Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.72/Bug Fixes

Blender 2.72: Bug Fixes

Changes from revision 11d1fea to 7361d5731e47b14, inclusive.

3D View

• Fix T40850: Object emitter of particles not visible in viewport when GLSL and "only render" checked. (4236e3b)
• Fix T40867: Autokeyframe in camera view not working. (730a155)
• Fix T40364: Texture images are not properly displayed in the material preview in BI when using SSS. (7587e82)
• Fix T40775: Clearing material texture slot through Python does not update 3D View render. (180a7ac)
• Fix T40939: Border render and SSS doesn't work correct in rendered viewport. (e34e0c2)
• Fix T41128: Box selection bug with armatures. (6a43ee6)
• Fix T41206: Camera-only render border broken. (1a9252d)
• Fix T41137: Old render result from viewport render in camera view does not go away when middle clicking. (354b17d)
• Fix T41499: Can't use Deselect/Select All tool while in Texture Paint mode. (f11057f)

• Fix for transparency issues in 3D Viewport. (a9bb96e)
• Fix for image user count not being decreased when deleting a 3D View background image. (320b7a5, 0fc05c1)
• Fix for assigning a background image without increasing its usercount. (ed871df)

Animation

• Fix T40801: Selecting group objects by KeyingSets didn't work with builtin KeyingSets. (11e0ddd)

• Fix for invalid memory access in graph editor when deleting the last vertex in a fcurve. (19f89a0)

Armatures

• Fix T40991: Mirrored armatures not restored properly when cancelling. (b617d6d)
• Fix T41088: Canceling pose library preview does not reset to previous pose. (0fd194c)
• Fix T41075: Segfault when attempting to escape from bone translation. (57a3403)
• Fix T41227: Unselectable items are selected when they are unhidden. (e0fd1bf)
• Fix T41228: Selection of bones bug. (9765265)

Audio

• Fix T41133: Speakers with animated pitch cause clicks in rendered animations, crashes or huge filesizes in rendered audio. (31e1a31)

Collada

• Fix T40829: Collada Export with 'Include Material Textures' selected crashes. (b5acd1a)

Meta Editing

• Fix T41010: MetaBall duplivert unwanted movement bug. (e0d8e62)

Curve Editing

• Fix T41443: Crash on using "Separate" tool with Curves & Hooks. (ddb843a)
• Fix T41085: Blender crashes when using "spline" or "segments" for bevel curve factor. (6c7467e)

Game Engine

• Fix T40761: Bone constraints broken in the BGE. (c92c3ef)
• Fix T40912: Collision callbacks don't work if set directly. (49aff41)
• Fix T40923: An error from a python controller on a LibFreed object causes a crash. (4af848e, 04fdd35)
• Fix T29419: Behavior of applyImpulse (GameObject method) doesn't match the behavior described in the documentation. (1f43b08)
• Fix T40909: BGE softbodies broken. (3a9e588)
• Fix T40257: Frustum culling not working properly. (315609e)
• Fix T40146: BGE Compound parent crash. (dfe1b9b)

• Fix for a bug causing frequent crash on scene restart with Navmesh. (8aa203a)
• Fix crash and return boolean from scene.replace(). (fb49c5a)

Image / UV Editing

• Fix T41201: Blender crashes when UV editing. (d49b86d)

Mesh Editing

• Fix T40948: Fill holes fails in certain case. (e1819cc)
• Fix T41164: Knife creates duplicate verts. (1510d0d)
• Fix T39387: Knife makes duplicate verts with subsurf. (818a036)

• Fix for dissolve faces iterating over verts while removing. (0ea7302)
• Fix bug in validate mesh code (could use index out of range). (51120ef)

3D Text Editing

• Fix T40839: Object font text rendering bug. (6a2cefc)
• Fix T41047: Text objects flipping. (ea30641)

Modifiers

• Fix T40556: Curve Modifier does not work when used in a Background scene. (61e5f81)
• Fix T40877: Bezier Hook to a new object does not work properly. (f4cf845)
• Fix T41039: Hook modifier sometimes fails to retain correct bezier curve point assignment. (397bc87)
• Fix T40831: Shrink wrap modifier causes very high CPU usage when targeting meshes with shaped keys. (5bfbe64)
• Fix T41360: Crash on Boolean Modifier. (0fe70b5)

Motion Tracking

• Fix incorrect 2d stabilization for masks. (569eafc)

