Meta:2.4/Wiki Tasks/Blender 2.46

Blender 2.46

Well, this promises to be yet another leap forward. We have changes in just about every window and panel, more nodes, more options, more more more. Here's the list. we now have Developer|RELEASE NOTES.

Please add as you find more stuff to do. Comprehensive changes affecting many areas:

User Manual

This section is a specific task list for updates that need to be made to the User Manual. Install/Overview/General

• done
   Roger Release History
• done
   Roger 3D View Transform Orientations
• done
   Roger Image browser, useful in Append or Link

Mesh

• to do
   Manual/SculptMode sculpt brush, anchor as per [1]
• to do
   Manual/Cloth
• to do
   Manual/Bevel Modifier http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118818
  http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_Dokumentation:_Bevel_Modifier
• to do
   Manual/Explode Modifier
• to do
   Manual/Mesh Deform Modifier
• to do
   Manual/Particle Instance Modifier
• to do
   Manual/Soft Bodies need jello and walking jello examples, pointcache update
• to do
   Manual/Shape_Keys VGroup and basis key selector

Lighting

• to do
   shadow adaptive sampling, this cubic thing
• to do
   Lamp, Area, Spot light now have many more options

Shading - Materials, Textures, UV unwrap

• Particle Attributes selector on Map To panel - whole new set of options for particle system http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Textures/Options/Map_To
  

• done
   Roger Mirror Transp panel Ray Mirror options
• to do
   Mirror Transp panel Ray Transp options
• to do
   Texture Tiles
• to do
   UV Unwrap is now U in Edit mode, not a separate mode
• to do
   World AO Raytrace vs Approximate, panel changes, options
• to do
   Strand popup, Use Blender Units makes more closer to camera??

New Material Nodes:

• to do
   Camera Data node
• to do
   Extended Material input node
• to do
   Invert node
• to do
   HSV node
• to do
   Vector Curves node
• to do
   Math node
• to do
   Vector Math
• to do
   Squeeze node
• to do
   Separate/Combine RGB node
• to do
   Dynamic Python Shadernode
• to do
   Probably need to Nodes split page up

• No more UV Face Select mode...so there is a whole section that needs to be revisited...

Compositing nodes

• done
   Roger Color Bright/Contrast
• done
   Roger Color Gamma
• done
   Roger Invert
• to do
   Color ToneMap
• to do
   Vector Normalize
• to do
   Filter Directional Blur
• to do
   Filter Bilateral Blur
• to do
   Filter Glare
• to do
   Distort Lens Distortion

Sequencer

• to do
   Render Buttons now has Sequencer subcontext. Provides everything you want to know about a strip and tons of great options. 4 panels for Reference/Panels/Scene/Sequencer
• Select Handles and Strips to the Left/Right
• to do
   Histogram View
• to do
   Zebra Strips for Overexposed areas
• to do
   Title safe area display

Rendering

• in progress 25%
   Roger Render Layers panel
• to do
   Render Pipeline ZMask
• to do
   Render Passes Mist
• to do
   Render Passes Other...Rad??
• to do
   

• done
   Render Stamp panel - overlays filename/date/timestamp- created Reference/Panels/Scene/Render/Stamp and refer to it on Manual/Rendering
• to do
   World settings is outdated, vague. Need examples of angmap etc

Physics and Particles

• done
   JimmyVolatile Tutorials/Particles-Fireworks - Complete and published.
• in progress 25%
   JimmyVolatile Sandbox/Particles
• in progress 25%
   JimmyVolatile Manual/Particles - Updating the manual to the new 2.47 particle system
• Three engines, 4 panels, options galore. Dev seems to be working on good docs
  • I'm working on the particle documentation, but my english really needs correction. --Soylentgreen 20:12, 5 February 2008 (CET)
• Strand -impact on Material, rendering
• in progress 75%
   Roger Softbody revisions

Other

• to do
   Manual/The_Action_Editor needs love. see http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/action-editor-improvements/
• anything else? Edit this paragraph!

Game Engine: Apricot Build

• to do
   Features coded by Ben2610
• to do
   Features coded by malCando
• to do
   Features coded by venomgfx
• to do
   Features coded brecht
• to do
   Features coded campbell/ideasman42
• to do
   Features coded chris

Game Engine: Older Releases

- 2.46 -

• to do
   1 2D Filters
• to do
   2 Delta Loc/Rot/Scale Ipo
• to do
   3 rayCastTo
• to do
   4 speedups
• to do
   5 Mesh replacement in BGE will react properly to armature deform
• to do
   6 enable negative axis radar sensor
• to do
   7 Realtime SetParent function in the BGE
• to do
   8 ESCKey
• to do
   9 getLinearVelocity

- 2.43 -

• to do
   Game Engine Physics
• to do
   Game Engine Graphics and Logic
• to do
   Keep BSoD/Introduction to the Game Engine up to date with the manual/Release Notes.

Reference Manual

I think it is time to bring this resource into play for these more complicated features:

• to do
    Cloth
• to do
   Particles