- Add blentranslation `BLT_*` module.
- moved & split `BLF_translation.h` into (`BLT_translation.h`, `BLT_lang.h`).
- moved `BLF_*_unifont` functions from `blf_translation.c` to new source file `blf_font_i18n.c`.
This commit only adds callbacks which then later be used with major dependency
graph commit, keeping the upcoming commit more clean to follow.
Should be no functional changes so far still.
Reshuffled order that in which NLA Strip's F-Curves vs its automatic settings are
evaluated so that the automatic settings can always override the custom settings,
since it's not that easy to get things working correctly the other way around.
This commit implements proper evaluation + keyframing support for animating influence
and time on NLA Strips (among other properties) by resolving a few long standing issues
which prevented the original design for this from working.
The original design for animating these properties (and/or some of the other settings
on NLA Strips) is that NLA Strips actually have some of their own F-Curves that are
used for animating settings which will affect how they are evaluated. As seen in this
bug report, the alternative of having these animated as part of the stack (which the
strips work above/outside/on-top of) means that glitches can occur.
Although one of the original considerations for why this wasn't implemented earlier
was that introducing keyframes there isn't so clean cut, and causes UI design issues
for how we expose these via the animation editors for editing (NOTE: support for that
is still to come). Another concern is that this sets a precedent for how FModifiers
might get evaluated.
The Solo and Mute functionality for the NLA system should really be mutually
exclusive features. They both affect whether a given track applies or not.
The only difference is that the Solo option mutes all the others, while the Mute
only does this on a per track basis.
Before this fix, muting a strip and then making it solo meant that the solo'd
track would not play at all, which isn't really what we want.
The logic used for determining whether certain keyframing settings (i.e. visual,
only needed, xyz -> rgb) got applied was wonky. The original intention here was
that the Keying Set settings would override the global settings, and the path
settings would override what was used for the Keying Set. However, that was not
happening in all cases previously, as it was only possible to add flags and not
to turn them off.
This commit fixes that by introducing separate toggles to control whether the
Keying Set/Path's settings override the settings inherited from its parent
(i.e. the Keying Set for the Path, and the User Prefs for the Keying Set).
The icons used for these toggles could get revised a bit (we need something
which communicates "override this"; the current one is the closest I could find)
WARNING: If you have old keying sets, this may cause some breakage!
Finally! At long last, I've gotten this working! This ended up being far trickier
to get right than anticipated; the normal remapping API's cannot be used as-is
as they will just clobber over subtleties whenever datablock changes are involved.
So, for now, we have to duplicate the logic a bit.
Currently, when joining two armatures, the drivers of the armatures being merged
in are lost. This commit introduces a new AnimData API function for merging
animation data into another AnimData block.
NOTE:
* For now, this only copies the drivers over. As a result, manual effort will
still be needed to go through and fix the drivers.
I am working on automating that process, but it's more important that the
drivers don't have to be created from scratch for now (since this is needed
for the Goosberry rigging work).
This merge-commit brings in a number of new features and workflow/UI improvements for
working with Grease Pencil. While these were originally targetted at improving
the workflow for creating 3D storyboards in Blender using the Grease Pencil,
many of these changes should also prove useful in other workflows too.
The main highlights here are:
1) It is now possible to edit Grease Pencil strokes
- Use D Tab, or toggle the "Enable Editing" toggles in the Toolbar/Properties regions
to enter "Stroke Edit Mode". In this mode, many common editing tools will
operate on Grease Pencil stroke points instead.
- Tools implemented include Select, Select All/Border/Circle/Linked/More/Less,
Grab, Rotate, Scale, Bend, Shear, To Sphere, Mirror, Duplicate, Delete.
- Proportional Editing works when using the transform tools
2) Grease Pencil stroke settings can now be animated
NOTE: Currently drivers don't work, but if time allows, this may still be
added before the release.
3) Strokes can be drawn with "filled" interiors, using a separate set of
colour/opacity settings to the ones used for the lines themselves.
This makes use of OpenGL filled polys, which has the limitation of only
being able to fill convex shapes. Some artifacts may be visible on concave
shapes (e.g. pacman's mouth will be overdrawn)
4) "Volumetric Strokes" - An alternative drawing technique for stroke drawing
has been added which draws strokes as a series of screen-aligned discs.
While this was originally a partial experimental technique at getting better
quality 3D lines, the effects possible using this technique were interesting
enough to warrant making this a dedicated feature. Best results when partial
opacity and large stroke widths are used.
5) Improved Onion Skinning Support
- Different colours can be selected for the before/after ghosts. To do so,
enable the "colour wheel" toggle beside the Onion Skinning toggle, and set
the colours accordingly.
- Different numbers of ghosts can be shown before/after the current frame
6) Grease Pencil datablocks are now attached to the scene by default instead of
the active object.
- For a long time, the object-attachment has proved to be quite problematic
for users to keep track of. Now that this is done at scene level, it is
easier for most users to use.
- An exception for old files (and for any addons which may benefit from object
attachment instead), is that if the active object has a Grease Pencil datablock,
that will be used instead.
- It is not currently possible to choose object-attachment from the UI, but
it is simple to do this from the console instead, by doing:
context.active_object.grease_pencil = bpy.data.grease_pencil["blah"]
7) Various UI Cleanups
- The layers UI has been cleaned up to use a list instead of the nested-panels
design. Apart from saving space, this is also much nicer to look at now.
- The UI code is now all defined in Python. To support this, it has been necessary
to add some new context properties to make it easier to access these settings.
e.g. "gpencil_data" for the datablock
"active_gpencil_layer" and "active_gpencil_frame" for active data,
"editable_gpencil_strokes" for the strokes that can be edited
- The "stroke placement/alignment" settings (previously "Drawing Settings" at the
bottom of the Grease Pencil panel in the Properties Region) is now located in
the toolbar. These were more toolsettings than properties for how GPencil got drawn.
