This tool automates the process of copying a pose to successive
keyframes, making it easier for animators to go back and change the
pose for some controls which remain "static" for periods of time.
Previously, animators would need to do a "{Ctrl-Pageup Ctrl-V} *
number_of_static_keyframes" dance for each set of controls that this
happened on, which is not too good ergonomically speaking.
There are two modes exposed via the menu (Pose->Propagate):
- "Pose Propagate" - also known as the 'WHILE_HELD' mode, which
propagates to all keyframes that are holding the same value
- "To Next Keyframe" - which only propagates the pose to the closest
keyframe in the occurring after (but not including) the current frame
Additionally, there are a few other modes that can be used, though
they are less useful for direct use from the UI, though they can be
used via the PyAPI as need be.
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Also, I did some cleanups in the "Pose" menu to bring it more into
line with the Object mode one. There are some more tweaks that could
still be done here, such as bringing the keyframing operator entries
under a submenu too (as in the Object mode version) to get the length
of this under control.
- Custom properties are now affected by the Pose Sliding tools too.
This is now more important to support, given that modern rigs use
these a lot for facial expressions/posing. By and large, this should
work fine, though discrete integer values may experience a bit of
trouble
- Fixed potential bugs with the code which detects which F-Curves are
relevant to a PoseBone's transforms (+ custom props). This was prone
to being tricked by certain setups if the names of the bones contained
some of the keywords these were searching for.
- Shuffled some code around: moved bulk of logic out of vec3 case into
new function for single-value, since it was really doing per axis
already
* All the various index-related issues should finally be sorted now.
It seems you cannot just partially implement some of these active
index getter/setters...
* Standardised the call used by PoseLib operators to get the Object
from which they get the active PoseLib data from
* PoseLib operators which require some existing data to work now use a
poll() which checks for this
* Added back the operator used to make standard actions into ones
usable by PoseLib
* Added a dummy operator for the apply active pose button which really
just calls the same backend functions as "Browse Interactive", but
which has a nicer frontend (naming + description) for the purpose of
being used in this way
* Also, removed some useless code from here
This presents a UI from which PoseLibs can be assigned/removed from
Objects. From here, it is also possible to see the list of poses and
add/remove poses from this list.
Known Issues:
- [Py/RNA/Operators BUG ALERT!] If after immediately starting Blender
you try to remove a pose from the PoseLib using the UI buttons, you'll
get a an error the first time you do so (but not for subsequent
attempts). This seems to be caused by the "pose" enum (dynamically
generated) of the POSELIB_OT_pose_remove operator, which does not seem
to be getting initialised when the operator's exec gets called without
the invoke having been called previously
- Changing the active Pose Library still seems to be broken (to be
fixed soon)
Todos:
- Operator button to make the selected pose get shown in the 3d view
- Restore the "validate action" operator and add that to this panel
- Rename pose access
"Show All Layers"). This has been mapped to Ctrl-Accentkey
If necessary, you can alter your keymaps so that this operator is
invoked with its "all" property disabled. This will only toggle the
first row (first 16) layers, which is useful in most rigs for only
enabling all the layers with rig controls and not showing the layers
with rig mechanics.
it easier to reset a rig to its default pose again
- Refactored clear pose operators to separate out the common parts,
and made sure that they all had descriptions
Add Convert operator and button (missing in 2.5)
Fix stroke selection (uneeded separate operator and missing redraw)
Map sketch operators to LEFTMOUSE and RIGHTMOUSE instead of SELECTMOUSE AND ACTIONMOUSE (more in line with other sketching operators, might work better with swapped mouse buttons)
Moved some of the generic code used to determine the F-Curves linked to PoseChannel transforms (as used by the Pose Sliding tools) into a separate file, in preparation for migration of PoseLib tools to this system too. This should make it easier to add some useful new functionality to the PoseLib browsing system (pending in a later commit).
* Select Grouped
Selects bones in the same layer or same group as the selected ones. Optimised the code for the select same groups too.
* Flip Quats
Flips quaternion values so that the rotation progresses over a different path while maintaining the same endpoint orientations.
2. Add action parameter to Select_All_Toggle operators, rename to Select_All.
Options are Toggle (default), Select, Deselect, Invert (same as select swap). This makes it possible to map separate hotkeys for select all and deselect all.
NOTE for Aligorith: I didn't change animation operators for select_all which already had an Invert operator. These should be fixed eventually.
