There is a new option in the Bake panel to enable baking to vertex colors. Unlike regular baking, this mode does not require a UV map or image to bake to, however the object must have a vertex color layer.
Thanks to:
- AutoCRC for funding
- Brech van Lommel and Dalai Felinto for their initial advice on how to implement it
- Campbell Barton for helping to make this feature work with modifiers and bmesh
It introduces a new (py-extendable and registrable) RNA type, UIList (roughly similar to Panel one), which currently contains only "standard" list's scroll pos and size (but may be expended to include e.g. some filtering data, etc.). This now makes lists completely independent from Panels!
This UIList has a draw_item callback which allows to customize items' drawing from python, that all addons can now use. Incidentally, this also greatly simplifies the C code of this widget, as we do not code any "special case" here anymore!
To make all this work, other changes were also necessary:
* Now all buttons (uiBut struct) have a 'custom_data' void pointer, used currently to store the uiList struct associated with a given uiLayoutListBox.
* DynamicPaintSurface now exposes a new bool, use_color_preview (readonly), saying whether that surface has some 3D view preview data or not.
* UILayout class has now four new (static) functions, to get the actual icon of any RNA object (important e.g. with materials or textures), and to get an enum item's UI name, description and icon.
* UILayout's label() func now takes an optional 'icon_value' integer parameter, which if not zero will override the 'icon' one (mandatory to use "custom" icons as generated for material/texture/... previews).
Note: not sure whether we should add that one to all UILayout's prop funcs?
Note: will update addons using template list asap.
This implements AO baking directly from multi-resolution mesh with much
less memory overhead than regular baker.
Uses rays distribution implementation from Morten Mikkelsen, raycast
is based on RayObject also used by Blender Internal.
Works in single-thread yet, multi-threading would be implemented later.
* Removed the ../include and ../src include directories from scons/cmake files.
These directories do not exist and are very noisy when building.
* Coding style clean-up in Python scripts: 'string' is used for enum values,
and "string" for usual stings.
* UILayout.active is used instead of UILayout.enabled to grey out "inactive"
settings. This still allows users to edit them, which can be handy sometimes.
* Improved UI layout of the Line Style panel by means of:
- The standard “column” paradigm is used in more places;
- More compact layout where possible; and
- Tweaks to the modifiers' header.
* Improved UI layout of the Line Set panel by rearranging the "Selection by"
options into a compact row of toggle buttons.
Now tile size is setting up explicitly instead of using number of tiles.
This allows better control over GPU performance, where having tiles aligned
to specific size makes lots of sense.
Still to come: need to update startup.blend to make tiles size 64x64.
Conflicts resolved:
source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
source/blender/bmesh/operators/bmo_utils.c
This commit also includes a fix of a bug identified during the merge and committed in revision 51853.
Thanks Thomas (dingto) for the timely fix!
This commit makes a set of fixes and improvements based on the results of
Freestyle branch review by Brecht. The discussion thread is:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2012-October/037927.html
* The Layers panel and Freestyle-related panels in the Render tab of the
Properties window were moved to the newly created Render Layers tab.
The idea is to separate per render layer rendering options into a distinct
Properties window tab, and use the existing Render tab to accommodate
per scene rendering options.
* The new Freestyle panel was added in the Render tab. The panel header
contains a toggle button for globally enabling Freestyle, with the aim of making
Freestyle easier to find. Those Freestyle options in the Post Processing panel
were also moved to the new panel.
* GUI code was updated so that UI controls will be greyed out (instead of
being hidden) when Freestyle is disabled. Additional UI changes were also
made to reduce space consumption.
* The list of line sets was moved from the Freestyle panel to the Freestyle:
Line Sets panel.
* Old ray-casting algorithms were removed from the UI. Now only two
algorithms (culled and non-culled cumulative visibility detection algorithms)
are available, and the selection is done by the new "Culling" toggle button
within the edge detection options.
Conflicts resolved:
source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
source/blender/render/intern/source/convertblender.c
source/blender/render/intern/source/pipeline.c
Also addressed code inconsistency due to changes in the trunk revision 50628 (color
management with OCIO) and 50806 (UV project material). OCIO-related changes are marked
OCIO_TODO as in some other files modified in revision 50628.
Replace old color pipeline which was supporting linear/sRGB color spaces
only with OpenColorIO-based pipeline.
