Design Documents
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* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Layers
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/DataDesignRevised
User Commit Log
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* New Layer and Collection system to replace render layers and viewport layers.
* A layer is a set of collections of objects (and their drawing options) required for specific tasks.
* A collection is a set of objects, equivalent of the old layers in Blender. A collection can be shared across multiple layers.
* All Scenes have a master collection that all other collections are children of.
* New collection "context" tab (in Properties Editor)
* New temporary viewport "collections" panel to control per-collection
visibility
Missing User Features
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* Collection "Filter"
Option to add objects based on their names
* Collection Manager operators
The existing buttons are placeholders
* Collection Manager drawing
The editor main region is empty
* Collection Override
* Per-Collection engine settings
This will come as a separate commit, as part of the clay-engine branch
Dev Commit Log
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* New DNA file (DNA_layer_types.h) with the new structs
We are replacing Base by a new extended Base while keeping it backward
compatible with some legacy settings (i.e., lay, flag_legacy).
Renamed all Base to BaseLegacy to make it clear the areas of code that
still need to be converted
Note: manual changes were required on - deg_builder_nodes.h, rna_object.c, KX_Light.cpp
* Unittesting for main syncronization requirements
- read, write, add/copy/remove objects, copy scene, collection
link/unlinking, context)
* New Editor: Collection Manager
Based on patch by Julian Eisel
This is extracted from the layer-manager branch. With the following changes:
- Renamed references of layer manager to collections manager
- I doesn't include the editors/space_collections/ draw and util files
- The drawing code itself will be implemented separately by Julian
* Base / Object:
A little note about them. Original Blender code would try to keep them
in sync through the code, juggling flags back and forth. This will now
be handled by Depsgraph, keeping Object and Bases more separated
throughout the non-rendering code.
Scene.base is being cleared in doversion, and the old viewport drawing
code was poorly converted to use the new bases while the new viewport
code doesn't get merged and replace the old one.
Python API Changes
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```
- scene.layers
+ # no longer exists
- scene.objects
+ scene.scene_layers.active.objects
- scene.objects.active
+ scene.render_layers.active.objects.active
- bpy.context.scene.objects.link()
+ bpy.context.scene_collection.objects.link()
- bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, use_active_layer=True, name=None)
+ bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, name=None)
- bpy.context.object.select
+ bpy.context.object.select = True
+ bpy.context.object.select = False
+ bpy.context.object.select_get()
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='SELECT')
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='DESELECT')
-AddObjectHelper.layers
+ # no longer exists
```
Not totally happy with this, but it's better than nothing for until
we've got real outlier detection. Also made it more cleat how exactly
filtering happens, so users don't expect something the operator is not
intended to do.
When you hit "setup tracking scene" in MCE, the active layer usually switches
to the layer where the ground has been created, thus he shadow layer.
New objects are created or appended on that layer which means they will be
default be rendered as shadows only. This behaviour requires muscle memory
and is confusing for new users. This patch is changing the behaviour in a
way that the active layer is remembered from before setting up the scene.
Patch by gottfried, thanks!
Reviewers: sebastian_k, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D574
- Fix for copy default settings from active track operator
- Add meaningful tracking presets
API changes:
- Added parameter exact to Marker.find_frame, so now it's
possible to get estimated marker
- Added Marker.pattern_bound_box to get pattern's bound box
- This operators always used to work with tracks for camera
- Properly set camera and object fields to Follow Track constraint
- TrackingObject.tracks is now pointing to actual list of tracks for
camera objects.
This operator does needed changes to
- 3D viewport
- Scene settings
- World settings
- Compositor
- Scene objects
in a way scene becomes ready to be composited into footage.
Known issue: preview doesn't work "out-of-box" after running this script,
selecting View node and hitting Tab helps. Not sure it can be solved
in nicer way at this moment.
- Fixed incorrect memory access on distoritons more than 128 pixels
- Do not use UNDO operators flags for delete proxy operator (files can't be restored form disk),
and also do not use UNDO for set as background operator (background images are storing in
3d viewport which isn't getting re-loaded on undo which can lead to incorrect users count
of movie clip user).