Blender Git Loki

Small fixes in 3d window preview render, discovered while making regression
files for it :)

- on load, the rendering was done twice
- changing area size didn't correct the render

Bug fix, reported by lukep at mailing list. Blender doesn't craash, when
metaball is selected. Wrong recreating of existing Bounding box was reason
of crashes.

Changed some references to 'size' to now refer to 'scale'. If anybody
sees a reference to size, as it pertains to a 3D object, please let
me know.

Fixed a bug where the start of the wave was not drawn, also added verbose commenting and cleaned up the wave allignment.

happy msvc6 compiling/debugging again
remember no GE for msvc6

BUG #4323:

Help->System->Benchmark (the Tkey benchmark) returned timings even if
user cancelled the pupmenu. Was just missing a check
for -1 in toets.c -- wonder how old this one was... Reported by Wim Van
Hoydonck.

Scripts:
- Updated Jean-Michel's hotkeys script for Blender 2.42.
- Followed Pieter Visser's suggestion and added version info to the menu
names of the older collada scripts (v1.3.1).

Thanks guys!

Note for builders: nevermind if you already compiled 2.42RC1, these
updates are not critical at all and can be left for the release or RC2.

renamed 'Size' to Radius in the logic buttons (This naming was confusing, as the 'size' was only used as 'radius' for a rigid body with 'sphere' shapel. It has no effect on box, convex, cylinder and other shapes.

Don't worry, this is unrelated to recent Size -> Scale renaming.

interim fix for the low end integrated intel graphic cards
until a better solution is found

Fixes for preview render in buttons:

- restored type choice compatiblity (plane, sphere, cube) with 2.41 release (sorry, will break saved files with CVS... my fault, should
have known.)

- removed lamp choices (lights now are different per preview, no fixed
choices).

- added checkered plane behind the plane preview. nicer for halos.

Endian fix for drawing alpha in images.

Bug fix:

Files saved with new cloth modifier patch crash in cvs blender. (#define
for cloth is 13 even!). This was caused by lack of upward compatibility
for non existing modifiers.

Also added giant warning in code for the ENUM for modifier types.

Bugfix #4135

Mixdown option (blending sequence audio strips) didn't write proper WAV.
- file length in header chunk was too short (potential crasher)
- endian switch code used swab(), which wasn't defined to work when src and
target is identical
- cleaned up some code too... like removing timecursor() for core loop.

Bugfix #4329

New "Dimension" button: when using TAB to cycle over buttons, the dimension
event was sent multiple times, accumulating scaling. The code was also not
prepared to handle multiple changes at one event.

Also: added object_get_boundbox(Object *ob) in BKE_object.h, so the code
now really supports most primitives in Blender.

===Python API===
Moved .up() and .down() methods from Constraint API to Constraint sequence
API (also renamed them to moveUp() and moveDown() ). Again, methods which
modify the "parent" structure didn't seem consistent.

===Python API===
Moved .up() and .down() methods from Modifier API to Modifier sequence
API (also renamed them to moveUp() and moveDown() ). Locating methods
which modify the "parent" structure in objects didn't seem consistent.

Bug 4313

Particles: option "even" failed when faces where all exactly same sized,
then it sometimes skipped entire faces.

Just the regular <1.0 that had to be <=1.0

Restored the pretty lousy but still popular stars render in blender.
Hope our sky guru can come with something cooler for next release!

bugfix 4324

Old issue... Blender saves jpg RGBA files. That's unsupported in all
programs except Blender, always a source of problems with that feature.

Now it just falls back to saving 24 bits when the "RGBA" option is set.

Altering the rules for opening a blender area window for render output.

- if current visible area shows render result; use this
- else: search for largest non-Image area (so it won't use Texture or
Composite outputs)
- else if only 1 available window it uses that one.

Works for both new options (fullscreen too). Especiall fullscreen works
much better, since it uses an own designated Image Window by default.

Lens flare rendering back.... completely forgot about this antique
feature.

It doesn't render preview yet... for that we have to fix preview system.