Constraints, modifiers and NLA tracks can now report from RNA whether
they are defined as comming from the override's reference linked data,
or are local to the override.
Add Apply Constraint, Duplicate Constraint, and Copy To Selected
operators, and include them in a menu similar to the menu for modifiers.
The shortcuts in the extras menu are also matched to modifiers.
All the here added operators are intended to work exactly like the
analogous ones for modifiers. That means the apply operator should apply
a constraint as if it was first in the list, just like modifiers do. I
have added the same warning message as for modifiers when that happens.
The decision to use this approach of appling the constraint as if it was
first, was made for consistency with modifiers. People are already used
to how it works there. Is also provides more intricate control over the
applied transforms, then just applying all constraints up to that one.
Apply all constraints is already kinda implemented in Bake Animation.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly, sybren, #user_interface
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10914
Practice shows that when combining actions and direct animation
it is usually best to combine location, rotation and scale
separately, which is implemented by the Split Channels modes
recently introduced in D9469 for Copy Transforms. This completes
the same set of 6 choices for the Action Constraint.
The default for new constraints is changed to the newly
added Before Original (Split Channels) mode.
The original patch is motivated by Loic Pinsard, who created
an addon that does the equivalent of this feature by splitting
the action into two, separating location and rotation+scale.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7547
This was apparently done in two places only, with a very cryptic comment
(`/* for raw_access, untested */`), and... I cannot see how returning a
non-zero length value for an array that does not exist or is not
accessible at least, would be anything but an obvious source of issues.
Note that both commits adding those lines are from stone ages (2009):
rBcbc2c1886dee and rB50e3bb7f5f34.
Add a new transformation space choice for bone constraints, which
represent the local transformation of the target bone in the constraint
owner's local space.
The use case for this is transferring the local (i.e. excluding the
effect of parents) motion of one bone to another one, while ignoring
the difference between their rest pose orientations.
The new option replaces the following setup:
* A `child` bone of the `target`, rotated the same as `owner` in rest pose.
* A `sibling` bone of the `target`, positioned same as `child` in rest
pose and using Copy Transforms in World Space from `child`.
* The `owner` bone constraint uses Local Space of `sibling`.
(This analogy applies provided both bones use Local Location)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9493
This constraint can be naturally viewed as a prototype for a future
4x4 matrix math node (or subset thereof), since its basic semantics
already is matrix assignment. Thus it makes sense to add math options
to this constraint to increase flexibility in the meantime.
This patch adds support for several operations that would be useful:
- An option to remove shear in the incoming target matrix.
Shear is known to cause issues for various mathematical operations,
so an option to remove it at key points is useful.
Constraints based on Euler like Copy Rotation and Limit Rotation
already have always enabled shear removal built in, because their
math doesn't work correctly with shear.
In the future node system shear removal would be a separate node
(and currently Limit Rotation can be used as a Remove Shear constraint).
However removing shear from the result of the target space conversion
before mixing (similar to Copy Rotation) has to be built into
Copy Transforms itself as an option.
- More ways to combine the target and owner matrices.
Similar to multiple Inherit Scale modes for parenting, there are
multiple ways one may want to combine matrices based on context.
This implements 3 variants for each of the Before/After modes
(one of them already existing).
- Full implements regular matrix multiplication as the most basic
option. The downside is the risk of creating shear.
- Aligned emulates the 'anti-shear' Aligned Inherit Scale mode,
and basically uses Full for location, and Split for rotation/scale.
(This choice already existed.)
- Split Channels combines location, rotation and scale separately.
Looking at D7547 there is demand for Split Channels in some cases,
so I think it makes sense to include it in Copy Transforms too, so that
the Mix menu items can be identical for it and the Action constraint.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9469
Since Limit Rotation is based on Euler decomposition, it should allow
specifying the order to use for the same reasons as Copy Rotation does,
namely, if the bone uses Quaternion rotation for its animation channels,
there is no way to choose the order for the constraint.
Ref D9626
The issue was that where_on_path uses a resampled curve to get the data
from the curve. This leads to disconnects between the curve the user
sees and the evaluated location data.
To fix this we simply use the actual curve data the user can see.
The older code needed a cleanup either way as there were hacks in other
parts of the code trying to work around some brokenness. This is now
fixed and we no longer need to clamp the evaluation range to 0-1 or make
helper functions to make it do what we actually want.
Reviewed By: Campbell, Sybren
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10898
Using 'is/means/equal' words in place of equal sign in descriptions.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9799
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
Add Custom Space to the list of space conversions for constraints.
Constraints can use World Space, Local Space, Pose Space, Local with
Parent, and now also Custom Space with a custom object to define the
evaluation space.
The Custom Space option uses the Local Space of an other
object/bone/vertex group. If selected on owner or target it will show a
box for object selection. If an armature is selected, then it will also
show a box for bone selection. If a mesh object is selected it will show
the option for using the local space of a vertex group.
