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- Changed libmv api to use doubles instead of floats.
No real benefit rather than keeping API uniform.
- Optimized reconstructed camera search. It's optimized for
playback, not random access.
- Added option to show projection of bundles into footage.
To see bundles "Show Bundles" from Display panel should
be enabled. Used very rough limit of 3 px to consider projection
is fine. Colors are still hard-coded. Not sure it could be useful
to make them configurable.
- Added option to mute footage. It could be useful to check
if markers/bundles are moving smoothly.
- Added selector for focal length units.
* Objects are now always rotated in the directions of the hair paths
* Secondary fix: particle size wasn't updated for hair particles, so dupliobject size couldn't be change after the hair was edited
* Noise is now considered an animated texture as it changes with every frame
* Converted a few places in particles code to use the particle system's own random table instead of BLI_frand.
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- Implemented hide/show track functionality.
- Small re-exposing Marker menu into UI.
Now it's called "Track". Added new operators there.
- Set reconstructed clip as active to scene.
This patch attempts to clean up and document the GPU buffers
code. There are a few bug fixes as well.
Patch reviewed here: http://codereview.appspot.com/4631052/
Summary:
* Bugfix: make GPU_buffer_copy_normal convert from shorts to floats
correctly, also fixed the use of cached face normal CustomData.
* Bugfix: changed the `mat_nr' field of GPUBufferMaterial from char to
short.
* Changed color buffer setup to not alloc a temporary copy of color
data, just passes the MCol data in directly.
* Changed the GPU buffer pool code to make clearer what operates
specifically on the global pool.
* Lots of refactoring for GPU_drawobject_new; should operate mostly
the same (except got rid of one unecessary allocation), just split
into more functions and without macros now.
* Converted some #defines into enumerations.
* Made some stuff private, pulled out of header file.
* Deleted unused function GPU_buffer_pool_free_unused().
* Removed GPU_interleaved_setup and related #defines. (I think this
was used for editmode VBOs, but those were disabled.)
* Added lots of comments.
* Added a few comments in the code signed `--nicholas' to note places
where I am unsure about design or usage, would be good to address
these better.
* Code formatting changed to be more consistent with the rest of
Blender.
* Renamed some fields and variables to be more consistent with
Blender's naming conventions.
* Renamed some fields and variables to use more descriptive names,
e.g. renamed `redir' to `mat_orig_to_new'.
* Removed print outs with DEBUG_VBO -- don't feel too strongly about
this one, just not used elsewhere in Blender, could be easily added
back if others disagree though.
* Moved the PBVH drawing code down to the bottom of the file, before
was sitting in the middle of the other VBO code
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- Made settings for tracking non-animatable.
- Fixed crash when enabling/disabling markers from
"Specials" menu.
- Translate all coords to make first reconstructed camera
be at position (0,0,0).
- Blender's camera now affects on reconstructed data.
Bundles are "parented" to active scene camera. So now
bundles' could could be scaled and rotated when camera
is rotating/scaling.
Softbody was still using a flag to determine if it should use the final or
deform derivedmesh, but this wans't exposed in the UI. Others systems use the
collision modifier, now softbody uses it also to get vertices and faces, but
with own collision code.
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- 32 bit linux compilation should be fixed now.
- Camrea reconstruction data should be better now
when there's no reconstructed cameras.
- Implemented "Set Origin" operator
- Added "Specials" W-key menu for SpaceClip.
Supports such operators:
* Enable track
* Disable track
* Set origin
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- ColaMD moved from OpenNL to extern/.
It'll be needed for libmv. Also, it's a bit updated from
year 1999 to 2007.
Need to be tested for regressions.
- Updated bundling script for libmv. Now it uses fuller
subset of this library.
- Bundled new libmv.
- Request from Keir: add command line argument to toggle logging
stuff on. Currently, if Blender is launched with -d argument
libmv would start printing logging messages. There's no
argument to increase verbosity, but there's API in libmv-capi,
so it'll be easy to add.
- Finally fixed crash when ibuf is acquiring with user=NULL.
- Added ActiveClip property to the scene. This clip is used
as default value for new match-moving constraints.
- Added some flags to Display panel of View3D. Related on
displaying match-moving stuff.
- Internal change: bundles data moved inside to MovieTrackingTrack.
- Initial implementation of 3d reconstruction.
- Added constraint "Camera Solver". This constraint is supposed
to be used to make camera follow the reconstructed camera path.
- Added "reference" property to "Follow Track" constraint.
Now object could be "parented" to 2D track position or to
3D bundle position.
The very quick guide:
To use reconstruction you should have footage with tracked markers,
choose two keyframes in "Tracking settings" panel. There should be
quite noticeable parallax effect between this two frames. This
is used to initialize reconstruction stuff.
