Added new filtering option for animation editors (indicated as the 'ghost' toggle beside the 'select'(-ed only) toggle), which will include objects/bones that aren't visible (i.e. are hidden or on a hidden layer).
This should make it possible to edit such types of animation, and also prevent flickering as these channels come in/out of view.
Modifiers were being mistakenly recalculated at every frame as long as the object had animation, slowing things down due to incorrect depsgraph recalc tags.
Renamed OB_RECALC -> OB_RECALC_ALL to reduce future confusion. During this process, I noticed a few dubious usages of OB_RECALC, so it's best to use this commit as a guide of places to check on. Apart from the place responsible for this bug, I haven't changed any OB_RECALC -> OB_RECALC_OB/DATA in case that introduces more unforseen bugs now, making it more difficult to track the problems later (rename + value change can be confusing to identify the genuine typos).
- effects strips now add directly above the strips they operate on (almost always what you want)
- blend mode for new image/movie/scene/color strips is now cross: without this adjusting alpha will fade to black rather then the strip below.
- SEQ_HAS_PATH macro didnt include sound-ram or sound-hd
- meta drawing code has misleading variable names (from own commit).
* Fractional frames support has been changed to use a new var, scene->r.subframe.
This is a 0.0-1.0 float representing a subframe interval, used in generating a final float
frame number to evaluate animation system etc.
* Changed frame_to_float() and some instances of bsystem_time() into a convenience function:
float BKE_curframe(scene) which retrieves the floating point current frame, after subframe
and frame length corrections.
* Removed blur_offs and field_offs globals. These are now stored in render, used to
generate a scene->r.subframe before render database processing.
- Remove SEQ_DESEL, better not have a flag which includes ~, use ~SEQ_ALLSEL instead.
- Rename recurs_dupli_seq -> seqbase_dupli_recursive
- Rename deep_dupli_seq -> seq_dupli_recursive
This started off doing pointcache debugging but it's also very useful for users too.
Previously it was very hard to see the state of the system when you're working caches
such as physics point cache - is it baked? which frames are cached? is it out of date?
Now, for better feedback, cached frames are drawn for the active object at the bottom
of the timeline - a semitransparent area shows the entire cache extents, and more
solid blocks on top show the frames that are cached. Darker versions indicate it's
using a disk cache.
It can be disabled in general in the timeline View -> Caches menu, or by each individual
system that can be shown.
There's still a bit to do on this, behaviour needs to be clarified still eg. deciding what
shows when it's out of date, or when it's been played back but not cached, etc. etc.
Part of this is due to a lack of definition in the point cache system itself, so we should
try and clean up/clarify this behaviour and what it means to users, at the same time.
Also would be interested in extending this to other caches such as fluid cache,
sequencer memory cache etc. in the future, too.
a bit arbitrary but with most cases where solidify is used in durian we get UV texture stretching since there is no way to access the newly created size faces this gives us a way to switch out the material on the rim.
* Now it displays the last report from the global list, not just from operators
* Rather than disappearing when a new operator is run, it stays until it times
out or a new report is added
* Fun animated transitions ;)
http://mke3.net/blender/devel/2.5/reports_header.mov
Now need to investigate report usage with popups. Ideally we can have most
reports non-blocking, so they're less intrusive, only popping up for dire errors.
Problem is many things in Blender right now are marked as RPT_ERROR
when probably RPT_WARNING is more appropriate. Should probably keep
RPT_ERROR for things that demand immediate attention.
1) Fixed some weird formatting introduced during math-lib cleanups, and some other inconsistencies
2) Optimised the Maintain Volume constraint by taking the value calculations out
Copy All Constraints Operators:
* Added one for bones too
* These are now included in the menus
* Removed some weird/extra code copying/changing/bleh the actcol/totcol stuff...
This constraint allows an object or bone to have their rotations applied as if their origin/pivot-point was located elsewhere. The most obvious uses include foot-roll, see-saws, but could also include more complicated rolling-box examples.