Reviewed By: #animation_rigging, sybren, Severin, angavrilov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7437
Use "Rotation" in place of "Rot" for the rotation header text.
Cleanup various RNA titles and tooltips.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9457
Adds an optional slider to the action constraint so that it can be
driven without a constraint target.
This is very helpful for more complex rigging and mechanical rigs, as it
means the action constraint can be controlled with a driver/custom
property directly, currently if we want to use a driver to control it we
must add a "dummy" bone/object inbetween to act as a control.
Reviewed By: Sebastian Parborg, Sybren A. Stüvel, Demeter Dzadik, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D8022
This resolves one of the last few areas where we still use inappropriate
abbreviations. Reading abbreviated words is usually slower, because
users must parse, guess and translate the words. Using abbreviations
such as 'rot' is also especially bad since it's a word in itself too.
The main advantage of abbreviations is that they are faster to *write*,
which just isn't a concern for text in the UI.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8174
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for constraints.
In this case the panels are still defined in Python.
The layouts are also updated to use subpanels and the a more organized
single column layout. There may be more tweaks necessary for the
layouts.
Reviewed By: Severin, billreynish, Mets
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7499
- ED_object_constraint_list_from_constraint was get_constraint_lb
- ED_object_constraint_list_from_context was get_active_constraints
- ED_object_constraint_active_get was get_active_constraint
- ED_object_constraint_active_set was ED_object_constraint_set_active
This fixes {T70269}.
Before this commit there was complicated code to try and compute the
correct parent inverse matrix for the 'Child Of' and 'Object Solver'
constraints outside the constraint evaluation. This was done mostly
correctly, but did have some issues. The Set Inverse operator now defers
this computation to be performed during constraint evaluation by just
setting a flag. If the constraint is disabled, and thus tagging it for
update in the depsgraph is not enough to trigger immediate evaluation,
evaluation is forced by temporarily enabling it.
This fix changes the way how the inverse matrix works when some of the
channels of the constraint are disabled. Before this commit, the channel
flags were used to filter both the parent and the inverse matrix. This
meant that it was impossible to make an inverse matrix that would
actually fully neutralize the effect of the constraint. Now only the
parent matrix is filtered, while inverse is applied fully. As a result,
pressing the 'Set Inverse' matrix produces the same transformation as
disabling the constraint. This is also reflected in the changed values
in the 'Child Of' unit test.
This change is not backward compatible, but it should be OK because the
old way was effectively unusable, so it is unlikely anybody relied on
it.
The change in matrix for the Object Solver constraint is due to a
different method of computing it, which caused a slightly different
floating point error that was slightly bigger than allowed by the test,
so I updated the matrix values there as well.
This patch was original written by @angavrilov and subsequently updated
by me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6091
Currently the action channels are applied after the existing
transformation, as if the action controlled a child of the
bone. This is not very natural, but more importantly, the
transform tools are not designed to work conveniently with an
additional 'pseudo-child' transformation, resulting in effects
like an unexpected pivot location.
Implementing a Before mode that integrates the action channels
as if applied to a parent allows using the special transform
tool code intended for dealing with such constraints.
Note that in either mode, Action constraints should be added
in reverse order, putting a new constraint before the existing
ones that the Action was keyframed to work together.
In order to implement the option, extract a utility from
the Copy Transform constraint code for combining transforms
with special anti-shear scale handling that matches the
Aligned Inherit Scale mode.
The Before mode also requires switching the constraint to
the Local owner space, while the After mode can still use the
World space for efficiency as before. Since the constraint
doesn't have an Owner space option in the UI, this has to be
handled in an RNA setter.
For full backward compatibility, the original simple matrix
multiplication mode is preserved as the third option, but it
is not recommended due to creating shear.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6297
Most of the time Stretch To is used in actual rigs, like BlenRig
or Rigify, in combination with Damped Track to handle rotation
before the stretch, because it produces rotations more appropriate
for organic deformation, and doesn't flip because of internal
gimbal lock.
The prevalence of this pattern suggests that Stretch To should
support that kind of rotation directly as an option.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6134
Allow selecting how the new location/rotation/scale is combined with
the existing transformation. This is most useful for rotation, which
has multiple options, and scale, which previously could only replace.
Allow combining location, rotation and scale at the same time,
using one constraint. The mixing modes are based on matrix
multiplication, but handle scale in a way that avoids creating
shear.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5640
Upon close inspection, the way the Offset mode works in the
Copy Rotation constraint makes no sense, and in fact, destroys
the rotation of its owner unless either it's single axis, or
the order is set specifically to `ZYX Euler`.
Since it can't simply be changed because of backward compatibility
concerns, replace the checkbox with a dropdown that provides a set
of new modes that actually make sense.
Specifically, add a mode that simply adds Euler components together,
and two options that use matrix multiplication in different order.
The Python use_offset property is replaced with compatibility stubs.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5640
For reasons similar to drivers, it should be possible to set an
explicit Euler rotation order in constraints that use Euler angles.