Nodes / Compositor

• Fix T40878: Inconsistent translate node. (03929ae)
• Fix T40903: Rendering alpha channel is broken. (ecc2e29)
• Fix T40986: Crash on using the viewer node inside of group nodes. (a5902fb)
• Fix T40658: UV map node not working for GLSL materials. (1161b00)

• Fix for broken subpixel sampling for render layers node. (ca8d8f5)

Objects

• Fix T40823: Crash when using LoD operator without valid object. (92ecbd2, 92ecbd2)
• Fix T40862: Numinput transform did not take into account scale_length. (cadf77d)
• Fix T40164: Linking a Group of linked Groups doesn't use Dupli Visibility correctly. (c9ac51e)
• Fix T41003: Object Info's Random socket produces erratic results when material is applied to multiple Dupli instances of an object. (5b0e4cd)
• Fix T41019: Calculate Mass does not calculate actual volume. (4633e65)
• Fix T40432: Scaling to zero with manipulate center points works precisely on second time. (1526620)
• Fix T41149: Dissolve crash due to autoSmooth. (f5cee25)
• Fix T40958: Align rotation + project individual elements not working. (4f18ab1)

Particles

• Fix T40815: Particle birth times not initialized correctly. (259a436)
• Fix T40983: Particle texture use of generated coordinates is wrong. (06d943c)
• Fix T41113: Hide doesn't work on particle systems. (8620008)
• Fix T41114: Particle systems cause memory corruption due to invalid dmcache index (again). (b984489)
• Fix T41403: Grid Particles only partially generated. (bd623d9)

Physics / Hair / Simulations

• Fix T40733: Segfault with hair particles cache and vgroups. (d8b0470)
• Fix T41295: Rigid bodyfield weights not working. (3cd2c61, 29e1592)

Python

• Fix T41156: UILayout.prop_enum() does not observe "text" parameter override. (cf9d5db)
• Fix T41196: Calling Bake operator from Python causes a crash. (234ae0b)
• Fix T41454: Command "Dirty Vertex Colors" prompts Python error. (bb39925)
• Fix T41204: Setting light distance through Python in BGE incorrectly sets the light's energy instead of distance. (a21a9dd)
• Fix T41272: KX_Light.color() returns wrong values. (a4c5570)

• Fix addon crash when trying listdir a directory we have no permission to. (3a58c46)
• Fix for mathutils.Euler on big endian systems. (a108532)

Render

• Fix T41395: Set Object As Camera causes strange renders. (5d1d23d)
• Fix T41349: Muting texture nodes can cause crashes. (1743c81)
• Fix T41457: Viewport resolution divider uses Freestyle for every resolution. (2184ac8)
• Fix T40744: MIP Map is generating strange noise in texture. (1ca8684)
• Fix T41408: Diffuse and specular passes were incorrect with combined/color passes disabled. (d425cb0, be755f3)
• Fix T41060: Wrong texture 'Object' mapping in 3DView Rendered mode. (e9ef7a8)
• Fix T40566: Light instances disappear in rendered viewport. (e5fd559)

• Fix for when an object had dupliobjects children, it was never rendered at all, even if having particle systems. (80d3eb6)

Render: Freestyle

• Fix T40833: Crash when rendering with freestyle. (ea3c2eb, 6c6fa74)
• Fix T41180: Crash when using motion blur with Freestyle. (698a9a2)
• Fix T41464: Material Boundary bug in Freestyle. (eb8964f)

Render: Cycles

• Fix T40816: SSS brightness difference with Sample All Direct Lights. (8ef2314)
• Fix T40797: Crash on render on specific file with volumentrics and 'use hair' clicked on render layer. (a8233d7)
• Fix T40836: Cycles volume scattering shader crash. (cb95544)
• Fix T40795: Dot output is inverted in viewport with Cycles. (7dbedf6)
• Fix T40843: Cycles does not support viewport render override. (6ff6883)
• Fix T40712: Duplicators don't generate orco and UV coordinates in Cycles viewport preview. (2fe0cf5)
• Fix T39286: Display percentage ignored in Cycles viewport. (2fe0cf5)
• Fix T41005: Seemingly random crashes with cycles rendering. (5e216a6, f6a174f)
• Fix T41023: Specific material cause bad render result, different on CPU/GPU. (594ff72, 7149942)
• Fix T41044: World space location affects object space normal pass during bake. (50d3014)
• Fix T41122: Mask modifier followed by hair particles causes crash on render. (3ca78a4)
• Fix T41079: Solid black render of object with negative scale and smooth shading. (9fcaac5)
• Fix T41116: Motion Blur causes random black surfaces on rigged models. (eb8f85d)
• Fix T41115: Motion Blur renders objects black, but not in Viewport Preview. (eb8f85d)
• Fix T41160: Rendering duplifaces crashed Blender. (638bb78)
• Fix T41139: Cycles Hair roughness causes artifacts. (34937f6)
• Fix T41197: Blender freezes to infinite loop when switching to PAUSED Cycles rendered viewport. (42aef16)
• Fix T41222: Cycles gives weird output when baking (4096*4096) resolution on GPU. (983cbaf)
• Fix T41362: CPU and GPU rendering gives different results. (8bed4e6)
• Fix T41219: Cycles backface detection doesn't work properly. (bfaf4f2)
• Fix T41474: Second render layer doesn't render if first one has "Use Surfaces" disabled. (a6ae12a)
• Fix T41267: Wrong light distribution with when having objects with motion blur. (2e5e1e2)
• Fix T41013: Crash when using OSL in Cycles. (5e216a6)

