Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.60/Addons

Blender 2.60 Addons

Changes up to revision 2473. Before editing or adding items, please read the guidelines for editing the changelogs.

New

• Screencast Keys addon, to show keys being pressed during a screencast - r2273
• Motion Capture Tools addon - r2259

Import / Export

• OBJ
  • Remove 'All Scenes' option and broken 'HQ Normals' option - r2376, r2377
  • fix #28818: Error when trying to import obj - r2396
• FBX:
  • Shape key support added - r2392
  • fix: Animation not exported, default take enabled by default - r2311
  • fix: Shape key check failing on metaballs - r2397
  • fix #28889: FBX only exports action with action groups - r2426
• MDD
  • fix: Importer not working - r2283
• MHX
  • Support for property limits r2329
  • Support for material animation - r2363
  • Modifications for pose tools, drivers, ... - r2364, r2366, r2382, r2394
• BVH
  • Add option to export root transform only (second life compatibility) - r2247
• X3D:
  • Export support for spot and sun lamps - r2249
  • Export of lamps children that are children of the camera - r2352
  • Import rotated by 90° by default - r2269
  • fix #28256: export: '.' not allowed in DEF/USE names according to specifications - r2246
• 3D Coat
  • Multires objects support - r2306
  • fix: Rotation error importing - r2304
  • fix: Error asking image.filepath even if there was no image - r2297
  • Upgrade to version 2 - r2428
• LWO
  • fix: Importer problem with catmull-clark edge weights - r2243
• Pov-ray:
  • fix: Exporting rectangular area lights had wrong coordinates - r2335
  • fix: Error with faces using invalid material indexes - r2427
  • Remove path searching code for images, if image paths are incorrect users should deal with this - r2416
• 3DS:
  • fix: Export image export problem - r2340
  • fix: Importing certain files takes a very long time - r2355
  • fix #28297: Exporter problem with large meshes - r2387

Other

• Save game as runtime:
  • fix #28555: Addon not working - r2327
  • fix #28291: Not working with relative paths - r2251
• Measure panel
  • Measurement of face normals - r2325
  • Volume calculation and manifold check r2332
  • fix: Non-meshes do not show wrong data now (from previously selected meshes) - r2398
• Extra mesh objects:
  • Polysphere - r2357
  • Super Toroid - r2357
  • Pyramid - r2372
• renderfarm.fi:
  • Uploader updated to version 9 - r2374
• Paint palettes:
  • Add Gimp palette format - r2281
  • Add number of colors and configurable palette folder - r2281

Bug Fixes

• fix #28446: Moving imported object to new layer deletes it (for most importers) - r2294
• fix: Curve sapling issue assigning vertex groups to rectangular leaves - r2256
• fix: Ivy generator issue where add new (default) ivy did nothing - r2252
• fix: Grease scatter objects location error - r2243
• fix: Incorrect export of file paths for library linked image datablocks (various exporters) - r2416, r2416