Addresses #146305.
Ever since moving to the "sequencer scene" paradigm, attempting to
render an image or animation when a sequencer with strips is present
often seems to outright ignore the sequencer in most cases. This is
because the sequencer scene usually differs from the active scene (which
is the true render target), so one must first switch their active scene
to the sequencer scene before rendering. This is confusing and
seems like a regression in behavior. To improve clarity, this patch does
the following:
When a sequencer scene with at least one strip (and the sequencer step
enabled in the pipeline) exists in the current workspace, new options
"Render Sequencer Image" and "Render Sequencer Animation" appear. These
options may be invoked by alt-F12 and ctrl-alt-F12, respectively.
Additionally, if such a valid sequencer scene is the same as the active
scene, then only the regular render options are listed, since in this
case they are identical to the sequencer render operators, meaning F12
still works predictably.
To switch back and forth between sequencer and main scene render
outputs, a new toggle has been added to the image editor to "Show
Sequencer Scene" output. This button only appears for the render result
if there is a valid sequencer scene that differs from the active scene.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146934
Adds a new operator that jumps time by a given number of frames or seconds, forward or backward.
Surprisingly, it was lacking in Blender, and prompted many users (including me) to create extensions.
This PR adds two properties: `time_jump_unit` for choosing whether to jump by frames or seconds
and `time_jump_delta` property that defines by how many frames or seconds the operator should jump,
as well as an actual operator that changes the current frame (`screen.time_jump`).
`time_jump_delta` is a float that gives users the ability to jump by half a second, for example, or by subframes.
Default is set to 1 second, which translates to as many frames jump as frame rate / frame base.
The operator is intentionally not bound by frame range, and can go in negative frames as well.
This is very important because it's extremely common to set frame range to the current workload,
but wish to see animation beyond that.
Operators are added in the new footer for animation editors alongside with pop-up menu where
properties can be changed.
Shortcuts are also added: Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow, which was surprisingly free in Blender.
Now timeline controls are:
- **Right Arrow**: Next Frame
- **Ctrl + Right Arrow**: Jump Forward (by default also Next Second)
- **Shift + Right Arrow**: Jump to End
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140677
The operator moves selected UVs, using the num-pad for directional keys:
Modifiers control the units:
- UDIM / UV unit (NUMPAD KEY)
- Dynamic grid unit (CTRL + NUMPAD KEY)
- Pixel unit (SHIFT + NUMPAD KEY)
Implements design task #78405.
Ref !139608
Currently, attempting to split connected strips that are not both
selected means that only one of the strips are affected. This violates
the "connected" principle, so this PR makes the split operator propagate
the split to connected strips by default. Holding alt returns old
behavior (ignores connections), similar to selection logic.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146380
The issue was that the used operator just took the active node into account.
However, clicking in empty space does not make the active node inactive.
Therefore, sometimes clicking on empty space would sometimes remove enter the
last selected group node. Furthermore, double clicking on other nodes may also
trigger exiting the current group.
This is fixed by introducing a new operator that explicitly checks what node is
hovered.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/147053
This adds a new operator which can join multiple nodes together. Currently, it
only supports joining Group Input nodes. However, in the future it could be
extended to join e.g. Bake and Capture Attribute nodes.
This uses the recently freed up ctrl+J shortcut for this functionality, which
feels natural to me.
The implementation is fairly straight forward. The main tricky aspect is
sometimes the nodes can't be joined when that would result in two sockets being
linked to each other twice. In this case, the a separate Group Input node is
kept.
The selected nodes are merged into the active node (in case the active node is
part of the selection, otherwise there is a fallback).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146894
Nodes have many indicators in their header: whether they have a
preview, warnings, whether they are a node group, plus potentially
more such as if the library is linked/overriden or packed data.
Of all indicators, whether the node is a node group or not is often not
so relevant (especially when many nodes will be just node group assets)
so having an icon takes away precious real estate for other indicators.
Draw the node shape slightly different. A subtle "stack" of nodes
behind Node Groups indicate this is more than just one node.
The stack is only drawn at a certain zoom.
It is now possible to double-click a node group to enter.
It also makes some more room for the node label, since the node group
icon in the header is no longer needed.
