There are now 3 categories in the overlay popover:
- Navigation
- Active (camera, lamp... etc)
- Tool (manipulator)
The user preference for mini axis now controls if the mini axis
displays minimal or a full-interactive widget.
Part of design: T55863
* Z now goes to solid mode when in lookdev or rendered mode.
* Alt-Z was broken after removal of texture mode, now toggles lookdev mode.
* Simplify code by turning it into a single operator.
Based on discussion with @eyecandy & @venomgfx,
we agreed that Tab drag/click, is too easy to accidentally press
while moving the cursor.
It's also not typical to activate the operator on release which
introduces a small lag switching edit-mode.
This is a shame since in some ways its a nice way to re-use the key,
overall it just feels a little too unpredictable for such an important
action.
This commit makes the following changes.
- Tab: toggles edit-mode.
- Ctrl-Tab: opens pie menu.
- Ctrl-AccentGrave: toggles manipulator.
Note, while AccentGrave isn't always available
this shortcut is not essential.
Make room for Alt-A to be used for de-select.
Discussed with artists in studio & @venomgfx,
- Use Ctrl-Space for animation.
- Use Ctrl-Tab to toggle manipulator.
- Remove mirror transform binding.
After testing in the studio and extending the event system for
drag events, we've agreed on adjustments to the new keymap,
see: T55162
- Tab: Edit-mode toggle.
- Tab + Cursor Drag: mode switching pie menu.
- Accent/Grave: for 3D view pie menu.
- F3: Search
- 1..3, Shift-1..3: Edit mesh vertex/edge/face toggle.
Other minor changes were made, however they aren't part of the design.
- Ctrl-Shift-S: Image editor Save-As (was F3)
- Ctrl-Alt-R: Repeat history (was F3)
- Use Tab key for search.
- Number keys switch modes.
- The number of the current mode can open a submode menu
(currently only works for edit-mode)
- Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab - cycle workspaces.
OVERVIEW
* In 2.7 terminology, all layers and groups are now collection datablocks.
* These collections are nestable, linkable, instanceable, overrideable, ..
which opens up new ways to set up scenes and link + override data.
* Viewport/render visibility and selectability are now a part of the collection
and shared across all view layers and linkable.
* View layers define which subset of the scene collection hierarchy is excluded
for each. For many workflows one view layer can be used, these are more of an
advanced feature now.
OUTLINER
* The outliner now has a "View Layer" display mode instead of "Collections",
which can display the collections and/or objects in the view layer.
* In this display mode, collections can be excluded with the right click menu.
These will then be greyed out and their objects will be excluded.
* To view collections not linked to any scene, the "Blender File" display mode
can be used, with the new filtering option to just see Colleciton datablocks.
* The outliner right click menus for collections and objects were reorganized.
* Drag and drop still needs to be improved. Like before, dragging the icon or
text gives different results, we'll unify this later.
LINKING AND OVERRIDES
* Collections can now be linked into the scene without creating an instance,
with the link/append operator or from the collections view in the outliner.
* Collections can get static overrides with the right click menu in the outliner,
but this is rather unreliable and not clearly communicated at the moment.
* We still need to improve the make override operator to turn collection instances
into collections with overrides directly in the scene.
PERFORMANCE
* We tried to make performance not worse than before and improve it in some
cases. The main thing that's still a bit slower is multiple scenes, we have to
change the layer syncing to only updated affected scenes.
* Collections keep a list of their parent collections for faster incremental
updates in syncing and caching.
* View layer bases are now in a object -> base hash to avoid quadratic time
lookups internally and in API functions like visible_get().
VERSIONING
* Compatibility with 2.7 files should be improved due to the new visibility
controls. Of course users may not want to set up their scenes differently
now to avoid having separate layers and groups.
* Compatibility with 2.8 is mostly there, and was tested on Eevee demo and Hero
files. There's a few things which are know to be not quite compatible, like
nested layer collections inside groups.
* The versioning code for 2.8 files is quite complicated, and isolated behind
#ifdef so it can be removed at the end of the release cycle.
