The transform operators in nodes will now use the unselected nodes to generate snapping points. Unlike object snapping, node snapping works for the x/y axes separately and snaps node borders to same borders of unselected nodes. The sensitive area for node borders extends over the whole view2D range, to enable simple alignment of nodes in both x and y direction.
For snap points in the node editor an additional enum value is stored to indicate the type of node border (left/right/top/bottom). This works as a constraint on possible node alignments: only same border types align with each other.
Snapping actually was working already, but grid spacing was set to 1.0, which is basically pixel size in the node editor. Increased this to 1x grid step for fine snapping and 5x grid step for rough snapping.
Grid drawing in node editor now draws 2 levels in slightly different shades to indicate the different snapping modes better.
Node editor also supports the general use_snap tool setting to enable automatic snapping during transform. For now only the incremental snapping is supported, in future could be extended to enable alignment between nodes in a number of ways.
Issue is that all loops of a face adjacent to the sliding verts were
getting project-corrected. Introduced a test to only project the
affected loops.
The projection code introduces a small offset to the boundaries so that
any boundary tests can work as expected, but this leads to shrinking of
the barycentric coordinates of the projection, causing a shrink of the
uvs in turn. This even affects the uvs that -should- be affected though
the unfixed behavior works strangely in a correctish way (my guess is
because the projection uses the same face as the opposite sliding loop).
I fixed the behaviour by taking the mean value of the uvs. This won't
support seams but current code doesn't either. Also, all CustomData to
exhibit this unfixed behaviour. I only fixed the uv case, other data
(Vcolors, etc) will have discontinuities when edge sliding. I expect
that the CorrectUV code I am working on may address some of these
issues.
Also, added NULL checks for utility function (was intended for this bug
but wasn't needed after all)
- Remove clip/mask specific size/aspect getters, they shall just
use the same size/aspect ratio.
- Made size getter (and some other public functions) accept context
instead of SpaceClip. Currently only SpaceClip is being get from
this context, but later it'll be helpful when adding support of
editing mask without opening clip in clip editor (in this case
using render resolution for mask would be ideal, but this
requires knowing scene in size getter).
- Rearrange some functions in clip_editor.c for easier navigation
in the file.
whether getting of some property happens or this property is
being changed.
Also made it more clear whether affecting property belongs
to clip or mask datablock.
- Re-arrange functions in headers and implementation file to make them
more grouped by entity they're operating with. Also order of functions
in implementation file should match order of functions in header for
easier navigation.
- Rename some functions to match conventions of naming public functions.
- Some code de-duplication, still some room for improvements tho.
- Split main 2D tracking functions into smaller steps to make it more clear.
Accidentally OpenMP was disabled in some of previous commits, re-enable it.
Added a check to TRANSFORM_OT_create_orientation so it throws an exception instead of crashing blender (due to invalid view3d)
Can still create an orientation from the console just can't set it to active with the 'use' parameter
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Major list of changes done in tomato branch:
- Add a planar tracking implementation to libmv
This adds a new planar tracking implementation to libmv. The
tracker is based on Ceres[1], the new nonlinear minimizer that
myself and Sameer released from Google as open source. Since
the motion model is more involved, the interface is
different than the RegionTracker interface used previously
in Blender.
The start of a C API in libmv-capi.{cpp,h} is also included.
- Migrate from pat_{min,max} for markers to 4 corners representation
Convert markers in the movie clip editor / 2D tracker from using
pat_min and pat_max notation to using the a more general, 4-corner
representation.
There is still considerable porting work to do; in particular
sliding from preview widget does not work correct for rotated
markers.
All other areas should be ported to new representation:
* Added support of sliding individual corners. LMB slide + Ctrl
would scale the whole pattern
* S would scale the whole marker, S-S would scale pattern only
* Added support of marker's rotation which is currently rotates
only patterns around their centers or all markers around median,
Rotation or other non-translation/scaling transformation of search
area doesn't make sense.
* Track Preview widget would display transformed pattern which
libmv actually operates with.
- "Efficient Second-order Minimization" for the planar tracker
This implements the "Efficient Second-order Minimization"
scheme, as supported by the existing translation tracker.
This increases the amount of per-iteration work, but
decreases the number of iterations required to converge and
also increases the size of the basin of attraction for the
optimization.