Plus a few visual tweaks and fixes for broken/non-valid nodes.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145674
Implement a native method to swap between different node and zone types.
This implementation repurposes the existing menu definitions as base
classes, from which both an "Add" and a "Swap" version would be generated
from. This allows both menus to have the same layout, but use their own
operators for handling the different node/zone types.
In this PR, support for all node editors has been implemented.
Invoking the menu is currently bound to `Shift + S`, same as the old
implementation in Node Wrangler. Since "Swap" is implemented as a
regular menu, features that menus already have such as type-to-search
and adding to Quick Favorites don't require any extra caveats to
consider.
Resolves#133452
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143997
Move several clip and mask display options into a common Overlays popover,
consistent with other editors. Includes a global toggle (Shift-Alt-Z) to
show/hide all overlays at once.
Also adds the missing annotations toggle, cursor visibility toggle, and moves mask display options in
the Image Editor into the Overlays popover due to shared code paths.
See PR for images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145895
This commit implements the design task #78398
- Box region
- Set Custom UV Region (Ctrl-B).
- Disabled with Custom Region checkbox in the menu or (Ctrl-Alt-B).
- Box Select (Pinned) changed to (Alt-B).
- When the Custom Region enum is chosen the islands are packed
into the bounding box of the drawn region.
Ref !140020
Expose the "Mute Links" add "Add Reroute" operator as active tools
in the node editor similar to the "Links Cut" tool.
This also works around #134153 by adding additional tools in the same
button group to the toolbar.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140429
This PR adds the `Pen Tool` to `Curves` objects.
The logic and keybinds are shared with the Grease Pencil `Pen Tool`
Unlike the legacy pen tool, this version can works with multiple objects.
Note: Some changes have been made from the legacy curve object's pen tool.
A list of changes can be found at #142646
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144833
This feature works like the select lasso in other editors. In preview
the user can draw a region they want to select and when a strips origin
is in this lasso region the strip gets selected.
In timeline the user can do the same and the strip gets selected when
the strip is in the lasso or some part of the lasso is in the strip.
The tool can be accessed through in the toolbar or via shortcut.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143391
This feature works like the select circle in any other modes. The user
can press "C" in preview or timeline and then select or deselect strips
by pressing the left or middle mouse button.
It’s an enhancement for the VSE preview because:
1. It makes it more similar to other editors in Blender
2. This behavior makes it easier to select specific overlapping strips
in preview, that is because the select circle only checks for the
origin of the strip.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141422
This was quite involved to get to work. Basic idea is to make
`bl_activate_operator` work for the pose library asset shelf, and
introducing a `bl_drag_operator` for blending poses.
- Make pose asset operators take an asset reference, which is how
`bl_activate_operator` usually gets the asset to operate on. This way
poses references can be assigned to a shortcut, identified by asset
library and relative asset path within the library. Falls back to
getting the asset from context.
- Trigger `bl_activate_operator` on every click, instead of only when
an un-active item becomes active. Needed so poses can be re-applied
as before.
- Fix button context not passed to the `bl_activate_operator` when
force-activating, e.g. on right-click events.
- Allow registering a `bl_drag_operator` in the asset shelf definition.
Executed when dragging an asset in the shelf.
- When dragging an asset, highlight it as active, without calling the
`bl_activate_operator`. This is important feedback to the user.
- Activate/select view items on click instead of drag, so dragging is
possible.
- Let pose applying operators handle the Ctrl key to apply poses
flipped. There's no simple way to attach such alternative behaviors
to `bl_activate_operator`/`bl_drag_operator`
- Remove keymap items that were there for the previous "hacky" solution
to apply & blend poses.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144023
When the `Join` operator was added to Grease Pencil v3 the behavior when
joining points was changed. The selected point would now be split from the
existing strokes and put into a new one.
This behavior is often undesirable, leading to multiple user reporting it as a
bug #130293, #141368, #131036, #132201, #136144 and #144300.
This PR adds a new mode, `Join Strokes` that behaves the same as legacy
grease pencil, and sets it as default. This PR also renames the existing modes
to `SplitAndCopy`, `SplitPoints` to better indicate the expected behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144666
This PR adds a slip tool in the toolbar with its own custom icon for
applying slips using the mouse. This is useful for e.g. tablets where a
keyboard is not handy and a button would be best to activate the
operator.