- "Use Sketching Sessions" has been renamed "Continuous Drawing", as per a
suggestion for an earlier discussion on developer.blender.org
- By default, the painting operator will wait for a mouse button to be pressed
before it starts creating the stroke. This is to make it easier to include
this operator in various toolbars/menus/etc. To get it immediately starting
(as when you hold down DKEy to draw), set "wait_for_input" to False.
- GPencil Layers can be rearranged in the "Grease Pencil" mode of the Action Editor
- Toolbar panels have been added to all the other editors which support these.
8) Pie menus for quick-access to tools
A set of experimental pie menus has been included for quick access to many
tools and settings. It is not necessary to use these to get things done,
but they have been designed to help make certain common tasks easier.
- Ctrl-D = The main pie menu. Reveals tools in a context sensitive and
spatially stable manner.
- D Q = "Quick Settings" pie. This allows quick access to the active
layer's settings. Notably, colours, thickness, and turning
onion skinning on/off.
This is only a (hacky) partial fix, actually, since `RNA_property_animated()` will still
not work in those cases... Better that than nothing, though.
Thanks to Campbell for review.
The issue was caused by NLA evaluation without actions not setting
id's flag as updated (as that's happening when action writes data
to the ID datablock).
Added the same flag set for the NLA evaluation as what's happening
for actions.
Although these crashes were quite sporadic, they seemed to happen most when
rmb-dragging strips randomly in quick succession. The most likely cause seems
to be a null check I accidentally took out during one of my commits yesterday.
It seems that since the changes to how new NLA strips are handled, accumulating
these in a temporary buffer and then trying to combine the results didn't
work that great anymore.
* The automatically calculated influence was overriding the value we were passing
into the dummy strip, making this seem like it doesn't work
* Made some tweaks to prevent some potential memory-related bugs
- nlastrips_ctime_get_strip() actually saves off references to the list of strips
it gets, so declaring dummy_strip in an inner scope like this could potentially
be quite dangerous
- Prevented a potential memory leak for the early abort when there are no strips
for whatever reason (it shouldn't occur though)
If you have two overlapping NLA strips it automatically blends between them.
However it was also blending between the first strip and the rest pose
(e.g. 0,0,0 for locations and 1,1,1 for scale).
This is ok if the blend mode is Add or Multiply since then you are adding onto
the rest pose, but for Replace you want to be able to mix between two poses
and not take the rest pose into account at all.
What this does is that to not do any blending for the first strip if it has
blend mode Replace. If someone wants the old behavior (from bugfix commit
27d792fa9c) they can still make an action with the rest pose and use that
as the first strip.
Evaluating the animation is causing the object to get tagged as changed, but in
this case it's not a permanent change so no one should be notified. Also found
a case where the persistent ID for duplis wasn't unique, fixed that as well.
Summary:
Crash was happening because of fcurve modifier stack
used modifier's DNA to store temporary data.
Now made it so storage for such a thing is being
allocated locally per object update so multiple objects
which shares the same animation wouldn't run into
threading conflict anymore.
This storage might be a part of EvaluationContext,
but that'd mean passing this context all over in
object_where_is which will clutter API for now without
actual benefit for this.
Optimization notes: storage is only being allocated
if there're Cycles modifier in the stack, so there're
no extra allocations happening in all other cases.
To make code a bit less cluttered with this storage
passing all over the place added extra callbacks to
the FModifier storage which runs evaluation with the
given storage.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, aligorith
CC: plasmasolutions
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D147
This was one of the consequences of r.57333 (i.e. influence shouldn't be ignored
on the first strip that animates a channel), as scale should really default to a
base value of 1 (instead of things being blended against 0 as per all other
properties). The end result was that bones were getting scaled to zero here when
the influence of their strip fell to zero.
Now, we use the RNA default values of properties to initialise their initial
values. This may/may not work well in all cases:
1) For properties which don't have the appropriate RNA defaults set, this will
be problematic. But, most properties people are likely to animate here I think
are already set up correctly.
2) It may not always be nice to have values "snapping back" to default values.
In this case, you should still be defining a strip at the bottom of your NLA
stack which defines what the appropriate rest poses *should* be for your shot.
The "Multiply" blending mode for NLA strips worked incorrectly. Instead of
modulating the influence of the current strip, it was in fact scaling the result
of the entire stack (with the strip applied). This caused problems when
influence = 0, as it was in fact muting everything instead of just controlling
the strip we are interested in.
have zero total influence
Previously, when evaluating the NLA stack at a particular point in time, if a
channel hadn't been encountered before, influence values were simply ignored
when accumulating the values contributed by each strip to the overall stack.
This behaviour simplified the handling of the problem of what "baseline" to
blend relative to (i.e. influence basically scales the magnitude of a scalar
around 0, but we may not exactly want a property to get it's value set to 0 as
baseline). However, the problem was that this meant that you'd get popping
artifacts when the a lower strip finally reaches influence=0 but your upper
strips haven't fully reached maximum yet ([#35382]). Another problem was that
you'd end up with less ability to scale the influence of all strips (as in
[#35263]).
So, as a stop-gap fix now, we will allow influence scaling to work on these
strips too. This still doesn't fix some of the other problems regarding
baselines/rest-poses and deterministic behaviour when some channels are only
keyed in one strip which isn't set to extend it's influence... Fixing those
issues is a bit more involved, and would require a bit of refactoring of how we
keep track of accumulation channels.
