When introducing "drag-all-selected" support all over Blender, we
figured this wouldn't work well with the Graph Editor
selection/transform behavior.
Hence, William and I worked on the following changes, although we used
this chance to improve the behavior in general too.
For more info see T70634.
* Handles now always move with the key, regardless if they are selected
or not.
* Selecting the key doesn't select the handles anymore, their selection
is separate.
* Multiple keys and handles can now be dragged.
* Dragging a handle moves all selected handles **on the same side**.
* Tweak-dragging any handle can never affect any keyframe location,
only handles.
* G/R/S should behave as before.
* Changing the handle type with a key selected always applies the change
to both handles.
* Box selection with Ctrl+Drag now allows deselecting handles (used to
act on entire triple only).
* Box selection //Include Handles// option now only acts on visible
handles, wasn't the case with Only Selected Keyframes Handles enabled.
* Box selection //Include Handles// is now enabled by default in all
bundled keymaps.
The changes have been tested for some days by the animators here in the
Blender Animation Studio. Some changes are based on their feedback.
Also, this improves/adds comments for related code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6235
Reviewed by: Sybren Stüvel, William Reynish
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.
Previously, when a fcurve modifier used storage,
many heap allocations were done.
This caused major slowdowns as described in T63656.
Furthermore, the storage usage was a special case only
used by the Cycles modifier. This refactor makes
storage usage the "normal" case.
That reduces the overall complexity.
The storage is stack allocated now.
The framerate on the provided test scene went up from ~5 fps to ~16 fps.
Reviewers: angavrilov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4701
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to reduce noise.
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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.
This is necessary when adding a new keyframe to a fcurve
that also has a driver.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4278
When enabled, inserting keyframes into F-Curves with simple cyclic
extrapolation (the same conditions as required for cycle-aware auto
handle smoothing to activate) will take the cycle into account:
- Keyframes that are being inserted outside of the cycle bounds
are remapped to be inside the cycle. Thus it is not necessary
to be within the main iteration of the cycle when tweaking.
This becomes especially useful in the final animation tweaking
phase when the channel keys may be staggered for overlap, so
the actual master period is different for different channels.
- Modifying one of the end points of a cycle also changes the
other end point when appropriate, to preserve smooth transition.
This feature applies to both manual keyframe insertion using
'I', and auto-keyframing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3140
Recently @sergey found that hard-coding evaluation of certain very
common driver expressions without calling the Python interpreter
produces a 30-40% performance improvement. Since hard-coding is
obviously not suitable for production, I implemented a proper
parser and interpreter for simple arithmetic expressions in C.
The evaluator supports +, -, *, /, (), ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=,
and, or, not, ternary if; driver variables, frame, pi, True, False,
and a subset of standard math functions that seem most useful.
Booleans are represented as numbers, since within the supported
operation set it seems to be impossible to distinguish True/False
from 1.0/0.0. Boolean operations properly implement lazy evaluation
with jumps, and comparisons support chaining like 'a < b < c...'.
Expressions are parsed into a very simple stack machine program
that can then be safely evaluated in multiple threads.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3698
Cyclic extrapolation is implemented as an f-curve modifier, so this
technically violates abstraction separation and is something of a hack.
However without such behavior achieving smooth looping with cyclic
extrapolation is extremely cumbersome.
The new behavior is applied when the first modifier is Cyclic
extrapolation in Repeat or Repeat with Offset mode without
using influence, repeat count or range restrictions.
This change in behavior means that curve handles have to be updated
when the modifier is added, removed or its options change. Due to the
way code is structured, it seems it requires a helper link to the
containing curve from the modifier object.
Reviewers: aligorith
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2783
Noisy change, but safe, and better do it sooner than later if we are to
rework copying code. Also, previous commit shows this *is* useful to
catch some mistakes.
Drivers can use this to refer to the data which the driver is applied to,
useful for objects, bones, to avoid having to create a variable pointing to its self.
FCurve evaluation depended on FCurve.curval, which isn't threadsafe.
Now only use this value for debug display,
and pass the value instead of storing in the FCurve for all but debug-display.
This was a feature request from a few years back (IIRC from ZanQdo?) to make it
easier to reuse one set of driver variables across several different drivers.
