Inspired by T39315, this commit adds a few more driver "linting" messages used for
providing users with tips on how to use drivers better. This time, we specifically
address 2 cases:
1) Drivers being abused for procedural animation, due to the misconception that
procedurally generating F-Curves using F-Modifiers means that drivers are needed
to wire such procedural motion-sources to properties.
2) Setting up Average/Sum/Min/Max driver types without any input variables - you can't
expect anything to happen (unless of course, your intention was to lock the property
to 0.0)
This commit introduces support for a number of new interpolation types
which are useful for motion-graphics work. These define a number of
"easing equations" (basically, equations which define some preset
ways that one keyframe transitions to another) which reduce the amount
of manual work (inserting and tweaking keyframes) to achieve certain
common effects. For example, snappy movements, and fake-physics such
as bouncing/springing effects.
The additional interpolation types introduced in this commit can be found
in many packages and toolkits (notably Qt and all modern web browsers).
For more info and a few live demos, see [1] and [2].
Credits:
* Dan Eicher (dna) - Original patch
* Thomas Beck (plasmasolutions) - Porting/updating patch to 2.70 codebase
* Joshua Leung (aligorith) - Code review and a few polishing tweaks
Additional Resources:
[1] http://easings.net
[2] http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
In order to combat the problem of users frequently trying to use inlined
bpy.data/bpy.context paths for data access in their driver expressions
and then finding/complaining that these don't update correctly, the UI
now flags these as the error conditions that they are (with suggestions
on how to fix this).
Also tweaked the "Add Variable" button to have more descriptive text about
what exactly variables are and why to use these, along with some other
visual tweaks (icons!).
This makes a number of operators no longer ask for confirmation, rather it will
show an info message after performing the operation. Ref T37422 for decision. In
particular, these were changed:
* Delete objects, bones, keyframes, masks, mask curves, motion tracks, markers.
* Clear and delete keyframes in the 3D view.
* Align bone to parents.
* Separate bones from armature.
* Group/ungroup metastrips in sequencer.
* Copy/paste objects to/from buffer.
Reviewed By: brecht, dingto
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D35
Added two options to a header of FCurve editor:
- Normalize which makes it so every individual
curve is fit into -1..1 space.
- Auto-normalize, which probably is to be called
"Lock" which "locks" curve normalization scale.
This is useful to prevent curves from jumping
around when tweaking it.
It's debatable whether it need to be a button to
normalize curves n purpose only, and it's fully
depends on animator's workflow.
Here during Project Pampa we've got Francesco
who get used to auto-renormalization and Hjalti
who prefers locked behavior.
Docs are to be ready soon by Francesco.
Thanks Brecht for the review!
Remove usages of ANIM_unit_mapping_apply_fcurve in favor of
runtime scale factor apply.
There're still calls to ANIM_nla_mapping_apply_fcurve are
hanging around, they're the next t be cleaned up!
when running viewport operations with exec() rather then invoke(), perform the action immediately rather then using smoothview.
makes viewport operations usable from python scripts.
- add missing headers from cmake (own omission)
- quiet rna_test.c unused define warnings.
- minor style edits
- spelling corrections and ignore all uppercase words with spell checking script.
of keyframe verts
Previously, every time you toggled the selection of all keyframes (using AKEY),
the active curve would get deselected and deactivated. However, this was a pain
when trying to tweak the shape of a particular curve, as doing this would cause
that curve to either fade into the background or into the jumble of other
curves.
Code could enter in an infinite loop when curve value was an odd multiple of PI (i.e. 180°)...
Current code was also factorized and got rid of fabs calls! ;)
Selection state of F-Curves is lost when resizing the Graph Editor.
The problem was that SIPO_TEMP_NEEDCHANSYNC was getting set in the graph_init()
callback, which gets called everytime the view resizes, and not just the very
first time this happens. However, setting this flag forces the selection state
to the updated/pulled from the scene data.
In the past, it was necessary to set this flag so that we could force F-Curve
colors to get initialised correctly. However, things probably changed at some
point, so this behaviour is no longer needed. At worst now, opening a new graph
editor may not show F-Curve selection correctly synced with the viewport, though
that's easily worked around by reselecting whatever it is in the 3d view.
node materials.
Area and region listener callbacks now get the screen and area pointers passed, so
they can do more fine grained checks to see if redraw is really needed, for example
depending on the 3D view drawtype.
The tooltip seemed to hint that this tool is able to resolve all manner of
gimble-lock situations by untangling the curves (i.e. performing some kind of
equivalent-angles resolution, keeping in mind the nearest situations nearby).
However, this tool currently only performs corrections for the most basic case
when large jump+flip discontinuity artifacts appear in euler rotation curves as
a result of rotation values getting clipped to +/- 180 degrees, which arises
when these rotation curves are the result of baking some physics sim or so.
(Also, fixed an unrelated "replace-all" typo in a comment)
Most of the places which relied on RNA_path_resolve() did so believing that if
it returned true, that it had found a valid property, and that the returned
pointer+property combination would be what the path referred to. However, it
turns out that if the property at the end of the path turns out to be a
"pointer" property (e.g. "data" for Object.data), this would automatically
become the pointer part, while the prop part would be set to null. Hence, if a
user accidentally (or otherwise) specifies a path for the single-property driver
variable type like this, then Blender would crash.
This commit introduces two convenience functions - RNA_path_resolve_property()
and RNA_path_resolve_property_full() - which mirror/wrap the existing
RNA_path_resolve() functions. The only difference though is that these include a
check to ensure that what was found from resolving the path was in fact a
property (they only return true iff this is the case), and make it explicitly
clear in the name that this is what they will do so that there's no further
confusion. It is possible to do without these wrapper functions by doing these
checks inline, but the few cases that had been patched already were pretty
hideous looking specimens. Using these just make it clearer and simpler for all.
I've also beefed up the docs on these a bit, and changed these to using bools.