- rna vars arm.bones.active & rna.edit_bones.active
- needed special undo support.
- readfile.c loads.
- duplicate and copy_armature support.
- keep the draw flag, renamed to BONE_DRAW_ACTIVE, only use for openGL drawing.
Note: it may be better to allow active/unselected as with objects.
This commit restores the 'Relax Pose' tool, and also introduces two others: 'Push Pose' and 'Pose Breakdowner'.
Be aware that this commit is just the initial starting point, with some parts yet to be done.
A short description of these tools follows:
* Relax Pose (Alt-E) - makes the current pose more like the poses on either side of it
* Push Pose (Ctrl-E) - exaggerates the current pose
* Breakdowner (Shift-E)[not working yet] - when this works, it will allow for interactive selection of a good in-between pose to act as a breakdown.
Todo's:
* Connect up the 'percentage' slider in the operator settings to allow these effects to be dialed in/out, exaggerating/relaxing/moveing-between-keyframes by varying degrees until the desired effect is reached.
* Allow these effects to be interactively dialed in/out. The idea is to use the mouse to interactively set the percentage slider value initially, then use the percentage slider to tweak later.
* Figure out why breakdown breaks down
* Restored quick operators for moving bones between layers and switching visible armature layers. The popup used here (based on the layers template) is not optimal yet - you can click on multiple layer buttons to enable/disable them, but you need to move your mouse outside the area for it to confirm.
* Separate armatures works again. I've tweaked the arguments to ED_object_duplicate() to make this work (besides, the other users of this wouldn't have been affected).
* Added some missing special (transform) operators to the menus + keymaps
* Armature:
- added: fill, merge, separate
- renamed: duplicate, align
* Pose:
- added: apply pose
* Armature Edit menu has been converted to use operators/layout now
* A number-counter cursor is now used while sampling the curve
* Fixed some of the drawing errors with the paths. Unfortunately, when the armature is rotated, the path text is drawn in the wrong places still...
* Buttons in header now use operators too. The paste-flipped button needs attention though, since the flipped argument isn't set yet
* Assigned Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-Shift-V to Copy/Paste/Paste-Flipped respectively for now.
* Auto-Keying for this doesn't work again yet. On todo for later...
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* Also, new armatures now get the flag to show custom bone colours enabled by default.
* Added Bone Groups UI to 'Armature' context buttons for now. Later, it may be more convenient to have these with bones instead?
* Added operators for the operations that can be performed on these groups. Moved the core adding/removing functions to blenkernel so that they can be used elsewhere in future if need be.
* Properly wrapped bone groups in RNA. Copied the way that Vertex Groups are wrapped, since they share some similarities. Setting colours for bone groups still needs more work though.
* 3D view Mesh menu works again, but incomplete.
* Add Properties and Toolbar to 3D View menu.
* Added "specials" menus back, vertex/edge/face and general.
* Various fixes in existing mesh operators, some were not working.
* Add MESH_OT_merge.
* Merge all subdivide ops into MESH_OT_subdivide, subdivide code
changes to make smooth + multi give good results.
* Rename all select inverse ops to *_OT_select_inverse.
* Fix "search for unknown operator" prints at startup, and some
warnings in py code.
* Don't run .pyc files on startup.
* Remove unused image window header C code.
* Context panel now draws without header, with arrows, no scene name.
* Softbody vertex group search popup.
* Improve names for autogenerated shortcut keys in menus.
* Make most Select menus in the 3D view header work.
* Fix armature border select selection syncing.
* Add POSE_OT_select_constraint_target,
MESH_OT_select_by_number_vertices, MESH_OT_select_vertex_path.
* Merge mesh select similar into one operator.
* Don't give MESH_OT_select_random Space hotkey.
* Add DAG_object_flush_update to many mesh edit tools, not calling this
will crash with modifiers.
* RNA_def_enum_funcs for dynamic enums in operators, but not very useful
without context yet.
* Fix refresh issue with image window header + editmode.
* Fix drawing of shadow mesh for image painting.
* Remove deprecated uiDefMenuButO and uiDefMenuSep functions.
* Remove keyval.c, code is in wm_keymap.c already.
* Rename WM_operator_redo to WM_operator_props_popup.
This (most important part) of PoseLib now mostly works again. It even works for PoseLibs saved with the old animation system.
