A lot of fixes for anim_startofs / anim_endofs:
* crashed when striplen was 0 and startstill / endstill still in use
* made it work for Audio (HD and RAM)
* made it work for Image Sequences
* added a new cutting tool, that uses anim_startofs / endofs instead of
startofs / endofs. This is now the default and called "hard cut"
* moved old cutting method to "Shift-K" and renamed it "soft cut"
Fixes a lot of small things:
* zoom in/out in preview is more fine grained (use SHIFT)
* zebra scopes don't try to draw the border and fail
* lock/unlock now locks/unlocks all selected strips
* fix redraw problems of panel on lock/unlock
* buttons-panel is redrawn on translate, so that position information is shown
* added lock / hide to Strip-Menu
* fixed small drawing problems in header
TODO: find a good key for lock / unlock (Shift-L | Alt-Shift-L isn't that nice
to press...)
Updated image preview a lot:
* Added a histogram-scope
* Added optional title-safe margins
* Re-arranged header, so that only usefull buttons are shown in image
preview mode
* Added zebra-mode for visual feedback of over-exposure regions
(helps in before and especially after color correction :)
* Added color-seperation-mode for waveform-display
* Show 10%, 70% and 90% hints in waveform-display
Moved N-keys dialog into panel (sub panel of "Scene")
_much_ better :)
Since UI-code isn't directly my main field of coding, please check
thoroughly...
added an option to reload selected strip data (Alt+R - same as reloading images in the imaeg
viewer)
made the sequencer max memory limit 16gig for 64bit's.
snapping to unselecrted strips didnt work (I didnt notice find_neighboring_sequence needed them to be touching, added find_next_prev_sequence to get the next/prev seq)
added select linked (L and Ctrl+L)
added Ctrl +/- select more/less
- added a new redraw type - REDRAWMARKER, at the moment this draws the same windows as REDRAWANIM, but this may not always be true, and it is more explicit whats
happening, This replaced 5 or so draw calls in quite a few places.
Sequencer Feature, Split Image Sequence.
Splits a image sequence into strips. useful for importing frames for animatics.
Also added undo calls in a few places that did not have it.
Grab/Extend from frame - similar to a feature thats know as ripple editing in other applications. this is a fast way to add or remove frames
from
clips. to use.
Select all, drag the playbak head to the area you want to extend and press Ekey, the clips will be extended on the side the playhead that
the mouse is on.
Also did more cleanups to sequencer transform code.
This patch adds prefetch buffering to the sequencer
(see the tracker for additional details:
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7307&group_id=9&atid=127
)
We create seperate render threads (currently one, because of the fact,
that sequence rendering modifies global structures...), that
render up to the defined userpref value "Prefetch frames" in advance.
(Pressing Alt-A will _first_ fill the buffer and then start playing.)
Bassam and I did some extensive testing, so it should work.
If you don't configure your number of prefetch frames, prefetching is disabled!
(Sane defaults... :)
Also: if the machine is definitely too slow and runs out of the prefetch
area, prefetching is disabled automatically and we are back to good old
frame skipping mode.
My Dual Athlon is able to handle 4 parallel DV streams at once (sometimes
a little bit choppy, but prefetching is never disabled!)
I fixed also a long standing bug in the audio code, that made playback run
backwards at the beginning...
Ctrl-RMB and Alt-RMB now call for different selection methods that are helpful when working within a single channel that holds several strips. The Ctrl modifier signals "Right" and the Alt modifier signals "Left".
Ctrl-RMB clicking a strip will select that strips left handle and the adjacent handle of any strip that abuts it on the left, allowing you to move the boundary between the strips without changing their outer endpoints. Ctrl-RMB clicking again on that strip will add to the selection all strips to the left of it, allowing you to slide the entire set of strips out of the way for a new one.
Alt-RMB works the same, but to the right.
Ctrl-Alt-RMB on a strip selects the surrounding handles only, allowing you to move the targeted strip and have the surrounding two strips adjust to follow.
Sequence Editor: SHIFT+R, Remap Paths (also in pull down menu)
This allows to remap the root of a path to another directory.
Works on all selected Image strips. That way you can make absolute
paths relative, for example.
Example:
original path: /mnt/orange/finals/06_which_way/06_03b/
to be remapped: /mnt/orange/finals/
remap to: //
new path: //06_which_way/06_03b/
Fixes Bug #5239 reported by Anders Gudmundson:
- Sequencer eats memory like popcorn with metastrips
- Crash on gaps in metastrips
Both were introduces by my last patch that added "Speed Control".
I also forgot to add "Speed Control" and "Color" to the "Add"-menu.
(Simply haven't noticed, I use the spacebar all the time...)
Added enhancements by blendix (Patch #4919: Insert sequence effect between)
It adds the following things:
- You can add a sequence strip afterwards in the middle of an effect chain
(you have to move strips around before, so that there is "room" for it.
