Blender Git Commits

NGon fan fill fallback had an error in the indicies it returned.
Further changes need to be added but theres a bug in Blender that prevents the NGon function from working.
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4544&group_id=9&atid=125

Lightwave major update by Alessandro Pirovano (uaraus) intergrated with my changes.
Tested with ~ 500 models to import without throwing an error.
Added subsurf back, image loading fixes and removed meshtools dependancy

bug #4532, when field rendering enabled in blender (not supported in yafray),
blender doubles the aspect ratio. This is now taken into account.

=== MSVC 7 project files ===
- removed edgeRender.c that doesn't exist an more
- removed not needed link dependencies odbc32.lib and odbccp32.lib from DNA_makesdna

Bug #4537

Added "Composite Preview" option in ImageWindow menu, with hotkey note.

Bugfix, IRC report:

Render option "Key Alpha" did not work yet.

Bugfix #4530

Weightpaint fix.

Weight painting was recoded in 2.40 to support all features from vertex
paint. That code uses a 'soft' brush by default, which makes it impossible
to assign exact weight values on a single click (which used to be possible)

I've made that an option now, so you can disable it for single-click setting
of values on vertices within the brush (if 'use vertex distances' is
set, of course).

Bugfix, own collection while testing:

- When saving image from Image Window, the extension was not added (with
the option 'add extensions' set, in Scene buttons output panel)

- Same situation, after a save the data-block Image name was still the old
one, also on 'reload' (in header and browsing menus). Confusing... so
when saving image under new name now also renames the Image block.

Bugfix #4534

Added pointer check to newly added code for this bugfix.

Bugfix #4535

A proper check for the error "No Camera" on rendering can only be made
after a renderwindow was initialized. The error menu then shows in the
render window, which appears to not work OK in windows ATI (again!).

So; I've moved the test to before the renderwindow is activated, this is
not a test checking on the entire render pipeline (like Composite nodes or
sequence strips). In case more complex setups cannot render, an error is
printed in the console only.

Bugfix #4534

Small tweak in warning levels for buttons showing Library data.
- Material, panel "Links" did still allow to change some settings
- Material, panel "Texture" did not allow to view different channels

Related to bugreport #4514

Debugging complex files with drivers is very hard... so I've added the
drivers now to show in Outliner too (under the Ipo).
Note that this works for Actions too, but only when the action is linked
to an Object directly.

(For a real diff you have check previous commit, I forgot to write a log
for that)

Bugfix from own testing:

In outliner, the icons sometimes were drawing too large or too small.
Same happened in NLA, Action, Image window etc. And it happened
for "International fonts" when set to use 'texture drawing'.

Reason: the API call for setting icon size BIF_icon_set_aspect() was not
used consistantly. Sometimes it was set, sometimes not. And even worse,
for every icon drawn in UI buttons, the icon lookup had to be done twice
because of the aspect function.

Solved it by removing this call, and adding a new function:
BIF_icon_draw_aspect()
The old BIF_icon_draw() call now draws with aspect 1.0 always. The icons
code already had optimal checking for changed sizes, zo a change in aspect
won't result in much cpu overhead. Plus it saves calling icons lookup code,
which will make it all a bit faster.

Andrea: I've added this aspect function a long while ago, I think you also
like it better how it is now? Please check!

Made lightwave import work with images by removing internal image loading wrapper and use BPyImage.comprehensiveImageLoad
Sped up with LC's for vert loading.
tried to removing meshtools as a dependancy, but cant do that everywhere.

There are a few BPy functions that are documented to return a list but actually return tuples.
Blender.sys.splitext() raises an error if the path is longer then 80 chars. seems a bit short, noted this anyhow end added an example.
(hope its okay to do small doc corrections as I notice them.)

slight change to the way the shift key works in fly mode.

Bugfix #4515

Another outliner + buttonswindow select error:
When clicking on lamp icon, the buttons window shows material, not lamp
buttons. Same happened for F5key btw, when buttons were showing world.

Also fixed: when switching to world buttons with F8key, the preview was
not re-rendered.

Bugfix #4528

In compositor you can mix RGBA and Value buffers freely, but with one
exception... the Composite (output) node!

This solves a crash when connecting a Alpha socket to RGBA input in
Composite node.

=== warnings cleanup ===
added missing includes for undefined symbols in windows release build

warnings:
creator.c(490) : 'libtiff_init' undefined;
transform_manipulator.c(237) : 'EM_editselection_center' undefined;
srctransform_manipulator.c(241) : 'EM_editselection_normal' undefined;
transform_manipulator.c(242) : 'EM_editselection_plane' undefined;
pythonapi2_2xObject.c(3658) : 'get_local_bounds' undefined;

===Python API===
Added reminder in addCurve() doc for how to determine valid Key IPO curve
names.

Bugfix #4516: Allow ipo.addCurve() to create Key IPO curve for a
corresponding keyblock.