== Usage Examples ==
=== Foot Roll ===
1. Add 'Pivot' Constraint to the bone without any target.
2. Set the 'Y' value of the offset to the length of the bone. Usually this should be negative (if you rig with feet facing 'forwards' along -Y axis). This gives you a pivot point relative to the bone's (preconstraint) location, which should be at the tip of the bone here. Disabling the 'Use Relative Offset' would make this offset be relative to 0,0,0 instead of to the owner/bone-head.
3. Ensure that the 'Pivot When' setting is set to '-X Rot', (default) which means that the pivot will only used when the rotation on the X-Axis is negative to get tip-toe 'roll'.
=== See Saw ===
1. Add a 'Pivot' constraint too see-saw plank object, this time with a target that you wish to have as the pivot-point. It's possible to do this without too (as before), but is less intuitive.
2. Optionally, if you want the plank slightly raised, set the z-offset value, which should make the pivot-point used to be relative to the target with the z-offset applied.
3. Ensure that 'Pivot When' is set to 'Always', which means that the pivot will always be used, irrespective of the rotation.
== Notes ==
* The 'Pivot When' setting has been integrated in the constraint, since this is something that will often be required for these setups. Having to set up additional drivers to drive the constraint to do this kindof beats the purpose of providing this.
* The 'Offset' functionality is probably not presented as clearly as it could be. We may need to go over this again.
* For foot-roll - if any scaling of the foot is required, simply set up a driver on the y-offset to make this dynamically respond to the "scale" RNA property of the bones (don't use the "Transform Channel" vartype since that won't work correct here). However, this shouldn't be common enough to warrant special treatment.
Now, rather than the bit-too-alarming stop sign, threaded wmJobs
display a progress indicator in the header. This is an optional feature
for each job type and still uses the same hardcoded ui template
(could use further work here...).
Currently implemented for:
Render - parts completed, then nodes comped
Compositor - nodes comped
Fluid Sim - frames simulated
Texture Bake - faces baked
Example: http://mke3.net/blender/devel/2.5/progress.mov
This works by tricking the depsgraph into giving us a smaller list of objects to evaluate, with all the necessary objects + their dependencies at the start of the list.
On any complicated setup where non-object parameters need to be referred to (i.e. by drivers) to affect an object's transform, these optimisations will fail and the old (slower) method is still the best way (modify the ifdef and comment out the optimise depsgraph call to do so). However, we'll assume that these aren't too common in real productions, so things should be fine with these fixes. If there really is a need for both, then global options to control these things could follow.
- #22155: keyframe dots not shown on path for bone keyframes that aren't in a group with a matching name. Since this situation is going to become more common in 2.5, I've added an option which will alternatively just search the entire action to find all F-Curves associated with bones. The old option is still the default though for the general cases.
- When keyframe drawing is enabled, the current frame will also be indicated on the path now as a (bigger) green dot, as requested by William. This makes it easier to see the position on the path on the current frame.
*The narrowui value was hard coded in all ui scripts, made an user preferences option. Basically this value determines on which area width, it should switch between dual/single column layout.
ToDo: The Changes only take effect when reloading scripts/restarting Blender (after saving as default). Will maybe add the "Reload Scripts" operator next to the button in the future.
* Small fix for Fluid Add Button, when in single column mode. Didn't expand like the other "Add" Buttons.
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=3255
New design, with an option to hide/unhide it.
Matt:
1) the way I managed to have the I selected is kind of nasty :) but I think it will have to wait for proper icons.
2) the ALL is so far only working visually, It's still have to change the code to make all sensors and actuators visible when ALL is on. I think this is better than actually marking all states as before (2.49). Maybe it's even nicer nice to have not only have the states disactivated (in gray as they are now), but also to show them as temporary marked. Is that interesting/possible?
3) Can't centralize it :(
4) I think you are right, the icons are nice, but uninformative ... for someone else curious:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=3254
Also: extra set funcs, layout adjustments
The patch for the subversion commit was getting too big, and it will be hard to distinguish what was essentially do_version + DNA changes and what was layout adjustments.
