How to use: Select a few objects, and press "M" in the viewport.
If you hold ctrl the objects will be added to the selected collection.
Otherwise they are removed from all their original collections and moved
to the selected one instead.
Development Notes
=================
The ideal solution would be to implement an elegant generic multi-level
menu system similar to toolbox_generic() in 2.49.
Instead I used `uiItemMenuF` to acchieve the required nesting of the menus.
The downside is that `uiItemMenuF` requires the data its callback uses to be
always valid until the menu is discarded. But since there is no callback we
can call when the menu is discarded for operators that exited with
`OPERATOR_INTERFACE`.
That means we are using static allocated data, that is only freed next time
the operator is called. Which also means there will always be some
memory leakage.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3117
- put render iterator in own scope
(would shadow it's own variable if used multiple times).
- enforce semicolon at end of iterator macros.
- no need to typedef one-off macro structs.
We were not passing a scene collection parent to the BKE_collection_add
function, which in turn made syncing not work.
Right now we:
* Explicitly pass the master collection in this case
* Fallback to the master collection in other cases
With unittest.
When duplicating a layer collection directly linked to the view layer we copy
the collection and link it.
For all the not directly linked layer collectionns, we try to sync the layer
collection flags, overrides, ...
Also we make sure the new collection is right after the original collection.
We also expose this in RNA, via collection.duplicate().
Bug introduced on fb4cd136a7 (multi-object drag-and-drop).
How to reproduce the bug:
* Create a new collection
* Move the Cube to the new collection
* Move the Camera to the new collection (Cube disappears)
* Move the Lamp to the new collection (Camera disappears)
Explanation of the bug:
The moved object was still selected, so we were trying to add the object to the
collection were the object was already inserted (which would fail silently) and
then remove it.
This fixes any function that relied on these iterators such as:
* Outliner Same Type
* Metaballs
* scene.objects
We were not considering the collections when there was collections nested
to the collections nested to the master collection.
It includes a unittest.
This allows users to have "Support", "Rig", "Characters" collections nested to
different collections without having to resort to "House.Rig", "House.Characters"
or "Rig.001", "Characters.003" :/
This is part of T53495.
The mental model is that a scene collection is a small wrap on top of the master
collection, so all objects are in the master collection at all times.
When we remove a collection there is no reason to remove an object. So if the
object was not linked to any other collection, we add link it to the master one.
So they are:
House
-> House 1
-> House 2
-> ...
The exception is when the parent collection is the master collection. In this case we get:
Master Collection
-> Collection 1
-> Collection 2
-> ...
This is part of "T53495: View layer and collection editing - Design Task"
You could still create groups as before, with Ctl + G. This will create a group
with a single visible collection.
However you can also create a group from an existing collection. Just go to
the menu you get in the outliner when clicking in a collection and pick
"Create Group".
Remember to instance the group afterwards, or link it into a new scene or file.
The group and the collection are not kept in sync afterwards. You need to manually
edit the group for further changes.
Since we are ditching layers from Blender (2.8) we need a replacement to
control groups visibility. This commit introduces collections as the building
blocks for groups, allowing users to control visibility as well as overrides
for groups.
Features
========
* Groups now have collections
This way you can change the visibility of a collection inside a group, and add
overrides which are part of the group and are prioritized over other overrides.
* Outliner
Groups can inspect their collections, change visibility, and add/remove members.
To change an override of a group collection, you need to select an instance of
the group, and then you can choose "group" in the collection properties editor
to edit this group active collection instead of the view layer one.
* Dupli groups overrides
We can now have multiple instances of the same group with an original "override"
and different overrides depending on the collection the instanced object is part
of.
Technical
=========
* Layers
We use the same api for groups and scene as much as possible.
Reviewers: sergey (depsgraph), mont29 (read/write and user count)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2892
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
We now initialize iter.valid as true as part of the main iterator (and manually
when using via Python). And we don't even bother setting iter->current to NULL
if it's invalid. Let's stick to using iter->valid only.
At the moment libblock_remap_data_preprocess is using
FOREACH_SCENE_OBJECT to iterate over all the objects of the scene and
unlink them.
However we were storing a reference to the Base of the removed object.
Anyways, the loop is now sanitized so that this crash no longer happens.
Also now we have an unittest for this.
This is similar to some other datablocks. Mainly applies to collections,
so freeing scene does not involve changing any non-directly owned data.
There are two main usecases foreseen for the future:
- Less CPU ticks on bmain free, where everything is freed anyway and
there is no need to preserve id counters.
- Easier freeing of temporary data, including data which is used by
depsgraph's copy-on-write mechanism.
Neither of those are currently implemented, but will be shortly.
This way we are not afraid of recursion being too deep.
That could have happened when having two collections which
are sharing same list of 1000s of objects.
This moves selectability/visibility flag flush from some hardcoded
places in the code to depsgraph. This way it is possible to simply
tag depsgraph to update those flags and rest it'll do on its own.
Using depsgraph for such flush is an overkill: those flags are fully
static and can not be animated, so it doesn't really make sense to
hook only those to depsgraph.
However, in the future we will have overrides on collections, which
ideally would need to be animatable and drivable and easiest way
to support this is to do this on depsgraph level, so it ensures
proper order of evaluation for animation and drivers. And it seems
logical to do both overrides and flags flush from depsgraph from
this point of view.
This commit also includes the evaluation of IDProperty for collections,
which basically are just another form of override. So once we implement
the other kind of overrides the flushing and collection evaluation won't
change.
Patch by Sergey Sharybin and Dalai Felinto
This adds initial support for reordering collections from the Outliner
using drag & drop.
Although drag & drop support is limited to collections for now, this
lays most foundations for general drag & drop reordering support in the
Outliner. There are some design questions to be answered though:
* Would reordering of other data types (like objects) be a purely visual change or would it affect the order in which they are stored? (Would that make a difference for the user?)
* Should/can we allow mixing of different data types? (e.g. mixing render layers with objects)
* How could we realize this technically?
Notes:
* "Sort Alphabetically" has to be disabled to use this ("View" menu).
* Reordering only works with collections on the same hierarchy level.
* Added some visual feedback that should work quite well, it's by far not a final design though: {F493806}
* Modified collection orders are stored in .blends.
* Reordering can be undone.
* Did minor cleanups here and there.
Every time:
* A collection settings is set
* A collection visibility changes
* An object is added/removed/ ...
We need to recalculate the "accumulated" CollectionEngineSettings that
the render engine should use for an object.
This is to be handled by the depsgraph. Meanwhile this code should allow
us to start using those settings in the render engines.
Note: We are storing this in the objects, which means we can only have
one active calculated option every time.
This is intended to get the conversation with the Depsgraph department
going.
