again)
- Graph Editor "Active Keyframe" panel now displays more descriptive
error messages. In particular, hopefully this helps to alert users of
the default generator modifier for Driver F-Curves
- The first F-Modifier added to a list is now set to be active one for
that list.
- Adding drivers from the UI (not from py-scripts though) will now
automatically add a "Transform Channel" driver variable to the newly
created drivers. This makes setting up drivers a bit more convenient
for the most commonly used case.
- Drivers now report their errors using the Reports system instead of
writing these directly to the console.
- Clarified some comments to be more insightful about the "why's" of
some design decisions, and related formatting/cleanup tweaks
- Reduced scope of "path" vars to just the scope they're required in
- Removed some unused defines from a failed experiment in the original
Keying Sets code ("templates" and "template flags") which was
superseeded by the more flexible + nicer "Builtin KeyingSets"
- made interface, windowmanager, readfile build without unused warnings.
- re-arranged CMake's source/blender build order so less changed libs are build later, eg: IK, avi
Buttons for editing RNA paths/array index for F-Curves that aren't working are now actually functional. This means that when invalid paths are present, they can be manually fixed up.
- any numnber of attributes are supported for renaming, eg: modifiers["Foo.Bar"].prop.bar
- the path is resolved in blender so each attribute is type checked against the naming list.
- inherited properties are supported by recursively checking parent classes names aganst the name list.
- fcurves and drivers are currently supported.
This panel allows editing of the coordinates of the 'first selected keyframe' on the Active F-Curve. That is, if you've got keyframes A (5), B (7), and C (12), and B & C are both selected, then the 'active keyframe' will be B.
While I still think it's more efficient to use the cursor for batch-setting a bunch of keyframes, there are currently problems using that for sub-frame placement on the x-axis.
Notes:
- There is none of the averaging crap from before, where no accurate value could ever be set.
- Take care when setting the values of the handles, since getting correct F-Curve recalc flushing working via the RNA stuff is VERY TRICKY, and has been left out for now to get something workable. I recommend setting the values numerically, then grabbing these keyframes and immediately cancelling, to get these updates done.
C functions and python used different argument order, this relied on mapping non-keyword arguments to 'REQUIRED' arguments but meant that you could not have an optional, non-keyword argument.
next commit will make order of arguments consistant (currently only changed order that rna wrapped).
(commit 27674 and 27683 by Campbell from render25 branch)
C functions and python used different argument order, this relied on mapping non-keyword arguments to 'REQUIRED' arguments but meant that you could not have an optional, non-keyword argument.
next commit will make order of arguments consistant (currently only changed order that rna wrapped).
(commit 27674 by Campbell from render25 branch)
Only source/blender/editors/ dir, should not give errors on different platforms
Only removing: UI_*.h, ED_*.h, WM_*.h, DNA_*.h, IMB_*.h, RNA_*.h, PIL_*.h
* Copy/Paste operators for F-Modifiers
Available in Graph and NLA Editors. Use the Copy/Paste buttons beside the 'Add Modifier' buttons.
Copy copies all the modifiers of the ACTIVE F-Curve or Strip depending on the editor.
Paste pastes modifiers from the buffer to all the selected F-Curves or Strips, adding the new modifiers to the ends of each list.
* 'Stepped Interpolation' F-Modifier
This modifier holds each interpolated value from the F-Curve for several frames without changing the timing.
This allows to preview motions 'on-twos' for example without altering the timing, or having to go through setting heaps of keyframes. In this case, Andy wanted to use this for CG <-> StopMo.
Feature request for ZanQdo, which shows the intermediate values used in driver calculations (i.e. current value of driver, and current value of variables), allowing drivers expressions to be debugged. This is a per-driver setting...
Added buttons beside the numeric inputs for cursor location to make it more obvious how the cursor can be used for numeric manipulation of selected keyframes.
* Fixed Driver version-patching code to work correctly again with the new system.
* Fix for bug #20484, by adding a new driver variable type ('Transform Channel') which makes it easier to use object/bone transforms as in the past. The main differences with using this (compared with the 'Single Prop' type) are that this allows for 'final' transforms to get used instead (i.e. constraints are also taken into account), and also that this variable type can only be used for transforms (more limited scope -> less flexibility -> point-n-click goodies can follow). Mancandy now loads correctly again.
* Added toggle for local vs worldspace transforms when working with Rot/Loc Diff variable types, and also for the newly added Transform Channel
* Removed some dead code from sequencer...
Highlights:
* Support for Multi-Target Variables
This was the main reason for this recode. Previously, variables could only be used to give some RNA property used as an input source to the driver a name. However, this meant that effects such as Rotational Difference couldn't be used in conjunction with other effects and/or settings to achieve the powerful results. Now, a variable can take several input targets, perform some interesting operations on them, and spit out a representative value based on that.
