This patch exposes the Cycles Alembic Procedural through the MeshSequenceCache
modifier in order to use and test it from Blender.
To enable it, one has to switch the render feature set to experimental and
activate the Procedural in the modifier. An Alembic Procedural is then
created for each CacheFile from Blender set to use the Procedural, and each
Blender object having a MeshSequenceCache modifier is added to list of objects
of the right procedural.
The procedural's parameters derive from the CacheFile's properties which are
already exposed in the UI through the modifier, although more Cycles specific
options might be added in the future.
As there is currently no cache controls and since we load all the data at the
beginning of the render session, the procedural is only available during
viewport renders at the moment. When an Alembic procedural is rendered, data
from the archive are not read on the Blender side.
If a Cycles render is not active and the CacheFile is set to use the Cycles Procedural,
bounding boxes are used to display the objects in the scene as a signal that the
objects are not processed by Blender anymore. This is standard in other DCCs.
However this does not reduce the memory usage from Blender as the Alembic data
was already loaded either during an import or during a .blend file read.
This is mostly a hack to test the Cycles Alembic procedural until we have a
better Blender side mechanism for letting renderers load their own geometry,
which will be based on import and export settings on Collections (T68933).
Ref T79174, D3089
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10197
This patch removes the "Kerning Style" option for UI widget font
drawing and uses only the current default of "Fitted", since the other
option of "Unfitted" is just the result of truncation errors.
see D12231 for much more information.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12231
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
This change reduces the GPU context switches when drawing keyframes.
In the previous situation the keyframe blocks and keyframe keys were
drawn per channel. With this patch first all the keyframe blocks are
drawn for all channels and after that the keyframe keys are collected
for all channels and send to the GPU in a single draw call.
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
Idea for 3.0 is to disable all functionality that isn't well polished
and focus on those parts first. Starting with poses.
* Adds a new experimental option "Extended Asset Browser", replacing
"Asset Browser".
* Unlike the previous option, this isn't enabled by default anymore.
This didn't work well in practice and caused plenty of confusion.
* "Mark as Asset" and "Clear Asset" are hidden if the option is
disabled.
* Same for the category selection in the Asset Browser.
* Always show display the "Only Assets" option in the File Browser while
browing inside .blend files. That way you can hide data-blocks that
are not pose assets.
* The Asset Library setup UI in the Preferences is always visible now,
it's needed for pose library access.
Addresses T90181, T90180 and T90300.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12120
In the `FileList` struct, rename the `AssetLibraryReference
*asset_library` field to `asset_library_ref` -- it's a description of
which asset library is used, and not the asset library itself.
This is to make space for a future `AssetLibrary *asset_library` field,
which will point to an actual asset library struct/class.
No functional changes.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12151
Originally the operator name was drawn next to the dragging content.
After that there was an option to add custom, static text with the
dragging content. This patch allows dynamic text to be drawn.
The custom text was implemented as out parameter of the poll function
what made the code unclear. This patch introduces a tooltip function
that separates tooltip generation from the poll function.
NOTE: the text should always be returned in its own memory block. This
block will be freed after it is copied in the drag struct.
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12104
This partially reverts cb0b017d8f: We can't store the asset handle in
the drag data, because the file pointer it wraps may be freed as the
Asset Browser generates its file list.
Before this, all asset view templates showing the same asset library
would show the same assets, even if they should show different ID types.
That was a major limitation since the design did forsee that this
template can be put anywhere in the UI to display various sub-sets of
assets.
Initially I did the ID type filtering close to the asset-list reading,
because I wanted to optimize reading so that we would only actually read
asset information from disk of the ID type to be shown. But this will be
quite complex and I'm not sure if I'll get to work on this anytime soon.
So this commit moves the filtering to the template display level solving
this limitation.
Note: This also adds the code to filter by tags, together with the ID
type. But it's not actually used anywhere yet.
This iterator was introduced before `AssetHandle` existed, so it was
dealing with the file data directly. Now we want as little code as
possible to deal with the file data, all access should happen via the
`AssetHandle`.
Add overlay option to disable grid drawing.
Reuse drawing code from other editors (timeline editor)
Add argument `display_minor_lines` to function
`UI_view2d_draw_lines_x__discrete_frames_or_seconds`
This way minor line drawing can be disabled and so it doesn't cause
too much visual noise. Also spacing seems to be too fine, so VSE uses 3x
what is defined in preferences.
