The amount of settings in the text strip UI is quite large now; use collapsible (and closed by default) panels for outline/shadow/box options.
Images in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130449
The background box for VSE text strips can have rounded corners now.
Actual rounded shape is a superellipse with 2.1 exponent; this is
very close to a circle section but feels a bit nicer with more
continuity between the flat part and the rounded part of the box.
At very large rounding radius this is not very fast; optimization
for that case will come in a separate commit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129665
Previously, alignment did exist, but it only changed whole text block
position in relation to a fixed point. This was later renamed to "Anchor".
Now it correctly aligns each line of text. Alignment works with newline
character and word wrapping.
Currently newline characters can't be entered directly, but this should
be resolved soon.
To keep existing anchoring feature, new DNA fields are added and
values from old alignment are copied there.
This PR is part of bigger change [1], and originally I expected to
implement this feature at later stage. But the design called for drawing
text character by character, which would mean, that I would have to
rewrite text alignment anyway.
To render the text, a struct is built, where position and width of each
character is stored. In addition, width of each line is stored. This allows
to implement proper text alignment feature, instead of existing
anchoring. Text is then drawn character by character in a loop.
There are some small differences in text rendering, since this is only
approximation of how BLF library draws glyphs, but it is very close.
For text bounbox, `BLF_boundbox()` is used on per line basis,
because some fonts do not use their full height and this information
is not available on VSE side.
[1] https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/126547
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126660
Adds the ability to connect and disconnect strips in the VSE.
- Connected strips have an icon indicating their status, and attempting
to select one connected strip selects all other connected strips in
that chain.
- If the user attempts to connect a strip that is already connected to
other strips, that strip will disconnect itself from others before
connecting to new strips.
- Preview selection also works in bulk if multiple video strips are
connected together in the timeline.
- When adding new strips from the Add menu or the File Browser, strips
from the same file are connected by default. There's an option to
turn this off in Editing > Video Sequencer user preferences.
- It is possible to individually tweak strips/handles and ignore
connections with Alt+Click.
- This shortcut overrides the old keymap item for "Linked Handle"
selection. The property still exists if people want to use that
shortcut for its old purpose.
- To make sure that connections remain valid even after duplication,
I've added a condition to `seq_new_fix_links_recursive` that also
updates connections using the `seq->tmp` var. (A note -- I've updated
the comment for this field in `DNA_sequence_types.h` because the var
is only used for duplication now. It was once present in
`select_more_less_seq__internal` to be used for linked selection but
is gone now).
- There are also functions to cut one-way links and make sure that
all strips are bidirectionally connected after duplicating.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124333
Modifiers in the VSE have mask properties first, then modifier-specific
settings. This breaks consistency with other modifiers for objects
and Grease Pencil.
Move Mask properties to the bottom, after a separator, and group them
in a column for better alignment.
Fixes#120360
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125710
Adds snapping in the VSE preview area.
Source points are the four corners and origins of all selected, visible
image quads. Targets can be preview borders, preview center, or
corners/origins of other strips.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122759
Delete operator was shared for strips and retiming keys, which was not
ideal. Operator logic relied on invoke function setting proper context
which was also hidden from users.
Split these operators and make dedicated operators for removing retiming
keys - `SEQUENCER_OT_retiming_key_delete`.
This operator returns `OPERATOR_CANCELLED | OPERATOR_PASS_THROUGH` if
executed in non-retiming context, or no key is selected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123767
select_box operator needs different context in preview and sequencer
regions. It wasn't specified, so it defaulted to sequencer context and
wasn't working in preview.
This PR sets poll for region and sets correct context for preview. This
also means shortcut appears on menu item in preview now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123757
This moves move clip related properties to own movie clip panel as it
is done with other strip types that uses other datablocks. The clip
property is added to RNA, so this can be added to the panel.
Requested in #120357
When the sequencer overlays menu was restructured in #121591, the new
Sequencer panel types did not include polling, which means that they
also show up in the Preview-only view type.
Details and screenshots in the pull request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122638
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Add a new operator 'Frame Scene Range' to the Dope Sheet, Graph Editor,
NLA, and VSE 'view' menus. It is added both to the regular menu and the
pie menu (by default on the ` hotkey).
The operator will only change the horizontal view, to show the scene
range or the preview range, depending on whether the preview range is
active or not.
The label of the operator switches between "Frame Scene Range" and
"Frame Preview Range" to indicate what will happen.
For the VSE this operator is quite similar to the 'Frame All', as that
by default also frames the scene range. There are a few notable
differences though:
- Frame All includes any strip that extends beyond the scene end frame.
- Frame All ignores the preview range.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122311
Extract
- Add to Quick Favorites tooltip.
- "Mask", the name of a newly created mask (DATA_).
- "New" in the context of the new mask ID button.
- A few strings using BLI_STR_UTF8_ defines were not extracted.
Take the special characters out of the translation macros.
- "External" menu items from the filebrowser's Files context
menu (right-click on a file). These items were already extracted,
but not translated.