KNOWN ISSUES
* The G-key group operators in the 3D viewport were left mostly as is, they
need to be modified still to fit better.
* Same for the groups panel in the object properties. This needs to be updated
still, or perhaps replaced by something better.
* Collections must all have a unique name. Less restrictive namespacing is to
be done later, we'll have to see how important this is as all objects within
the collections must also have a unique name anyway.
* Full scene copy and delete scene are exactly doing the right thing yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3383https://code.blender.org/2018/05/collections-and-groups/
Folders removed entirely:
* //extern/recastnavigation
* //intern/decklink
* //intern/moto
* //source/blender/editors/space_logic
* //source/blenderplayer
* //source/gameengine
This includes DNA data and any reference to the BGE code in Blender itself.
We are bumping the subversion.
Pending tasks:
* Tile/clamp code in image editor draw code.
* Viewport drawing code (so much of this will go away because of BI removal
that we can wait until then to remove this.
- put render iterator in own scope
(would shadow it's own variable if used multiple times).
- enforce semicolon at end of iterator macros.
- no need to typedef one-off macro structs.
Since we are ditching layers from Blender (2.8) we need a replacement to
control groups visibility. This commit introduces collections as the building
blocks for groups, allowing users to control visibility as well as overrides
for groups.
Features
========
* Groups now have collections
This way you can change the visibility of a collection inside a group, and add
overrides which are part of the group and are prioritized over other overrides.
* Outliner
Groups can inspect their collections, change visibility, and add/remove members.
To change an override of a group collection, you need to select an instance of
the group, and then you can choose "group" in the collection properties editor
to edit this group active collection instead of the view layer one.
* Dupli groups overrides
We can now have multiple instances of the same group with an original "override"
and different overrides depending on the collection the instanced object is part
of.
Technical
=========
* Layers
We use the same api for groups and scene as much as possible.
Reviewers: sergey (depsgraph), mont29 (read/write and user count)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2892
Add the 3D view ruler as a tool,
the modal operator remains for now
however it may be removed if we use the tool-system for 2.8.
Note that this does copy code from the operator,
its different enough not to attempt to de-duplicate.
The tool-system it's self is primitive and may be changed.
Adding to 2.8 to develop operators and manipulators as tools.
Currently this is exposed in the toolbar, collapsed by default.
Work-flow remains unchanged if you don't change the active tool.
Placing the 3D cursor is now a Click instead of a Press event,
this allows tweak events to be mapped to tools such as border select,
keeping click for 3D cursor placement when selection tools are set.
Note for users
==============
The active_layer option used for the filebrowser operators is now called
active_collection.
If there is no collections in the scenelayer or if this option is not selected
we automatically create a new collection for the new objects.
This is the same behaviour of trying to add a new object when there is
no collection.
Note for developers
===================
For those cases I moved the object user count handling from readfile to
the scene collection system. It's working fine for those, but we still
need to re-visit this for Add objects, and Duplicate - In those cases
the usercount is 2 when it should be 1.
Reviewers: mont29, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2686
Original code from @Severin with changes from @dfelinto & @hypersomniac.
This doesn't cause many functional changes
besides using new transform manipulators.
Submitted as D2604
It's now possible to change the shortcut that enables planar transformation with the transform manipulators (shift+LMB on axis).
This actually fixes the workaround added in rB20681f49801fd. Thing is that we needed to allow using the manipulators, even if a modifier key is held so things like snapping work right away. That's why normal LMB behavior uses KM_ANY. However, event handling would always execute the KM_ANY keymap handler because it's iterated over first. Simply solved this by registering the KM_SHIFT keymap item first, so it has priority over the KM_ANY one.
When WITH_INPUT_NDOF is disabled, 3D mouse handling code is removed
from:
- GHOST (was mostly done, finished the job)
- window manager
- various editors
- RNA
- keymaps
The input tab of user prefs does not show 3D mouse settings. Key map
editor does not show NDOF mappings.
DNA does not change.
On my Mac the compiled binary is 42KB smaller after this change. It
runs fine WITH_INPUT_NDOF on or off.
