Particles

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- Fix crash in particle transform with the particle system not editable.
- Particle child distribution and caching is now multithreaded.
- Child particles now have a separate Render Amount next to the existing
  Amount. The render amount particles are now only distributed and cached
  at render time, which should make editing with child particles faster.

- Two new options for diffuse strand shading:
	- Surface Diffuse: computes the strand normal taking the normal at
	  the surface into account.
	- Blending Distance: the distance in Blender units over which to
	  blend in the normal at the surface.
- Special strand rendering for more memory efficient and faster hair and
  grass. This is a work in progress, and has a number of known issues,
  don't report bugs to me for this feature yet.

More info:
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-244/particles/

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/render/intern/include/zbuf.h b/source/blender/render/intern/include/zbuf.h
index ed3f93adfdd..0d88d40e7ac 100644
--- a/source/blender/render/intern/include/zbuf.h
+++ b/source/blender/render/intern/include/zbuf.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ void set_part_zbuf_clipflag(struct RenderPart *pa);
 void zbuffer_shadow(struct Render *re, struct LampRen *lar, int *rectz, int size, float jitx, float jity);
 void zbuffer_solid(struct RenderPart *pa, unsigned int layer, short layflag);
 unsigned short *zbuffer_transp_shade(struct RenderPart *pa, struct RenderLayer *rl, float *pass);
+unsigned short *zbuffer_strands_shade(struct Render *re, struct RenderPart *pa, struct RenderLayer *rl, float *pass);
 void convert_zbuf_to_distbuf(struct RenderPart *pa, struct RenderLayer *rl);
 void zbuffer_sss(RenderPart *pa, unsigned int lay, void *handle, void (*func)(void *, int, int, int, int));