Operators are one of the last places in Blender to use older UI designs
that don't fit in with recent style conventions. This commit updates
these custom operator UI callbacks for consistency and clarity.
Some of the code is also simplified a lot. Some of the older operator layouts
were much more complex (in terms of code) than they needed to be.
See the differential revision for a before and after screenshot
of each operator.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8326
Alembic is not a single file format, it can be stored in two different
ways: Ogawa and HDF5. Ogawa replaced HDF5 and is smaller and much faster
(4-25x) to read ([source](http://exocortex.com/blog/alembic_is_about_to_get_really_fast)).
As long as Blender has had Alembic support, it has never supported the
HDF5 format in any release. There is a build option `WITH_ALEMBIC_HDF5`
that can be used to enable HDF5 support in your own build. This commit
removes this build option and the code that it manages.
In the years that I have been maintainer of Blender's Alembic code, I
only remember getting a request to support HDF5 once, and that was to
support very old software that has likely since then been updated to
support Ogawa. Ubuntu and Fedora also seem to bundle Blender without
HDF5 support.
This decision was discussed on
[DevTalk](https://devtalk.blender.org/t/alembic-hdf5-support-completely-remove)
where someone also mentioned that there is a tool available that can
convert HDF5 files to the Ogawa format.
Functionality here has become confusing over time,
this removes duplicate, similar functions, preferring to set the mode
instead of toggle, enter, exit.
Mode switching utility function behaved differently regarding undo,
'ED_object_mode_toggle' for example didn't skip the undo push
where 'ED_object_mode_set' did.
Some callers chose these functions based on the intended undo behavior,
even when toggling didn't make sense.
There was also ED_object_mode_generic_enter which was similar to
ED_object_mode_set, instead of the reverse of ED_object_mode_generic_exit.
Simplify object mode switching internals:
- Replace ED_object_mode_generic_enter with ED_object_mode_set.
- Remove ED_object_mode_toggle as nearly all callers needed to check
the current mode so toggling would set the mode argument correctly.
- Use ED_object_mode_set for the object mode switching operator
to simplify logic.
- Add ED_object_mode_set_ex which has an argument to disable undo,
needed when loading undo data needs to set the mode.
- Remove unused ED_object_mode_exit.
Importers/exporters should show the sidebar by default (if they have
any settings). For some reason this was missing for the Alembic and
Collada exporters.
There are no more 'layers' in Blender. I chose 'Visible Objects' rather
than 'Visible Collections' to be consistent with the other
'{Renderable,Selected} Objects Only' options.
No functional changes.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
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.
It's now possible to export curves and NURBS as mesh data to Alembic.
This allows artists to do any crazy thing on curves and export the
visual result to Alembic for interoperability with other software (or
caching for later use, etc.). It's an often-requested feature.
This works around T60503 and the fixes export part of T51311.
Note that exporting zero-width curves is currently not supported, as
exporting a faceless mesh (e.g. just edges and vertices) is not
supported by the mesh writer at all.
To test, create a curve with thickness (for example extruded), export to
Alembic and check the 'Curves to Mesh' checkbox in the export options.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4213
This is similar to what physics baking is doing: invoking the operator
runs a background job, whereas executing blocks. This makes Python
scripts calling the Alembic import/export operators more predictable.
For backwardward compatibility with existing Python code the
`as_background_job` parameter still exists, which overrides the
behaviour chosen by INVOKE/EXECUTE.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed by: brecht
Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4137/new/
That kind of implicit includes should really only be done when totally,
absolutely necessary, and ideally only with rather simple 'second-level'
headers.
Otherwise not being explicit with includes always end up biting in
unexpected ways...
Things like missing directories are now properly checked for, rather than
crashing Blender.
This also adds support for relative paths when opening an ABC file.
It's now less confusing (for example, using nr_of_samples directly,
instead of using 1 / 1 / nr_of_samples). Might also have fixed a bug.
Also added unittests.
The old default values (start/end frame = 1) could have been an actually
desired setting (for example when exporting a non-animated model). To
make this worse, this was only interpreted as "start/end of the scene" by
the export operator when running interactively, but not when run from
Python.
By choosing INT_MIN as default it's highly unlikely that the interval
[start, end) was intended as actual export range.
The ABC_export and ABC_import functions both take a as_background_job
parameter, and return a boolean.
When as_background_job=true, returns false immediately after scheduling
a background job. This was the old behaviour of this function, which makes
it very hard for scripts to do something with the data after the import
or export completes.
When as_background_job=false, performs the export synchronously, and
returns true when the export was ok, and false if there were any errors.
This allows further processing.
The Scene.alembic_export() function is deprecated, and will be removed from
Blender 2.8 in favour of calling the bpy.ops.wm.alembic_export() operator.
As such, it has been hard-coded to the old background job behaviour.
The export is still slower than needed, as the particle systems themselves
aren't disabled during the export. It's only the writing to the Alembic
file that's skipped.
any object
There were a couple of crashes caused by stupid typos in
rB631af9f930d2fd2c76751204ff22239aa95f761d and
rB78ea06fea4a74181c25254ed72d50d8a743b6954, as well as a shamefull lack
of 'testing before committing' which only affect exporting.
One crash was due to using RNA_boolean_get instead of RNA_enum_get, the
other one was a tricky case of order of deletion happening in the
destructors of AbcExporter and ArchiveWriter.
Should not affect RC or release.
export.
This aligns the behaviour of the file selection with the other
exporters. The Alembic case would fail if the filepath did not have an
extension set.
Also set a default file name for the Alembic export operator in case the
Blender file was not saved before exporting.
All in all, this patch adds an Alembic importer, an Alembic exporter,
and a new CacheFile data block which, for now, wraps around an Alembic
archive. This data block is made available through a new modifier ("Mesh
Sequence Cache") as well as a new constraint ("Transform Cache") to
somewhat properly support respectively geometric and transformation data
streaming from alembic caches.
A more in-depth documentation is to be found on the wiki, as well as a
guide to compile alembic: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/
User:Kevindietrich/AlembicBasicIo.
Many thanks to everyone involved in this little project, and huge shout
out to "cgstrive" for the thorough testings with Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini
and Realflow as well as @fjuhec, @jensverwiebe and @jasperge for the
custom builds and compile fixes.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2060