So this is the first part of the commit. The next may take a bit more because I'm not so confident in my readfile changes.
- smooth scrolling to editable button after new directory is created
(for now scrolling starts as soon as the mouse moves back to the file list area, for Matt to check if immediate scrolling is possible)
- fix for autocomplete directory, show first matching part if directory doesn't exist, otherwise won't work for directories starting with the same prefix like textures_walls and textures_grass for example.
there are some cases (i.e. Constraint Actuator) where the same DNA property is being used by different RNAs with different ranges.
It's easy to change (reset the values to their default in the set func of the constrant type rna).
Not sure it's necessary though.
tile cache code in imbuf, but it is not hooked up to the render engine.
Imbuf module: some small refactoring and removing a lot of unused or old code
(about 6.5k lines).
* Added a ImFileType struct with callbacks to make adding an file format type,
or making changes to the API easier.
* Move imbuf init/exit code into IMB_init()/IMB_exit() functions.
* Increased mipmap levels from 10 to 20, you run into this limit already with
a 2k image.
* Removed hamx, amiga, anim5 format support.
* Removed colormap saving, only simple colormap code now for reading tga.
* Removed gen_dynlibtiff.py, editing this is almost as much work as just
editing the code directly.
* Functions removed that were only used for sequencer plugin API:
IMB_anim_nextpic, IMB_clever_double, IMB_antialias, IMB_gamwarp,
IMB_scalefieldImBuf, IMB_scalefastfieldImBuf, IMB_onethird, IMB_halflace,
IMB_dit0, IMB_dit2, IMB_cspace
* Write metadata info into OpenEXR images. Can be viewed with the command
line utility 'exrheader'
For the image tile cache code, see this page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Imaging/ImageTileCache
While I was looking in outliner.c, made some changes to let extra passes display
there such as environment (commented out before due to a previous limitation).
Also changed outliner object visbility/selectability/renderability toggles to use
RNA buttons so you can insert keyframes with RMB menu etc.
Notes:
1) I had to pass Context to the draw_actuator_sound in order to access the open_sound_operator
uiTemplateID(layout, C, ptr, "sound", NULL, "SOUND_OT_open", NULL);
According to Campbell they are better ways to do that (mdef bind for reference). but for now it works.
2) for the record: action actuator is equal to shape actuator (but runs in armature)
3) in Constraint Actuator I think I should unify all the limit_loc_max_, loc_min, ... properties. I was thinking about replacing it with a single limit_loc_max, limit_loc_min, range, distance, and use get/set funcs to find the correct one.
* Re-structured code (can delete the old function entirely when this is done)
* Fixed links/inlinks
* Fixed some bugs in add and remove controller/actuator
* Cleaned up some ui layouts
* Use key event types in keyboard sensor
* Implemented object controller 'state' in RNA/layout engine (still needs tweaks)
* Matt, I'm marking some "property" rna properties that will need some speacial lookup.
Talking with Campbell we thought that it will be nice to have the lookup with autocomplete for the properties, but giving you the freedom to type whatever prop_name you want (so you can use python created properties).
That way we would still store it as a string.
Whenever the property doesn't exist (or was renamed, therefore can't be found) the property name tints in red ...
Is that possible?
* Matt: in draw_actuator_random I used a uiItemL for one of the modes. Is there another way to do that (having the label in the rna file?). I noticed draw_nodes has some cases of that as well.
* Andrea, the actuator_game property filename (in rna_actuator) is the one that needs to open the filebrowser but saving the result as relative path (or to have relative path as the default in this case)
To test use debug mode > 0 (Ctrl+Alt+D)
* primarly the goal is to put all the bricks there, and then to worry about the proper layout
* sensor header added (need to be more compressed). Also checkbox will not work that well here in my opinion.
we need to see what can be used instead (icons?)
