The main use one can imagine for this is adding tweak controls to
parts of a model that are already deformed by multiple other major
bones. It is natural to expect such locations to deform as if the
tweaks aren't there by default; however currently there is no easy
way to make a bone follow multiple other bones.
This adds a new constraint that implements the math behind the Armature
modifier, with support for explicit weights, bone envelopes, and dual
quaternion blending. It can also access bones from multiple armatures
at the same time (mainly because it's easier to code it that way.)
This also fixes dquat_to_mat4, which wasn't used anywhere before.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3664
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
Only tag relations update when new f-curve was allocated. This solves
possible too slow keyframe insertion when doing character animation,
but still does proper relation update when new ID component became
animated.
Notes:
* Really need to address RNA setters case, end up adding way too much
G.main here these days... :/
* Added Main pointer into bAnimContext, helps a lot in anim code ;)
That bug was also likely affecting other cases - basically it was making
auto-keying always key from evaluated ('visual') values, never base,
data values... Added a flag, in some cases we do want evaluated values
here, obviously.
After more testing, I realised that bendy bone properties should also be grouped,
but probably all other per-bone settings too. Now, just group all of them, since
it's easier for everyone this way.
For many years, animators have been complaining about how keyframing a (transform)
property directly would leave them ungrouped, while keyframing them using a Keying Set
would put them into a group based on the name of the keyingset.
This commit attempts to improve (unify + make consistent) the default behaviour:
* All object transforms now get added to an "Object Transforms" group,
regardless of whether they were added individually via buttons or keyingset
* All bone transforms now get added to a group corresponding to the name of the bone
instead of only the ones added via keyingset
When using copy on write, insert keyframe operators were reading from old
bmain data instead of COW data. This meant that inserting keyframes would
often read old/stale data, resulting in invalid keyframes getting created
(e.g. from last transform operation, instead of actual current state).
This commit makes it so that keyframing operators will ask depsgraph for
the evaluated copy of the data, so that it can read values from that. It
introduces a new function - `DEG_get_evaluated_rna_pointer()`, which when
working correctly/fully, should work just like the other `DEG_get_evaluated_*()`
functions, except it lets you pass in an RNA Pointer.
However, currently, this is only done for Pose Bones (as a dirty hack, since this
is an important/pivotal requirement for production) and/or datablock
properties directly (since we can just use the DEG_get_evaluated_id() directly).
on the datablock.
Committing to a branch for now as this all needs more testing. More work to come
later at a more sane time of day!
There are various values which depends on context in there, for example
current driver value and original DNA value f-curve is applied for.
This partially fixes issue with not being able to tweak keyed values
when material preview is open.
The material preview is not being currently updated against non-keyed
changes since every tweak of material property does full preview scene
depsgraph evaluation.
The legacy algorithm only considers two adjacent points when computing
the bezier handles, which cannot produce satisfactory results. Animators
are often forced to manually adjust all curves.
The new approach instead solves a system of equations to trace a cubic spline
with continuous second derivative through the whole segment of auto points,
delimited at ends by keyframes with handles set by other requirements.
This algorithm also adjusts Vector handles that face ordinary bezier keyframes
to achieve zero acceleration at the Vector keyframe, instead of simply pointing
it at the adjacent point.
Original idea and implementation by Benoit Bolsee <benoit.bolsee@online.be>;
code mostly rewritten to improve code clarity and extensibility.
Reviewers: aligorith
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2884
While such drivers will generally get evaluated too late to be of much
use during animations, it can still be useful to allow using drivers to
control a whole bunch of NLA strip properties (i.e. syncing NLA strip
timings via a single property/control).
Keyframe insertion however is still not allowed on these properties
(and an error message will now be displayed when trying to do so,
instead of silently failing), as it is useless.
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.
The "W" channel will get a yellowish colour (i.e. a blend between the X/R and
Y/G axis colours), while the XYZ will behave as they do for other transforms.
Sometimes the autokeying flags don't get set correctly (i.e. the "mode" flags
used for 'Add + Replace' vs 'Replace Only' aren't set), meaning that the old logic
would always fall through to the "replace only" case. When this happens, the resulting
behaviour can be quite strange and hard to debug. This fix prevents problems like
this from continuing to be an issue...
