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This is BAD code, but the particle kinking does not make it easy to
write a non-local modifier that requires neighboring positions,
curvature, etc. The feature is needed for Gooseberry.
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This adds another level of clumping on child hairs. When enabled, child
hairs chose a secondary clumping target using a Voronoi pattern. This
adds visual detail on a smaller scale, which is useful particularly when
the number of parents is relatively small.
Natural fibres behave in a similar way when they become sticky and
intertwined. Hairs close to each other form a first twisted strand, then
combine into larger strands. Similar features can be found in ropes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_twists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope
Conflicts:
source/blender/blenloader/intern/versioning_270.c
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This is an alternative method to the current fixed function with a
clump factor and "shape" parameter. This function is quite limited and
does not give the desired result in many cases (e.g. long, parallel
rasta strands are problematic). So rather than trying to add more
parameters there is now a fully user-defined optional curve for setting
the tapering shape.
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This helps to create some variation in a hair system, which can
otherwise become very uniform and boring. It's yet another confusing
setting in a system that should have been nodified, but only option for
now (broken windows ...)
Conflicts:
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/particle_system.c
source/blender/physics/intern/BPH_mass_spring.cpp
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Without this the particle system only shows the actual non-simulated
hairs ("guide hairs") during edit mode. These hairs are used for goals
as well, so showing them in the regular viewport is pretty important.
Also the usual hair curves are interpolated along the entire length,
which makes it very difficult to see exact vertex positions, unless
using exact powers of 2 for the segment number and match the display
steps.
Conflicts:
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/particle.c
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amount and crashes after Cycles render.
This is a hack to fix this, but at this point the system is hopelessly
broken anyway and no good fix other than total rewriting is possible.
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Fluid sims have a very nasty feature for interaction, in which a psys
can directly update the bvhtree for //another object's psys//. This
breaks with threaded depsgraph evaluation and is generally a no-go.
To avoid crashes for now, use a global mutex to avoid concurrent writes
to an object psys' bvhtree.
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in threaded depgraph updates and effector list construction.
Gathering effectors during depgraph updates will call the
psys_check_enabled function. This in turn contained a DNA alloc call
for the psys->frand RNG arrays, which is really bad because data must be
immutable during these effector constructions.
To avoid such allocs the frand array is now global for all particle
systems. To avoid correlation of pseudo-random numbers the psys->seed
value is complemented with random offset and multiplier for the actual
float array. This is not ideal, but work sufficiently well (given that
random numbers were already really limited and show repetition quite
easily for particle counts > PSYS_FRAND_COUNT).
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also fully remove freestyle raycasting_algorithm
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Lattice deformation used to store some runtime data
inside of lattice datablock itself. It's something
which is REALLY bad. Ideally DNA shouldn't contain
and runtime data.
For now solved it in a way that initialization of
lattice deform will create a structure which contains
lattice object for which deformation is calculating
and that runtime data which used to be stored in
lattice datablock itself.
It works really fine for mesh deform modifier, but
there's still runtime data stored in particle system
DNA, It didn't look something easy to be solved, so
leaving this as-is for now.
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svn merge -r58277:58278 -r58795:58796 ^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
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might not want (even though in general I think its an improvement).
split this into 2 options, added 'Normal-Tangent' orientation that makes the mesh orient towards the tangent, otherwise it uses Z-Up as before.
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The Emission panel now has a Use Modifier Stack option to emit particles from
the mesh with modifiers applied. Previously particles would only be emitted from
faces that exist in the original mesh. There are some caveats however:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.68/Tools#Particles
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* Removed "rotfrom" from particle RNA/DNA, was not used anywhere.
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http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29681&group_id=9&atid=127
The solver was mostly implemented by John Mansour at VPAC, with help from me and with funding from the AutoCRC. The SPH formulation is due to Gingold and Monaghan, and the smoothing kernel is due to Wendland.
This solver does not replace the old one; it is available as an option. Note that the new solver uses different units than the old one. The patch page has a couple of attachments that can be used to test the new solver, particularly sphclassical_dam_s0.01_grav.blend (ignore the earlier tests). The simulation in that file compares well with a physical experimental dam break; details in a paper by Changhong Hu and Makoto Sueyoshi, also referred to on that page.
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After 2.63 there was a bugfix to take object scale into account for the duplicated
objects, but this breaks compatibility on earlier files. Now there is an option to
control if the scale should be used or not.
Scale is used by default on newer files, and not used on older ones.