Dev Notes:
* Finally it's done! All that trouble for two little buttons.
* Grr... cmake... grrr!
Support for driver variables that don't resolve to numbers, eg:
objects, bones, curves... etc.
Without this, Python expressions to access this data needed to use an absolute path from `bpy.data`,
however this is inconvenient, breaks easily (based on naming) and wouldn't set the dependencies correctly.
Now, when trying to insert a keyframe on a driven property (using IKEY, or with
autokeying enabled), the keyframes will get created on the Driver's F-Curve
(instead of creating a new FCurve that goes into the active action, but will never
do anything). Furthermore, the x-value of the new keyframe will be the current
result of the driver expression.
Why/Motivations:
This way, it becomes easier to create corrective drivers, as you can position all
the targets the driver depends on, then adjust the driver value until it does what
you need, and then you keyframe that value to bake it into the Driver F-Curve
(in effect, "training" the computer how to behave in that case).
Usage Notes:
* In practice, that particular workflow is still quite clunky to achieve, due to some
quirks of how the driver system and the UI widgets interact. Specifically, you'll
need to disable/mute the driver before trying to edit the setting (to prevent the
driver from immediately resetting the value - before even autokey fires!). However,
if you're using the Graph Editor to preview/monitor/manage the keying process, you'll
then want to re-enable the driver before changing the targets, so that you can see
how much of a change you'll want to be applying!
* The warning about editing driver values may need to be disabled or selectively
knocked out. I had it disabled while testing this functionality, but it's actually
harmless in its current state (if just a bit annoying).
When attempting to change a driver variable name to an "invalid" name,
an indicator will now be shown beside the offending variable name.
Clicking on this icon will show a popup which provides more information
about why the variable name cannot be used.
Reasons that it knows about are:
1) Starts with number
2) Has a dot
3) Has a space
4) Starts with or contains a special character
5) Starts with an underscore (Python does allow this, but it's bad practice,
and makes checking security of drivers harder)
6) Is a reserved Python keyword
When the active action is a NLA strip, the keyframe indicator colors for buttons
and the 3D view indicator (i.e. the current frame indicator changes color) didn't
work correctly. This was because they were still checking for keyframes in
"global" time space, whereas they needed to be applying NLA corrections to
"look inside" the remapped action.
This is only a (hacky) partial fix, actually, since `RNA_property_animated()` will still
not work in those cases... Better that than nothing, though.
Thanks to Campbell for review.
Since this is now pretty much the de-facto "minimum distance between keyframes",
we might as well expose this in this header so that other places which need similar
thresholds can perform similar checks (needed for my next commit)
Summary:
Crash was happening because of fcurve modifier stack
used modifier's DNA to store temporary data.
Now made it so storage for such a thing is being
allocated locally per object update so multiple objects
which shares the same animation wouldn't run into
threading conflict anymore.
This storage might be a part of EvaluationContext,
but that'd mean passing this context all over in
object_where_is which will clutter API for now without
actual benefit for this.
Optimization notes: storage is only being allocated
if there're Cycles modifier in the stack, so there're
no extra allocations happening in all other cases.
To make code a bit less cluttered with this storage
passing all over the place added extra callbacks to
the FModifier storage which runs evaluation with the
given storage.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, aligorith
CC: plasmasolutions
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D147
- when an fcurve had no selected keyframes, a default fallback value was used which caused view-selected to include frame 1, even when no selected frames were there.
- the vertical axis was always reset, ideally we would center vertically too but the way this operator currently works we only know about the frame range,
now don't change the vertical scroll when viewing selected since it would always jump to the top of the screen (view-all still acts this way).
than one curve is displayed
The range calculation used to use a fixed 0-1 range whenever it couldn't find
any values for a particular F-Curve. However, this was then taken by the
aggregation calculation to be used as just another value, leading to problems if
only vertices of a very high-value curve are selected to be included.
Modified the range calculation to ensure that suitable vertices were found
before trying to take the range values returned.
F-Curves
It is possible to get the old behaviour (handles excluded) by bringing up the
Operator Properties (F6) while in the Graph Editor (this doesn't work elsewhere
due to the context requirements of this stuff).
