Finally, here is the basic (functional) prototype of the new animation system which will allow for the infamous "everything is animatable", and which also addresses several of the more serious shortcomings of the old system. Unfortunately, this will break old animation files (especially right now, as I haven't written the version patching code yet), however, this is for the future.
Highlights of the new system:
* Scrapped IPO-Curves/IPO/(Action+Constraint-Channels)/Action system, and replaced it with F-Curve/Action.
- F-Curves (animators from other packages will feel at home with this name) replace IPO-Curves.
- The 'new' Actions, act as the containers for F-Curves, so that they can be reused. They are therefore more akin to the old 'IPO' blocks, except they do not have the blocktype restriction, so you can store materials/texture/geometry F-Curves in the same Action as Object transforms, etc.
* F-Curves use RNA-paths for Data Access, hence allowing "every" (where sensible/editable that is) user-accessible setting from RNA to be animated.
* Drivers are no longer mixed with Animation Data, so rigs will not be that easily broken and several dependency problems can be eliminated. (NOTE: drivers haven't been hooked up yet, but the code is in place)
* F-Curve modifier system allows useful 'large-scale' manipulation of F-Curve values, including (I've only included implemented ones here): envelope deform (similar to lattices to allow broad-scale reshaping of curves), curve generator (polynomial or py-expression), cycles (replacing the old cyclic extrapolation modes, giving more control over this). (NOTE: currently this cannot be tested, as there's not access to them, but the code is all in place)
* NLA system with 'tracks' (i.e. layers), and multiple strips per track. (NOTE: NLA system is not yet functional, as it's only partially coded still)
There are more nice things that I will be preparing some nice docs for soon, but for now, check for more details:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-taskforce25/2009-January/000260.html
So, what currently works:
* I've implemented two basic operators for the 3D-view only to Insert and Delete Keyframes. These are tempolary ones only that will be replaced in due course with 'proper' code.
* Object Loc/Rot/Scale can be keyframed. Also, the colour of the 'active' material (Note: this should really be for nth material instead, but that doesn't work yet in RNA) can also be keyframed into the same datablock.
* Standard animation refresh (i.e. animation resulting from NLA and Action evaluation) is now done completely separate from drivers before anything else is done after a frame change. Drivers are handled after this in a separate pass, as dictated by depsgraph flags, etc.
Notes:
* Drivers haven't been hooked up yet
* Only objects and data directly linked to objects can be animated.
* Depsgraph will need further tweaks. Currently, I've only made sure that it will update some things in the most basic cases (i.e. frame change).
* Animation Editors are currently broken (in terms of editing stuff). This will be my next target (priority to get Dopesheet working first, then F-Curve editor - i.e. old IPO Editor)
* I've had to put in large chunks of XXX sandboxing for old animation system code all around the place. This will be cleaned up in due course, as some places need special review.
In particular, the particles and sequencer code have far too many manual calls to calculate + flush animation info, which is really bad (this is a 'please explain yourselves' call to Physics coders!).
* Added more compact property definitions, with a single function.
Only used by operators at the moment, would need to tweak regular
expressions a bit more to use it also for other RNA definitions.
* The operator properties defined now were completed a bit more but
still have many issues that need to be adressed, specifically;
* Some properties that should be booleans or enums are defined as
ints, note that ints are only for numeric values, not bitflags
or multiple choice.
* Soft/hard limits and default values of many properties are not
well defined still,
* Inconsistent naming, especially for example mouse locations or
bounds are named differently in different places. Also mouse
locations and other vector like properties should become a single
vector property instead of multiple X/Y properties.
* Almost no properties have descriptions, these would be good to
have for docs and tooltips.
So, please verify that the properties of the operators you wrote are
well defined.
- Finished adding primitives in Mesh editmode.
For test pleasure: hotkeys CTRL 0-9 add them.
More fun for testers:
- F3: gives menu of all registered ops. You can use
it too, it then execs it again, and makes it the
last executed operator.
- F4: executes last registered operator without menu.
- Depricated another bunch of globals; all the totobj,
totmesh, totvert, and so on.
- All code that needs such totals now count it themselves,
these stats were not supposed to be reliable
- Editmesh now stores and manages own totals.
- Todo: make a scene->stats that tracks notifiers.
Bugfix: selecting failed in editmesh, backbuffer stuff was
too late, already using index ranges before it was set.
