There are a couple of operations that are meant to set the active
modifier that currently don't. The first is a mouse press on the drag
icon on the right of the header, and the second is mouse presses on
modifier sub-panels headers.
This was an oversight in the implementation, especially the second,
because the blank space on the right of a sub-panel header often looks
just like the blank space elsewhere on the modifier's panel that
*does* set the active modifier.
Note that this purposefully doesn't include collapsing and expanding
the modifier as operations that set the active, since regardless of
whether that makes sense, it wasn't in the agreed upon design, which
would ideally not need changing for 2.92.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10155
The `object.collision.use` flag was treated as a redundant marker
of the existence of the modifier, going as far as adding/removing
it when the value was changed, which is not actually very useful.
Removing the modifier loses its position in the stack, and requires
a dependency graph rebuild. It feels it may be a legacy flag?
What would be useful however is the ability to toggle collisions
dynamically without removing the modifier. This patch adjusts the
code to keep the modifier when the flag is disabled, and add it
if it doesn't exist when the flag is enabled. The modifier now
checks the flag at the start and quickly exits after cleaning
up stale data. The redesigned setting is exposed in the UI.
Collisions can't be disabled by simply using the modifier enable
flags because the modifier merely saves a snapshot of the mesh at
a certain point of the modifier stack for other objects to use,
and thus has to be able to clear the stale data.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10064
These two operators (one for grease pencil, one for other objects)
copy a single modifier from the active object to all selected objects.
The operators are exposed in the dropdown menus in modifier headers.
Note that It's currently possible to drag and drop modifiers between
objects in the outliner, but that only works for dragging to one object
at a time. Modifiers can also be copied with the "Make Links" operator,
but that copies *all* modifiers rather than just one. The placement
and scope of these new operators allow for more useful poll messages
and error messages as well.
Every object type that supports modifiers is supported. Although hook
and collision modifiers aren't supported because of an unexplained
comment in `BKE_object_copy_modifier`, other than that, every modifier
type is supported, including particle systems, nodes modifiers, etc.
The new modifiers are set active, which required two small tweaks to
`object.c` and `particle.c`.
Reviewed By: Hans Goudey (with additional edits)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9537
This should be a final piece of the changes for the active modifier
interface. Before, it was necessary to click on the blank space of a
modifier panel to set it active (not the header), this commit allows
clicking on the icon also.
The spacing with the spacing with the expand button would ideally
be a bit larger, but the layout system doesn't offer much flexibility
here.
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
The overlap with the `Panel` flags that start with "PNL" was quite
confusing because wasn't clear which enum a flag was from. The
new names are a bit longer, but the clarity is worth it.
Approximately 141 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8392
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
For modifier shortcuts we added a "custom_data" field to panels.
This commit uses the same system for accessing the list data that
corresponds to each panel. This way the context is only used once
and the modifier for each panel can be accessed more easily later.
This ends up being mostly a cleanup commit with a few small changes
in interface_panel.c. The large changes in the UI functions are due
to the fact that the panel custom data is now passed around as a
single pointer instead of being created again for every panel.
The list_index variable in Panel.runtime is removed as it's now
unnecessary.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8559
This can be useful to save the result of a cloth simulation as a
shape key without destroying the simulation, so it's possible to
e.g. re-run it to get other shapes, or simply use the new shape
key to start the simulation already in a draped state.
It also makes sense to allow applying as shape key even when the
mesh is shared, because the operation itself just adds a shape
key. To support this, split the apply operator into Apply and
Apply As Shapekey so that they can have different poll callbacks.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8173
Instead of manually checking the pinned object, use the existing
ED_object_active_context function. This requires adding const
to the context in that function.
The shortcuts act on the modifier with its panel under the mouse.
The following shortcuts are enabled by default:
- Remove modifier: X, Delete
- Apply modifier: Ctrl A
- Duplicate modifier: Shift D
More shortcuts can be added in the keymap.
Each panel can now store a custom data RNA pointer, and a new
function is added to get the custom data for the panel under the
cursor. This custom data could be used to refactor the "List Panel
System" to generalize it and integrate it further with RNA.
The same functionality will be added in further commits where it
applies to constraints, grease pencil modifiers, and effects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8031
This makes a few changes to the modifier panel header:
1. Adds "move to top" and "move to bottom" buttons.
2. Adds a checkmark icon for "apply"
3. Makes it narrower, the text is closer to the dropdown icon.
(Requires the change in ui_block_func_POPUP)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8040
This includes a few improvments:
1. Always expose delete. This is the button everyone wants the most,
it makes a lot of sense to expose this.
2. Improve "name hiding capability." Basically always align the mode
buttons to the right, and count their number to see if the name fits.
3. Aligns more items, to look better, save space, and make the whole
header seem more grouped.
4. In my tests the "switch contexts" button never coincides with the
delete button, so they share the same space.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8037
Also, remove manually placed decorator for vertex groups in modifiers. This was
only needed because of this bug, and the layout was slightly misaligned.
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for modifiers.
It also moves modifier drawing to a callback in ModifierTypeInfo
in line with the extensible architecture refactoring goal T75724.
This adds a PanelRegister callback and utilities for registering
panels and subpanels. It also adds the callbacks for expansion saving
and drag and drop reordering described in D7490.
These utilities, callbacks, and other common UI elements shared
between modifiers live in MOD_ui_common.c.
Because modifier buttons are now in panels, we can make use of
subpanels for organization. The UI layouts also use the single
column layout style consistently used elsewhere in Blender.
Additionally, the mode-setting buttons are aligned and ordered
consistently with the outliner.
However, the large number of UI changes in this patch may mean
that additional polishing is required in master.
Thanks to William Reynish (@billreynish) who did a fair amount of the
layout work and to Julian Eisel (@Severin) for consistent help.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7498
