SNAP improvements! - BLENDER TODAY #230

Changelog

Total: 188 commits, of which 56 are fixes and 46 cleanup.

Add credit for static data

• Add credit for static data - Falk David

Add light group tests category to Cycles

• Add light group tests category to Cycles - Sergey Sharybin

Animation

• Animation: Update NLA "TAB" tweak mode to be full stack evaluation - Nate Rupsis

BKE_main

• BKE_main: simplify & update debugging block for tracking freed ID's - Campbell Barton

BLI

• BLI: Improve IndexMask::complement() performance - Hans Goudey

BLI_string

• BLI_string: add BLI_strchr_or_end - Campbell Barton

Build

• Build: fix OpenBSD error in guardedalloc - Brad Smith

Cleanup

• Cleanup: EEVEE: Simplify computation in #ltc_evaluate_disk_simple - Weizhen Huang
• Cleanup: Use C++ functor for button pushed query callback - Julian Eisel
• Cleanup: replace list-base count_at_most with is_single for clarity - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: use BLI_strchr_or_end to simplify new-line stepping - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: disambiguate the term 'path' - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: format - Chris Blackbourn
• Cleanup: replace 'sz' abbreviation with 'size' - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: rename ParticleSettings.child_nbr to child_percent - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: use 'num' suffix for sizes in DNA instead of 'size' - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: function style casts, use nullptr, printf & size macros - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove redundant struct qualifier - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove NULL literals in C++ (including comments & strings) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove unused argument - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove redundant struct qualifiers - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: header wrapping, spelling, use doxy sections - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Fix build warnings - Richard Antalik
• Cleanup: use local utility functions for clipboard file-paths - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: quiet warnings - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: spelling in comments, odd comment block spacing - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: format - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup - Falk David
• Cleanup: Use unique_ptr, references for UV aabb islands - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: unused argument warning - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Clang-format - Julian Eisel
• Cleanup: Remove unused argument in recursive function - Julian Eisel
• Cleanup: Deprecation warning in the FFmpeg - Sergey Sharybin
• Cleanup: Add a copyright notice to files and use SPDX format - Sergey Sharybin
• Cleanup: clang-tidy files in uvedit - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: unused variable warnings - Sergey Sharybin
• Cleanup: use nullptr and function style casts for numbers - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove redundant struct qualifiers in 'uvedit' - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: use EXIT_SUCCESS/FAILURE from calls to exit() - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: use EXIT_SUCCESS/FAILURE from calls to exit() - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Simplofy use of modifier eval context flags - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Simplify retrieval of evaluated point cloud for conversion - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Remove unnecessary assert - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: compiler warnings - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cleanup: docstrings arguments part. - Bastien Montagne
• Cleanup: formatting - Falk David
• Cleanup: avoid copy & unnecessary allocation creating temporary path - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: minor adjustment to WM_exit_ex - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: pass the exit-code to WM_exit - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: rename wmWindowManager::initizlied to init_flag - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove redundant braces around for loop - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: avoid term 'str' or 'string' for string variables - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: redundant temp string & over sized filename & number buffer - Campbell Barton

Correction to b1b8091667

• Correction to b1b8091667: Use utility function - Julian Eisel

Cycles

• Cycles: Remove MultiGGX code, replace with albedo scaling - Lukas Stockner
• Cycles: more efficient and better-behaved sampling of spherical triangles - Weizhen Huang
• Cycles: Remove redundant MetalRT workaround & add two useful DebugFlags - Michael Jones

Deps_builder

• Deps_builder: Fix USD debug build on windows - Ray Molenkamp

Draw

• Draw: Fix: Clear layer_views_ on Texture::free() - Miguel Pozo

EEVEE Next

• EEVEE Next: Image rendering and render passes fixes/improvements - Miguel Pozo

EEVEE-Next

• EEVEE-Next: Fix shader buildtime validation - Clément Foucault

Externals

• Externals: compile fmtlib as a library instead of using it with FMT_HEADER_ONLY - Aras Pranckevicius
• Externals: update fmtlib to latest version (10.0.0) - Aras Pranckevicius
• Externals: update fast_float to latest version (5.0.0) to fix some compile warnings - Aras Pranckevicius

FIX #108019

• FIX #108019: Detect absence of ray tracing support on late 2015 iMac - William Leeson

