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/
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!
relationship between the result of driver evaluation (NKEY region stuff) and the
end result applied to the driven properties.
Example:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/47687
Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
- Make sure functions are named in way BKE_<object>_<action> (same way as RNA callbacks)
- Make functions which are used by mball.c only static and remove their prototypes
from public header file.
Further cleanup is coming.
Graph Editor
Under User Preferences -> Editing, there's a new setting "F-Curve Visibility"
which controls the how much F-Curves blend in with the background colour.
Increasing this value makes F-Curves stand out more, at the expense of making it
less obvious which F-Curve is active.
- spelling - turns out we had tessellation spelt wrong all over.
- use \directive for doxy (not @directive)
- remove BLI_sparsemap.h - was from bmesh merge IIRC but entire file commented and not used.
- use more logical names for strings, noticed too many strings called `str` when reviewing name patch.
- pass __func__ macro to uiBeginBlock(), quite a few names were wrong (copy/paste error).
Causing a flurry of refresh file prompts post-commit,
Confusing local diffs and causing merge conflicts,
Stating the obvious; redundant and useless...
We shall not miss thou, blasted expand $keywords$
the Outliner
Channels which can be renamed include:
- Scenes, Objects, World, Material, Texture, etc. (i.e. "ID-blocks",
or the dark and light blue channels)
- Action Groups (green channels)
- Action expanders (i.e. "CubeAction", "WorldAction", etc.)
- Grease Pencil stuff
Channels which CANNOT be renamed, as they mostly use hardcoded values
or otherwise include:
- Drivers expander
- FCurves (they don't technically have a "name"; what is shown is just
a user-friendly representation of their rna_paths)
- Default size of Graph Editor handle vertices is now 4 (up from 3).
This "small" change seems to be enough to make a substantial
difference when it comes to actually differentiating between these
- "Only Selected" DopeSheet filter is enabled for new Graph Editor
instances by default. It helps hone in on the F-Curves of the data
most animators hope to just be refining the motion for (i.e. the
selected stuff)
- "Only Selected Keyframe Handles" is now enabled, to reduce clutter
from handles of nearby keys getting in the way.
Bezier curves are now drawn smoother (i.e. less segmented), especially
for curve segments where there is a very large vertical displacement
over a short period of time (i.e. 120 degrees rotation over 1 frame)
and/or often when zoomed in a bit too.
- Made the resolution calculation take the vertical distance into
account too, instead of just the horizontal distance.
- Segment multiplier changed from 3 to 5, as this seems to give better
zoomed-in performance.
* This (big) commit is aimed at cleaning up the filtering flags used
by the animation channel filtering code. The list of filtering flags
has been growing a bit "organically" since it's humble origins for use
in the Action Editor some 3 years (IIRC) ago now during a weekend
hackathon. Obviously, some things have ended up tacked on, while
others have been the product of other flag options. Nevertheless, it
was time for a bit of a spring clean!
* Most notably, one area where the system outgrown its original design
for the Action Editor was in terms of the "visibility" filtering flag
it was using. While in the Action Editor the concept of what channels
to include was strictly dictated by whether the channel hierarchy
showed it, in the Graph Editor this is not always the case. In other
words, there was a difference between the data the channels
represented being visible and the channels for that data being visible
in the hierarchy.
Long story short: this lead to bug report [#27076] (and many like it),
where if you selected an F-Curve, then collapsed the Group it was in,
then even after selecting another F-Curve in another Group, the
original F-Curve's properties would still be shown in the Properties
Region. The good news is that this commit fixes this issue right away!
* More good news will follow, as I start checking on the flag usage of
other tools, but I'm committing this first so that we have a stable
reference (of code similar to the old buggy stuff) on which we can
fall back to later to find bugs (should they pop up).
Anyways, back to the trenches!
* Changed all int's to size_t's, where the int's were used for size of
channel list returned
* Object vs Base is now passed to filtering functions - was relic from
old owner/ownertype code which required access to bases
* Found bug in NLA code where filter was being overwritten and then
used again as input for some other function unintentionally
* Found bug where trying to select a NLA strip would crash if lamp
data was around
- made theme colors for mesh edge len & face angle/area display.
- use %g rather then %f for float display, trims unneeded zeros.
- store cached 2d and 3d text color as bytes rather then floats, compare when drawing to avoid setting the context.
- use unsigned char for more color functions, avoids casting to glColorubv().
