Blender Git Commits

Autokey option crashed on Transform... was still using defines from before
the object-action-ipo-nla recode 2 weeks ago.

New: X-axis mirror weightpainting.

- Set the button in Paint Panel, Edit buttons context
- It assumes the mesh to be near-perfectly mirrored. Current threshold is
set to 0.0001 (maximum difference allowed).
In order to evaluate proper mirroring, a new option will be added in
Mesh editmode later.
- When the flipped group doesn't exist yet, it creates the group
- Of course this doesn't work for mirror modifier!

New: Select/activate flipped bone or vertex group
- Press SHIFT+F in PoseMode or WeightPaint mode to get the flipped bone.
Is especially to see while painting if the mirror copying works OK.

New: "Apply Envelope to VertexGroup" uses X-mirror option too.

Todo; check on mirror vertex painting, and mirror Mesh editmode....

The implementation is based on a 8x8x8 Octree, where vertex locations are
stored. Vertices on the threshold boundary of an Octree node are filled in
the neighbour nodes as well, ensuring that the lookup works with threshold.
The current size of the Octree gives good speedup, even for 128k vertices
it only needs 256 lookup cycles per checked vertex.
Same code could be used for the bevel tool for example.

src/meshtools.c:
int mesh_octree_table(Object *ob, float *co, char mode)

- mode 's' or 'e' is "start octree" or "end octree"
- mode 'u' is "use", it then returns an index nr of the found vertex.
(return -1 if not found)

-bug fixed
-symtom: looks like rigged SB mesh follows weird goal settings
-cause: arbitary initialisation of 'edge spring rest length' ... must have happend by introducing 'modifyer stacK'

A tweak for text follow curve -- the old comment in the code says
"why not 0.5?", so I am setting it to 0.5 since it looks way
better that way (I think somebody should really revisit this code
at some point).

- documentation updates:
-- add Key module to index page
-- include cross references for Object.colbits in material descriptions
within Object, NMesh and Mesh modules

1. Moved Edgeloop Delete to Delete Menu out of Edge Specials
2. Edgeloop Delete will pop the undo stack if it fails
3. Small Tweak on CTRL-Subdivide selection

- Bugfix #3227: throw exception in NMesh if face data doesn't contain 3 or
4 vertices

Bugfix: #3189, #3208, UV Mirror (MKEY) didn't work.

Bugfix: #3149, Parent rotation influences DoF / rotation limits

The rotation of the parent of the root in an IK chain was included
in the segment's basis, leading to the DoF / rotation limits to be
computed on the wrong basis.

Crash fix (now discovered myself!). On sampling wpaint color (ctrl+lmb),
when no vertex groups exist, it was referencing illegal memory.

Another memory error found, when deleting bones in editmode, it didn't
correctly free constraints.

To ensure the UI not to show any deleted data, after leaving editmode it
now also redraws nla, action and ipo.

Memory error 'end corrupt' reports for deform groups... can't find it yet,
but this code ensures the strcpy() is using BLI_strncpy now, and it uses
more clear names for the mallocs.

Bugfix; using weightpaint changed the default lighting setup (specular).

Curve and Lattice deform Modifiers now accept optional Vertex Group name
to finetune deform further as well.
Note that curve deform requires object buttons 'track' and 'up' axes set
properly. Curve deform can twist/flip a lot, making Vertex Group based
deform hard to set up.

fix for Game engine bug #1961 furnished by Josh Nimoy.

Thanks.

Although the fix is not perfect (lacks screen requisition safeguards),
it does indeed allow to run game engine fullscreen

Another option for more Armature deform control;

The "Use VGroup" or "Use Envelope" options now are in Modifier Panel
for Armature deform.
If Modifiers are in use, they override the Armature settings for it.
(Cannot get rid of the Armature panel options yet, since Blender still
allows parenting to be deforming too, which is displayed as a Virtual
modifier now)

This now allows to - for example - make a Envelope deform on a Lattice,
and have same Armature use vertexgroups on Mesh.

Next; vertexgroup option for Lattice & Curve deform

- fix bug calculating number of edges to create in mesh.edges.extend()
(thanks to guitargeek for catching)

- Fix for Wkey menu in WeightPaint modus; it didn't work when the armature
is a modifier only (Armature not parented to Mesh).
Note; if multiple Modifier/Armatures work, it uses only the first still.

- Armature option 'draw axes' now scales axes to 0.25 of bone length.

New option; "Lock Time to Other Windows" for Ipo, Action, NLA and Time
windows. If set (in View pulldown), it synchronizes the horizontal scale of
the current window with the other Windows with this option set. That way
you always have these windows showing an identical part of the time you
work on.

Also added because Action Window now displays its content relative to
NLA strips.

Adding some simple but very convenient selection
functionality for the UV editor:

* A "Select->Pinned UVs" command (Shift P) that
selects all the visible pinned UVs
* A "Select->Border Select Pinned" tool (Shift B) that
works just like the normal border select tool, but only acts on pinned UVs

This is really useful when using LSCM, I only want to
touch the pinned UVs and then recalculate.