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Merge branch 'id_override_static' into asset-engine

Merge branch 'master' into id_override_static

Fix T53191: Python API Reference link wrong in splash screen.

Forgot to update splashscreen links when we switched API doc naming
scheme...

Curve Decimate: new tool to simplify bezier curves

Access from the curve clean-up menu

Merge branch 'blender2.8' into greasepencil-object

CMake: cleanup

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

Draw Manager: re-enable edit-mesh text overlay

Fix manipulator drawing before their refresh callback

Caused glitch with Scale-Cage tool.

Missing NULL pointer check in poly-build tool

CMake: cleanup

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

# Conflicts:
# build_files/cmake/macros.cmake
# build_files/cmake/platform/platform_win32.cmake

CMake: use only absolute linker paths for msvc.

cmake's link_directories will supply forward slashes for the search paths, the msvc linker has some issues with that, while it will search for the needed libs just fine, the incremental linker gets fed forward slashes for some libs, while the previous binary has backward slashes in it's metadata, the linker assumes obj files got added and performs a full link instead of an incremental link. This change brings down the link time with newer msvc versions for a trivial edit down from a few minutes to a few seconds.

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

Alembic: added frame offset property

The offset is subtracted, so that it's intuitive (dragging slider pushes
the animation further that way on the timeline).

Cycles: restore SOBOL_SKIP hack, for some cases where it helps still.

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

# Conflicts:
# source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc
# source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.h
# source/blender/alembic/intern/alembic_capi.cc
# tests/gtests/alembic/abc_export_test.cc

Alembic: exporting MetaBalls as mesh

- Only basis balls are exported, as they represent the resulting mesh.
As a result the mesh is written to Alembic using the name of the basis
ball.
- MetaBalls are converted to a mesh on every frame, then an
AbcMeshWriter is used to write that mesh to Alembic.

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

BMesh: use heap update for dissolve-decimate