Another one back: editcurve.c
- removed global editNurb everywhere
(cu->editnurb now has listbase with edit data)
- also added 'active bpoint' and 'active nurb' in
Curve struct
- editmode in/out works, mouse/border select works
- restored three more C files: editlattice, editkey
and editgroup
- editmode lattice working, (mouse select works)
- accidentally removed yesterday 3d cursor drawing
- removed global editLatt entirely now.
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- Ported ObData to center, center new and centur cursor
- its currently 1 operator
- no warning or error popups until its figured out how best to do so
- possibly full of ugly code and things done worng way, had a hard time trying to understand this code
- some more house cleaning and removal of unused functions
Instead of many commits, here 1!
- Constraint edit code back
- Removed XXX stubs for constraints
(make parent follow path works)
- Removed XXX stubs for armature
(make parent deform, do center, etc works)
- Found a bad uninitialized global Scene * in code, especially
in kernel it wreaked havoc.
- added missing include in blenkernel/brush.c
- fixed Nicholas' fix for editmode subsurf crash
(It needed to check for editmode)
- Weightpaint back (CTRL+TAB or menu)
Also weightpaint is sortof non-modal, allowing to use all existing
hotkeys while in paint mode. Only leftmouse is overridden.
- Made vpaint and wpaint entirely local, stored in scene (and saved!)
- Small bugfix (also in 2.48): on weightpaint mode, all armature objects
in 3d window were drawing as active poses. Now only the armature
deformer is.
Nice point for the UI agenda: are paint modes on ACTION mouse? Only then
you can combine it with SELECT mouse...
Vertex Paint back!
Added WM level "paint cursor" system, which manages a custom painting
cursor for tools or modes.
- Activate it with WM_paint_cursor_activate(). That function wants two
callbacks, a poll(C) to check whether there's a cursor in given context
and ARegion, and a draw(C, x, y) which gets called when appropriate.
- While paintcursor is active, the WM handles necessary redrawing events
for all regions, also to nicely clear the cursor on region exit.
- WM_paint_cursor_activate returns a handle, which you have to use to
end the paint cursor. This handle also means you can register as many
custom cursors as you want.
At the moment, vertex paint mode registers only a mousemove handler,
all other events are still normally handled. This is stuff for the
future todo.
soc-2008-nicholasbishop branch.
Note: any old code with multires_test() or multires_level1_test() can
just be deleted, not needed by the multires modifier.
Put back Armature/Pose code, including 'heat weight'.
I've added reeb.h to get things compile, but Martin will
cleanup files and put back?
Now where to put all vertexgroup code.... I guess mesh?
Note for msvc: yep, another new dir to add! :)
Think global, act local!
The old favorite G.scene gone! Man... that took almost 2 days.
Also removed G.curscreen and G.edbo.
Not everything could get solved; here's some notes.
- modifiers now store current scene in ModifierData. This is not
meant for permanent, but it can probably stick there until we
cleaned the anim system and depsgraph to cope better with
timing issues.
- Game engine G.scene should become an argument for staring it.
Didn't solve this yet.
- Texture nodes should get scene cfra, but the current implementation
is too tightly wrapped to do it easily.
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- Ported show/hide objects as the clear/set restrictview operators (request of kaito)
- clear is not using a context loop as there is none currently available
- set uses a popup menu for hide select and hide unselected
hotkeys are H and Alt-H (set, clear)
- ported the undo calles, to use ED_undo_push where available
From the anti-globalization department:
G.obedit terminated!
Wherever possible, use CTX_data_edit_object(C) to get this
now. It's stored in scene now, and the screen context has
it defined.
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small commit, after some help from ton i have fixed the clear transformation modifiers, they now redraw correctly, they was missing a depsgraph tag, also did a little tidying up
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- added clear location/rotation/scale/origin
- each action is a seperate operator
- Drawing is delayed as the tag_region_redraw does not seem to have an effect perhaps a transformation notifier is needed
- for the view to update just do some transformation, like press G
- changed the shortcut key for area rip to alt-ctrl-r so it dosn't conflict with clear rotation
- Put back vertex/edge/face select
- Mode menu allows going in/out editmode
- Tested some tweak event stuff in WM, made tweak event follow
user preset for 'action' or 'select' mouse.
