Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
Note: For most node types the height is determined automatically.
Note2: There are two independent width values, one for regular nodes and one for the collapsed ("hidden") state.
volume wasn't accurate, it still isn't quite but hopefully a bit better by
taking clip start into account.
With clip start it's actually impossible to do a single 'inside' test, since
there will not be a single point where all camera rays start from, though for
small clip start they will be close together.
not exactly a bug - zero area faces from a cancelled extrude gave issues - but this is a common use case, so make it work by only using selected faces when calculating the vertex shell thickness.
The node_add_move operator is an extended variant which starts the (modal) transform operator right after adding a node, as a quicker way of inserting nodes in a tree.
this may introduce bugs which I didn't catch, but they are very easy to identify in a debug build which has asserts to ensure the arrays are valid before use.
in my own test drawing ~98,304 quads - this gave an overall ~16% drawing speedup.
- BM_mesh_elem_toolflags_ensure / bmo_flag_layer_alloc / bmo_flag_layer_free / bmo_flag_layer_clear
- BM_mesh_select_flush
- EDBM_index_arrays_init
notes:
- mostly use openmp `sections` to split operations on vert/edge/face since this is a fairly minor change.
- split tool flag pool in 3, this means we can allocate exact sizes needed and iterate on them in threads without alloc'ing.
* Simplify default color values, where each component was the same.
* Initialize closures as Null Closure, rather than assigning an existing closure, gets overwritten anyways.
When camera is the pivot of 3d window, and you go to camera view, moving out of
view with MMB drag causes zooming to stop working. Zooms depend on view3d "dist"
value, which then became zero.
This fix just makes dist "1.0" then, arbitrary but keeps things at least work.
(Tried restoring to previous 'dist', but this fails in cases too)