However, there are a few annoying bugs that need to be addressed still:
* When 'confirming' poses, the pose changes to the next one before PoseLib exits. I'm not quite sure where this is coming from yet...
* There are still a few minor bugs in the search-string code that will get ironed out
* AutoKeyframing doesn't work yet for this
Changes:
* These still use the old hotkeys - Add (Shift-L), Remove (Alt-L), Rename (Ctrl-Shift-L)
* Outliner now shows PoseLib entry. Todo still is to use a different icon for this?
Notes:
* The code is now much simpler in many places :)
* Add and Rename operators require a string as input to set a new name for the Pose concerned. For now, I've just added a prop for this, which will hopefully be able to be filled in at some point.
More cleanup!
- removed old UI font completely, including from uiBeginBlock
- emboss hints for uiBlock only have three types now;
Regular, Pulldown, or "Nothing" (only icon/text)
- removed old font path from Userdef
- removed all old button theme hinting
- removed old "auto block" to merge buttons in groups
(was only in use for radiosity buttons)
And went over all warnings. One hooray for make giving clean output :)
Well, we need uniform definitions for warnings, so people at least fix
them... here's the real bad bugs I found:
- in mesh code, a call to editmesh mixed *em and *me
- in armature, ED_util.h was not included, so no warnings for wrong call
to ED_undo_push()
- The extern Py api .h was not included in the bpy_interface.c, showing
a several calls using different args.
Further just added the missing includes, and removed unused vars.
- use select as a suffix eg UV_OT_loop_select -> UV_OT_select_loop
- Each select all operator was using slightly different wording...
select_all, deselect_all, de_select_all, select_de_select_all -> select_all_toggle
- selection -> select
- POSE_OT_select_connected -> POSE_OT_select_linked to match other operators
- NODE_OT_delete_selection -> NODE_OT_delete since its not used in other operators
- ANIM_OT_previewrange_define -> ANIM_OT_previewrange_set to match other operators
- NODE_OT_fit_all -> NODE_OT_view_all to match other operators
- View2D_OT_* -> VIEW2D_OT_* to match VIEW3D
- View2D_OT_view_downscroll -> VIEW2D_OT_scroll_down more logical
- removed MARKER_OT_mouseselect_extend and made extend a boolean property of MARKER_OT_mouseselect
- MARKER_OT_mouseselect -> MARKER_OT_select
- GROUP_OT_group_remove -> GROUP_OT_objects_remove more logical since its removing objects from groups
- MESH_OT_removedoublesflag -> MESH_OT_remove_doubles
- redundant words MESH_OT_split_mesh -> MESH_OT_split, OBJECT_OT_object_delete -> OBJECT_OT_delete
renamed selection operator properties
extend_select -> extend
column_select -> column
select_children_only -> children_only
... Since these are all in the context of selection operators there is no need for the extra 'select' in the property name.
Updated docs
http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/html/bpyoperator-module.html
Changes: Gestures are now Shift-ActionMouse (doing it with SelectMouse required a bit of juggling and triggered a display glitch that I'll try to debug later)
Everything else should be as functional as in trunk, apart from the dotted rubber band line which doesn't update while the view is rotated and only the current area getting redrawn while drawing (the later should be easy to fix).
Polyline, selection and a couple of others work. (note that polyline is shift-click because click is taken by 3d cursor. Needs a way to overwrite lower maps).
Notes:
* Sequence transform strip uses G.scene global, this is commented
out now, should be fixed.
* Etch-a-ton code was most difficult to merge. The files already in
2.5 got merged, but no new files were added. Calls to these files
are commented out with "XXX etch-a-ton". editarmature.c and
transform_snap.c were complex to merge. Martin, please check?
* Game engine compiles and links again here for scons/make/cmake
(player still fails to link).
Four new operators for Armature editmode, by Arystan D.
- Extrude (Ekey)
Extrude forked (shift-E when mirror on)
- CTRL+click extrude
- Delete selected (Xkey)
- Duplicate (shift-D)
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added a ARMATURE_OT_bone_add operator, ita generic operator to add a bone it behaves the same way as the old add bone (making a bone not set the tail but have it selected), commiting this so other add bone ops like add bonre pinative or making new armature
Patch from Arystan Dyussenov (A624), two operators for armatures;
- select hierarchy up/down, using bracket [ ] with or without
shift, and for editmode and posemode.
Good work, thanks!