Improve
- Separate formatted error message "%s is not compatible with
["the specified", "any"] 'refresh' options" into two messages.
Disambiguate
- Use Action context for new F-modifiers' names. This is already used
for the "type" operator prop.
- Translate ImportHelper's default confirmation text using the
Operator context, as it uses the operator name which is extracted
with this context.
- "Scale" can be a noun, the scale of something, or a verb, to scale
something. The latter mostly uses the Operator context, so apply
this context to verbs, and the default contexts to nouns.
- "Scale Influence" can mean "Influence on Scale" (tracking
stabilization) and "to Scale the Influence" (dynamic paint canvas).
- "Object Line Art" as type of Line Art to add, as opposed to the
active object's Line Art settings.
- Float to Integer node: use NodeTree context for the node label, as
this is already extracted and used for the enum.
Do not translate
- Sequencer labels containing only a string formatting field.
Some issues reported by Gabriel Gazzán and Ye Gui.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122283
Reorganizes (and in some cases add missing operators to) all 'Select'
menus in all editors except 3D Viewport (done in a separate patch).
The goal of this change is to make menus as consistent as possible, and
to group & sort items according to a certain logic, which should be easy to
remember and users can always expect certain items to be always at same
place in every editor.
More details and images in the pull request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121337
Follow the layout closer to the 3D Viewport overlays.
* Wider, to fit two-column layout and translations.
* Move general settings on top.
* Move strips-related overlays into their own subpanel.
* Move `Thumbnails` higher up so it's more easily reachable.
* Rename `F-Curves` to `Animation Curves`.
* Remove redundant labels.
* Gray out "Waveform Style" when set to Off.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121591
Text strips in VSE got:
- Configurable shadow angle and offset (previously shadow location relative to
text was fixed). Currently the shadow position is rounded to integer pixel
locations; sub-pixel positioning might come later.
- Optional shadow blur amount.
- Optional outline, with color and outline width controls. Outline is
implemented using jump flooding algorithm.
Images and more detail in pull request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121478
This also moves the option to be a per editor space setting so you can
have different cache visualization options in different editor spaces
at the same time.
A quick toggle for the cache visualization is now available in the
overlays popover.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119428
Part of modernizing scripts in Blender, where the previous convention
was to use percentage formatting which has become the "old" way to
format strings in Python.
See proposal for details #120453.
Ref !120552
Updates to refactor from [0].
- Rename "_context" as it's no longer unused.
- Remove call to `iface_` as the string no longer contains text.
- Remove redundant `enumerate(..)`.
- Use ternary operator instead of a tuple lookup.
- Assign a ratio variable for reuse.
[0]: 7e2075b809
Sequencer timeline displays red tint & appropriate icons for strips that are
missing media file (images, movies, audio, or meta strips that contain such).
Sequencer preview and rendering displays missing media strips as magenta,
similar to missing textures elsewhere in Blender. This is on by default,
sequencer view settings have an option to turn it off.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116869
This patch adds the ability to snap strips to markers. Previously, there
only existed options to snap to hold offsets and the current frame.
This snap type works identically to other snapping options by checking
for the relevant bit (here `SEQ_SNAP_TO_MARKERS`) and adding the marker
frame numbers to `snap_data->target_snap_points` within
`seq_snap_target_points_build()`.
To enable `seq_get_snap_target_points_count()` to have access to marker
information, the current Scene object is now passed to the function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120450
View menu in animation and video editors are too
different from each other and unorganized.
Same operators appear in different places in different editors.
That makes navigating them harder, because for example
you expect framing operators at the bottom because they're
at the bottom in graph editor, but they're at the top in Sequencer
and 3D Viewport. It's important that ordering of operators
match as well as possible, so that users can expect certain
operators in certain places and dont spend time searching
for buttons in messy menus.
I tried to match ordering to 3D viewport menu
as much as possible, and also to use separators right,
so that grouping of items is logical and can be shareable between editors.
This grouping also looks better and makes navigation easier,
because it splits huge pile of toggles at the top of the menus
in smaller chunks and puts operators between them,
so they're esier to separate them in one glance.
Split off from #116492
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117162
The previous commit introduced a new `RPT_()` macro to translate
strings which are not tooltips or regular interface elements, but
longer reports or statuses.
This commit uses the new macro to translate many strings all over the
UI.
Most of it is a simple replace from `TIP_()` or `IFACE_()` to
`RPT_()`, but there are some additional changes:
- A few translations inside `BKE_report()` are removed altogether
because they are already handled by the translation system.
- Messages inside `UI_but_disable()` are no longer translated
manually, but they are handled by a new regex in the translation
system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Scene strips had scene volume property in side panel, but this meant,
that it is shared across all strips using particular scene.
Add `volume` RNA property for scene strips and use this in side panel.
Co-authored-by: 20kdc <asdd2808@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112597
After eda58d6419, multiply operation does not affect alpha channel, but
Some users do expect this feature present.
This adds option `multiply_alpha`, so that multiplication (in strip
color panel) will affect alpha channel as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113791