Fix

• Fix: action's actual users and recorded user count could diverge - Nathan Vegdahl
• Fix: action's actual users and recorded user count could diverge - Nathan Vegdahl
• Fix: Avoid windows.h min/max macro definition in BLI_winstuff.h - guishe
• Fix: remove materials from simulation state in all cases - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: Crash in 2.8 versioning after recent cleanup - Iliya Katueshenock
• Fix: Build Warning of Unused Variable - Harley Acheson
• Fix: Compilation error after 960b53dbbba - Miguel Pozo
• Fix #103068: Link insert offset not working when rotating/scaling nodes - Leon Schittek
• Fix #107299: new PLY importer does not skip unknown custom data elements - Aras Pranckevicius
• Fix #107704: Release infrequently used memory in Metal buffer pools - Jason Fielder
• Fix #107766: Resolve Metal texutre usage issue for GreasePencil fill - Jason Fielder
• Fix #107870: Movie Clip Editor hangs in "Clip" view - Julian Eisel
• Fix #107956: Simulation reset on fps change - YimingWu
• Fix #108039: Incorrect results when setting custom normals - Hans Goudey
• Fix #108161: Transform affected by off constraints - YimingWu
• Fix #108211: Incorrect Transmission Color pass due to merged Glass closure - Lukas Stockner
• Fix #108262: Create cache folder only for modifiers with used sim zones - Lukas Tönne
• Fix #108266: sculpt auto created color attribute not set as render color - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #108273: Mirror modifier resets copied custom normals - Hans Goudey
• Fix #108285: Crash in Outliner when using RNA ID remapping API call. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #108285: Remap Users operator doesn't work on Objects. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #108316: CUDA error rendering Attic scene - Sergey Sharybin
• Fix #108330: Resample node crash with empty curves - Hans Goudey
• Fix #108336: Treat node sockets with muted links as linked - Leon Schittek
• Fix #108342: Regression: Cycles: Light group does not work - Sergey Sharybin
• Fix #108356: Group Console with App on Taskbar - Harley Acheson
• Fix #108363: Light linking does not work when linked to self - Sergey Sharybin
• Fix #108374: Sun light linking issue on direct sampling - Sergey Sharybin
• Fix #108381: Ensure ImageOutput is closed while IOProxy is still alive - Jesse Yurkovich
• Fix #108403: Console Word Selection Clipboard Copy Incorrect - Harley Acheson
• Fix #108456: Missed declaration function in Shortest Edge Paths node - Iliya Katueshenock
• Fix #108472: weight painted when ctrl-left-click on bone in GP - Sietse Brouwer
• Fix #108473: unreliable auto-normalize results when weight painting in GPencil - Sietse Brouwer
• Fix #108475: no helpful tooltips for Vertex Paint tools in Grease Pencil - Sietse Brouwer
• Fix #108495: Pasting a material crashes - Campbell Barton
• Fix #108500: Resolve Metal line loop emulation for armature limits - Jason Fielder
• Fix #108501: Image Editor glitch after texture painting undo - Dalai Felinto
• Fix #108537: Incorrect early return in delete geometry node - Iliya Katueshenock
• Fix #108574: Error when trying to move a keyframe - Germano Cavalcante
• Fix #88010: Undo system did not respect memory limit. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix (studio-reported) LibOverride from Outliner not working well. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix (unreported) BKE add_collection allowed to add to liboverride. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix (unreported) liboverride creation glitches: - Bastien Montagne
• Fix 106976: Crash when setting custom asset preview - Julian Eisel
• Fix Build Warning of Unused Function - Harley Acheson
• Fix Principled Hair Absorption Coefficient when using OSL - Lukas Stockner
• Fix compilation error on Linux - Germano Cavalcante
• Fix compile error on MSVC - Julian Eisel
• Fix compiler error on Metal - Weizhen Huang
• Fix crash assessing freed memory when pasting materials - Campbell Barton
• Fix crashes accessing freed memory from the material clipboard - Campbell Barton
• Fix error from recent refactor failing to save user data on exit - Campbell Barton
• Fix failure exit-code after pressing escape - Campbell Barton
• Fix failure to cleanup temporary files with '--python-exit-code' - Campbell Barton
• Fix failure to paste material color alpha & paste line-art - Campbell Barton
• Fix file/asset browser document type icons using wrong theme color - Julian Eisel
• Fix invalid UI panel bit-flag value - Julian Eisel
• Fix library override test on WIN32 - Campbell Barton
• Fix material copy-buffer memory leak on exit - Campbell Barton
• Fix material copy-buffer memory leak on exit - Campbell Barton
• Fix memory leak during uv packing - Chris Blackbourn
• Fix refraction BSDF color when using OSL - Lukas Stockner
• Fix saving a quit.blend on exit when a file failed to load - Campbell Barton
• Fix saving a quit.blend on exit when a file failed to load - Campbell Barton
• Fix sequencer multi-view context check - Campbell Barton
• Fix unused function after c4a4a89ef5 - Germano Cavalcante

