Animation Editor toggle tweaks:
* By popular request, curve visibility toggles in the Graph Editor are
now represented using the eyeball icons
* Muting is now represented by a speaker icon (a speaker for this
purpose seems fairly common?)
New icons:
* Keying Sets now have their own icons (as found in a proposal on
jendrzych's "Pixel Sized" blog)
* Drivers also have their own icon now. This is just a hacky one I've
devised which doesn't look that great. Suggestions on this are very
welcome.
Closed regions didn't always draw the (+) icon right place, confusing
for users.
Next to that, I think this icon is using a bad metaphor or visual language,
Illustrated best if you close a header in outliner or buttons. Icons are
UI widgets, for screen/editor layouts different controls can be stylized.
My preference is something that aligns visually to the seperators between
regions; for testing and hacking pleasure I've added two quick versions,
a small tabbish thing and a triangle. Enable these with debug menu,
ALT+CTRL+D, values 1 or 2.
This is simply drawn with opengl now. An image for it can be made as well.
Previews:
http://www.blender.org/bf/closed_regions1.pnghttp://www.blender.org/bf/closed_regions2.pnghttp://www.blender.org/bf/closed_regions3.png
There's other design ideas to explore as well, like making region deviders
8-10 pixels wide, with a 'drag me' dot on it or so. That takes some screen
estate though, and will require to add big editor-dividers too...
Fun stuff for the mockup-mafia to check on, we have time :)
Channels can now be used as "animation containers" to be filtered
further to obtain a set of subsidiary channels (i.e. F-Curves
associated with some summary channel).
The main use of this is that object and scene summary channels can now
be defined without defining the filtering logic in three different
places - once for channel filtering, once for drawing keyframes in
action editor, and once for editing these keyframes.
An indirect consequence of this, is that the "Only selected channels"
option in Timeline will now result in only the keyframes for a
selected bones getting shown (when enabled), instead of all keyframes
for the active object. This was requested by Lee during Durian, and is
something which has only become possible as a result of this commit.
* After changing driver target settings, the driver F-Curves now have
their "disabled" flags cleared, so that they will be updated
immediately instead of needing a manual "Update Dependencies" flush
* Little comment tweak to appease my text editor
render strands use the window matrix and window size which were both zero while baking, this caused divides by 0 and eternal malloc loop.
So set unit window matrix and dummy view size.
This is more a workaround then a fix but avoids crashing.
* F-Curves no longer show the name of the datablock of the property
they affect if this is an ID-block. For example, transform curves for
a cube won't get the "... (Cube)" suffix anymore. In these cases, it's
relatively clear that these belong to the parent datablock, so doing
this should be fine (and reduces clutter).
However, for non-id data (i.e. subsurf modifier settings) or bones,
this info still gets shown. In these cases, there is some ambiguity.
* "ActiveAct: <...>" is no longer shown for NLA action channels (i.e.
just the name of the action gets shown). This should make it easier to
see at a glance what action is being used.
== Datablock filters in the headers are now hidden by default ==
This has been done because users were generally not frequently
toggling these, so quick access vs screen-estate cost wasn't really
worth it to have these always showing and taking up space on the
header.
Usage notes:
- To show these again, click on the "Filter more..." toggle.
- The "Filter more..." button DOES NOT affect whether those filters
apply.
Design notes:
- I tried many other button/icon combinations, but those were either
too space-hogging, vague, or had wrong button order.
- I also tried putting a box around these, but there was too much
padding.
- The ordering of the filters has also been modified a bit so that the
group/fcurve-name filters occur earlier in the list, given that
they're used more frequently
== Graph Editor - Use Fancy Drawing ==
Renamed this option to "Use High Quality Drawing" as suggested by
Matt. "Fancy" isn't really descriptive enough.
== Icons for Mode Dropdowns ==
The mode dropdowns in the DopeSheet and Graph Editors now have icons.
- These were important enough (compared to the auto-snap mode) that
some visual decoration was perhaps warranted.
- It makes it easier to see at a glance what mode the view is in
Icon choices:
- In some cases, the icons seem like quite a natural fit IMO (i.e.
outliner<->dopesheet, key<->shapekey editor, grease pencil, fcurve
editor)
- Action Editor uses an "object" icon to indicate that this is object-
level only for now (though I hope to find a way to address this
soon/later). This will be kept like this until then.
- There isn't any icon for drivers, so after trying a few
alternatives, I settled on area-link icon, since it ties together two
entities using some link.
* Use the same method as from unlinking actions to do this.
* Split off the make single-user code used for the ID-browser into a
function in blenkernel which can be used elsewhere. Getting materials
to also work using this method proved to be a bit too tricky (due to
the whole messy ob vs obdata situation), so I haven't done that.
this bug was introduced in 2.58 (r37342), when adding filtering support to imagewrap(), the problem is boxsample was getting float values which were not wrapped as int values are.
It is now possible to use the Outliner for managing the active action
of an ID-block (provided that it appears in the Outliner), which
should be a bit better than having to go through the NLA Editor.
So far, this only allowing unlinking actions, using some existing
operators. To use:
1) Navigate through the Outliner tree to find the
Object/Material/Lamp/etc. that the animation belongs to. (NOTE: this
doesn't work in Datablocks mode, but should in the normal "All Scenes"
and related modes)
2) Expand the "Animation" entry below this
3) Right-click on the Action entry below this, and select "Unlink"
from the RMB menu
In the process, I've fixed problems with some data-blocks not showing
their animation data in Outliner.
* Mesh Animation-Data was not shown. Other data types would get this
shown.
* Added attempted fix for the problem where when you try to expand the
last item in a RNA list or so, you often end up expanding the first
item (and then have to close and try again, at which point the expand
works as you expected the first time round). More testing needed, but
seems to work better already
Fix for bug found by psy-fi.
* gpu_buffers.c was using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object to check for VBO
support, should be using GLEW_ARB_vertex_buffer_object.
(No conflicts had to be manually resolved)
Gave weight paint a basic ability to draw edges and vertices with an option
(with colors for selected/unselected),
but I didn't make any vertex selection functions available in weight paint mode yet
(tested with edit mode for now).
error messages on start. These were coming from initializing the SDL video
subsystem as part of Joystick init. We do not need this, as video stuff is
covered by GHOST, most likely this was conflicting.
* Removing the last of the owner/ownertype stuff. The bulk of this
stuff was removed in Part3 of the refactor, but it seems I forgot to
actually remove these struct members at the end of that.
* Texture datablocks without animdata aren't skipped immediately
anymore. This could lead to texture nodetrees on animdata-less
textures getting skipped.
On clicking in a non-active Blender window (when you activated others),
the mouse position of the first click was still the old position.
Problem is in GHOST; it sends out the 'activate window' event after the
mouseclick event itself. Code now checks for this case and reads the
correct mouse position.
Toggling options on the selection is better done as a generic operator.
Replace ARMATURE_OT_flags_set and POSE_OT_flags_set with WM_OT_context_collection_boolean_set and use menus to access it with specific settings.
This way its easy make a key shortcut which toggles any boolean on any collection - sequences, metaballs, objects, bones etc.
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Mike Erwin
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