Blender will ask you then, if you want to add in between or after the
selected strips)
- In the case you messed it up and want your effect strips to be reassigned in
a different way, there is the new "R"-key. Just select three arbitrary
strips and press "R". If you don't create a cycle, those will be connected
to a new effect chain.
- Fixed freeing of imbufs on changes to properly take into account dependencies. An example of a simple case that went wrong is one image strip with two
glow effects, changing the parameters of the first glow strip will not
result in any updates. Basically only direct dependencies were taken into
account, which resulted in the image preview not being updated in some cases.
- Let the sequencer detect an active sequence strip if none is defined, to
get rid of annoying error messages when trying to add an effect to a
selected sequence strip right after loading a file.
- Delete is less destructive. If you delete somewhere between other strips,
Blender now tries to relink in a reasonable way.
- The active sequence strip is now displayed with a light instead of a dark
outline, which makes it easier to spot, and is especially useful for the
tools using the active sequence strip.
- Ability to view the final result when editing inside meta strip.
The channel button was modified to also allow negative numbers,
where -n is n levels up the meta stack. There is probably a nicer way to
specify this, instead of (ab)using the channel button, but this seems to
work quite efficient.
- Also a small bugfix: don't crash on loading files from newer versions with
an unknown effect strip.
Added patch by Matt Ebb, that enhances the sequencer GUI in several ways:
- It looks a lot better
- Strip colours are themeable.
- The drawing code is more readable.
- The background of the timeline makes now distinguishing the channels easier
by alternating between different shades of gray.
- Handle-scaling is clamped to min and max-values, making it possible to
grab strips at large zooming levels more easily.
- Preview-images can be panned by dragging it with the middle mouse button.
Home-Key resets the position.
- Since some people can't grab the meaning of "C 0", it is renamed to "Chan: 0"
- Effect strips have slightly different colors to distinguish them better.
Additionally:
- fixed an off by one error in Matt's patch
- Scene-rendering saves CFRA to avoid jumping current-scene on scrub
(might be academic fix, since most likely it only happens if you add
the sequencer-scene to the timeline... But nevertheless it bugs you on
testing the GUI ;-)
This patch is mostly a usability patch for the sequencer, mainly written by
Anders Gudmundson and twisted a little bit by me.
- Lock Time to other windows
- Possibility to switch the X-Axis between frames and seconds-display
- IPO-Frame Locking for plugins (T-Key)
- Additional Popup to add HD-Sound and Movie at once
- In Timeline-Window: Sequencer windows only playback
- Make the IPOs a little bit IPO-Frame-Lock friendlier (doesn't jump;
the frame that is drawn has the right dimension)
- Wheel-Mouse buttons make the sequencer window zoom again.
- The "This is not a sound/movie-file message" now reads "... or
FFMPEG-support not compiled in!" since I learned some prominent
people who complained, that hdaudio does not work for them ;-)
- Make SPACEKEY open up the "Add Strip"-Popup on the timeline and start
playback in the preview window.
* Large sequencer rewrite to support:
- Audio-tracks, which are not completely loaded into memory (hdaudio) but
kept on disk instead.
- A dependency tree, that builds only the Imbufs, that are really needed
- Cleaner sequencer code
- Per instance data in sequencer plugins (without this, the Dynamic
Noise Reduction plugin would be impossible)
- A Luma Waveform display
- A U/V scatter plot display
- Memcache limiting in sequencer
- Buttons changed according to the boosted framecount limit
Aligned filesel buttons|text entry- looked arse also.
Added tooltips for filesel text entry- "Type in dir to create" and "+/- increment" or somthing like that.
- Cam
There were a couple of issues with the implementation:
- there was no proper test if selected strips would be cut or not
- cutting meta strips could go very wrong... for example when the cut
of meta was in an internal gap. With meta's being recursive, and too
complex, I've disabled Meta-cutting
- added an OK menu for hotkey K
- added warnings when no cut was done
This is the first time in 6 years I do work in sequencer... man, this has
grown into a messy bizz! Like sequence variables... using names like:
start, startdisp, startstill, startoffs... totally confusing here. Could
use giant cleanup! Implementation was weak from scratch though, Mea Culpa!
- switched almost all uiDefBut(..., TOG|BIT|..) to use UiDefButBit and the
name of the actual bit define instead of just a magic constant, this makes
searching the code much nicer. most of the credit here goes to LetterRip
who did almost all of the conversions, I mostly just checked them over.
- added in new transform the (not so useful but yah) old feature that
does scrollwheel zoom during transform
- had to change transform call arguments for uv-window/sequence/oops to
match new transform for mouse callback
TODO (for martin?)
- pulldown menu support to call with local axes compliant as for pressing
it with hotkey
- mirrormenu() still uses old transform stuff...
removed leftovers from Freeimage/Imagemagick experiments
and removed stuff from a Quicktime for linux implementation.
Also removed the (win32) Fullscreen button from the UI and
disabled the corresponding commandline option. The code is
still present to reenable the option whenever the ATI issues
get solved.