* New Variable Types
With the introduction of multi-target variables, there are now 3 types of variable that can be used: single property (i.e. the only type previously), Rotational Difference (angle between two bones), and Distance (distance between two objects or bones).
* New Driver Types
In addition to the existing 'Average', 'Sum', and 'Expression' types, there is now the additional options of 'Minimum' and 'Maximum'. These take the smallest/largest value that one of the variables evaluates to.
* Fix for Driver F-Curve colouring bug
Newly added drivers did not get automatically coloured in the Graph Editor properly. Was caused by inappropriate notifiers being used.
Notes:
* This commit breaks existing 2.5 files with drivers (in other words, they are lost forever).
* Rigify has been corrected to work with the new system. The PyAPI for accessing targets used for the variables could still be made nicer (using subclassing to directly access?), but that is left for later.
* Version patching for 2.49 files still needs to be put back in place.
This patch, by Elia Sarti (vekoon), simply adds the possibility to specify the final array component of the RNA path in the path itself,
e.g. using location[0] or location["x"] or even location.x,
instead of specifying this using an "array_index"
This should be easier for users to understand the driver system. The array-indices have been kept (but hidden from the UI under standard situations) since they are theoretically a tad faster than the in-path lookups still, and are easier for internal-tools to set for now...
* Removed ED_anim_dag_flush_update and ED_anim_object_flush_update. These
were wrapping DAG_* calls and were intended be used instead of them when
doing a DAG update from editors. That goes against the design in my opinion,
no matter who calls the DAG, that should update the editors correctly, so
any special checks in such functions for editors should be avoided.
* Driver RNA properties now do updates again, including DAG scene sorting,
text buttons no longer update as you type anymore, so this should be
safe I think.
* Remove scene.update() RNA function, all properties/functions should do this
automatically, if changing some property or calling a function/operator
does not do the correct update, that should be fixed.
* Insert Keyframe (IKEY) now only shows the menu requesting to choose a KeyingSet to use if there is no active KeyingSet. To get the old behaviour, the "always_prompt" boolean property for the "ANIM_OT_insert_keyframe_menu" operator should be supplied.
* After inserting/deleting keyframes without the menu, a popup menu confirming that the keyframes have been modified is shown. Please note that you do not need to click on this popup.
TODO:
Make the confirmation popup fade out after a fixed time.
* "RNA Path" and "Array Index" for the active F-Curve in the Graph Editor are now shown in the properties region. These are greyed out unless the F-Curve cannot be evaluated, in which case they can be edited to make the F-Curve work again
* Made the Push and Relax operators in Pose Mode fit on a single row in the toolbar, since they're opposites of each other.
* Updating dependencies for drivers now clears the disabled status of the relevant Driver FCurve too
* Changing the type of ID-block used for Driver Targets and Keying Set Paths will now clear the pointer to the ID-block if it is of the wrong type.
* Convert all code to use new functions.
* Branch maintainers may want to skip this commit, and run this
conversion script instead, if they use a lot of math functions
in new code:
http://www.pasteall.org/9052/python
* When there is only a single keyframe for a F-Curve, the handles aren't shown anymore. This looks nicer than the fat orange blobs that appeared
* Tweaked the management of GL_BLEND when drawing animation channels in the Graph Editor in an attempt to fix some of the missing text drawn issues.
* Converted the properties panel to use layout engine + added color selectors
Added RNA functions for adding and removing Driver Targets. Unfortunately, I couldn't do this by simply adding callbacks for the add/remove of the collection, as I've had to add to extra RNA functions to do that.
Example usage - driving Lamp Distance with Cube LocZ:
myOb= bpy.data.objects["Lamp"]
myOb.driver_add("data.distance")
# drivers is list of F-Curves that have driver data
drivers= myOb.animation_data.drivers
distDriver= drivers[0].driver
dtar= distDriver.add_target("ctrl1")
dtar.id_type= 'OBJECT'
dtar.id= bpy.data.objects["Cube"]
dtar.rna_path= "location"
dtar.array_index= 2
Added a base-template for editing/creating RNA-Paths. This is now used for KeyingSets and Driver UI's, so that when the actual magic gets put in, it will work.
* Converted Drivers UI to mostly use the Layout Engine
* All the buttons that perform actions are not operators yet (the code for that would be quite icky still)
* I've added some (commented out) calls for the property definitions of Driver properties to perform Depsgraph updates. I've left these commented out until we have the option to turn off auto-updates, since with driver editing, that could be very dangerous.
* Drivers can now (in theory) use any ID-block, using the Any-ID template added earlier. However, be warned that the stupid depsgraph won't be able to cope with most of these cases.
TODO:
- more fancy widgets for RNA-Path and Index will come later
belongs here still, but this came up often, it avoids having to
switch tabs a lot when creating things.
Also renamed uiLayoutFreeBlock to uiLayoutAbsoluteBlock.