* sensors, and actuators in alphabetical order
* a lot of sensors using the rna (//XXXSENSOR in the ones not using it)
* the logic_window.c code for controller and actuator is there only to display the draw functions for controller and actuators. But the code it's a really bad copy of the sensor code, so it will be fixed later (Matt? :)
* I would love if the non-expanded mode were more compact, more like in 2.49 (the name non-editable).
but this is the kind of think we can worry in the end.
Also instead of "move up/move down" it would be nice to drag/drop the sensors/controllers/actuators
* to do: rna_actuators: to rename type to mode for the enum
Curve->lastselbp field was renamed to Curve->lastsel and now not last
either BPoint or BezTriple is storing here. It's not easy to determine
type of selected point, but operator which depends on such point reviews
the full nurbs, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Made changes to curve undo stuff to restore last selected point on undo/redo.
Added new theme color for curve last selected point.
This adds MULTICAM-editing support for blender. (Well, the beginning of.)
There is now a new effect track, named MULTICAM, which just selects
one of the lower tracks.
Doesn't sound that exciting, but if you combine this with A/B-Trim (moving
split points of two directly connected tracks around, while magically
resizing both strips, something to be added), you just do:
* add several tracks for your camera angles
* (optionally) sync those tracks
* add one multicam track on top
Use that multicam-track to edit your movie. (Either using fcurves on the
multicam source selector or using knife-tool and A/B-Trim.)
Compare that to:
* add several tracks
* add cross fades between them
* do some python scripting to add several fcurves to make that beast
somewhat work.
* cry out loud, using it, if you have to move cut points around
Alternatively, even harder:
* just edit the old way and put strip after strip
You might think, that this isn't really helpfull for animators, but
consider using scene-strips (in OpenGL-mode) for input, that are set for
different camera angles and can now be intercut a lot more easily...
Also: small fix on the way: the speed effect can now be used in cascade.
(Don't know, if anyone used it that way, but now it works.)
eg. character.blend -> anim.blend -> comp.blend
... Would link the character.blend directly into comp.blend because on driver ID's.
In this case id_lib_extern doenst need to be called because the object its linked from is a library.
is still set very low so in many cases it could be even smaller, but being
a bit conservative here to try to avoid breaking rigs.
This is not forward-compatible, i.e. loading new files in older blender
versions will loose the binding.
Ton's commits missed the RNA changes needed to make this work (i.e. the search field was un-defined). This has now been added, and the search field has the 'search eyeglass' icon to make its purpose clearer.
I've also taken this opportunity to restore the search matching flags (i.e. case sensitivity and complete vs partial matches), making these separate toggle options instead. The old searching operator stuff can probably be removed now?
This adds a new presets menu in the splash screen and the Input section of
User Preferences to choose a preset interaction style, consisting of key configurations
and also other user preferences such as select mouse button, view rotation style, etc.
Currently, just 'Blender' and 'Maya' presets are included, hopefully we can have more
presets contributed (and maintained!) by the community.
It's best to keep these presets minimal to avoid too many key conflicts. In the Maya one
I changed the view manipulation key/mouse combos and also the transform
manipulator keys, not much more than that.
To save an interaction preset, open the user preferences Input section, and press the
[ + ] button next to the presets menu. It will save out a .py file containing any edited key
maps and navigation preferences to the presets/interaction folder in your scripts folder.
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Part of this commit changes the way that key maps are exported/displayed in
preferences - now partial key configs are allowed. Previously it would export/import the
entire key configuration, regardless of whether individual key maps were edited or not
(which would make them more susceptible to conflicts in unexpected areas).
(note, in blender terminology, a key map is a category of key items, such as
'Object Mode' or 'View 2d'.)
Now, the export and the UI display work in a similar way to how key maps are
processed internally - Locally edited key maps (after pressing the 'Edit' button) are
processed first, falling back to other key maps in the current key config, and then falling
back to the default key config. So it's possible for a key config to only include a few
key maps, and the rest just gets pulled from the default key config. The preferences
UI display works like this too behind the scenes in deciding what to show users,
however using it is just like it was before, the complexity is hidden.