(Wanted to try this for transform, but better get advise from
Martin first :)
- Made scrollwheel behave uniform for zooming. It uses the UserDef
to map what's in our out. Use keymap entries WHEELINMOUSE and
WHEELOUTMOUSE to trigger this. Also removed the feature to store
in event->val the direction, it was conflicting with KM_ANY.
- Added more default poll callbacks, use for generic ops things
like ED_operator_object_active.
- Edit mode Mesh undo/redo back
(undo for editmodes needed recode, todo for curve/lattice/etc)
- Added border select for edit mesh
- Added Akey (de)select all for edit mesh
- Added notifiers for mode changes.
This is also the first trial to dynamically add/remove
keymap handlers, based on modes. For that reason the Object
keymap was split in 2, modal and non-modal. On TABkey, the
view3d listener removes and adds maps.
The view3d keymap still handles generic mouse/border selection.
Internally it will verify modes.
The modes are not re-implemented still... have to move this
to scene context.
So, editmode mesh is back! :)
At the moment only TABkey works and mouse select, 1 vertex at a
time. More will follow of course.
Note for the devs:
- G.editMesh has been removed, be careful with old code.
- EditMesh now is property of Mesh itself
Although it means unlimited editmodes, for migration purposes we
better stick to 1 "obedit" per scene, which is in Context too
- G.obedit will get removed soon, so use CTX_data_edit_object(C)
Or if you can't, just scene->obedit for now
- Also removed the CTX_data_edit_mesh(), this has no meaning
anymore. EditMesh is not context senstitive anymore, only the
edit-object for time being is.
- Martin: I've already tucked some EditMesh pointer in T and
removed all G.editMesh there.
EditMesh: further cleanup, made derivedmesh itterator functions
work by gathering all related data in local ViewContext struct.
(scene, editmesh, region, view3d, obedit).
Also removed bad inclusion of view3d_intern.h in mesh module.
Editmesh code cleaned and compiling/linking. A whopping
20k lines back! :)
Not that it does stuff... editmode in/out has to be done,
and loads of operators. Also linking/exporting editmesh
calls has to be reviewed.
Also: added a blender_test_break() mechanism in BKE.
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- ported Make track , and Clear track (ctrl-t, Alt-t)
- make track is a direct port does not use context data loops
- make Track crashes as Constraints have not been ported yet
- added select_extend to mouse select so now you can use shift again
- Still does not use Context data loops as this get all messed up, kaito can you look into it
- currently only works with 1 modifier key at a time so ctrl+alt does not work, until i can figure out how best to achieve this
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Small commit, moved selection Operators to Object editor (object_edit.c) as per kaito's request
- normal selection and border/circle select are still in view3d as they depend too much on view3d
More notifier cleanups:
NC_SCENE|ND_OB_SELECT : scene level object selections changed
NC_SCENE|ND_OB_ACTIVE : scene level, new active object
NC_OBJECT|ND_BONE_SELECT : object level, bone selection changed
NC_OBJECT|ND_BONE_ACTIVE: object level, new active bone
I've made view3d listen to these, so operators that change
selections don't have to tag own region for redraw anymore.
Also enabled selecting/activating in outliner again.
BTW: Added it in space_action, but Joshua has to code the
proper refresh still :)
Further simplifying making operators with menus;
now you can add an 'invoke' callback:
WM_menu_invoke
which will automatically generate a menu with choices and assign
it to the property 'type'.
What also helps typing is the new RNA_enum_is_equal() function.
Here's a paste of the now committed 'clear parent'. Note the
undo push will become a flag too.
http://pasteall.org/3660
(Brecht; fixed small bug in RNA_enum_is_equal!)
To evaluate: solving dependencies for multipe scenes... probably
will make a more generic flush call.
Fix: popup menus were not freeing operators.
Made a new Popup menu call for this case:
uiPupmenuOperator(C, maxrow, op, propname, menustr);
It will set enum "propname" to the menu item and call operator,
register it optionally and free it. Use it in "invoke" calls.
Next: automatic menu generating for enum properties!
Object: converted the old horrible editobject.c, now as file:
editors/object/object_edit.c
Still lots of WIP, I've operatorified "Make Parent". Check here
the new API at work: http://pasteall.org/3650/c
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR BRECHT:
game property defines were clashing with RNA, i've renamed game
defines for now.
- first work on getting area/screen handling back
- added structure for where to put stuff, is still under
review, wait a bit for docs?
Campbell is working on removing every bad level include from
sources, so we can safely rebuild the src/ directory.
