- don't get too excited
- allows you to get armatures from a scene
- makeEditable()/saveChanges() puts the armature into out of editmode (pythonically)
- Armature.bones is a dictionary that contains all the bones in the armature and can be iterated
- getters are available for:
name,
roll (dictionary) keys are BONESPACE, ARMATURESPACE
head (dictionary) keys are BONESPACE, ARMATURESPACE
tail (dictionary) keys are BONESPACE, ARMATURESPACE
matrix (dictionary) keys are BONESPACE, ARMATURESPACE
weight
deform_dist
subdivisions
options (list of constants)
parent
children
Setter work only in editmode. Some are not fully implemented.
Type class is embedded in the module. This means the construct is called as follows:
Blender.Armature.ArmatureType()
import Blender.Armature as Armature
arm = Armature.Get('myarm')
for name, bone in arm.bones.items():
...print name, bone, bone.matrix['ARMATURESPACE']
more documentation is forth coming. This is an alpha for this api.
- Mostly this cleans up the #includes and header files in the python project.
- Warning fixes are mostly casting issues and misc fixes. General warning clean up.
- #include Python.h MUST come as the first include to avoid the POSIX redefine warning in the unix makefiles
- fno-strict-aliasing flag added to makefile to fix a unavoidable type punning warning in types.c
Aim was to get a total refresh of the animation system. This
is needed because;
- we need to upgrade it with 21st century features
- current code is spaghetti/hack combo, and hides good design
- it should become lag-free with using dependency graphs
A full log, with complete code API/structure/design explanation
will follow, that's a load of work... so here below the list with
hot changes;
- The entire object update system (matrices, geometry) is now
centralized. Calls to where_is_object and makeDispList are
forbidden, instead we tag objects 'changed' and let the
depgraph code sort it out
- Removed all old "Ika" code
- Depgraph is aware of all relationships, including meta balls,
constraints, bevelcurve, and so on.
- Made depgraph aware of relation types and layers, to do smart
flushing of 'changed' events. Nothing gets calculated too often!
- Transform uses depgraph to detect changes
- On frame-advance, depgraph flushes animated changes
Armatures;
Almost all armature related code has been fully built from scratch.
It now reveils the original design much better, with a very clean
implementation, lag free without even calculating each Bone more than
once. Result is quite a speedup yes!
Important to note is;
1) Armature is data containing the 'rest position'
2) Pose is the changes of rest position, and always on object level.
That way more Objects can use same Pose. Also constraints are in Pose
3) Actions only contain the Ipos to change values in Poses.
- Bones draw unrotated now
- Drawing bones speedup enormously (10-20 times)
- Bone selecting in EditMode, selection state is saved for PoseMode,
and vice-versa
- Undo in editmode
- Bone renaming does vertexgroups, constraints, posechannels, actions,
for all users of Armature in entire file
- Added Bone renaming in NKey panel
- Nkey PoseMode shows eulers now
- EditMode and PoseMode now have 'active' bone too (last clicked)
- Parenting in EditMode' CTRL+P, ALT+P, with nice options!
- Pose is added in Outliner now, with showing that constraints are in
the Pose, not Armature
- Disconnected IK solving from constraints. It's a separate phase now,
on top of the full Pose calculations
- Pose itself has a dependency graph too, so evaluation order is lag free.
TODO NOW;
- Rotating in Posemode has incorrect inverse transform (Martin will fix)
- Python Bone/Armature/Pose API disabled... needs full recode too
(wait for my doc!)
- Game engine will need upgrade too
- Depgraph code needs revision, cleanup, can be much faster!
(But, compliments for Jean-Luc, it works like a charm!)
- IK changed, it now doesnt use previous position to advance to next
position anymore. That system looks nice (no flips) but is not well
suited for NLA and background render.
TODO LATER;
We now can do loadsa new nifty features as well; like:
- Kill PoseMode (can be option for armatures itself)
- Make B-Bones (Bezier, Bspline, like for spines)
- Move all silly button level edit to 3d window (like CTRL+I = add
IK)
- Much better & informative drawing
- Fix action/nla editors
- Put all ipos in Actions (object, mesh key, lamp color)
- Add hooks
- Null bones
- Much more advanced constraints...
Bugfixes;
- OGL render (view3d header) had wrong first frame on anim render
- Ipo 'recording' mode had wrong playback speed
- Vertex-key mode now sticks to show 'active key', until frame change
-Ton-
- move static declarations and data definitions out of headers.
the BGL module still need cleaning.
- move declarations out of modules.h and into appropriate .h files.
modules.h still exists as a container for the few modules that
need to #include almost everything.
- all files now have a $Id tag and have been formatted by indent
there are no changes to executable code.
pre-commit versions are tagged with bpy-cleanup-pre-20041007
for the sake of paranoia.
Run everything thru indent to cleanup spaces vs tabs.
Clean up some of the comments by hand.
BGL.c was not touched due to all that macro wackyness.
There are no functional changes to the code.
Pre-indent versions of source are tagged with
tag bpy-cleanup-20040925 , just in case.
- a major redo of the Bone module
- BPy_Bone structs are separated into Bone data and python vars. This is necessary for the correct memory allocation of bone data between python and the global armature list.
-ability to set poses for the armatures - allows for keyframing armatures
-adds support for actions/actionchannels
-additional checking for addBone and clear parenting
-moved getActionIpos from object module to NLA module
- update to addBone parenting transform code
- hide/unhide bones
- draw axes/draw names
- clear parenting and clear children from bones - removes childbase links from bone and set as root or remove parenting and set as root
- Continued getting rid of print methods and updating repr ones:
Needed to fix crashes on Windows >= 98 systems.
- Found and fixed a few small memory leaks in EXPP_interface, related to
execution of script links.
- Trying to fix linking problems in OSX;
- Making module .Get functions behave like the ones in Blender 2.25 - 2.27
(Guignot pointed the incompatibility);
- Included more types to Blender.Types;
- Found by luck and corrected two bugs that were making Blender crash;
- Added/updated some simple functions.
When a script that used setAttr for Camera Data objs (the bug also
affected some other modules) was executed multiple times, Blender
would crash after, let's say, the first 5 or 6 tries. Problem, as
Guignot pointed, was with reference counting. Should be ok now, all
affected modules were fixed.
* The Scene module is now "complete" (= 2.25).
* Made some necessary updates to Object and NMesh.
Jacques Guignot (guignot) sent updated files for his Curve module.
* Module Armature (and its submodule Bone) added:
Jordi Rovira i Bonet (bandoler) contributed both modules, which
are NEW additions to Blender Python, not available in Blender 2.27.
* Added function to NMesh.c:
Jordi again. He added the function NMesh_getVertexInfluence().
