- Auto-IK works again now.
- Quick-animate feature works with Auto-IK now.
- Also disabled the checks for existing animation data for this, making it easier to use/discover. At least we've got undo to cover for the cases where the user didn't intend to do this.
To use, simply enable Auto-Keyframing and start the animation playback from the TimeLine.
Then at any time while the playback is still running (and Auto-Keyframing is still enabled), select any object/bone and start moving it around.
You can also select other objects/bones and move them around using standard transform tools (grab/rotate/scale), or exit transform for the active/selected object(s), and move on to other objects instead. Repeat until satisfactory!
This is similar to the old 'Record IPO' functionality (and/or is closer to the 'Mouse Recording' in 3DSMax), except it's much cooler, and is more flexible at the same time. It's
"good for quick and dirty tests, or things with timing, where it's easier to do it real time" - William Reynish, or "handycam effect or eyes animation" - Pepeland.
Additional Notes:
- for now, the objects that are used for this currently need some animation data already. This limitation is temporary.
- eventually, 'samples' (i.e. baked-data) not keyframes will be made by this tool as samples are more suitable for such large sets of densely spaced points
missing parts and are work in progress.
Set 3D Cursor
Set Tile
Sample Color
New
Open
Replace
Reload
Save (As)
Save Sequence
Pack
Unpack
Record Composite
The file select operators have context issues still. They need
to get the image space in the context on exec() but it's not
there currently, not sure how to solve that yet.
Also added name parameter to uiMenuItemEnumO, and fixed "mute"
argument in ED_update_for_newframe calls in fluidsim bake.
still is mirror transform. This commits adds the remaining operators:
* UV mapping operators (U key menu): cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.
* Hide/Show operators.
And solves most XXX's, including:
* Fix bad includes and calls into space image.
* Aspect ratio correction.
* Create UVs if they don't exist yet on unwrap.
* Assign image to UVs.
* Drawing proportional edit circle.
* Added back the Subdivide tools. Use the Alt-S hotkey (for now) to get a menu with the subdivision options. There are also two standalone operators which are not used yet.
* Fixed the PoseMode checking callback to make sure that it doesn't override any tools in EditMode.
* Fixed an old comment in transform code, and a few warnings in editarmature.c
way this worked in 2.4x wasn't really clean, with events going all over
the place and using dubious variables such as G.but->lockpoin or
G.sima->menunr. It works as follows now, for example:
xco= uiDefIDPoinButs(block, CTX_data_main(C), NULL, (ID**)&sima->image, ID_IM, &sima->pin, xco, yco,
sima_idpoin_handle, UI_ID_BROWSE|UI_ID_RENAME|UI_ID_ADD_NEW|UI_ID_OPEN|UI_ID_DELETE|UI_ID_ALONE|UI_ID_PIN);
The last two parameters are a callback function, and a list of events
or functionalities that are supported. The callback function will then
get the ID pointer + event to handle.
* Added selected, selected+editable, and active to access EditBones for Armature Operators to use. These take into account X-Axis Mirror too, so there is really no need to check that sort of thing anymore in tools.
* Added a quick testing operator for verifying that these loops filter the data correctly. I've dumped this in armature_ops.c for now. It can be activated using the TKEY hotkey in Armature EditMode only. This should be removed once we have a few more functional tools.
* Ported over cleaned up roll-calculation tools from AnimSys2
* Removed a few ugly stubs from posemode code
* Changed uiPupMenuOperator usage to uiPupMenuBegin/End (simpler,
no need to build a string). Also made transform orientation and
subdiv type enums instead of ints for this.
* Added an icon argument to many of the uiMenu calls, and added a
uiMenuItemIntO.
* Move auto rna button creation out of outliner code, now is
uiDefAutoButR for individual buttons and uiDefAutoButsRNA for a
whole block.
* Implemented uiPupBlock(O). Pressing F6 gives a menu with the
properties of the last operator to test. I tried to make a redo
last operator out of this but couldn't get the context correct
for the operator to repeat in. Further the popup block also has
some issues getting closed while editing buttons.
* Fix uiAfterFunc memory leak on Ctrl+Q quit.
* Fix handling of RNA number button dragging and sliding for RNA
buttons with range -inf/inf.
* Cleaned up UI_interface.h a bit, and added some comments to
organize things a bit and indicate what should be used when.
* uiMenu* functions can now be used to create menus for headers
too, this is done with a uiDefMenuBut, which takes a pointer
to a uiMenuCreateFunc, that will then call uiMenu* functions.