• Fix for crash with environment maps and packed images. (dc40928)

Sequencer

• Fix T40851: "Sequencer" auto-check after changing spaceview and scene. (0caee78)
• Fix T41086: VSE separate images increases file size abnormally. (2e43617)
• Fix T41241: Cropping strips puts a transparent line through the image. (fa8d38d)
• Fix T41323: Video window taking all the space when switching to split view. (f37c3dd)

Sculpting / Painting

• Fix T40691: Dyntopo changes lost on save if sculpting on multiple objects. (dcc6300)
• Fix T40758: Front facing not consistent in sculpt mode. (dbc04c5, bd777ff)
• Fix T40997: Artifacts appear when unhiding part of the mesh in dyntopo. (f5caab2)
• Fix T40981: Clipping border does not work with GLSL on ATI's or Intel GPU's. (a498d88, 4097f9c)
• Fix T41193: Sculpting uses 100% CPU. (115458b)
• Fix T41354: Cursor never gets reactivated in UV sculpting. (26dc8b7)
• Fix T41386: Use Alpha bug. (ba345bc)

• Fix crash on dyntopo when show diffuse option + collapse is used. (05935b5)

Text Editor

• Fix T41379: Drag n Drop .txt files into the text editor fails. (5ad353b)

User Interface

• Fix T40841: Copy and Paste objects no longer functions from one running instance of Blender to another. (4c83fae)
• Fix T40885: "Reset Curve" is backwards on Custom Falloff Curves (Lights). (2e64b83)
• Fix T40065: Pressing <Esc> in separate render result window does not focus main window. (fef9463)
• Fix T40895: Zooming out a lot on the Curves Panel crashes Blender. (f004893)
• Fix T40888: Memory error when selecting Cycles render engine. (8c9c93c)
• Fix T40548: After canceling, F-Curve handlers don't go back to original position. (22fa831)
• Fix T40791: Changing path to movie file does not mark the project as changed. (aa620b5)
• Fix T41109: Reloading image that has been modified outside Blender does not update image in Image Texture nodes. (9a45c9d)
• Fix T41100: Draw other object UV's doesn't work when both objects have no image. (1f3c846)
• Fix T41077: Dope sheet's column select (Alt+RMB) gets ignored with NLA Strips. (c03d8a1)
• Fix T41042: Irrelevant Bezier handles still affect Graph Editor Show All. (73d157e)
• Fix T41157: Unchecking "Use Gradient" and selecting "Fill tool" not working. 1134ca7
• Fix T41223: F-Curve sliders won't update values during playback when mouse cursor is outside the left panel. (42ba931)
• Fix T41240: Home key doesn't show everything on F-Curves. (3a4e8f8)
• Fix T41258: Crash when entering edit mode while viewport render is enabled. (eb016eb)
• Fix T41236: Rendered viewport doesn't update with material actions. (54472df)
• Fix T41175: Quad View - Properties Region - Clip option not updating. (6ba4db2)
• Fix T41415: Lasso keymap not working in UV editor. (4bd252d)
• Fix T40717: Screen does not update while scrolling or zooming with touchpad on a laptop. (2eebe61)
• Fix T41435: Info-text lags changing space-types. (dae74d2)
• Fix T41427: Region overlap moves into wrong window. (968e1b3)
• Fix T41467: Modifier view buttons changing positions. (e85bcfa)
• Fix T41462: "Reload from trusted" button not prompting for confirmation. (71ce415)
• Fix T41426: Scroll issues with floating menus. (de12cd7)
• Fix T39630: Mouse Wheel doesn't detect Multi Window Focus. (adb08de)
• Fix T41497: Colour Ramp UI bug causes invalid interpolations between RGB and HSV/HSL. (7a36251)