Camera data (focal length and optical center) should be filled in
"Camera Data" panel. Optical center is often the center of image,
so it'll be filled in automatically.
You should also set values for undistortion (K1, K2 and K3). Currently,
there's no any visualization for this parameters and approach of
"change value -> reconstruct -> see what've changed" is the only way
for now.
Libmv team is working on auto-calibration tool, so it should be
easier to gather this coefficients in nearest (i hope) future.
There's also no scene orientation stuff.
Basic workflow:
- Open footage.
- Set markers and track them.
- Fill in camera data and keyframes.
- Hit "Solve Camera" button.
- Add "Camera Solver" constraint to camera in scene.
- Choose movieclip in that constraint.
- To see bundles in 3D viewport active clip should be set
in scene buttons.
* Horrors from the ancient world of deprecated code: object animation offset can't really work correctly with particles unless point cache takes full control of particle system timing.
* Disabled the non-working offset control from effecting particles so that for now particles will work consistently and the offset is only applied to the object.
===== Situation before this patch =====
in the current situation inside the node editor there is a properties panel (press 'n'-key). This pabel displays some information about the node, backdrop and grease pencil. The UI of the property panel is typically vertical oriented. Nodes in the other hand are not oriented in a direction. Both area's are draw via the same draw function.
With some nodes this will create not user-friendly UI. Try the color-balance for instance). The 3 color circles are drawn next to each other, it would be better to draw them below each other.
When creating more complex nodes you don't want to display all handles in the node-panel and in the properties panel. For instance fine-tuning handles you only want to appear in the property panel to reduce place in the node itself.
===== Situation after this patch =====
This patch separates the draw functions of the property panel and the node panel.
When no special draw function is created for the property panel, the draw function of the node will be used as 'fallback'
===== Impact =====
==== BKE_node.h ====
add a new uifunc (called uifuncbut) to the bNodeType struct. The definition is the same as the uifunc.
==== node_buttons.c ====
if the uifuncbut is set, call it. currently calls the uifunc method
==== drawnode.c ====
static void node_composit_set_butfunc(bNodeType *ntype). set the uifuncbut function where needed. When at the end of the method uifuncbut is still empty, set uifuncbut to the uifunc.
===== Final note =====
! PS. this is not limited to the compositor it also works for Materials and Textures !
! PPS. For other branching creating their own node-tree. Please make sure that your uifuncbut is set NULL or a valid draw function !
A mesh can consist out of multiple material. Take a character with clothing's. the skin can be a different material as the different clothing's. During compositing it is a common use-case to only do a part of the composit on only a specific material. Currently this can not be done.
In blender movies this feature is known to be implemented, but until now it never got integrated into trunk.
Proposal
With material index the Blender internal renderer will be capable of creating a buffer containing the material indexes of the first pixel-hit. This will be implemented in the same manner as the object index.
In the compositor the ID Mask node can be used to extract the information out of the Render pass.
Impact
User interface
On the properties-space the next changes will be done
Scene⇒Render layer⇒Passes⇒Material index will be added
Material⇒Options⇒Pass index will be added
DNA
Material struct will get an new field called “index”. this will be a short-type.
Material struct the field pad will be removed.
A new Render-layer pass will be added (bit 1«18)
RNA
Material RNA is updated (based on “pass index” from object)
Render layer RNA is updated (based on IndexOB)
Blender internal renderer
The Blender internal renderer will process the render pass as a copy of the Object index.
Blender compositor
The render layer input will get a new output socket called “IndexMA”
Usage
An example on how to use material index can be found at:
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/tests/compositing/composite_materialindex.blend
This is also example of a commit message longer than the commit itself :)
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- Removed TRACK_PROCESSED flag which is actually unneeded now.
- When libmv fails to track marker for next frame, add marker
for new frame with old position and set it up as Disabled.
- "Break" track path when markers sequence is "broken".
This means path wouldn't be drawed over frames, during which
racking object was lost.
- Update Properties Editor for SpaceClip during playback.
Track preview button should now update nicely.
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- Fixed bug with swapped width/height used for per-pixel cycle
when disabling color channel to be used for tracking.
- Marker preview is now using sub-pixel precision.
- Tracking stuff uses the same imbug generation function
as preview area does. Sub-pixel precision should be ok
now here too.
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- Removed unneeded checking of marker==NULL
- Tracks could be named now.
- Implemented "Follow Track" constraint to "parent"
objects to tracks from movie clip.
- Added operator to create such constraint for active object
using clip and track from current context.
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- Internal changes:
* Fixed bundle.sh script to bundle libmv: it was generating
incorrect CMakeLists header.
