At last, this commit introduces the Spline IK Constraint to Blender. Spline IK is a constraint that makes n bones follow the shape of a specified curve.
Simply add a chain of bones, add a curve, add a Spline IK Constraint to the tip bone and set the number of bones in the chain to make it work. Or, try the following test file:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/250_splineik_spine01.blend
Screenshots of this in action (as proof):
http://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/b250_splineik_001_before.pnghttp://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/b250_splineik_001_after.png
I've implemented this in a similar way to how standard IK solvers are done. However, this code is currently not an IK plugin, since I imagine that it would be useful to be able to combine the 2 types of IK. This can be easily changed though :)
Finally, a few notes on what to expect still:
* Constraint blending currently doesn't affect this. Getting that to work correctly will take a bit more work still.
* Options for not affecting the root joint (to make it easier to attach the chain to a stump or whatever), and non-uniform scaling options have yet to be added. I've marked the places where they can be added though
* Control over the twisting of the chain still needs investigation.
Have fun!
Contributors list isnt used much in our C code so probably its easier if people just use svn blame for this.
Can change if this isnt acceptable but I guessed people didnt care so much since most scripts had no header.
# Before
[
bpy.props.StringProperty(attr="path", name="File Path", description="File path used for exporting the PLY file", maxlen= 1024, default= ""),
bpy.props.BoolProperty(attr="use_modifiers", name="Apply Modifiers", description="Apply Modifiers to the exported mesh", default= True),
bpy.props.BoolProperty(attr="use_normals", name="Export Normals", description="Export Normals for smooth and hard shaded faces", default= True),
bpy.props.BoolProperty(attr="use_uvs", name="Export UVs", description="Exort the active UV layer", default= True),
bpy.props.BoolProperty(attr="use_colors", name="Export Vertex Colors", description="Exort the active vertex color layer", default= True)
]
# After
path = StringProperty(attr="", name="File Path", description="File path used for exporting the PLY file", maxlen= 1024, default= "")
use_modifiers = BoolProperty(attr="", name="Apply Modifiers", description="Apply Modifiers to the exported mesh", default= True)
use_normals = BoolProperty(attr="", name="Export Normals", description="Export Normals for smooth and hard shaded faces", default= True)
use_uvs = BoolProperty(attr="", name="Export UVs", description="Exort the active UV layer", default= True)
use_colors = BoolProperty(attr="", name="Export Vertex Colors", description="Exort the active vertex color layer", default= True)
by Jeff Doyle (nfz). Thanks!
This adds:
* "Show All Layers" to the View3d -> View menu
* "Center Cursor and View All" and "Align
Active Camera to View" to the align view submenu.
This is effectively a C-port of Nathan Vegdahl's "No Twist" TrackTo PyConstraint, and has been added as a separate type of constraint to be consistent with the existing constraints (Locked Track, and Track To).
In general, this works considerably better than the existing "Track To" constraint, since it works by determining the smallest rotation necessary to get the current orientation of the owner to an orientation which would be tracking the target. It is also a much more straightforward approach than the weird old method the old Track To uses.
I've made a few tweaks to the code to deal with the (hopefully rare) cases where the target and the constrained are coincident. These don't appear to cause too much trouble in general.
TODO:
- Probably the naming of the constraints will change, to better convey their purposes. Naming suggestions welcome.
--- from his patch
All the functionality is in the console
folder:
- intellisense.py: the central module which loads others on demand
- complete_namespace: more or less a replacement for the old autocomplete.py
- complete_import: module completion (I find this very handy, not just luxury)
These complete_* modules work very simple and should also work outside blender. You give some input and it returns a list with possible completions.
autocomplete.py is now deprecated.
The aim of this is to avoid having to set the selection each time before running an operator from python.
At the moment this is set as a python dictionary with string keys and rna values... eg.
C = {}
C["active_object"] = bpy.data.objects['SomeOb']
bpy.ops.object.game_property_new(C)
# ofcourse this works too..
bpy.ops.object.game_property_new({"active_object":ob})
# or...
C = {"main":bpy.data, "scene":bpy.data.scenes[0], "active_object":bpy.data.objects['SomeOb'], "selected_editable_objects":list(bpy.data.objects)}
bpy.ops.object.location_apply(C)
I tried to make it integrate more with regular render but couldn't
do it well, it still needs a 3D view to take the settings from, and
can't run in a separate thread due to OpenGL.
However, it is now rendering to an offscreen buffer which then gets
displayed in the image window. This requires FBO's to be available, so
a fallback creating a new window is still needed. Currently available
from the Render menu in the top header.
* Extrude and Duplicate for Armatures now use proper macros instead of manually calling transform themselves. This means that repeating these operators now works properly.
** NOTE: there's a bug with macros now which prevents the 'forked' extrude operator working correctly. Bug report filed for this.
* Included the proper operators for extrude and duplicate in the toolbar + menus. The operators used there did not activate transform, which meant that users often could not tell that the operation had occurred at all.
- Generated and uploaded api docs - http://www.blender.org/documentation/250PythonDoc
- Added Edit docs menu item & operators as discussed with Mindrones, Brecht, Stani & Letterip @ bconf, needs some web backend. python operator can aparently use xml/rpc to upload docstrings.
- Added operator invoke function - context.manager.invoke_props_popup(self.__operator__, event)
this calls a popup for invoke by default (which intern calls execute())
- Own recent commit to game framing applied to non-camera views too.
- v3d->persp is deprecated but still used in some places.
- Transforming strips could overlap 1 frame if moving them below frame 0
- Transforming overlapping strips could go into an eternal loop (though overlapping strips should not exist)
* Restored the Grease Pencil tools to the toolbar
Probably, if the reason they were commented out before was so that the repeat stuff is visible, we can swap the order of those two. Otherwise, it's good to have somewhere for the operators now (so that the hotkeys can be found)
* Hotkey displays in the tooltips now show the keymodifier too
For example, "D LeftMouse" or "Ctrl D LeftMouse" for the Grease Pencil operators, instead of just "LeftMouse" or "Ctrl LeftMouse".
Active shape key can now be changed while in edit mode. This is based
on exit/enter editmode again in the background, which is not ideal,
as that loses the undo history. But that already happened anyway when
you did exit/change-active/enter manually.
