis
- (green) channel 2's value determines displacement along the positive or
negative Y axis

If both the channel's values are equal (i.e. a greyscale image) the input
image will be displaced equally in both X and Y directions, also according to:
* The X scale and Y scale buttons
- These act as multipliers to increase or decrease the strength of the
displacement along their respective axes. They need to be set to non-zero
values for the node to have any effect.

Because of this, you can use the displace node in two ways, with a greyscale
mask(easy to paint, or take from a procedural texture), or with a vector
channel or RGB image, such as a normal pass, which will displace the pixels
based on the normal direction.

A quick practical example:
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-desert-h264.mov
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-desert.blend.zip

And some techie examples:

Using a greyscale mask
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-bw-h264.mov
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-bw.png

Using a vector mask
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-vec-h264.mov
http://mke3.net/blender/etc/displace-vec.png

use new edge/face keys ittributes

* theme save script now saves iconThemes and supports string types.
* added .iconTheme variable
* bugfix. drawType was not being saved because Py_BuildValue and __members__ was missing an "s"
* added Blender.Get('icondir')