- Remove the use of the legacy RegionTracker API from Blender,
and replaces it with the new TrackRegion API. This also
adds several features to the planar tracker in libmv:
* Do a brute-force initialization of tracking similar to "Hybrid"
mode in the stable release, but using all floats. This is slower
but more accurate. It is still necessary to evaluate if the
performance loss is worth it. In particular, this change is
necessary to support high bit depth imagery.
* Add support for masks over the search window. This is a step
towards supporting user-defined tracker masks. The tracker masks
will make it easy for users to make a mask for e.g. a ball.
Not exposed into interface yet/
* Add Pearson product moment correlation coefficient checking (aka
"Correlation" in the UI. This causes tracking failure if the
tracked patch is not linearly related to the template.
* Add support for warping a few points in addition to the supplied
points. This is useful because the tracking code deliberately
does not expose the underlying warp representation. Instead,
warps are specified in an aparametric way via the correspondences.
- Replace the old style tracker configuration panel with the
new planar tracking panel. From a users perspective, this means:
* The old "tracking algorithm" picker is gone. There is only 1
algorithm now. We may revisit this later, but I would much
prefer to have only 1 algorithm. So far no optimization work
has been done so the speed is not there yet.
* There is now a dropdown to select the motion model. Choices:
* Translation
* Translation, rotation
* Translation, scale
* Translation, rotation, scale
* Affine
* Perspective
* The old "Hybrid" mode is gone; instead there is a toggle to
enable or disable translation-only tracker initialization. This
is the equivalent of the hyrbid mode before, but rewritten to work
with the new planar tracking modes.
* The pyramid levels setting is gone. At a future date, the planar
tracker will decide to use pyramids or not automatically. The
pyramid setting was ultimately a mistake; with the brute force
initialization it is unnecessary.
- Add light-normalized tracking
Added the ability to normalize patterns by their average value while
tracking, to make them invariant to global illumination changes.
Additional details could be found at wiki page [2]
[1] http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver
[2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Motion_Tracker
Now it's indicates at which scene frame number movie clip starts playing back.
This this setting is still belongs to clip datavlock and used by all users of
clip such as movie compositor nodes, constraints and so.
After long discussion and thoughts about this it was decided that this would
match image's current behavior (which initially seen a bit crappy), but that's
actually allows:
- Keep semantics of start frame in image and clip datablocks in sync
- Allows to support features like support of loading image sequences
with crappy numbers in suffix which doesn't fit long int.
- Allows to eliminate extra boolean checkbox to control such kind of offset.
Hopefully from pipeline POV it wouldn't hurt because idea of having this things
implemented in original way was working only if sequence before processing
started naming form 001.
Initially issue was caused by non-proportional edge slide patch in rev46927 which
had several wrong things:
- It introduced new events TFM_WHEEL_DOWN_EVT/TFM_WHEEL_UP_EVT which were defined
as per-bit OR between edge slide and proportional editing modal events, but
the issue is that modal events are not bit masks and that meant that new events
were defined as 20|24 and 21|25 which is a bit strange.
- Another this was caused by the fact, that keymap wasn't creating for some specific
transform modal keymap item -- it used to be tried to create single shortcut for
two different modal events, which isn't supported by keymaps and resulted by
artifacts in keymap editor interface (nodal event type was empty for wheel movements).
That was caused by different events used by modal keymap and defining shortcuts.
- Actual issue which prevented PgUP/PGDOWN to work was mixing using that new events
for wheel scrolling in switch statements which doesn't do bitmask check.
Solved by separating keymaps used for proportional editing and edge slide -- now
it's mouse Wheel for proportional editing and Alt-Wheel for edge slide. If someone
would want to have single shortcut for this two events it'll imply one of the follofing
things:
- Support poll function for shortcuts, so keymap would definitely know which
modal event to send to operator.
- Generalize TFM_MODAL_PROPSIZE_{UP, DOWN} and TFM_MODAL_EDGESLIDE_{UP, DOWN} so
they can share the same shortcut with current design of keymaps.
For an detailed user-level description of new features see the following blogpost:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/05/node-editing-tweaks/
TL;DR:
* Frame node gets more usable bounding-box behavior
* Node resizing has helpful mouse cursor indicators and works on all borders
* Node selection/active colors are themeable independently
* Customizable background colors for nodes (useful for frames visual
distinction).