* Rename CLIP_OP_delete to CLIP_OT_delete_track.
* Fixed crash when BKE_movieclip_acquire_ibuf is called
with NULL user.
* Made MovieTrackingMarker structure 8-bytes aligned
* Use writestruct rather than writedata for track markers.
This allows to change MovieTrackingMarker safely.
- Added "Delete Marker" operator which deletes marker for
current frame only. Hotkey is Shift-Del.
- Added MovieClip.size and MovieClip.resolution RNA properties.
Use last accessed frame number to get ImBuf from sequence.
- Added different actions for "Clear Path" operator:
* Clear path up to current frame.
* Clear the whole path.
* Cleat remained part of path (for frames after current).
- Changed buttons order and icons for tracking. New order is:
* Track frame backwards.
* Track sequence backwards.
* Track sequence forwards.
* Track frame forwards.
NOTE: this breaks compatibility with existing .blend files again,
but it should be much easier to change data structures without
breackaged in the future.
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Request from Sebastian König:
Change behaviour of "Clear Track Path" operator to clear
data for frames after current rather than clearing the whole track data.
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- Internal changes:
* Rename uiTemplateMarker to uiTemplateTrack.
* Fixed some comments in movieclip.c.
- Control channels which are affect on track.
- Fixed track deletion when it's point isn't selected.
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- Fixed "sliding" when panning footage in high zoom.
This was most noticeable near right top corner of footage.
- Fixed 1px flickering of marker during playback with
"Lock to Selection" toggled on. This was caused by
precision errors. Used UI_view2d_to_region_no_clip-like
offsets calculations, but in float values. Maybe there
could be something smarter..
- Implemented tarcking along single frame.
Hotkey is ALT+left/right array. Also changed a bit
tracking tools buttons in Tools panel.
- Fixed "Lock to Selection" during tracking -- tracks
synchronization should happen before centering view.
- Approximate marker's position for frames, which haven't
got marker for them.
Use the nearest marker from left side for approximation.
For frames above first marker's framenr sue first marker
position.
- Markers now could be disabled. Added checkbox to
"Active Marker" panel.
- Changes in cache line:
* Bright line means active track has marker for frame.
* Dark line means marker's position is approximated.
* Yellow-less line means marker is disabled for that frames.
NOTE: .blend files which are saved with previous tomato version
would fail to work properly. I don't want to spend time
on making that files work properly atm, so don't blame on this.
Python:
* adds bpy.app.handlers which contains lists, each for an event type:
render_pre, render_post, load_pre, load_post, save_pre, save_post
* each list item needs to be a callable object which takes 1 argument (the ID).
* callbacks are cleared on file load.
Example:
def MyFunc(scene): print("Callback:", data)
bpy.app.handlers.render_post.append(MyFunc)
C:
* This patch adds a generic C callback api which is currently only used by python.
* Unlike python callbacks these are not cleared on file load.
In addition the billboards can be scaled by the particle velocity with optional head and tail factors (similar to line drawing options). This allows for pseudo-motionblur effects.
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- Corrected copyrights in my new files header.
- Added debug option to dump as PNG image content of search
areas tracking between which was failed.
- Removed internal tracking settings like pyramid level and
tolerance. Weren't useful neither for me nor for artists.
- Fixed bug in BKE_tracking_get_marker which could lead
to failure of getting marker for current frame when
there's marker for requested frame.
- Fixed bug with disappearing markers after tracking for
cases when marker was added at frame different from
tracking start frame and tracking start frame is
equal to tracking end frame.
- Stop tracking when no markers could be tracked.
- Changed marker selection rules:
* If marker isn't selected, all it's areas are getting
selected with mouse.
* If marker is selected and selection type doesn't have
"extend" mode (SHIFT isn't holded down) the nearest
to mouse cursor area would be selected. All the reast areas
would loose selection.
- Limit number of frames which would be used in "Track Markers"
operator. So now you could easily track along 10/20/etc frames.
- Change scene current frame after "Track Markers" operator.
- Implemented speed limitors. Now tracking could happen:
* As fast as possible
* With reatime speed (scene FPS)
* With half of realtime speed
* With quarter of realtime speed.
- Got rid of orig_user in MovieTrackingContext and user
in TrackMarkersJob. This prevents crashes when user
joins some space to SpaceClip from which tracking was started.
- Made keyframes on path bigger and do not draw keyframes for
non-selected markers.
TODO: need to get rid of storing main, scene and screen
in TrackMarkersJob. This is needed to set scene's
current frame after tracking (such behavior is comfortable
for artists) but this could lead to crash if scene is
getting removed when tracking job is running.
Render animation operator also stores scene and main,
so such solution could be fine for first time before
we've got something smarter.