• Fix for NLA editor not being updated on using "Make Links" (Ctrl)+(L). (481e8ab)
• Fix for selecting object channels in NLA editor didn't make the object active. (89aee74)
• Fix for glitch with menus not reliably setting an active item. (47e7ce6, 784c99f, 4c3b25e)

System

• Fix T39825: Crash on startup with tablet. (d5297b6)
• Fix T40766: Startup fails with UnicodeDecodeError on Windows. (d4599ff)

Unsorted

• Fix T40980: Exporting animation in MPEG Matroska using ffv1 and FLAC codecs fails. (6c70559)
• Fix T41507: Empty prevents image deletion. (e44cd30)
• Fix T40792: Blender reports missing files when those files have been packed into a blend. (50ca320)
• Fix T41035: Scale Manipulator Ctrl+Alt+S issue with Maya shortcuts. (813ece7)
• Fix T41081: Presets not working on pinned properties panels. (cf3bb40)
• Fix T40824: Emulate 3 Button Mouse option breaks some functionality in other places. (3ccd9b7)
• Fix T41062: "copy to selected" doesn't work for all attributes. (5336e68)
• Fix T41431: Min/Max custom property range mismatch. (7728ffa)
• Fix T38722: Adding units in Imperial setting results in inconsistent values. (8535b9b)

Blender 2.72a: Bug Fixes

• 821e2ae37a5e035: Campbell Barton: Fix for tgz script (whitespace broke it)
• a9ae14c480e3ba1: Jens Verwiebe: OSX: Change the FS_CATEGORY_SYSTEM_BOOKMARKS aka "Favorites", so that the orderwise in sync with finder
• 9d8c1658a131405: Jens Verwiebe: OSX: simplyfy last commit for fs_menu system_bookmarks
• 8ac3c3d3ee229ba: Bastien Montagne: Fix T42065: Shading issue using Array modifier
• 4f9ee695ef97742: Campbell Barton: Fix off by one error drawing passepartout
• 15969e8a30e616b: Sergey Sharybin: Cycles: Fix wrong ifdef check around shadows record all
• bce5b6b241fdfbc: Campbell Barton: Fix tgz script (included all files in submodules)
• a1b27d642460123: Thomas Dinges: Fix T42081, OpenCL supports float3 since the 1.1 specification, not sure why we needed this.
• 6feac1e940ec3f1: Greg Zaal: Cycles: Center Tile order had a slight offset to the left.
• 1dd428ff6d45194: Bastien Montagne: Fix T41983: Array Modifier "Merge" bug?
• 9e53a97ddfbbe1b: Bastien Montagne: Fix T42093: segfault when trying to free unallocated depths zbuffer (border-zoom in 3DView).
• 81c4c295041b729: Campbell Barton: Fix T42075: DnD Material not updating render view
• 0e7d4a828afc65c: Campbell Barton: Fix T4201: AVI Broken when width not multiple of 4
• c0e3540898a9225: Campbell Barton: Fix in-between mouse events getting assign to keys
• c03951da1414970: Antony Riakiotakis: Texture painting:
• b4860de6f18db5e: Bastien Montagne: One more bplayer infamous stub fix!
• 0d8a007c69ed2af: Bastien Montagne: Fix T42088: Creating new keybinds can cause duplicates when saving key config profile
• 5e809c45edf253e: Campbell Barton: Fix T4199: Knife holes in concave ngons failed
• 14c57b6c783302a: Antony Riakiotakis: Fix T42074, textured lamps influncing other layers
• 025955e54952ee9: Sergey Sharybin: Fix T41957: Shadow color texture mapping was using wrong factor
• 1a7b7bb74e69f1a: Sergey Sharybin: Allow render engine to declare whether it's capable of the texture rendering or not
• 409b3c9c9c6cff9: Sergey Sharybin: Fix T42106: Box image mapping shows black triangles if they point to a corner and blend is 0
• 0259864c151446e: Campbell Barton: Call python3 explicitly from tgz util
• 1519b6a23e0341e: Campbell Barton: Icons: were relicensed to GPL2+ metadata was CC-NC
• e36cc29a69c57c9: Bastien Montagne: Fix T42137: Keymap editing is broken
• 05e26297bf7f2c7: Jens Verwiebe: OSX: adapt fs_menue to modern entries handling
• e2522b4a291b5b6: Campbell Barton: Cycles: correct math wrappers
• a550d913bcd67f2: Campbell Barton: Fix Python ray-cast failing to check hit direction
• e1ef4519961ad80: Antony Riakiotakis: Fix OpenGL error on cycles rendered viewport.
• 45ce901079a857f: Sergey Sharybin: Cycles: Remove redundant float4->float3 conversion
• aaf772b724007ff: Sergey Sharybin: Current tile highlight should use render data from the engine
• 5fdbb793ff40a8c: Tamito Kajiyama: Freestyle: Fix for StrokeVertexIterator.__next__() ignoring the first and only element.
• c2d6de8e200742d: Tamito Kajiyama: Freestyle: Fix for memory leaks in StrokeVertexIterator.
• 4f8b513c1ae6b18: Antony Riakiotakis: Fix T42168 mask texture UI missing. Own sillyness after last data fix
• fd6537a53a7e1c6: Jens Verwiebe: OSX: as an prerequisite to make Dalai's upcoming "area_fullsceen" work,
• b100bdca25b15df: Bastien Montagne: Fix T41950: Parent-Child Menu behaves weird
• 04814476c08e935: Benoit Bolsee: Fix another crash with Navigation mesh.
• 9d078f2916053c7: Daniel Genrich: Bugfix: "Hide" button in modifiers panel did only hide smoke domain, not the smoke.
• 4eadc3801acda48: Antony Riakiotakis: Minor typo fix, reported by Sebastian Koenig on irc. Thanks!
• cf38b933f3408b7: Campbell Barton: Fix T42005: Reset py-handlers could crash
• f4a260fb3c039d4: Tamito Kajiyama: Fix T42198: Linked lines only work with linked objects.
• 02175027f298c47: Campbell Barton: Fix T42206: RenderLayers popup crashed when clicked while rendering
• 2d6458c64ca1074: Sergey Sharybin: Fix T42064: Directional blur uses wrong sampler
• f87d38b5f518bb4: Joshua Leung: Bugfix T42225: Python - GreasePencil.active incorrectly accepts GreasePencil type instead of GPencilLayer
• d0320947d3be73c: Dalai Felinto: Fix for No Sudo option in install_deps.sh (typo in docs)
• 6d3757a3ceb188a: Antony Riakiotakis: Better fix for T42139
• de54b031c61a180: Bastien Montagne: Buildbot: Rename testbuild branch to experimental-build and put the builds to dedicated folder
• acd7f5030861476: Sergey Sharybin: Fix T42160: CUDA error: ILLEGAL_ADDRESS in cuCtxSynchronize()

