Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.60/More Features

Blender 2.60: More Features

Changes up to revision 40847. Before editing or adding items, please read the guidelines for editing the changelogs.

Frame node in new layout node category, for organizing node setups - r39980
Muting nodes with only inputs or outputs is now supported (for example file output node) - r39437
Internal improvements to the node system (documentation) - r39941

Change sequence operator (C key) in sequence editor, to modify the filepath or effect inputs/type on existing strips - r39323
Clear offsets operator (Alt+O) in sequence editor, to reset the start/end frames around the strip data - r39379
Sequencer selected grouped operator to select by type, time, data - r40658
Sequencer make metastrip shortcut changed from Shift+G (now selected group) to Ctrl+G - r40645

Outliner right click, rename option in menu - r39867
Outliner implementation of Toggle visibility/rendarability/selectability on right click on Groups - r39867
Outliner filter now is a search function - r40066
- The outliner filter box only filtered items that were visible. To find what you want you needed to manually expand a few levels so that what you wanted to find becama visible. This expands items when filtering is done - effectively turning it into a search.

Poly line drawing mode for grease pencil: - r39962
- Like sketch mode for lines, but you're specifying line knots by clicking on position you want to add next knot.
- View can be navigated between knots creation.
- Holding left mouse button down and sliding mouse will lead to new segment preview so it can be created more accurate.

Two new functions to bge.render to allow users to change the anisotropic filtering level used by textures: - r39818
- setAnisotropicFiltering(level) and getAnisotropicFiltering()
Lamp "Cast Buffer Shadows" option now works with GLSL in the viewport and game engine - r39683
Game engine post drawing callbacks are now done per viewport instead of per scene. This is handy for things like having a different HUD for each player in a splitscreen game. To figure out what viewport you're drawing too, check the scene's active_camera. - r39729

Many small speedups in drawing of text, buttons, meshes, ... - r39549, r39841, r40073, r40096, r40108, r40112, r40116, r40120, r40282, r40284, r40292, r40508
Various small speedups in rendering and file loading - r39568, r39570, r39742

Solidify modifier with vertex group option to set the thickness of zero weighted vertices - r39385
Applying armature object transform now transforms bone roll too, so animations remain correct - r39706
Drivers now have the noise module available by default (example .blend file) - r39919
Ambient occlusion maximum samples increased from 32 to 128 - r39972
3D Mouse orbit now supports specifying inversion per axis - r40004
Adaptive time step for fluid particles - r40537
Quick effects now available in object menu - r40825
OpenAL support enabled in Windows 64bit release
JACK support enabled in Linux release