* Renamed uiMenuBegin/End to uiPupMenuBegin/End, as these are
specific to making popup menus. Will convert the other
conformation popup menu functions to use this too so we can
remove some code.
* Extended uiMenu functions, now there is is also:
BooleanO, FloatO, BooleanR, EnumR, LevelEnumR, Separator.
* Converted image window headers to use uiMenu functions, simplifies
menu code further here. Did not remove the uiDefMenu functions as
they are used in sequencer/view3d in some places now (will fix).
* Also tried to simplify and fix bounds computation a bit better
for popup menus. It tried to find out in advance what the size
of the menu was but this is difficult with keymap strings in
there, now uiPopupBoundsBlock can figure this out afterwards and
ensure the popup is within the window bounds. Will convert some
other functions to use this too.
* UV Editor Transform, translate, rotate, scale, live unwrap, snap, gesture,
etc work.
* Also for selection operators, used OPERATOR_FINISHED|OPERATOR_PASS_THROUGH
instead of just OPERATOR_PASS_THROUGH to make gestures work, seems more
correct to me.
Made 'select-tweak-grab' work in 3d window, fcurve and nodes.
For nodes it works with both left/right, the others follow
user preset for select.
Tweak is a WM event, which also follows user preset for
tablet-style tweaks (release = apply).
You enable tweak events with an operator WM_OT_tweak_gesture.
Keymap entries can assign to left/middle/right button or to
action/select button tweaks.
* Copy/Paste still needs to be cleaned up to be functional. Auto-set preview range + View All also need some work to become functional...
* Smooth has been moved to Alt-O hotkey, as Shift-O was taken for Sample
* Renamed a few operators for DopeSheet to be more in line with Graph Editor ones, and to be less obscure.
* The 'join' and 'remove doubles' tools are not likely to be restored. I think that a few of the new tools cover this lack anyway. We can restore them if there is a real need.
* Record tool needs a rethink to be genuinely useful, so it's not included here anymore.
A note for anyone wanting to play with implementing this: store the sampled points using the new FPoint type in the FCurve instead of using BezTriples, as FPoints are used for storing sampled/baked data.
* Snap + Mirror Keyframes (Shift-S and Shift-M)
* Set Handle/Interpolation type
* Snap current frame to selected keyframes (Ctrl-Shift-S) from the DopeSheet
* Toggle visibility of all handles (Ctrl H) from AnimSys2 branch also ported
I've ported the transform tools for this editor as they existed in the AnimSys2 branch (minus some of the experimental pivot options which were not useful enough yet).
Hotkeys are:
* GKEY - transforms points as always
* RKEY - rotates points (only useful for a single 'knot')
* SKEY - scales points
* EKEY - like in the DopeSheet, the 'extend' translation tool only moves all the keyframes on the same side of the current frame indicator as the mouse
Useful tweaks ported from AnimSys2 include:
* Auto-snapping is on by default for time-values on the keyframes only. Handles are not snapped (or shouldn't be).
* Rotating/Scaling new keyframes using default handles (i.e. Auto-Handles) now works, as the handle is now converted to aligned so that changes can be seen.
* ShapeKey conversions should now go to the correct places
* Added fix for drivers to prevent crashes when no driver object is provided (Franky from BBB seems to have one such driver for some reason).
* Temporarily disabled a check when evaluating drivers for whether the driver is tagged for evaluation. Drivers still need to be correctly tagged AND ordered by the Depsgraph to work correctly.
* Cleaned up code for borderselect with BKEY. There's still a bug here where y-values don't seem to be getting properly checked, so nothing seems to happen.
* Set up some code for transforming keyframes. It currently uses the wrong code though (i.e. it uses the code for Action Editor which is 1D not 2D, and doesn't have some of the special checks needed). More work on this later.
It opens the files selector if "filename" property has not been set, else it executes the operator directly. Brecht, you might want to check, currently only sequencer add operators use it.
* Added back Effects menu back, replaced SEQUENCER_OT_add_color_strip with SEQUENCER_OT_add_effect_strip.
* Made sequencer header use operator UI functions.
* gcc complains when char's are used as array indicies when they are not explicitly signed/unsigned, corrected previous change for vpaint to silence this error.
* Made the various datatypes in the DopeSheet get shown again (NOTE: some of the types that don't get conversions to Animato yet may need some further checking).