Reviewed By: fsiddi, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11790
Calculate frequency of time/frame label drawing, such that labels have
at least 10px margin and don't overlap.
Change timecode format:
- Use at least `mm:ss` format
- Don't display frames if all labels would end with +00
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11792
I'm trying to move away from general files with lots of things in them,
and instead have many small & focused files. I find that easier to
work with since everything has clear responsibilities, even if there is
some minor overhead in managing all these files.
I also try to differentiate more clearly between public and internal
files. So source files and internal headers are in a `intern/`
sub-directory, public functions are in a number of headers one level
higher.
For convenience and to make this compatible with our existing general
headers in `editors/include`, I made the `ED_asset.h` there include all
these public headers.
This is of course a bit of an experiment, let's see how it works in
practice.
Also corrected the name of `ED_asset_can_make_single_from_context()`.
Would previously pass a few properties that are available via the
asset-handle now. This asset-handle is also required for some of the
asset API, e.g. the temporary ID loading. This will probably be needed
before too long.
For this to work, the utility function needs to be callable without
context, which is only needed for a File Browser specific hack anyway
(doesn't apply to this usage of it).
While the asset-handle design is supposed to be temporary (see
35affaa971), I prefer keeping the fact that it's nothing but a file
entry pointer an implementation detail that is abstracted away. So this
introduces getters for the file data we typically access for
asset-handles.
This move was already prepared with 788d380460 and 26b098c04f. The
template is quite big already, better to give it its own file. Plus it
could use some C++ features like RAII and maybe some more object
oriented code. I plan further refactoring there.
The asset view UI template is a mini-version of the Asset Browser that
can be placed in regular layouts, regions or popups. At this point it's
made specifically for placement in vertical layouts, it can be made more
flexible in the future.
Generally the way this is implemented will likely change a lot still as
the asset system evolves.
The Pose Library add-on will use the asset view to display pose
libraries in the 3D View sidebar.
References:
* https://developer.blender.org/T86139
* https://code.blender.org/2021/06/asset-browser-project-update/#what-are-we-building
* https://code.blender.org/2021/05/pose-library-v2-0/#use-from-3d-viewport
Notes:
* Important limitation: Due to the early & WIP implementation of the
asset list, all asset views showing the same library will show the
same assets. That is despite the ID type filter option the template
provides. The first asset view created will determine what's visible.
Of course this should be made to work eventually.
* The template supports passing an activate and a drag operator name.
The former is called when an asset is clicked on (e.g. to apply the
asset) the latter when dragging (e.g. to .blend a pose asset). If no
drag operator is set, regular asset drag & drop will be executed.
* The template returns the properties for both operators (see example
below).
* The argument list for using the template is quite long, but we can't
avoid that currently. The UI list design requires that we pass a
number of RNA or custom properties to work with, that for the Pose
Libraries should be registered at the Pose Library add-on level, not
in core Blender.
* Idea is that Python scripts or add-ons that want to use the asset view
can register custom properties, to hold data like the list of assets,
and the active asset index. Maybe that will change in future and we
can manage these internally.
As an example, the pose library add-on uses it like this:
```
activate_op_props, drag_op_props = layout.template_asset_view(
"pose_assets",
workspace,
"active_asset_library",
wm,
"pose_assets",
workspace,
"active_pose_asset_index",
filter_id_types={"filter_action"},
activate_operator="poselib.apply_pose_asset",
drag_operator="poselib.blend_pose_asset",
)
drag_op_props.release_confirm = True
drag_op_props.flipped = wm.poselib_flipped
activate_op_props.flipped = wm.poselib_flipped
```
So far all UI lists had to be defined in Python, this makes it possible
to define them in C as well. Note that there is a whole bunch of special
handling for the Python API that isn't there for C. I think most
importantly custom properties support, which currently can't be added
for C defined UI lists.
The upcoming asset view UI template will use this, which needs to be
defined in C.
Adds a new file `interface_template_list.cc`, which at this point is
mostly a dummy to have a place for the `ED_uilisttypes_ui()` definition.
I plan a separate cleanup to move the UI-list template to that file.
