Summary of ain features:
- Themes and Styles are now editable.
- CTRL+U "Save user defaults" now goes to new .B25.blend, so you
can use 2.4x and 2.5x next to each other. If B25 doesn't exist, it
reads the regular .B.blend
- Press Tkey in 3d window for (unfinished) toolbar WIP. It now only
shows the last operator, if appropriate.
Nkey properties moved to the other side.
A lot of work was done on removing old themes for good and properly
getting it work with the 2.5 region system. Here's some notes;
- Buttons now all have a complete set of colors, based on button classifications
(See outliner -> user prefs -> Interface
- Theme colors have been extended with basic colors for region types.
Currently colors are defined for Window, Header, List/Channels and
for Button/Tool views.
The screen manager handles this btw, so a TH_BACK will always pick the
right backdrop color.
- Menu backdrops are in in Button theme colors. Floating Panels will be in
the per-space type Themes.
- Styles were added in RNA too, but only for the font settings now.
Only Panel font, widget font and widget-label work now. The 'group label'
will be for templates mostly.
Style settings will be expanded with spacing defaults, label conventions,
etc.
- Label text colors are stored in per-space Theme too, to make sure they fit.
Same goes for Panel title color.
Note that 'shadow' for fonts can conflict with text colors; shadow color is
currently stored in Style... shadow code needs a bit of work still.
* Added back backgrounds behind buttons for modifiers and driver targets
* 'Protect' toggle doesn't draw for F-Curves with no keyframes to prevent editing on anymore
* Inserting keyframes on objects using builtin keyingsets now use the right names
* Added extra parameter to generic unique name finding function BLI_uniquename() for specifying the delimeter between non-unique parts of the name and digits.
* Driver target variables now get unique names by default.
* The UI for adding and modifying drivers is now functional, and reflects the new way they work. It has also been tidied up a bit (from the previous incarnation), with RNA buttons starting to be used (currently limited to the 'Path' settings).
* Fixed errors in RNA wrapping for drivers
Drivers now support multiple targets which act as 'variables'. The targets have a short 'name' (see later), and reference some property (in much the same way as F-Curves do, using RNA-Paths) which acts as the 'value'.
These named variables can then be used in a Python Expression which relates them to each other for more fine-grained control over the result of the driver. By using only the names of these variables in the expressions, we are able to define expressions/relationships in a much more readable way, as data access is separated from data use. This makes the underlying relationships easier to understand.
By default, if no Python Expression is given, the variables are simply averaged together, so old files won't break. :)
For example, check the following diagram (thanks Cessen/Nathan V from Peach team):
http://download.blender.org/ftp/incoming/250_drivers_mockup_cessen.png
TODO List:
* Depsgraph building for new driver relationships doesn't work yet. This needs to be recoded again, but this new system makes this much easier, since the targets are clearly defined (i.e. no need to parse py expressions to get list of objects)
* Graph Editor interface for editing these needs to be rewritten
* Python function for evaluating these expressions is needed (Campbell?)
- Fun for testers: Added "Redo Operator" Panel in view3d 'nkey' region.
It's going to be part of tools UI I know, but this will give good
tests of what goes on with operators. I had to add small fixes in
Transform for it already. :)
One important issue to note is that it lists every operator, also from
non-3D-window ops. Needs checked or classified somehow.
- Fix: removed bad 2.4x hack from how pulldown menus were defined. Made
widget code cleaner, and will show menus like SHIFT+A correct now.
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.
This new modifier clamps the values of the F-Curve to lie within specified bounds, much like Limit Location/Rotation/Scale constraints do. You can limit by time range(s) and/or value range(s).
* Copying objects with animation data now works correctly. Previously, actions were not getting copied correctly, leading to loss of data in some cases.
* Action and Graph editors now display the name of the Action concerned (for 'Action' folder channels), making it easier to tell which AnimData blocks are sharing the same actions
* Added some code to make relative KeyingSets (converted from absolute ones) work better.
* Fixed bug with curves sometimes not being displayed. Will investigate further tomorrow.
* Copy/Paste buttons in header now work. I've ported these over to use operator buttons
* Ctrl-Alt-Shift-RMB now selects all the keyframes in multiple F-Curves at once
* Column select (ALT-RMB) works again, and in conjunction with 'extend' (i.e. SHIFT) to add to selection instead of just replacing
* Select all keyframes in curve (CTRL-ALT-RMB) now works
* Cleaned up the code for selecting keyframes
* Click-column-select (Alt-RMB) now works
* Also, moved a function used in both Action/DopeSheet and Graph editors to the Animation module
* Invalid drivers are now tagged accordingly and are not evaluated until they are manually refreshed using the 'Update Dependencies' button
* Drivers with errors have a error warning shown in their UI
* Rearranged the UI buttons a bit for drivers, adding support for a 'remove' driver button.