* Did some code cleanup to allow F-Curve channels to always show RNA-based names correctly
ANIM_OT_toggle_time -> ANIM_OT_time_toggle
SCULPT_OT_toggle_mode -> SCULPT_OT_sculptmode_toggle
UV_OT_select_inverse -> UV_OT_select_invert
NODE_OT_toggle_visibility -> NODE_OT_visibility_toggle
OBJECT_OT_toggle_editmode -> OBJECT_OT_editmode_toggle
toggle was used last in other operators eg- VIEW3D_OT_vpaint_toggle and VIEW3D_OT_wpaint_toggle.
'invert' was used everywhere else.
* sequencer transform now does overlap checks.
* removed old transform functions from sequencer_edit.c
* shuffle_seq moved to kernel, now moves strips to the end of the last sequence of itschannel (if all channels are used). 2.4x would remove the strip.
* most of the 'Strip' menu items now call their operators in the header menu, some for view and select too.
- Brought back code for particle edit and fluidsim
- Sanitized code from globals and bad level calls,
so its ready to come back working.
- Fixed cirle selecting (Ckey now)
- Enabled undo for editmode curve, armature, particle
and lattice
(another commit following)
In the brief tests I did on a few rigs, this seems to work ok. Martin may want to check on the code for any cleanups that may be needed here.
Coming soon will be some modifications to the primative insert-key operator added earlier, so that Animato can be used to animate characters!
SEQUENCER_OT_add_duplicate(mode=1)
SEQUENCER_OT_add_image_strip(name='', start_frame=0, channel=1, filename='', replace_sel=True)
SEQUENCER_OT_add_movie_strip(name='', start_frame=0, channel=1, filename='', replace_sel=True)
SEQUENCER_OT_add_sound_strip(name='', start_frame=0, channel=1, filename='', replace_sel=True)
Some of these use the file selector, Note that sound isn't working yet because editsound.c functions are not yet in 2.5 and Operators dont have a way to recieve an array of strings so SEQUENCER_OT_add_image_strip only adds 1 image at the moment.
can transform the strips or move their handles
Still todo, click-drag transform, metastrips support, snapping, markers overlap checks and constrain to valid channels.
View3D four-split: added box-clip for the three ortho
windows. Is all on by default, waiting for headers and
buttons to come back.
Also: hotkey for foursplit now also removes it (toggle)
Also: window_to_3d() function only did delta's,
renamed it to window_to_3d_delta and coded a
real window_to_3d()
* Streamlined the filtering code to remove a few redundant options, which required tweaking the code for most tools
* F-Curves are simply displayed using their full paths right now. This should eventually be the UI-string stored in RNA, but right now there are still a few missing things.
* There are a few tools which are not available yet which were available in 2.5 before Animato was added:
- Copy/Paste
- Rearrange channels
Also, the DopeSheet is not totally functional (in terms of displaying animation data for sub-object data yet). That will be added tomorrow.
* Added 'Action Group' pointer to F-Curves, as it will be handy for allowing Bone channels to still remain grouped as they were before with the Action Channels. However, reintroducing such a structure to the data-storage is not anticipated...
View3D has been split now in a local part (RegionView3D) and a
per-area part (old View3D). Currently local is:
- view transform
- camera zoom/offset
- gpencil (todo)
- custom clipping planes
Rest is in Area still, like active camera, draw type, layers,
localview, custom centers, around-settings, transform widget,
gridlines, and so on (mostly stuff as available in header).
To see it work; also added new feature for region split,
press SHIFT+ALT+CTRL+S for four-split.
The idea is to make a preset 4-split, configured to stick
to top/right/front views for three views.
Another cool idea to explore is to then box-clip all drawing
based on these 3 views.
Note about the code:
- currently view3d still stores some depricated settings, to
convert from older files. Not all settings are copied over
though, like custom clip planes or the 'lock view to object'.
- since some view3d ops are now on area level, the operators
for it should keep track of that.
Bugfix in transform: quat initialize in operator-invoke missed
one zero.
Als brought back GE to compile for missing Ipos and channels.
Finally, here is the basic (functional) prototype of the new animation system which will allow for the infamous "everything is animatable", and which also addresses several of the more serious shortcomings of the old system. Unfortunately, this will break old animation files (especially right now, as I haven't written the version patching code yet), however, this is for the future.
Highlights of the new system:
* Scrapped IPO-Curves/IPO/(Action+Constraint-Channels)/Action system, and replaced it with F-Curve/Action.