Blender 2.72b: Bug Fixes

• d30abdf3ec28b8e - Bastien Montagne: Fix T42258: Drivers: dimensions.x is always invalid, but dimensions[0] works
• ebad51fd0bda988 - Antony Riakiotakis: Fix bad typo in undo code that invalidated all image caches on undo.
• b28aa182f3483ca - Bastien Montagne: Fix T42262: Ocean texture options cannot be edited while in Cycles
• b0ef0087410c43b - Thomas Dinges: Different fix for T42262, we don't put Cycles compat into regular bl_ui files.
• 33bff4caef5ee28 - Antony Riakiotakis: Fix issue reported by Sebastian Koenig on irc, Clone brush would paint
• 04fab84fd10cc8e - Antony Riakiotakis: More fixes:
• ded2d8a777cdaec - Sergey Sharybin: Fix for pose bones not restoring selection index properly
• d74e3c44cc47849 - Campbell Barton: Fix for align bone to cursor (missing normalize)
• 4b42c4bce41b139 - Jens Verwiebe: OSX/PLAYER/cmake: fix player install python bundling, overlloked player has its own PLAYER_TARGETDIR_VER
• 3a961d66ef189f7 - Antony Riakiotakis: Fix T42281, crash in subsurf with texture painting.
• 984836781e8f419 - Grigory Revzin: Fix typo in calculateCenterMedian that could give computed median point wrong values.
• 04178d7fe4d891b - Bastien Montagne: Fix T42304: blender 2.72a 3D view object selected color wrong in 2.4x theme.
• 3138d390478524b - Campbell Barton: Fix T42264: Negative scale & clipped-select fails
• d968a1ebb0a1c1a - Antony Riakiotakis: Fix T42189
• 6bd53bb707cbe91 - Campbell Barton: Fix T42313: Ruler always measures 0.0
• abb266973d45c1a - Antony Riakiotakis: Fix T42311, too many paint slots added.
• 2e7d72202f297d1 - Campbell Barton: Fix sequencer duplicate with only handle selected
• 40938c3b4ba1621 - Campbell Barton: Fix sequencer clipboard with meta's containing ID references