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

v2.8.0 for Blender 3.5+

A big new version with lots of fixes and some new features thanks to new contributors.

Major user-facing changes are the improved handling of biological assemblies, and majorly improved cartoon
mesh generation.

What's Changed

• fix: tweak install & test running by @BradyAJohnston in #261
• feat: Cache PDB downloads by @PlethoraChutney in #260
• fix: magnesium color bug by @PlethoraChutney in #264
• fix: Cherry-picked changes made to assembly.py by @jahooker in #253
• fix: shading issues with cartoon geometry by @BradyAJohnston in #268
• fix: AH alignment issues on borders by @BradyAJohnston in #272
• fix: fixes int * float casting error by @BradyAJohnston in #270
• fix: Update md.py by @tubiana in #276
• feat: Bring Improved Assembly Reading by @BradyAJohnston in #277
• fix: Improves the 'add_attribute()` function by @BradyAJohnston in #279
• feat: Overhaul Biological Assemblies by @BradyAJohnston in #278
• feat: Reading bioloqgical assemblies from structure files by @padix-key in
  #148
• feat: entity_id attribute by @BradyAJohnston in #280
• fix: Building of docs from branches @BradyAJohnston in #281
• fix: add multiple bpy versions to test suite by @BradyAJohnston in #282
• fix: entity_id assignment by @BradyAJohnston in #284
• feat: improve cartoon styles by @BradyAJohnston in #285

New Contributors

• @PlethoraChutney made their first contribution in #260
• @jahooker made their first contribution in #253
• @padix-key made their first contribution in #148

Full Changelog: v2.7.4...v2.8.0

v2.7.4 for Blender 3.5+

Bug fix for surface style and improvements to testing.

What's Changed

• fix issue with splitting surfaces by @BradyAJohnston in #246
• change tests to randomly sample verts instead of first verts by @BradyAJohnston in #252

Full Changelog: v2.7.3...v2.7.4

v2.7.3 for Blender 3.5+

Minor fixes for cartoon style, and some refactoring of the docs.

What's Changed

• add selection to style cartoon by @BradyAJohnston in #241
• minor cleanup in docs by @BradyAJohnston in #242

Full Changelog: v2.7.2...v2.7.3

v2.7.2 for Blender 3.5+

Bump version for MDAnalysis in some more files to fix install.

v2.7.1 for Blender 3.5+

Mostly a fix to correct some weird bugs with the secondary structure cartoons on larger structures.

What's Changed

• Add release to Makefile by @BradyAJohnston in #234
• Fix oxygen selection bug in SS by @BradyAJohnston in #238
• Dev bump by @BradyAJohnston in #239

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.7.1

v2.7.0

A lot of under-the-hood bug fixes and refactoring, but also the addition of using ESMFold to predict the structure of an AA sequence.

What's Changed

• Added ESMFold as structure import option by @wjm41 in #205
• Changes how docs are built to include python API by @BradyAJohnston in #222
• initial switch changing docs build by @BradyAJohnston in #223
• Molecular Nodes Documentation by @FL-ECHE in #219
• Dev: Add Initial testing suite by @BradyAJohnston in #225
• Dev: Refactor Initialisation and Organisation by @BradyAJohnston in #226
• Add new attributes such as lipophobicity by @BradyAJohnston in #131
• Dev: Fix small-molecule import by @BradyAJohnston in #227
• Dev: Fix codecov coverage.xml by @BradyAJohnston in #228
• Dev: Re-enable node-add menu by @BradyAJohnston in #229
• Dev: Fix cartoon helices and other issues by @BradyAJohnston in #230

New Contributors

• @wjm41 made their first contribution in #205
• @FL-ECHE made their first contribution in #219

Full Changelog: v2.6.2...v2.7.0

v2.6.2 for Blender 3.5+

Fixes some issues with initial boolean attributes to do with backbone selection. Additionally fixes some errors with surface generation and node duplication.

What's Changed

• tweak att_is_backbone() to include O by @BradyAJohnston in #208
• Improve atom_name and is_backbone by @BradyAJohnston in #209
• Stop node tree duplications by @BradyAJohnston in #210
• Fix surface split by @BradyAJohnston in #211

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.6.2

v2.6.1 for Blender 3.5+

What's Changed

• Small fix to improve compatibility with starfiles & some bugs in SS annotation. by @tubiana in #203

New Contributors

• @tubiana made their first contribution in #203

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0 for Blender 3.5+

New Features

.star File Import

@jojoelfe finished off the import of .star files from cisTEM and RELION, which enables instancing of structures onto datasets from EM tomography.

output.mp4

Secondary Structure Cartoons

Utilising the secondary structure information that is now imported or can be computed, cartoon styles can be created for alpha-helices and beta-sheets. Every aspect of the cartoon is controllable through fields, enabling animation and customisation by the user.

cartoon.mp4

What's Changed

• Update Readme and Installation Instructions by @BradyAJohnston in #194
• Support cisTEM starfiles by @jojoelfe in #196
• Add Support for Importing .star File by @BradyAJohnston in #161
• Take secondary structure from .mmtf file instead of calculating by @BradyAJohnston in #199

New Contributors

• @jojoelfe made their first contribution in #196

Full Changelog: v2.5.4...v2.6.0