This introduces two configurable color spaces:
- Input color space for images and movie clips. This space is used to convert
images/movies from color space in which file is saved to Blender's linear
space (for float images, byte images are not internally converted, only input
space is stored for such images and used later).
This setting could be found in image/clip data block settings.
- Display color space which defines space in which particular display is working.
This settings could be found in scene's Color Management panel.
When render result is being displayed on the screen, apart from converting image
to display space, some additional conversions could happen.
This conversions are:
- View, which defines tone curve applying before display transformation.
These are different ways to view the image on the same display device.
For example it could be used to emulate film view on sRGB display.
- Exposure affects on image exposure before tone map is applied.
- Gamma is post-display gamma correction, could be used to match particular
display gamma.
- RGB curves are user-defined curves which are applying before display
transformation, could be used for different purposes.
All this settings by default are only applying on render result and does not
affect on other images. If some particular image needs to be affected by this
transformation, "View as Render" setting of image data block should be set to
truth. Movie clips are always affected by all display transformations.
This commit also introduces configurable color space in which sequencer is
working. This setting could be found in scene's Color Management panel and
it should be used if such stuff as grading needs to be done in color space
different from sRGB (i.e. when Film view on sRGB display is use, using VD16
space as sequencer's internal space would make grading working in space
which is close to the space using for display).
Some technical notes:
- Image buffer's float buffer is now always in linear space, even if it was
created from 16bit byte images.
- Space of byte buffer is stored in image buffer's rect_colorspace property.
- Profile of image buffer was removed since it's not longer meaningful.
- OpenGL and GLSL is supposed to always work in sRGB space. It is possible
to support other spaces, but it's quite large project which isn't so
much important.
- Legacy Color Management option disabled is emulated by using None display.
It could have some regressions, but there's no clear way to avoid them.
- If OpenColorIO is disabled on build time, it should make blender behaving
in the same way as previous release with color management enabled.
More details could be found at this page (more details would be added soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Color_Management
--
Thanks to Xavier Thomas, Lukas Toene for initial work on OpenColorIO
integration and to Brecht van Lommel for some further development and code/
usecase review!
Several users requested the recovery as the removal of the two parameters was considered over-simplification for advanced users.
As in the Python Scripting mode, the two parameters are in the "advanced edge detection options" section and disabled by default.
Also the lower limit of Kr derivative epsilon was changed from 0 to -1000 so as to permit a negative value.
The Post Processing tab in the Render buttons has new Line Thickness options for
defining unit line thickness in two different modes as follows:
1. Absolute mode: The unit line thickness is given by a user-specified number
in units of pixels. The default value is 1.
2. Relative mode: The unit line thickness is scaled by the proportion of the
present vertical image resolution to 480 pixels. For instance, the unit line
thickness is 1 with the image height set to 480, 1.5 with 720, and 2 with 960.
The new options enable a better control on the position of stroke thickness with
respect to stroke backbone geometry. Three predefined positions are:
* center: thickness is evenly split to the left and right side of the stroke geometry.
* inside: strokes are drawn within object boundary.
* outside: strokes are drawn outside the object boundary.
Another option called "relative" allows users to specify the relative position by a
number between 0 (inside) and 1 (outside).
The thickness position options are applied only to strokes of the edge types SILHOUETTE
and BORDER, since these are the only edge types defined in terms of object boundary.
Strokes of other edge types are always using the "center" option.
* Sphere radius and Kr derivative epsilon were removed from the
Parameter Editor mode. Now sphere radius of 1.0 and Kr derivative
epsilon of 0.0 are used by default. The rationale of the removal
is two-fold: little predictability and very minor artistic values.
The effects of these parameters are hard to estimate in advance,
which likely leads to a frustration of users due to repeated
trials and unpredicted results. Therefore, the two parameters
are considered to have quite limited artistic values. Proper
definitions of the two parameters more and less require the
knowledge of differential geometry and would not make sense to
most artists for which the Parameter Editor is intended.
* Sphere radius and Kr derivative epsilon are still available in
the Python Scripting mode, but now in an "advanced options" section
that is disabled and hidden by default. This way new users are
properly warned, while expert users with specific technical needs
can enable these options if they want. The same default values
mentioned above are used when the two parameters are disabled.