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problem was that BMesh had tessellation call when undo pushes were called.
if python called an operator with no undo push, tessfaces would not be created.
fix this by making it the responsibility of each editmesh operator to re-tessellate, as it is with notifiers and depsgraph.
added EDBM_update_generic() function to add notifier, tag for depsgraph update and optionally re-tessellate.
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- More angular velocity modes to support creative effects.
- Renamed "Initial Rotation" to "Initial Orientation" to better reflect the functionality
- Renamed "Spin" angular velocity mode to "Velocity".
- Organized the rotation panel a bit better.
- Also some better names and tooltips for the different rotation values.
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the cache end frame would reset to the previous state on confirm. Was an issue
with object animation being evaluated unnecessarily, now make check more
precise.
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- The main problem was that in order to be accurate all particle
rotations have to be calculated incrementally so the only working
solution is to store rotations to the point cache (previously
this was only done for dynamic rotations). This can nearly double
the point cache size so it's not ideal to have this as a default
as in many cases you don't care about particle rotations.
- Particle rotation panel now has a new "enable" checkbox that
enables rotation calculations and the storing of rotations to
point cache.
- Old files will have rotations enabled via do_versions so that in
the worst case old files will only get bigger point caches, but no
sudden loss of particle rotations.
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without the underscores these clogged up the namespace for autocompleation which was annoying.
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This commit extends limit of ID and objects to 64 (it means 63 meaning
characters and 1 for zero-terminator). CustomData layers names are also
extended.
Changed DNA structures and all places where length constants were hardcoded.
All names which are "generating" from ID block should be limited by MAX_ID_NAME-2,
all non-id names now has got own define called MAX_NAME which should be used all
over for non-id names to make further name migration stuff easier.
All name fields in DNA now have comment with constant which corresponds to
hardcoded numeric value which should make it easier to further update this
limits or even switch to non-hardcoded values in DNA.
Special thanks to Campbell who helped figuring out some issues and helped a lot
in finding all cases where hardcoded valued were still used in code.
Both of forwards and backwards compatibility is stored with blender versions newer
than January 5, 2011. Older versions had issue with placing null-terminator to
DNA strings on file load which will lead to some unpredictable behavior or even
crashes.
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edits in DNA
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this means use of deprecated struct members gives a warning.
- makesdna.c preprocessor skips this.
- DNA_DEPRECATED_ALLOW is used so readfile.c can do versioning without warnings.
- this exposes some use of deprecated struct members, will deal with this after.
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smoke had this same bug too
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http://markmail.org/message/fp7ozcywxum3ar7n
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There has been quite a bit of fuss about particle dupliobject rotation in 2.59, so here are some changes to make things work a bit more consistently and predictably in 2.60.
Much of the confusion has been about what the "Initial rotation" for particles actually means. Simply put it's just a vector that that the particles (and the dupliobjects) are aligned to and around which they can be rotated with the phase controls. I've now renamed these controls under a label "Rotation axis".
In 2.59 and previous versions the dupliobject's global x-axis was aligned to the particle rotation axis for non-hair particles. This meant that the object's own rotation (in addition to the particle rotation) could effect the dupliobjects' rotations. This old behavior can still be used with the "Rotation" option in the particle render panel when object/group is set as the visualization. This option is also activated automatically for old files to maintain backwards compatibility.
Now the default dupliobject rotations ignore the object's own rotation completely and align the object's tracking axis to the particle rotation axis. The tracking axis can be found under the Object tab -> Animation Hacks panel.
In 2.58 the way of calculating the rotation for hair didn't work as intended and enabled many non-functional combinations of options. For this reason I removed most of the rotation options for hair in 2.59. Now the options have been reimplemented better and the dupliobject's tracking axis is aligned to the hair direction by default (Rotation axis = Velocity / Hair). All the other axis options work too along with the phase controls.
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subframes can now be altered automatically while an SPH (fluid particle)
simulation is running.
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file-load.
* New object pointers can't be loaded properly for library linked groups, so the weight groups now store an index to the group objects at save time. This index is used at load time to set the objects without relying on the old pointers.
* If the library linked group is modified the indices can be wrong, but this can't really be avoided easily as there's no way to relate objects in a linked group between loads.
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for width and height of billboards, relative to the particle size. It's useful when the particle size is primarily used for collision and the like, so the billboard appearance can be adjusted independently. Also allows non-square billboards.
In addition the billboards can be scaled by the particle velocity with optional head and tail factors (similar to line drawing options). This allows for pseudo-motionblur effects.