NOTE: BLI_winstuff.h was meant to be a wrapper around windows.h to handle
undefining various crap that windows.h defines. Platform specific headers
should only have to be included in a few places. This reduces the number
of inclusions of BLI_winstuff.h to 16 which is a much more reasonable
number (than the 144 or whatever it used to be)
----- Killed UI frontbuffer draw
The interface toolkit was drawing all live updates (while using menus/buttons)
in the frontbuffer. This isn't well supported cross-platform, so time to be
killed once. Now it uses *only* glReadPixels and glCopyPixels for frontbuffer
access.
Live updates or menus now are drawn in backbuffer always, and copied to
front when needed.
NOTE: it was tested, but needs thorough review! On PC systems I suspects
backbuffer selection to screw up (check!). On SGI/SUN workstations it
should work smooth; but I need evidence
----- Smaller fixes;
- AA fonts were garbled on ATI systems. Now the AA fonts are drawn exact
on pixel positions. Needs the new FTGL libb too, patch is on maillist
- Rounded theme uses antialiased outlines
- Pulldown and popup menus have nice softshadow now
- New button type 'PULLDOWN', thats the one that callsup a pulldown menu.
Should be added to themes, as is the full menu/pulldown drawing
- Screendump for 1 window does the full window now, including header
- Empty pulldowns (for example running blender without scripts) give no
drawing error anymore
For review & fun;
- added curved lines as connectors, for Oops window
This for all current NKEY menus by default. Can be standard for each hotkey
controlled Panel from now on; use toggle_blockhandler() for it.
Another popular request: hotkey enabled Panels now optionally reopen on
the previous location, instead of under mouse. This option "Pinned" is a
user option now. Optional for later; have it as per-panel option... dunno!
The last request, close on mouse-exit, won't be implemented, this intrudes
with Panel consistancy, and is pretty OK solved with NKEY-NKEY now.
this consists of 22 different ways to sweep from 1 strip to another. For you windows lovers: it's like "Blinds" in Powerpoint :)
- in the NKEY menu you can choose which type you want perform, vertical, horizontal, in/out etc. it's too much to decribe.
Credits for this go to Kent 'Sirdude" Mein who coded the sequence plugin I stole the code from.
To allow certain sequence effects to have settings, I also added a "varstr" void pointer to the Sequence DNA, that can point to a special struct for each effect. This is similar to how plugins are handles.
more neat effects to come....
- errors in names/hotkeys pulldowns fixed
- full window option in pulldown win caused ortho on/off event
- weight paint now shows vertex color Panel in editbuttons
- adding armature while vpaint mode, didnt end vpaint mode
- cleaned up some buttons design
- leftmouse press-hold for toolbox also moved 3d cursor
- changed the BIF_DrawString() function. it used to work different for
AA fonts as for default fonts. Now it's identical. Setting color for fonts
can just be done with OpenGL, for both font types.
Removed: BIF_DrawStringRGB()
- added theme color options for Buttons
- recoded DefButton, so it automatically chooses the right color.
- had to remove a 1000 uiBlockSetCol() calls for that reason...
- uiBlockSetCol() still works, to override automatic color
- removed entirely the silly old color system (BIFColorID). All color
calls can now be done with a BIF_ThemeColor() call, including fonts and
buttons and opengl stuff
- all buttons in button header have headercolor by default
- recoded drawing icons, it was a really bad & old loop doing manually
colorshading and blending... which was per pixel a load of code!
Now it uses a single OpenGL call to blend or colorize. Quite faster!
- (as test, for review) icons don't colorize anymore with button color,
but have a different alpha to blend in (when not active)
- recoded the entire interface_draw.c file...:
- drawing buttons is separated in three parts:
1. main drawing function for text and icons
2. free definable callback for button itself
3. free definable callback for slider
- removed a load of redundant code for this!
- coded a minimal theme, and adjusted Matt's buttons to match new
callback system
- adding new drawing themes is piece of cake now
- for coders, default 'themes' to be aware of:
UI_EMBOSS : the themable drawing style
UI_EMBOSSP: the pulldown menu system (apart from color not themable)
UI_EMBOSSN: draw nothing, only text and/or icon
UI_EMBOSSM: minimal theme, still in use for Logic and Constraintsa
this can be set with uiBlockSetEmboss(block) or in the uiNewBlock() call.
TODO: make UI API call for button alignment
(plus removed another series of warnings from code...)
Plus: fixed bug in Matts commit: he used a 'short' button for an 'int'
include only (use BIF_interface.h instead)
- split up interface.c in two files: NEW: interface_panel.c
- removed the temporal text files
WARN: FIX AUTOMAKE AND MSVC!
more consistent and logical. (ICONROWs haven't
scrolled left/right in years!
More detailed tweaking of headerbuttons positions can come when
more menus are finished
- added text labels to the drawtype menu in 3d view header
