v4.0.3 for Blender 4.0

Quick fix to relax scipy requirements. Was problematic for some users to install who were missing developer tools. Now will only be required for building biological assemblies and not for importing from the PDB.

What's Changed

• relax requirement for scipy for import, only for biological assemblies by @BradyAJohnston in #368

Full Changelog: v4.0.2...v4.0.3

v4.0.2 for Blender 4.0

Quick fix for error with molecule-specific color node creation.

What's Changed

• fix building of docs not including nodes page by @BradyAJohnston in #363
• fixed creation of color chains by @BradyAJohnston in #365

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v4.0.2

v4.0.1 for Blender 4.0

Hotfix for problems with disabling the add-on and preferences panel

• fix panel not showing by @BradyAJohnston in #361

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.0.1

v4.0 for Blender 4.0

Now compatible with Blender 4.0!

Versioning of the add-on will now match that of Blender's release versions. This means Blender 4.0 will work with Molecular Nodes 4.0. When Blender 4.1 comes out, Molecular Nodes will get a 4.1 release and will only target compatibility with the corresponding version of Blender. This will reduce development requirements and reduce confusion around what version of MN is compatible with which Blender. Patch numbers (4.0.1, 4.0.2 etc will be used for bug fixes and minor feature additions only).

This fixes compatibility with Blender 4.0 and overhauls many of the internals for better maintainability. There are a number of new features as well, including a reworked import panel and a new 'Object' and 'Scene' panel for quick access to object-relevant and scene-relevant information and operators.

Import of oxDNA trajectories is now also supported.

What's Changed

• Save mda_session to the same location as .blend file by @yuxuanzhuang in #333
• Import of oxDNA Files by @BradyAJohnston in #346
• Auto generation of armature for proteins by @BradyAJohnston in #351
• 4.0 by @BradyAJohnston in #349
• fix for chain selection nodes by @BradyAJohnston in #352
• Fix documentation building by @BradyAJohnston in #353
• change out oxDNA example trajectory for a holiday junction simulation of 20 frames by @BradyAJohnston in #354
• Dev fix styles by @BradyAJohnston in #355
• Some Minor Fixes by @BradyAJohnston in #357

Full Changelog: v2.11.2...v4.0.0

v2.11.2 for Blender 3.5/3.6

Minor bug fix for enabling of the add-on.

What's Changed

• Fix msgpack for install by @BradyAJohnston in #347

Full Changelog: v2.11.0...v2.11.2

v2.11.0 for Blender 3.5/3.6

The last release before Blender 4.0. As Blender 4.0 introduces some breaking changes, this is the last release that will target 3.5/3.6, and the next will add compatibility with Blender 4.0, which will no longer work with 3.5 / 3.6.

Major additions are the import of CellPack datasets from .cif and .bcif files.

A number of improvements to the import of molecular dynamcs trajectories via MDAnalysis, improvements to reading
martini CG trajectories, and addition of some 'preset' styles that combine cartoons and ball-and-stick for instantly visualising protein and non-protein molecules.

What's Changed

• Dev cellpack bcif fork by @corredD in #293
• bcif operator parsing fix. Operator Id and indices can be different. by @corredD in #294
• simple hack to load petworld bcif files by @corredD in #295
• add remaining atom names for nucleic acids by @BradyAJohnston in #319
• Add Preset Styles by @BradyAJohnston in #320
• Publish on pypi by @BradyAJohnston in #315
• Improve Style Surface by @BradyAJohnston in #321
• Add 'Build Assembly' option for RCSB Import by @BradyAJohnston in #322
• Change dependency in pkg.py: from pkg_resources to importlib.metadata by @ljcolson in #323
• fixes #318 relative test dir by @BradyAJohnston in #324
• Refactor for pip by @BradyAJohnston in #325
• Remove ESMFold by @BradyAJohnston in #332
• bump version of starfile by @BradyAJohnston in #334
• Add frame mapping function to MD trajectory visualization by @yuxuanzhuang in #331
• addition of initial colors on import by @BradyAJohnston in #338
• fix icons for 4.1 by @BradyAJohnston in #339
• Adds support for importing CellPack models by @BradyAJohnston in #283
• Add frame interpolation for MDA Universes in Blender by @BradyAJohnston in #317
• change docs.yml to only run on "docs-*" PR by @BradyAJohnston in #341
• add testing for built versions of blender not bpy by @BradyAJohnston in #342
• Detection of backbone, lipids + solvent for Martini CG models by @tubiana in #214
• fix inidividual coloring on cellpack import by @BradyAJohnston in #343

New Contributors

• @corredD made their first contribution in #293
• @ljcolson made their first contribution in #323

Full Changelog: v2.10.0...v2.11.0

v2.10.0 for Blender 3.5+

A big change to importing of MD trajectories. Thanks to @yuxuanzhuang, by default the trajectories are now streamed from the disk via a live MDAnalysis session. This enables the streaming of very large trajectories without loading them into memory first. There is still an option for In Memory to load all of the frames as objects inside Geometry Nodes, which was the previous behaviour. A very exciting development which really lays the groundwork for future interactive MDAnlysis sessions, which can be edited and previewed inside of Blender.

What's Changed

• docs: Add some example video use cases by @BradyAJohnston in #308
• Fix make release by @BradyAJohnston in #309
• Access and Stream Trajectories with MDAnalysis by @yuxuanzhuang in #287

New Contributors

• @yuxuanzhuang made their first contribution in #287

Full Changelog: v2.9.1...v2.10.0

v2.9.1 for Blender 3.5+

Minor bug fix.

What's Changed

• Fix pkg install error #305 by @BradyAJohnston in #306

Full Changelog: v2.9.0...v2.9.1

v2.9.0 for Blender 3.5+

What's Changed:

• Overhauled documentation
• Improved consistency in node interfaces
• Application template for quicker start

v2.8.1 for Blender 3.5+

Some quick fixes for the last version.

What's Changed

• 288 enabling error by @BradyAJohnston in #289
• fix: ball-and-stick style and tweak snapshots by @BradyAJohnston in #290

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1