This fixes bug #26764 and several others like it, where modifier
properties (and others, but most visibly modifiers) would not do
anything when animated or driven, as modifier properties require the
RNA update calls to tag the modifiers to get recalculated.
While just adding a call to RNA_property_update() could have gotten
this working (as per the Campbell's patch attached in the report, and
also my own attempt #25881). However, on production rigs, the
performance cost of this is untenatable (on my own tests, without
these updates, I was getting ~5fps on such a rig, but only 0.9fps or
possibly even worse with the updates added).
Hence, this commit adds a property-update caching system to the RNA
level, which aims to reduce to the number of times that the update
functions end up needing to get called.
While this is much faster than without the caching, I also added an
optimisation for pose bones (which are numerous in production rigs) so
that their property updates are skipped, since they are useless to the
animsys (they only tag the depsgraph for updating). This gets things
moving at a more acceptable framerate.
By popular demand, the "Transformation Channel" driver variable type
now has a "local space" transform space option which uses the same
magic that constraints use for defining local-space. This is what many
bug reporters and feature requesters have moaned about for a while
now, so after reviewing several of the bug reports which lead to the
current situation, here is what has been much-wanted for so long!
In order to implement this, I've:
- renamed the old "Local Space" option here to "Transformation Space",
in order to prevent old rigs breaking. This has also been kept, as it
is useful for #21384 (though perhaps with this new option it isn't
needed anymore)
- reviewed my fix for #20870 (IIRC, a Durian-era bug), which related
to the non-uniqueness of matrix->euler decomposition
This means script authors can perform actions using these callbacks rather then on drawing which puts blender in a readonly state.
Simple example:
import bpy
def up_func(self, context):
print("test")
bpy.types.Scene.testprop = bpy.props.FloatProperty(update=up_func)
bpy.context.scene.testprop = 11
# prints -> test
Now this gives the line number of the scripts thats running, eg:
uiItemFullO: unknown operator 'some.operator'
/c/bin/2.56/scripts/startup/bl_ui/space_view3d_toolbar.py:73
- fix mistake with grease pencil UI (&& was intended but & used).
- use (void) rather then () across _all_ blenders code.
- a few minor edits, don't shadow stack variables in roll calculation & avoid running memset() for VBO vertex map.
- modifier code was using sizeof() without knowing the sizeof the array when clearing the modifier type array.
- use BLI_snprintf rather then sprintf where the size of the string is known.
- particle drawing code kept a reference to stack float values (not a problem at the moment but would crash if accessed later).
Probably wouldn't cause a problem but manually editing these types through python could easily crash blender.
also changed cmake, stub-makefile default build dir to be lower case and leave out architecture string, easier for documentation.
Use ../build/linux/ rather then ../build/Linux_i686/
- values were added to both the classes __dict__ as well as the internal StructRNA.
- made properties available from the type since this is where the python api assigns them:
>>> bpy.types.Scene.frame_start
<bpy_struct, IntProperty("frame_start")>
- rename RNA_struct_type_properties() -> RNA_struct_type_properties(), added RNA_struct_type_find_property()
- metaball tessellation functuion was calculating density when it didn't need to.
- image drawing was using a float as a loop counter, in extreme cases this could cause an infinite loop.
- remove/comment unused vars.
when using the Numpad0 feature to reset properties to their default
values.
While this implementation here is not a full/proper implementation, as
you cannot truly specify a default value for some pointers that may
require something other than NULL (i.e. nothing), this should be good
enough for the vast majority of (editable) cases which are fine if set
to NULL.
This is most noticeable with the Active Keying Set field in the
TimeLine header, where it's now possible to simply use Numpad0 to
clear it instead of using a confusing click+backspace+enter dance to
do the same thing.