- F-Curves (animators from other packages will feel at home with this name) replace IPO-Curves.
- The 'new' Actions, act as the containers for F-Curves, so that they can be reused. They are therefore more akin to the old 'IPO' blocks, except they do not have the blocktype restriction, so you can store materials/texture/geometry F-Curves in the same Action as Object transforms, etc.
* F-Curves use RNA-paths for Data Access, hence allowing "every" (where sensible/editable that is) user-accessible setting from RNA to be animated.
* Drivers are no longer mixed with Animation Data, so rigs will not be that easily broken and several dependency problems can be eliminated. (NOTE: drivers haven't been hooked up yet, but the code is in place)
* F-Curve modifier system allows useful 'large-scale' manipulation of F-Curve values, including (I've only included implemented ones here): envelope deform (similar to lattices to allow broad-scale reshaping of curves), curve generator (polynomial or py-expression), cycles (replacing the old cyclic extrapolation modes, giving more control over this). (NOTE: currently this cannot be tested, as there's not access to them, but the code is all in place)
* NLA system with 'tracks' (i.e. layers), and multiple strips per track. (NOTE: NLA system is not yet functional, as it's only partially coded still)
There are more nice things that I will be preparing some nice docs for soon, but for now, check for more details:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-taskforce25/2009-January/000260.html
So, what currently works:
* I've implemented two basic operators for the 3D-view only to Insert and Delete Keyframes. These are tempolary ones only that will be replaced in due course with 'proper' code.
* Object Loc/Rot/Scale can be keyframed. Also, the colour of the 'active' material (Note: this should really be for nth material instead, but that doesn't work yet in RNA) can also be keyframed into the same datablock.
* Standard animation refresh (i.e. animation resulting from NLA and Action evaluation) is now done completely separate from drivers before anything else is done after a frame change. Drivers are handled after this in a separate pass, as dictated by depsgraph flags, etc.
Notes:
* Drivers haven't been hooked up yet
* Only objects and data directly linked to objects can be animated.
* Depsgraph will need further tweaks. Currently, I've only made sure that it will update some things in the most basic cases (i.e. frame change).
* Animation Editors are currently broken (in terms of editing stuff). This will be my next target (priority to get Dopesheet working first, then F-Curve editor - i.e. old IPO Editor)
* I've had to put in large chunks of XXX sandboxing for old animation system code all around the place. This will be cleaned up in due course, as some places need special review.
In particular, the particles and sequencer code have far too many manual calls to calculate + flush animation info, which is really bad (this is a 'please explain yourselves' call to Physics coders!).
* Added more compact property definitions, with a single function.
Only used by operators at the moment, would need to tweak regular
expressions a bit more to use it also for other RNA definitions.
* The operator properties defined now were completed a bit more but
still have many issues that need to be adressed, specifically;
* Some properties that should be booleans or enums are defined as
ints, note that ints are only for numeric values, not bitflags
or multiple choice.
* Soft/hard limits and default values of many properties are not
well defined still,
* Inconsistent naming, especially for example mouse locations or
bounds are named differently in different places. Also mouse
locations and other vector like properties should become a single
vector property instead of multiple X/Y properties.
* Almost no properties have descriptions, these would be good to
have for docs and tooltips.
So, please verify that the properties of the operators you wrote are
well defined.
- Depricated another bunch of globals; all the totobj,
totmesh, totvert, and so on.
- All code that needs such totals now count it themselves,
these stats were not supposed to be reliable
- Editmesh now stores and manages own totals.
- Todo: make a scene->stats that tracks notifiers.
Bugfix: selecting failed in editmesh, backbuffer stuff was
too late, already using index ranges before it was set.
* View2D to region now returns ints instead of shorts.
* Use "Numpad" instead of "Pad" in automatic keymap menu info.
* Menus can now use buttons other than BUTM and SEPR, in
particular TOG and ROW are now supported instead of flipping
bits manually.
* Added a simpler uiDefMenu* api for making menus now, and it
only supports Operator and RNA buttons at the moment, will be
used in next commit. Not sure how this will evolve .. makes
menu code look cleaner anyways.
* Ensure that interface code doesn't crash when getting unknown
Operators and RNA properties, and display their buttons grayed
out in that case.
Another one back: editcurve.c
- removed global editNurb everywhere
(cu->editnurb now has listbase with edit data)
- also added 'active bpoint' and 'active nurb' in
Curve struct
- editmode in/out works, mouse/border select works
