Blender Git Commits

-added basic support for GameActuator 'load game', relative paths were broken, just load file into memory and load blend from memory.
-near sensor support
- python binding for PhysicsConstraints.setNumTimeSubSteps (dividing the physics timestep to tradeoff quality for performance)

===Python API===
Adding support for Action Strips to the API. A new attribute "actionStrips"
has been added to the Object API to access them.

* Disabled the Shift-Space window maximise shortcut while within text object edit mode

* Made the editmode text cursor draw inverted, so you can actually see where it is on a black background

=== Python API ===

Fixes for the bug introduced by my other commit the other day.

Blender.Draw.Create now does proper error checking.

python documentation update

*python additions
- added a method Action.getFrameNumbers()
returns the frames at which keyframes were inserted for this action

example usage:
import Blender

myobj = Blender.Object.Get('Armature')
myaction = myobj.getAction()
frames = myaction.getFrameNumbers()

for frame in frames:
print 'bones at frame %d' % frame
myobj.evaluatePose(frame)
pose = myobj.getPose()
for bone in pose.bones.values():
print bone.head, bone.tail

Brought back the Scene strip in Sequencer. Even does a full composite with
only images input in compositor. Currently still renders in the scene's
own resolution. It also doesn't show scanline/tile updates yet while
rendering.

Intergrated select group editmode into the menus and re-shuffled the Mesh tool buttons to fit a threshold value in.
also changed the way areas/perimeter and lengths are compared so it will be indipendant of scale.

==FFMPEG==

Bugfix: Don't draw mux_rate and max_rate output buttons on the same
screen position. (Never noticed, always used presets... )

==FFMPEG==

Bugfixes: If we got problems on open, don't close a codec context, that
was never created. (read: don't dump core ;-)

optional reuse list for meshCalcNormals, which makes decimation abt 5% faster.
Workaround for a problem where badly predicted positions are further then half the edge length, on these cases just collapse to the weighted middle of teh edge.
Added docs for "PolyReduce" (Uses BPyMesh_Redux) and WIP Docs for AutoTex Layout.
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartXIII/Modelling_Scripts

===Python API===
Something to try making import/export script writers happy; Mesh.New() will
not create a new Blender mesh datablock unless the mesh is linked to an
object.

=== Python API ===

Blender.Draw.ColorPicker

Enables scripters to use a color picker in there scripts.

See this file for a trivial demo: http://blenderartists.org/~theeth/colorpicker.blend

added fixed_framerate command line option

*python addition
- modified the repr for beztriple to print less non-sensical output
- beztriple now prints its handles and control point only

Bullet: added per-contact point user-cache, + callback. This allows Collision Detection to be used more generically, and still have persistent info stored, like contact constraints.
Bullet: added support for restitution

==FFMPEG==

Bugfix: FFMPEG-Codec Preset now changes values immediately. (One has to set B_REDR on the menu-button,
allqueue alone doesn't do the job...)

Hrmm, this is a bit nasty: I am now using a different call to get a mesh
for export depending on whether the object containing the data has
modifiers or not. For an object without modifiers, things are nice since
the mesh can be properly instanced and reused. For an object with
modifiers there are problems, since a new Mesh has to be created,
akin to doing an Alt-C on the mesh, and we end up using more memory
after the use of the script than we used beforehand. (I wonder if
I would be better off porting the thing to C.)

From __bpydoc__
This script makes a new image from the used areas of all the images mapped to the selected mesh objects.
Image are packed into 1 new image that is assigned to the original faces.
This is usefull for game models where 1 image is faster then many, and saves the labour of manual texture layout in an image editor.

- Realy needs an image example to see why this is usefull.