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
```
This adds id_properties_clear() and id_properties_ensure() functions
to RNA structs. This is meant as an initial change based on discussion
in review of D9697. However, they may be useful in other situations.
The change requires refactoring the internal idproperties callback to
return a pointer to the IDProperty pointer, which actually turns out
to be quite a nice cleanup.
An id_properties attribute could be added in the future potentially.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11908
Makes the functions (introduced in 557b3d2762) follow existing naming
conventions for the API.
Changes:
`bpy.types.ID.mark_asset` to `bpy.types.ID.asset_mark`
`bpy.types.ID.clear_asset` to `bpy.types.ID.asset_clear`
Adds `mark_asset()` and `clear_asset()` to ID data-blocks, e.g.
`bpy.context.active_object.mark_asset()`. They essentially do the same as the
mark and clear asset operators.
Scripts are generally discouraged from using operators where possible, but we
need to provide API functions to use instead. In this case it means scripts
don't have to override context to pass an ID to the operator.
This is functionality that isn't accessible via the user interface. The
API allows the creation and modification of an override template that
holds rules that needs to be checked when overriding the asset.
The API is setup that it cannot be changed after creation. Later on when
the system is more mature we will allow changing overrides operations.
NOTE: This is an experimental feature and should not be used in productions.
Reviewed By: mont29, sebbas
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10792
Steps to reproduce:
- switch to Scripting workspace
- execute bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].copy()
- Outliner will not show the new mesh immediately
Now just send appropriate notifier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10584
Currently it is not possible to edit bare IDProperty pointer
values which are not explicitly defined through python via
UI fields. This is likely mostly because, unlike numeric values,
pointers aren't marked PROP_EDITABLE by default. However there
are also some bugs in the RNA code that need fixing.
The Geometry Nodes modifier uses bare properties to store
input settings for the node group it wraps, so supporting
Object and Collection sockets requires editable pointers.
This patch marks bare IDProperties editable, and ensures
that changing ID pointers rebuilds the dependency graph.
A type check is needed because an IDPROPERTY PointerPropertyRNA
can actually wrap a group value rather than an ID pointer.
Making pointers editable is not likely to accidentally
affect UI fields that were not intended to be editable,
because a simple `layout.prop` cannot determine which
datablocks to display in the menu and remains read-only.
The PROP_NEVER_UNLINK flag is also removed: it seems it
was added because the edit field that couldn't produce
a menu to set the pointer used to still display the unlink
button, but that seems not to be the case anymore.
Actual support for Object & Collection inputs in the modifier
is added in D10056, which can be used to test this code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10098
- Use the name "Point Cloud" instead of "Pointcloud"
- Fix a typo in UV_OT_smart_project.
- Use the name "Install Light" to for the installation
operator for MatCaps, HDRIs, and Studio Lights.
Fixes T83585, T65291, and T54921
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9867
Asset metadata is what turns a regular data-block into an asset. It is a small
data-structure, but a key part of the technical design of the asset system.
The design foresees that asset data-blocks store an `ID.asset_data` pointer of
type `AssetMetaData`. This data **must not** have dependencies on other
data-blocks or data-block data, it must be an independent unit. That way we can
read asset-metadata from .blends without reading anything else from the file.
The Asset Browser will use this metadata (together with the data-block name,
preview and file path) to represent assets in the file list.
Includes:
* New `ID.asset_data` for asset metadata.
* Asset tags, description and custom properties.
* BKE code to manage asset meta-data and asset tags.
* Code to read asset data from files, without reading IDs.
* RNA for asset metadata (including tags)
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9716
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
The geometry-nodes features no longer depend on the point cloud object.
Therefore the point cloud object, although important in the future, can
be postponed until we have render and edit mode fully working.
This reverts commits:
* ea74ed5a7a.
* dc614c68ef.
After rB452a1c7b3838 there were still a few cases where the old
collection icon was used in the interface. Replace these with the new
filled collection icon.
Fixes 18 misspellings of 'predefined', 'Look Up', 'Lookup', and 'No One'.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9466
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
Those two features are not directly related and one might be activated
in master earlier than the other.
WITH_PARTICLE_NODES was removed, because we continue the project
under the name "Geometry Nodes".
For 2.90 release this should not be exposed in the RNA API.
In master this needs to be ON by default, that's all.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8589
This replaces the cmake options `WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES` and
`WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE` with two experimental userpref settings:
* `use_new_particle_system`: Enables the point cloud type and the simulation editor.
* `use_new_hair_type`: Only displays the add-operator in the add menu for now.
Note, in the current state you can't do anything productive with the new particle
system or the new hair type. Features will be added step by step in the upcoming
weeks and months.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8096
Accessing this from RNA may actually create some data, which we do not
want to happen when comparing data. Further more, preview is not data,
but a view of it, so we should be safe ignoring it entirely here.
Now all overrides are handled that way. Performances of the process look
decent enough, even with production characters...
If performance issues still arise, we'll investigate other solutions.
This should also make T73154 obsolete now.
Local datablocks (including overrides) need to have a unique name, which
can then differ from the reference linked one (especially when there are
several local overrides of a same linked data).
Issue is, ID name is a 'rna name property', and as such used as
reference when dealing with override of collections of IDs, so we cannot
have a changing name.
The solution implemented here should work and is simple, but it may have
some issues in corner cases (time will say), it is not really robust.
Alternative solution would be to store ID pointers as reference in
override operations, instead of there name. But that would potentially
add quiet a lot of overhead to foreach looping in `lib_query.c`.
This data block will be the container for simulation node trees.
It will be used for the new particle node system (T73324).
The new data block has the type `ID_SIM`.
It is not visible to users and other developers by default yet.
To enable it, activate the cmake option `WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE`.
New simulation data blocks can be created by running `bpy.data.simulations.new("name")`.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7225
The `BKE_animsys.h` and `anim_sys.c` files already had a an "AnimData
API" section. The code in that section has now been split off, and
placed into `BKE_anim_data.h` and `anim_data.c`.
All files that used to include `BKE_animsys.h` have been adjusted to
only include the animation headers they need (sometimes none).
No functional changes.
- Use 'BKE_object_material_*', 'BKE_id_material_*' prefix
for functions that operate on Object and ID types.
- Use '_len' suffix for length (matching BLI naming).
- Use '_p' suffix for functions that return a pointer to values
where the value would typically be returned.
Functions renamed:
- BKE_object_material_resize was BKE_material_resize_object
- BKE_object_material_remap was BKE_material_remap_object
- BKE_object_material_remap_calc was BKE_material_remap_object_calc
- BKE_object_material_array_p was BKE_object_material_array
- BKE_object_material_len_p was BKE_object_material_num
- BKE_id_material_array_p was BKE_id_material_array
- BKE_id_material_len_p was BKE_id_material_num
- BKE_id_material_resize was BKE_material_resize_id
- BKE_id_material_append was BKE_material_append_id
- BKE_id_material_pop was BKE_material_pop_id
- BKE_id_material_clear was BKE_material_clear_id
Instead of using anonymous booleans flags, also allows to keep the same
behavior in all cases, without needing special handling from calling
code for our beloved oddballs object proxies...
Even though we do not have much of those, this might change in the
future, and in any case having specific functions for this ID type in
generic `BKE_lib` area was really confusing.