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algorithm remains
the same, but big changes have happened both on the outside and on the inside.
New UI:
* The old parameters were quite true to the underlying algorithm, but were quite obscure
from a users point of view. Now there are only a few intuitive basic parameters that
define the basic fluid behavior.
** By default particle size is now used to determine the interaction radius, rest
density and spring rest lengths so that it's easy to get stable simulations by simply
emitting particles for a few frames and adjusting the particle size (easy when the
particle size is drawn) so that the fluid appears continuous (particles are touching
eachother).
** Stiffness - in reality most fluids are very incompressible, but this is a very hard
problem to solve with particle based fluid simulation so some compromises have to be
made. So the bigger the stiffness parameter is the less the fluid will compress under
stress, but the more substeps are needed for stable simulation.
** Viscosity - how much internal friction there is in the fluid. Large viscosities also
smooth out instabilities, so less viscous fluids again need more substeps to remain
stable.
** Buoancy - with high buoancy low pressure areas inside the fluid start to rise against
gravity, and high pressure areas start to come down.
* In addition to these basic parameters there are separate advanced parameters that can
either be tweaked relative to the basic parameters (or particle size) or defined
independently.
** Repulsion - the stiffness parameter tries to keep the fluid density constant, but this
can lead to small clumps of particles, so the repulsion keeps the particles better
separated.
** Stiff viscosity - the normal viscosity only applies when particles are moving closer to
eachother to allow free flowing fluids. Stiff viscosity also applies smoothing to
particles that are moving away from eachother.
** Interaction radius - by default this is 4 * particle size.
** Rest density - by default this is a density that the particles have when they're packed
densely next to eachother.
** Spring rest length - by default this is 2 * particle size.
* There are also new options for 3d view particle coloring in the display panel to show
particle velocity and acceleration. These make it easier to see what's happening in the
fluid simulations, but can of course be used with other particles as well.
* Viscoelastic springs have some new options too. The plasticity can now be set to much
higher values for instant deletion of springs as the elastic limit is exeeded. In addition
to that there is an option to only create springs for a certain number of frames when a
particle is born. These options give new possibilities for breaking viscoelastic fluids.
New in the code:
* Most of the fluids code is now thread safe, so when particle dynamics go threaded there
will be a nice speed boost to fluids as well.
* Fluids now use a bvh-tree instead of a kd-tree for the neighbor lookups. The bvh-tree
implementation makes the code quite a bit cleaner and should also give a slight speed
boost to the simulation too.
* Previously only force fields were calculated with the different integration methods, but
now the fluid calculations are also done using the selected integration method, so there
are again more choices in effecting simulation accuracy and stability. This change also
included a nice cleanup of the whole particle integration code.
As the internals are pretty stirred up old particle fluid simulations will probably not
work correctly straight away, but with some tweaking the same level of control is still
available by not using the "relative versions" of the advanced parameters (by default these
are not used when loading old files).
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* Grid distribution isn't really suited for hair, so this is now disabled.
* Setting a jittered distribution with particles/face = 1 now creates particles on the center of faces.
* Quite a bit of cleanup of the whole particle distribution code.
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documentation done.
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* New option to distribute particles in a hexagonal grid.
* This is much more stable for fluids than normal grid distribution and looks quite nice otherwise too :)
* Also some small scale code cleanup of grid distribution code.
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* Renamed the old split uv's animate option "time" to "age" and added a new option to change the used split frame by frame. These are good changes were suggested/implied by Hannu Hoffren over 3 years ago in his tutorial video! (oh my how time flies)
* Also cleaned up the billboard ui quite a bit. For example now the uv channels can be properly chosen from the existing channels.
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* Greetings from farsthary: particle rotation is now taken into account for particle effector direction.
** This gives all kinds of new possibilities as he shows in his blog http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/vortex-particle-simple-tut/.
**The only modification I made to his patch was to use the actual rotated particle direction as the effector direction as this defaults to the particle velocity vector, so no actual new options are needed.
* I also added an "effector amount" setting for particle effectors so that only a part of the particles can be considered as effectors. This makes it possible to create simple "farsthary vortexes" with only one particle system.
* Also some tiny reorganization of the falloff min/max values for a nicer ui.
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* Effecting particle properties with textures was possible in 2.49,
but not in 2.5 anymore.
* Now particles have their own textures (available in texture panel
for objects with particle systems), which are totally separate from
the material textures.
