This commit includes all the changes made for plane tracker
in tomato branch.
Movie clip editor changes:
- Artist might create a plane track out of multiple point
tracks which belongs to the same track (minimum amount of
point tracks is 4, maximum is not actually limited).
When new plane track is added, it's getting "tracked"
across all point tracks, which makes it stick to the same
plane point tracks belong to.
- After plane track was added, it need to be manually adjusted
in a way it covers feature one might to mask/replace.
General transform tools (G, R, S) or sliding corners with
a mouse could be sued for this. Plane corner which
corresponds to left bottom image corner has got X/Y axis
on it (red is for X axis, green for Y).
- Re-adjusting plane corners makes plane to be "re-tracked"
for the frames sequence between current frame and next
and previous keyframes.
- Kayframes might be removed from the plane, using Shit-X
(Marker Delete) operator. However, currently manual
re-adjustment or "re-track" trigger is needed.
Compositor changes:
- Added new node called Plane Track Deform.
- User selects which plane track to use (for this he need
to select movie clip datablock, object and track names).
- Node gets an image input, which need to be warped into
the plane.
- Node outputs:
* Input image warped into the plane.
* Plane, rasterized to a mask.
Masking changes:
- Mask points might be parented to a plane track, which
makes this point deforming in a way as if it belongs
to the tracked plane.
Some video tutorials are available:
- Coder video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vISEwqNHqe4
- Artist video: https://vimeo.com/71727578
This is mine and Keir's holiday code project :)
Now button in the toolshelf behaves this way:
- User clicks on "Add Marker"
- Then he clicks where the marker should get placed
Patch by Marcos Couto (ocf) with own modifications.
Use center of currently visible frame part instead of
center of the whole frame for position of marker which
is adding from toolbox.
Used separate operator for this to keep operators more
atomic and not confuse with lots of conflicting properties.
This operator will run a tracker from previous
keyframe to current frame for all selected markers.
Current markers positions are considering initial
position guess which could be updated by a tracker
for better match.
Useful in cases when feature disappears from the
frame and then appears again. Usage in this case
is the following:
- When feature point re-appeared on frame, manully
place marker on it.
- Use Refine Markers operation (which is in Track
panel) to allow tracker to find a better match.
Depending on direction of tracking use either
Forwards or Backwards refining. It's easy: if
trackign happens forwards, use Refine Frowards,
otherwise use Refine Backwards :)
This is an alternative to using camera to scale the
scene and it's expected to be better solution because
scaling camera leads to issues with z-buffer.
Found the whole scaling thing a bit confusing,
especially for object tracking, but cleaning this up
is a bit different topic.
Root of the issue goes to SSBA library which didn't work
properly when using optimization in MSVC. It was worked
around by disabling optimization for libmv, which is in
fact shame and shouldn't have been done.
It seems after some changes optimization does not affect
on SSBA code, but enabling optimization could be risky so
close to release.
For now solved by splitting SSBA to separate CMake/SCons
library, disabling optimization only for this particular
library and enabling optimization for rest of libmv.
Tested on all files which used to fail with optimization
enabled in SSBA and all of them works the same as before.
Tracking speed is significantly higher now.
After release we'll enable optimization for SSBA as well,
so there'll be no crappy build setup. Later we'll replace
old SSBA library with new BA code based on Ceres.
Bundle script would be broken for until then, so better
not to use it.
- 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.
- Removed scaling option which used to be Ctrl+Slide of individual
pattern corner.
- Added extra rectangle area which is being drawing around pattern
and which supports the following things:
* Slide by it's left upper corner would define offset of marker
* Slide by it's right bottom corner would scale overall pattern
- Added extra handle which is drawing from pattern center and which
is being used to define scale and rotation of pattern area.