There is also a custom cursor that appears when hovering over valid,
slippable strips (and a "stop" icon when the strip cannot be slipped).
Alt may be used in order to ignore slipping connected strips when using
the tool, similar to selection logic. The slip tool only performs its
sole function of slipping and as such does not change the selection
state.
In the future, we can also add "slide" functionality to the same tool,
giving it multiple functions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143513
Changing select button to right click doesn't reflect in outliner
keymap. Use `params.context_menu_event`, `params.select_mouse` so that
with Right mouse preference, RMB will be used for selection and `W` for
context menu
Resolves#144860
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144905
Use "Up Arrow" to jump to the next keyframe, and "Down Arrow" for the
previous keyframe, to be consistent within Blender and other software.
See PR for details.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140301
When the "Pie Menu on Drag" is active in the preferences, pressing "I"
and then moving the mouse will open a pie menu where the user can
select which keying set to key.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144573
Tree view elements can be deleted by the remove operator located on the
right side with `-` icon. But these operators are different for every
type. Now introduced `UI_OT_view_item_delete`. With that it is possible
to delete elements with X key when mouse is over tree view. In future
maybe we could remove type specific operators (for example: `GREASE_PENCIL_OT_layer_remove`).
See video in PR description
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144045
This adds the `Pen` tool to Grease Pencil Edit Mode.
With the pen tool you can:
- Extrude points by `Left Click`.
- Move the handles by dragging the mouse.
- Snap handles to 45 degree increments with `Shift`.
- Cycle through the handle types by `Double Clicking`.
- Add new point on segments by `Ctrl Clicking`.
- Remove existing point by `Ctrl Clicking`.
- Close a curve by clicking on one end while having the other selected.
- Move existing segment by clicking and dragging on the edge.
- Move points by clicking and dragging the mouse.
Some changes have been made compared to the legacy
curve object's pen tool:
- `Angle locking` with `Alt` was replaced with `Angle Snapping`
using `Shift`. This was done to match the behavior of Grease Pencil
primitive tools.
- `Move Entire Point` was changed from the `Space` key to `Alt`. This
was done because some laptops can't move the mouse while
`Space` is held.
- `Link Handles` and `Free Align Toggle` were not implemented.
- `Toggle Vector` and `Close Spline Method` were removed.
- `Close Spline` was removed and set to always be true.
- `Extrude Handle` type was removed as a option and was replaced
by the `shift` modifier key when clicking.
- Newly created points are placed on the drawing plane, instead of
the view plane.
When a new curve is created, the material will be the active material
and the radius will be set from the `radius` property.
Note: This tool is added to edit mode because it uses handle selection
and bézier overlays which currently don't exist in draw mode.
A future PR will implement a draw mode version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142646
This feature allows the user to use `ctrl + C`, `ctrl + V` and
`ctrl + shift + V` directly in the sequencer preview. It adds these
operators also to the preview Strip menu.
It works the same as in the sequencer timeline.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143371
Duplicating a strip that references an ID like the scene strip would not
duplicate the scene. This is wanted in some workflows.
To align with the rest of Blender, this changes the behavior for how
strips are duplicated:
* `Shift + D` ("duplicate"): Duplicate the strip and also duplicate the
IDs referenced by the strip. Currently this only affects `Scene`,
`MovieClip`, and `Mask` strips.
* `Alt + D` ("duplicate linked"): Duplicate the strip, but reference the
same IDs. This is the current behavior in `main`.
Part of #144063.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144138
Expose existing mask operators as tools in the toolbar.
The primitive tools are commented out since interactively placement
isn't currently supported by the operators.
Ref !136086
This PR makes it easier to delete strip keyframes from the preview.
It works similarly to the 3D viewport and also works with keying sets.
