multi-user/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[0.0.2] - 2020-02-28

Added

• Blender animation features support (alpha).
  • Action.
  • Armature (Unstable).
  • Shape key.
  • Drivers.
  • Constraints.
• Snap to user timeline tool.
• Light probes support (only since 2.83).
• Metaballs support.
• Improved modifiers support.
• Online documentation.
• Improved Undo handling.
• Improved overall session handling:
  • Time To Leave : ensure clients/server disconnect automatically on connection lost.
  • Ping: show clients latency.
  • Non-blocking connection.
  • Connection state tracking.
• Service communication layer to manage background daemons.

Changed

• UI revamp:
  • Show users frame.
  • Expose IPC(inter process communication) port.
  • New user list.
  • Progress bar to track connection status.
• Right management takes view-layer in account for object selection.
• Use a basic BFS approach for replication graph pre-load.
• Serialization is now based on marshal (2x performance improvements).
• Let pip chose python dependencies install path.

[0.0.3] - 2020-07-29

Added

• Auto updater support
• Big Performances improvements on Meshes, Gpencils, Actions
• Multi-scene workflow support
• Render setting synchronization
• Kick command
• Dedicated server with a basic command set
• Administrator session status
• Tests
• Blender 2.83-2.90 support

Changed

• Config is now stored in blender user preference
• Documentation update
• Connection protocol
• UI revamp:
  • user localization
  • repository init

Removed

• Unused strict right management strategy
• Legacy config management system

[0.1.0] - 2020-10-05

Added

• Dependency graph driven updates [experimental]
• Edit Mode updates
• Late join mechanism
• Sync Axis lock replication
• Sync collection offset
• Sync camera orthographic scale
• Sync custom fonts
• Sync sound files
• Logging configuration (file output and level)
• Object visibility type replication
• Optionnal sync for active camera
• Curve->Mesh conversion
• Mesh->gpencil conversion

Changed

• Auto updater now handle installation from branches
• Use uuid for collection loading
• Moved session instance to replication package

Fixed

• Prevent unsupported data types to crash the session
• Modifier vertex group assignation
• World sync
• Snapshot UUID error
• The world is not synchronized

[0.1.1] - 2020-10-16

Added

• Session status widget
• Affect dependencies during change owner
• Dedicated server managment scripts(@brybalicious)

Changed

• Refactored presence.py
• Reset button UI icon
• Documentation How to contribute improvements (@brybalicious)
• Documentation Hosting guide improvements (@brybalicious)
• Show flags are now available from the viewport overlay

Fixed

• Render sync race condition (causing scene errors)
• Binary differentials
• Hybrid session crashes between Linux/Windows
• Materials node default output value
• Right selection
• Client node rights changed to COMMON after disconnecting from the server
• Collection instances selection draw
• Packed image save error
• Material replication
• UI spelling errors (@brybalicious)

[0.2.0] - 2020-12-17

Added

• Documentation Troubleshouting section (@brybalicious)
• Documentation Update section (@brybalicious)
• Documentation Cloud Hosting Walkthrough (@brybalicious)
• Support DNS name
• Sync annotations
• Sync volume objects
• Sync material node_goups
• Sync VSE
• Sync grease pencil modifiers
• Sync textures (modifier only)
• Session status widget
• Disconnection popup
• Popup with disconnection reason

Changed

• Improved GPencil performances

Fixed

• Texture paint update
• Various documentation fixes section (@brybalicious)
• Empty and Light object selection highlights
• Material renaming
• Default material nodes input parameters
• blender 2.91 python api compatibility