Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.61/More Features

Blender 2.61: More Features

Changes up to revision 42577. Before editing or adding items, please read the guidelines for editing the changelogs.

3D mouse device support color wheel and cube UI controls (e.g. color pickers) - r41508
- Tilting the ndof device up and down and rolling it left and right will move the 'color cursor' in screen x and y, and twisting the ndof device will rotate the cursor around the colour wheel (hue).
3D mouse axis invert preferences for turntable navigation and zooming - r41831

Remove the non-functional Time Offset option. - r41573
Animation Hacks panel renamed to Relations Extras - r41573
Add Dependency Relations operator to print the dependency graph to the console, useful for debugging and understanding the relations. - r41522
Marker editing - r41497
- Add "Duplicate Marker to Scene..." option
- Remove option to link Markers from Ctrl+L menu
Python drivers: 'frame' can now be used to get the current frame - r41943

Camera sensor size is now configurable, to match real cameras. - r41524
- Support of variable size sensor width and height.
- Presets for most common cameras, and new presets can be defined by the user.
- Option to control which dimension (vertical or horizontal) along which field of view angle fits.

Editing library absolute/relative paths in the outliner or through python is now more reliable - r41235
Making library datablocks local now remaps file paths to the local .blend file - r41329
Default point cache file paths are now in either the temporary folder if the file is not saved yet, and relative to the .blend file if it is - r41909
Point cache paths from linked library now support - r42009
Point cache directories now use cache_ prefix by default - r42053

Improved, though not complete, editing of text with special characters in user interface text fields and 3D text objects. - r41129, r41133, r41144, r41146, r41147, r41181, r41182
Translation: add Indonesion language - r41275
Translation: upgrade Italian and Russian to nearly done status - r41692

Disable x-mirror option when proportional edit is enabled. This option isn't supported because it behaves strangely in many cases. - r41550
Mirror modifier now works in vertex select + weight paint mode, and has option to mirror all vertex groups. - r41431
Make duplicates real: options to parent to the original duplicator and preserve internal parent hierarchies - r41602
Multires baking speed was improved - r41778
3D Cursor settings split off from View panel in 3D view - r41575
Mesh loop cut number of cuts can now be modified using numpad plus/minus and numeric input - r42037
UV (Texture) Layer renamed to UV Map in the user interface - r42098

Node inputs that are angles were not in the correct units, now they are internally radians and degrees in the user interface - r41807
- Saving 2.61 files with earlier Blender versions and reopening them in a newer version will not work correct, always save with the same or a newer version.
Change various default values for compositing node inputs - r41385, r41520
Muting nodes is now also supported for shader and texture nodes, and inside node groups - r42019
Material nodes: top right icon in the node now shows brighter for the active node (that will output passes). - 42466 r 42466

World mist intensity options reorganized to make the user interface more clear - r41462
Operator to delete objects from all scenes, shortcut shift+delete - r41851
Align active camera to selected operator, to frame all selected, renderable objects - r41813
Text editor with tabs as spaces enabled now jumps indentation spaces as if they were tabs - r41839
Border select operators in all editors now includes an Extend property, to extend or replace the selection - r41930
Theme options to show panel header background and mute icon colors - r41992
Changes to drawing of editor splitting, region expand and UI embossing - r41992, r41993
More useful error messages for failed image loading - r41306
Saving images in the image editor now shows image format settings, and various changes to show only settings when they apply for the chosen format - r42041, r42045 , r42116, r42118
Background images can now be individually disabled - r42272
Tweak event threshold value in user preferences, for tablets - r42483