The Transform constraint in a way approaches drivers in its use,
in that it effectively alters channels using values of other
channels after applying a fixed form mathematical expression.
For this reason, instead of just specifying the euler order for
its inputs, it uses the same enum as driver variables. However
Quaternion components are converted to a weighted pseudo-angle
representation as the rest of the constraint UI expects angles.
Uniform scale is superior to non-uniform scale in that it works with
parenting without causing shear. Thus it is a valid desire in some
cases to turn arbitrary scale into guaranteed uniform scale.
Implementing this in the Copy Scale constraint allows one for instance
to 'inherit scale as uniform' by disabling Inherit Scale, and using
Copy Scale from parent with Offset and Make Uniform.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5614
The old layout of `PointerRNA` was confusing for historic reasons:
```
typedef struct PointerRNA {
struct {
void *data;
} id;
struct StructRNA *type;
void *data;
} PointerRNA;
```
This patch updates it to:
```
typedef struct PointerRNA {
struct ID *owner_id;
struct StructRNA *type;
void *data;
} PointerRNA;
```
Throughout the code base `id.data` was replaced with `owner_id`.
Furthermore, many explicit pointer type casts were added which
were implicit before. Some type casts to `ID *` were removed.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5558
Draw all constraint icons and enable/disable restrict buttons.
The action constraint needs its own icon. It currently draws white
instead of the blue modifier color.
This option from the very beginning of its existence needed more work
to make it work correct and this was never done.
This option was working fine during continuous playback, when there
are no skipped frames, but it was failing when AV-sync of framedrop
was enabled.
It was never working correct when jumping between frames, including
rendering on a farm which usually does frame-range based rendering.
With copy-on-write things became even more tricky, since the "stuck"
flag was never preserved between re-evaluations.
Fixes T65683: Sticky Option in Floor Constraint for Bones Not Working
Better to make internal code naming match official/UI naming to some
extent, this will reduce confusion in the future.
This is 'breaking' scripts and files that would use that feature, but
since it is not yet officially supported nor exposed in 2.80, as far
as that release is concerned, it is effectively
a 'no functional changes' commit.
Each constraint now has a unique icon, just like modifiers.
Icons are designed by Andrzej Ambroż & Alessio Monti, with user input.
Patch by Alessio Monti.
The goal is to prevent assignment of temporary or evaluated meshes
to objects from the main database.
Majority of the change is actually related on passing reports around.
On a positive side there are more error prints which can become more
visible to scripters.
There are still possible further improvements in the related areas.
For example, disable user counting for evaluated ID datablocks when
assignment happens. But can also happen later on as a separate
improvement.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, mont29
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4884
Since scale is multiplicative, the appropriate way to partially copy
it is to use power. However, the influence slider of constraints uses
linear interpolation. Thus, there is no way to correctly split scale
via constraints without adding this feature.
In addition, this allows inverting scale by using negative powers,
fulfilling the function of Copy Rotation's Invert checkboxes.
Add a new option that makes the Spline IK solver apply volume
preservation on top of the original scaling, considering the
pre-IK scale of the bone as the goal volume to be preserved.
This basically works similar to the Stretch To constraint, and
allows easily rigging a stretchy chain that uniformly follows
its parent's scaling.
Since the Stretch To behavior is more familiar, the new option
is on by default for newly created Spline IK constraints.
After a lot of thinking about this, I decided that all operation modes
that I've tried over the past couple of years, including the original
2.79 one, have their uses after all. Thus the only reasonable solution
is to add yet another option.
The modes are:
- Strict: The current 2.80 mode, which overrides the original scaling
of the non-free axes to strictly preserve the volume. This is the most
obvious way one would expect a 'Maintain Volume' constraint to work.
- Uniform: The original 2.79 mode, which assumes that all axes have been
scaled the same as the free one when computing the volume. This seems
strange, but the net effect is that when simply scaling the object
uniformly with S, the volume is preserved; however, scaling the non-
free axes individually allows deviating from the locked volume.
This was obviously intended as a more or less convenient UI tool.
- Single Axis: My own variant of the intent of the Uniform scale, which
does volume-preserving if the object is scaled just on the Free axis,
while passing the non-free axis scaling through. I.e. instead of
uniform S scaling, the user has to scale the object just on its
primary axis to achieve constant volume. This can allow reducing the
number of animation curves when only constant volume scaling is needed,
or be an easier to control tool inside a complex rig.
* The cache file datablock is now evaluated as part of the dependency graph,
creating/freeing the Alembic file handle matching the current frame.
Modifiers and constraints depend on this evaluation.
* Cache file handles and readers now only exist on COW datablocks, never the
original ones.
* Object data paths are flushed back to the original for the user interface.
* The cache file keeps a list of all readers associated with its handle, and
automatically frees them when the handle is freed. This kind of sharing of
data across datablocks is weak but we have no better mechanism for it.
Fix T62720: Alembic sequences not working and crashing
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4774