Fix/workaround crash pasting MTex

• Fix/workaround crash pasting MTex - Campbell Barton

GPencil

• GPencil: Fix memory leak when creating layers - Falk David

GPencil 3.0

• GPencil 3.0: Initial commit - Falk David

GPv3

• GPv3: Add initial edit mode overlay support - Falk David
• GPv3: "Add Suzanne" option in Add operator - YimingWu
• GPv3: Add operator to create new grease pencil object - Falk David

Geometry Nodes

• Geometry Nodes: Improve delete geometry performance with vertex groups - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Parallelelize a delete geometry selection conversion - Iliya Katueshenock
• Geometry Nodes: Copy no loose vert/edge status in delete geometry node - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Rewrite mesh delete geometry node - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Add Corners of Edge node - Soeren Schmidt-Clausen

I18N

• I18N: Updated UI translations from SVN trunk (r6562). - Bastien Montagne

IO

• IO: remove OBJ and PLY Python add-ons (#104503, #104504) - Aras Pranckevicius

Libmv

• Libmv: Remove FreeBSD sincos() workaround - Brad Smith

Mesh

• Mesh: Forward compatibility with generic bevel weight in 4.0 - Hans Goudey

Metal

• Metal: Silence Console Output - Jeroen Bakker

Modeling

• Modeling: Improve Suzanne's UV map - Hallam Roberts

Move versioning file 2.8 to C++

• Move versioning file 2.8 to C++ - Iliya Katueshenock

Node Editor

• Node Editor: Don't change size of resize area for frame nodes with zoom - Leon Schittek

Outliner

• Outliner: Port curve elements to new tree-element code design - Almaz Shinbay
• Outliner: Port mesh elements to new tree-element code design - Almaz Shinbay

Paint

• Paint: Add loop select for faces - Christoph Lendenfeld

Particles

• Particles: remove Halo, Line and Path render options - Philipp Oeser

PlayAnim

• PlayAnim: display that a buffer fails to load instead of exiting - Campbell Barton

PyAPI

• PyAPI: rename filename to filepath for RNA API functions - Campbell Barton
• PyAPI: suppress 'bgl' warning for Blender as a Python module - Campbell Barton

Readfile

• Readfile: Refactor several parts of the process - Bastien Montagne

Refactor

• Refactor: Bidirectionality on Graph Editor Sliders - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: Remove pre-2.8 function to reevaluate a single object - Hans Goudey

Revert "Particles

• Revert "Particles: remove Halo, Line and Path render options" - Philipp Oeser

Tests

• Tests: add PLY import test coverage for #107299 - Aras Pranckevicius

Transform

• Transform: new feature to edit the 'Snap Base' - Germano Cavalcante
• Transform: refactor modes by reorganizing their data in 'TransModeInfo' - Germano Cavalcante
• Transform: Remove internal mode 'TFM_TIME_DUPLICATE' - Germano Cavalcante
• Transform: Remove 'Resize' fallback from 'Shrink/Fatten' - Germano Cavalcante

UI

• UI: Allow Opacity for Theme Outline Colors - Harley Acheson
• UI: add text editor zoom in/out to view menu - RedMser
• UI: File Save Incremental Operator - Harley Acheson
• UI: Incorrect add-ons button label in preferences - RedMser

UV

• UV: Add optimal uv packings using precomputed layouts - Chris Blackbourn
• UV: Update ui for the uv pack islands operator - Chris Blackbourn
• UV: move editor files to C++ - Campbell Barton

Update the copyright.txt

• Update the copyright.txt - Sergey Sharybin

VSE

• VSE: Freeze frame feature for retiming tool - Richard Antalik

Vulkan

• Vulkan: Fix Debug Messenging - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Some tweaks to the messenger - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Debug Messages - Kazashi Yoshioka
• Vulkan: Add Support For Texture Buffers - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Copy Between Textures - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Missing Compile Directives - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Fix Out of Resources Crash - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Area Readback of Framebuffer Textures - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Detect AMD Vendor - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Color Blend State for Multi Attachment Framebuffer - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Restart Index - Jeroen Bakker

WM

• WM: restore support for calling WM_exit with a NULL context - Campbell Barton

code_clean

• code_clean: add 'remove_struct_qualifier' edit - Campbell Barton