* Currently a basic set of particle properties is available for
texture control. Some others could still be added, but the whole
system is not intended as an "change anything with a texture" as
this kind of functionality will be provided with node particles in
the future much better.
* Combined with the previously added "particle texture coordinates"
this new functionality also solves the problem of animating particle
properties through the particle lifetime nicely.
* Currently the textures only use the intensity of the texture in
"multiply" blending mode, so in order for the textures to effect
a particle parameter there has to be a non-zero value defined for
the parameter in the particle settings. Other blend modes can be
added later if they're considered useful enough.
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* There were a lot of settings in the particle panels that made no sense for simple hair and only cluttered up the ui.
* Now these settings are hidden by default unless "advanced" hair options are shown.
* Without advanced options the particle velocity controls are replaced by a simple "hair length" value, which actually corresponds to the grown hair length in blender units.
* Some hair effector options that are actually very useful were not shown in ui. These are now found in the "field weights" panel.
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rendering them was a real mess.
* After countless different bugs particles should now render correctly inside dupligroups.
* Only particles with metaball visualization are still problematic, this is mostly due to the ancient metaball code.
* I'll also add a test file for some of the situations, so that hopefully these cases stay fixed :)
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* Particles that aren't shown are now actually deleted (huge memory savings for flat objects).
* Grid distribution for flat objects is now done on the surface object surface without offset.
* Invert grid option wasn't in ui and it didn't work for non-volume grids.
* New parameter to randomize the grid point locations.
* Resolution soft/hard limits changed to even 50/250.
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Whitehorn (chickencoop)
* Viscoelastic springs between the fluid particles can simulate all kinds
of viscous and elastic substances, such as jelly and honey. This is
achieved by creating springs dynamically between neighboring particles
and adjusting their rest length based on stretching/compression.
* This nearly completes the currently intended functionality for particle
fluids. The last missing thing is a surfacing extraction algorithm,
which is needed for a proper representation of a sph fluid.
* I also cleaned up and renamed some of the fluid parameters to make the
ui a bit easier to understand.
* One addition to the patch is an option to use "initial rest length" for
the springs, which uses the lengths between the particles at the time of
spring creation as the spring rest lengths instead of interaction radius/2.
This makes the fluid keep it's original shape better (good for very
viscoelastic materials), but can create large density differences inside
the fluid (not really physically correct for a fluid).
* Viscoelastic springs are stored in point cache as extra data.
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* Renamed children to "simple" and "interpolated" as this is
easier to explain and more descriptive than "from particles"
and "from faces".
* Also shuffled the child ui around a bit to make it clearer.
* Child seed parameter allows to change the seed for children
independent of the main seed value.
* Long hair mode for interpolated children:
- Making even haircuts was impossible before as the child
strand lengths were even, but their root coordinates were
not similar in relation to the parent strands.
- The "long hair" option uses the tips of the parent strands
to calculate the child strand tips.
* Hair parting options:
- Hair parting can now be calculated dynamically on the fly
when in 2.49 there was a cumbersome way of using emitter mesh
seams to define parting lines.
- For long hair parting can be created by a tip distance/root
distance threshold. For example setting the minimum threshold
to 2.0 creates partings between children belonging to parents
with tip distance of three times the root distance
((1+2)*root distance).
- For short hair the parting thresholds are used as angles
between the root directions.
* New kink parameters:
- Kink flatness calculates kink into a shape that would have
been achieved with an actual curling iron.
- Kink amplitude clump determines how much the main clump value
effects the kink amplitude.
- The beginning of kink is now smoothed to make the hair look
more natural close to the roots.
* Some bugs fixed along the way too:
- Child parent's were not determined correctly in some cases.
- Children didn't always look correct in particle mode.
- Changing child parameters caused actual particles to be
recalculated.
* Also cleaned up some deprecated code.
All in all there should be no real changes to how old files look
(except perhaps a bit better!), but the new options should make
hair/fur creation a bit more enjoyable. I'll try to make a video
demonstrating the new stuff shortly.
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discussed with Jahka on Saturday on IRC
* New option to "Regrow hair" for each frame.
* This was perhaps more a feature request, but there was a similar useful feature called "animated hair" in particles at some point.
* The previous behavior for hair growing was inconsistent to say the least, so this is a nice option to have.
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* Increasing subframe count increases stability for SPH fluid and Newtonian particles
* Also small tweaks into physics ui panel to better fit new subframes value
* This commit also fixes the moving fluid emitter problem as described by Raul in the mailinglist
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