Grand cleanup:
- removal of FTF and ftfont dir
- removal of text.c which wrapped it
- wrapped old text drawing code temporarily, need to decide how 'style'
will behave per editor when you draw strings outside interface code....
wouldn't be very useful to set fonts locally all over?
* Fixed a few typos in the code
* Switched the meaning of the Ctrl and Alt modifiers when selecting keyframes.
- Ctrl is now select all keyframes on one side of time cursor
- Alt is now select all keyframes at same time as a particular keyframe.
TODO:
While testing these changes, I've found that this column-select is not working yet as the tolerances are too low. This will be rectified soon.
This feature takes a 'snapshot' of the visible+selected F-Curves, and displays these in the background as 'ghosts curves' in the background. Such curves are drawn semi-transparent, slightly darker, and with dotted lines.
To use, simply click the 'curve' button beside the Auto-Snapping selector. To clear, simply click that button again (with a different icon now).
These 'ghost curves' are stored per Graph Editor instance, and are not saved to file (i.e. per session only). They are useful to be used as guides when refining the shape of existing curves.
Now it is possible to add more keyframes to the 'active' F-Curve by simply Ctrl-LMB clicking in the graph space.
NOTE: more advanced polling callbacks are needed in the Graph Editor...
* Fix sometimes non-working close/open button.
* Fix panels being a bit out of the view on startup.
* Fix too large totrct region for view2d.
* Fix wrong panel order when changing vertical <-> horizontal.
* Fix wrong panel positions after switching contexts.
* Fix an access of freed memory when collapsing panels.
* Free align mode works again.
* Animations work again.
- 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
This setting means that instead of blindly replacing the existing values, the generator modifier will instead apply its effects on top of any existing modifiers (and/or curve data).
Thus, it is now possible to apply effects such sin/cos-based oscillations on top of keyframed motion.
* Envelope modifier now works correctly. Previously, the mapping was being done in the wrong order.
* Extra controls for modifiers now only draw when the F-Curve is the active one, so the view will be less cluttered in other cases.
Got the basic envelope modifier code working, including primitive drawing of relevant helper info in the graph view. It doesn't work in a very intuitive way yet, so I will recode it soon.
* Added GUI and fixed bugs in the Cycles Modifier. This replaces the old Cyclic Extrapolation settings, giving more fine-grained control over the results. You can now specify whether the keyframes are repeated before and/or after the range independently, also, the maximum number of cycles on either side can be controlled.
* TODO: it would be nice to have the last value held for cyclic+offset.
* Deleting modifiers now works
* Finished code for Expanded Polynomial and Factorised Polynomial UI's.
* Started UI code for 'Builtin Function' mode. There are still 4 controls to add there to use something other than simple mapping
* Finished/fixed up verification code for these so that values get initialised ok.
* Currently, this only works for the 'Expanded polynomial' mode, but this will be expanded to include the other modes too. Now you can modify the values and interactively see the graph in the view change.
* Disabled the backdrops (modifier 'panels') temporarily, as ROUNDBOX UI elements currently swallow all events, which is not good.
Note: the code here still uses the old-style UI definition code since the new stuff is still under heavy construction.
* Rewrote the Generator modifier to be more efficient and support more options
* A few UI tweaks for this, but the UI for this is still not yet functional though.
- Completed cleaning up the drawing code so that F-Curves with modifiers now get drawn to reflect this.
- Added a temporary operator to add modifiers (hotkey Ctrl-Shift-M)
As was discussed by the team the other day, copying keyframes (to copy/paste buffer) in DopeSheet/Graph Editor no longer relies on the selection status of the F-Curves, but rather on the selected keyframes only. This should be less confusing...
However, pasting keyframes still relies on having F-Curves selected to aid in the channel-matching process. There is still a lot of room for improvement in this area though (as noted in the code!).
This operator can be activated using the 'Alt-C' hotkey for now, and operates on selected + editable F-Curves. This is currently still highly experimental, and does crash
I've implemented this as a way to test out the FPoints/samples code, which will be used to provide better support of the dense F-Curves which result from importing Mocap/BVH data. These should use considerably less memory + have a few additional benefits over keyframes when they're working in a stable fashion.
* Added basic panels (Info, Drivers - where applicable, Modifiers) for editing active F-Curve/driver in Graph Editor. The buttons layouts here are really really rough, and have only got a few buttons to be sufficient for debugging purposes. Unfortunately, I don't have time to tweak these nicely now.
* Fixed indention errors with Action Groups used in Material actions
* Changing mode in the Graph Editor now recalculates colours
Useful goodies: most buttons for Image window back.
Not every button works! But what you can do:
- press Nkey to show/hide options
- use curves, with realtime updating
- image properties panel, load, browsing layers,
setting types
- paint panel
- plus new paint color picker panel! (why it wasn't
there in 2.4x is probably obvious, but now it can!)
Hrm... radial control should be added here too, and a nice
paint size cursor?
Currently, this is just used to print the 'name' of the active F-Curve in a panel for verification purposes. This is the recommended way of getting this info.
