This commit/patch/branch brings a bunch of powerful new options for B-Bones and
for working with B-Bones, making it easier for animators to create their own
rigs, using fewer bones (which also means hopefully lighter + faster rigs ;)
This functionality was first demoed by Daniel at BConf15
Some highlights from this patch include:
* You can now directly control the shape of B-Bones using a series of properties
instead of being restricted to trying to indirectly control them through the
neighbouring bones. See the "Bendy Bones" panel...
* B-Bones can be shaped in EditMode to define a "curved rest pose" for the bone.
This is useful for things like eyebrows and mouths/eyelids
* You can now make B-Bones use custom bones as their reference bone handles,
instead of only using the parent/child bones. To do so, enable the
"Use Custom Reference Handles" toggle. If none are specified, then the BBone will
only use the Bendy Bone properties.
* Constraints Head/Tail option can now slide along the B-Bone shape, instead of
just linearly interpolating between the endpoints of the bone.
For more details, see:
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/bendy-bones-dev-update.html
* http://aligorith.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/an-in-depth-look-at-how-b-bones-work.html
-- Credits --
Original Idea: Daniel M Lara (pepeland)
Original Patch/Research: Jose Molina
Additional Development + Polish: Joshua Leung (aligorith)
Testing/Feedback: Daniel M Lara (pepeland), Juan Pablo Bouza (jpbouza)
That one was hairy... To summarize:
* We were setting Bone.head/tail (aka **local** rest location of bone) from EditBone data, using **EditBone's parent computed armature space**.
* We use those local head/tail to define Bone's restpose (in `BKE_armature_where_is_bone()`), using **Bone's parent armature space** (aka parent's arm_mat).
* Because of bone's roll nightmare, the two above parent's matrices will often not be the same.
In an ideal world, this should not affect locations (head/tail), but in real world of float it does - noticeably, in some extreme cases.
So! This commit cleans up things a bit (`fix_bonelist_roll()` was already doing much more than just fixing roll mess, has been renamed
to `armature_finalize_restpose()`), and ensures we do use (final!) parent's arm_mat local space to compute children's local head/tail as well.
This allows us to avoid too much imprecision here.
Checked the patch also with a complete Victor's rig from Gooseberry, seems to have no nasty side effects - fingers crossed!
`fix_bonelist_roll()` is already recursive, and was calling recursive `BKE_armature_where_is_bone()` twice!
Changed `BKE_armature_where_is_bone()` to controll whether we recurse over children or not.
With full Victor's rig, we gain 16% in `ED_armature_from_edit()` (from 31ms to 26ms).
With a dummy test-case 100 bones chain, we gain 80% in `ED_armature_from_edit()` (from 1.25ms to 0.25ms).
Not crucial, but still worth it. ;)
Active edit bone was cleared from armature after each file save, even though the edit data is not actually freed then. Without the active edit bone the poll functions for bone panels fail.
This commit splits editarmature.c and poseobject.c into several files, such that
certain types of functionality are (mostly) self-contained within particular
files (instead of being mixed in with other functionality in a large file).
In particular, this was done so that:
1) Armature EditMode tools are now in the armature_*.c files only, and Pose Mode
tools in pose_*.c files only.
- In one or two cases, this hasn't been possible as the two modes rely on
much of the same shared infrastructure.
2) The "clear loc/rot/scale" operators and pose show/hide are no longer housed
in editarmature.c
3) Selection operators, Transform operators, structural (add/delete) operators,
and supporting utilities for the modes (enter/exit/roll-calculations) are not
all interleaved in an ad-hoc manner
Notes:
* I've tried to ensure that the history of the new files has been maintained by
doing
svn copy {editarmature.c/poseobject.c} {armature_*.c/pose_*.c}
Unfortunately, this means that the diffs are a bit messy.
* There should be no functional/logic changes here. Just code moving around and
cosmetic comment tweaks where needed.
* #includes have largely been untouched for now, but could be cleaned up later
* CMake changes untested, but should work in theory.
