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
Previously Spline IK provided only two choices: either scale the
length of the bone chain to fit the length of the curve, or don't
scale the bone in the Y dimension at all (ignoring effects of
actually fitting to the curve due to curvature and curve object
scale).
This patch adds a new option to use the pre-IK Y scale of the
bones to adjust their length when fitted to the curve, allowing
individual posing control over the length of the segments.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4687
Just saying "parent transformation added" doesn't really explain
what this coordinate space does. Thus it seems almost nobody used
it and serious bugs like T61981 went unnoticed.
Missing dependency graph tag. Is only happening for scripts, since
the interface is handling this from do_constraint_panels().
Fix is suggested by Edmund Kapusniak (@edmundmk), thanks!
-Use factor for flame_vorticity, slice_depth, density & volume_density
-Use distance for surface_distance
-Use factor for mix factor in Data Transfer modifier
-Use prop_translation for pivot constraint offset
- Many factor properties were set to PROP_NONE,
even properties that had 'Factor' in the name!
- Some time properties were not set to PROP_TIME,
especially in Particles.
- Changed motion_blur_shutter to use a soft max value of 1 instead of 2.
Anything > 1 here is not physically correct
and makes no real logical sense.
- Changed display name of Dynamic Paint dissolve_speed to Dissolve Time,
since it's a time property, not speed.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
The Nearest Surface Point shrink method, while fast, is neither
smooth nor continuous: as the source point moves, the projected
point can both stop and jump. This causes distortions in the
deformation of the shrinkwrap modifier, and the motion of an
animated object with a shrinkwrap constraint.
This patch implements a new mode, which, instead of using the simple
nearest point search, iteratively solves an equation for each triangle
to find a point which has its interpolated normal point to or from the
original vertex. Non-manifold boundary edges are treated as infinitely
thin cylinders that cast normals in all perpendicular directions.
Since this is useful for the constraint, and having multiple
objects with constraints targeting the same guide mesh is a quite
reasonable use case, rather than calculating the mesh boundary edge
data over and over again, it is precomputed and cached in the mesh.
Reviewers: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3836
The main use one can imagine for this is adding tweak controls to
parts of a model that are already deformed by multiple other major
bones. It is natural to expect such locations to deform as if the
tweaks aren't there by default; however currently there is no easy
way to make a bone follow multiple other bones.
This adds a new constraint that implements the math behind the Armature
modifier, with support for explicit weights, bone envelopes, and dual
quaternion blending. It can also access bones from multiple armatures
at the same time (mainly because it's easier to code it that way.)
This also fixes dquat_to_mat4, which wasn't used anywhere before.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3664
- Use smooth normals to displace in Above Surface mode.
- Add an option to align an axis to the normal in the constraint.
I've seen people request the alignment feature, and it seems useful.
For the actual aligning I use the damped track logic.
In order to conveniently keep mesh data needed for normal
computation together, a new data structure is introduced.
Reviewers: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3762
Allow raycasting in two directions and culling front or back faces.
Also implement a new Invert Cull option in both constraint and
modifier that can be used to aim for faces aligned with the project
axis direction when raycasting both ways.
Reviewers: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3737