Pressing "alt + I" deletes the keyframe on the current frame of the
selected strips, when a keyset is active it only deletes the keyframes
of the selected keyset.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140385
This adds "use_occlude_geometry=True" and "only_selected=False" to the
keymap entry for K, mesh.knife_tool, even though these are the default
values for this operator. This fixes the complaint. And these same
props are set for "Knife Topology Tool" on the VIEW3D_MT_edit_mesh
menu so that it displays the shortcut correctly (#139393 remains
corrected).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143673
This initial commit properly clamps handles for video/audio strips, and
provides functionality to enable/disable the behavior for all strip types
(addresses #90280).
Toggling handle clamping is done with "C",
just like with the redesigned slip operator (#137072).
If a strip is not already clamped when you start moving its handles,
then clamping behavior is disabled starting out. This means no abrupt
clamp until you explicitly ask for it.
Transform logic was altered, fixing a few bugs:
- When initializing a transform, `createTransSeqData` would already
create some clamping data for channels. This patch replaces it with
`offset_clamp` (for unconditional clamping which cannot be disabled)
and `handle_xmin/xmax` (for hold offset clamping, which is optional).
- Collecting this data ahead of time is necessary for the double
handle tweak case -- `flushTransSeq` only works one strip at a
time, so we can't clamp post-hoc.
- In `applySeqSlideValue`, we apply `transform_convert_sequencer_clamp`
before values are printed to the header, but let the unclamped values
get flushed to the strips themselves. This is so that we can have the
data later at the individual strip level to recalculate clamps.
Otherwise, if transform values are clamped preemptively, then we have
no idea whether strips are clamped vs. merely resting at their
boundaries.
Note that currently, handle clamping is drawn identically to overlaps.
More information in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134319
Add support to select multiple tree view elements (similar to outliner/anim channels)
`Ctrl + LMB` to select+activate element under the mouse
`Shift + LMB` to select all items between active and clicked item.
As of now, only Shape key has support for multi-select. (straightforward to include
other views). `KEYBLOCK_SEL` flag is used for storing selection state.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138979
Our keymap, when pressing Ctrl-Tab in Graph Editor, currently changes
the space type to "Dope Sheet" with "wm.context_set_enum". But this
method is not aware of subtypes. This PR instead changes the space type
using "screen.space_type_set_or_cycle". While in Timeline it will go to
Graph Editor, press again to go back to Timeline. While in Dope Sheet
you go to Graph Editor, press again to go to Dope Sheet.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141360
This replaces the Move/Link to Collection operator popup with a menu,
allowing this to be able to search collection to move and to expand
this menu from other menus.
This removes the expected memory leak of using the popup.
Move to Collection operator now uses `session_uid` to identify
target collection, this now allows to target a collection from another
scene, however, is not exposed throw UI)
Resolves#133772
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140883
Move number shortcut keys for isolating collection to outliner space.
Resolves#140651
Same operator is also used in the collection list from the view3d N-panel,
video demonstration includes that part as well to ensure it is unaffected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140653
This PR makes it easier to add keyframes for strips in preview.
This works same way as in 3D viewport, using keying sets. Pressing I
key adds keyframe to default keying set, pressing K dhows menu with
available keying sets. For VSE, location, rotation and scale properties
are available for now. Other existing keying sets are not valid for
VSE.
Deleting keyframes and potentially adding more keying sets will be
handled in separate PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140107
Historically, the `UnifiedPaintSettings` struct has been used to
provide users the ability to set brush values at a scene level. Examples
of such attributes are the brush size, strength, and color, to name a
few.
Instead of these values being shared across all of the grease pencil,
mesh painting, and curves sculpting modes. This commit migrates the
data to the `Paint` struct, meaning that each individual mode (e.g.
Sculpt, Vertex Paint, Grease Pencil Draw) now has the ability to change
these values without affecting other modes.
While this change is large, the majority of the work is simply
refactoring access to the `UnifiedPaintSetting` struct. to ensure the
correct property is being retrieved.
Resolves#134077
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139766
Clarify the terms for NDOF translation & rotation sensitivity.
Previously translation was named: "ndof_sensitivity" making it
sound like it would control rotation as well.
As discussed recently in the Sculpt, Paint & Texture module meeting.
There is a desire to move this setting out from being hidden behind
developer extras so that it can be discovered more easily.
Unlike other experimental options, the ability to toggle this setting is
still present in release builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140169
