When navigating the 3d-view with a bone (or bones) selected, 'Rest Pose' enabled for the armature, and 'Orbit Around Selection' turned on, a "Pose Edit Not Possible" warning would pop up every time the view was manipulated.
Was caused by a missing check for the 'TFM_DUMMY' transform mode used when calculating center to use (based on active item)
Submitted by: Lorenzo Pierfederici (lento)
This patch adds the ability to lock transformation on bones in edit mode, to protect them from accidental editing.
Bones can be locked from the editing buttons, the transform property panel, the specials popup menu or the python api.
Grease Pencil is a tool which allows you to draw freehand in some views, allowing you to annotate/scribble over the contents of that view in either 2d or 3d. This facilitates many easier communication and planning abilities.
To use, simply enable it from the View menu (choose 'Grease Pencil...' and click 'Use Grease Pencil'). Then, click+drag using the left-mouse button and the shift-key held to draw a stroke.
For more information, check the following page on the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Aligorith/247_Grease_Pencil
Force proportional editing flag off in object mode.
While it didn't have any effect on objects themselves, it could display the falloff mode (Smooth) in the header. The bug was purely cosmetic.
Transform conversion was resetting constraints when used to calculate orbit center.
This is a tentative fix, it fixes this particular case but maybe not all.
Fixing UV Quad Constraint when cancelling transform. Also, transdata conversion is a bit faster for all UV transforms.
Patch by Cambo, reviewed and revised.
* Scaling NLA-strips now resets their scale setting correctly at all times
* Added safe-guards against negative scaling being created through the use of the transform tools.
Note: at scale 0 or thereabouts, there will still be a little blip, when keyframes are scaled as if scale were 1.0f. It's quite harmless.
This doesn't fix the problems with the corrupted IPO-driver channels in the Outliner after AutoKeying though. I'm not sure what's causing them, but I cannot even seem to be able to disable those channels.
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Caching and Baking:
- The point cache is now cleared on DAG_object_flush_update(), and not cleared for time dependency graph updates.
- There is now a Bake button instead of Protect. Also cache start and end frames were added to softbody and particles.
- The cloth autoprotect feature was removed.
- The Ctrl+B menu now also bakes cloth and particles next to softbody and fluids. Additionally there are now frree bake and free cache menu entries.
- The point cache api has been changed. There is now a PTCacheID struct for each point cache type that can be filled and then used to call the point cache functions.
- PointCache struct was added to DNA and is automatically allocated for each physics type.
- Soft body now supports Bake Editing just like cloth.
- Tried to make the systems deal consistently with time ipo's and offsets. Still not sure it all works correct, but too complicated to solve completely now.
Library Linking:
- Added some more warnings to prevent editing settings on library linked objects.
- Linked objects now read from the cache located next to the original library file, and never write to it. This restores old behavior for softbodies. For local simulation the mesh and not the object should be linked.
- Dupligroups and proxies can't create local point caches at the moment, how to implement that I'm not sure. We probably need a proxy point cache for that to work (ugh).
Physics UI:
- Renamed deflection panel to collision for consistency and reorganized the buttons. Also removed some softbody collision buttons from the softbody panel that were duplicated in this panel for cloth.
- Tweaked field panel buttons to not jump around when changing options.
- Tabbing e.g. Soft Body Collision into the Soft Body panel, it now only shows Collision to make the panel names readable.
- I tried to make enabled/disabling physics more consistent, since all three system did things different. Now the two modifier buttons to enable the modifier for the viewport and rendering are also duplicated in the physics panels. Toggling the Soft Body and Cloth buttons now both remove their modifiers.
- Fixed modifier error drawing glitch.
Particles:
- Particles are now recalculated more often than before. Previously it did partial updates based on the changes, but that doesn't work well with DAG_object_flush_update() ..
- Fixed memory leak loading keyed particle system. Now keys are not written to file anymore but always created after loading.
- Make particle threads work with autothreads.
Continue Physics:
- The timeline play now has a Continue Physics option in the playback menu, which keeps the simulations going without writing them to the cache.
- This doesn't always work that well, some changes are not immediately updated, but this can be improved later. Still it's fun to get a feel for the physics.
Todo:
- Point cache can get out of sync with and undo and changing a file without saving it.
- Change the point cache file format to store a version (so old point cache files can be either converted or at least ignored), and to do correct endian conversion.
- Menu item and/or buttons for Ctrl+B.
- A system("rm ..") was changed to remove() since the former is very slow for clearing point caches. These system() calls were already giving trouble in a bug in the tracker, but really most use of this system("") should be changed and tested.
- The Soft Body Collision and Clot Collision panel titles don't mention there's point cache settings there too, doing that makes them unreadable with the default panel setup.. but may need to make the names longer anyway.
Time-Slide transform tool in the Action Editor now works as well as it did before the Action-Keys transform refactor. However, numeric input is now broken as a side-effect of this.
inherit scale option yet, scale of the bone would slowly change.
Now it's still not 100% accurate, but that's unavoidable, at least
the effect is much reduced.
* initial values I added in radialcontrol.c might need to be reviewed if they cause problems(I used 200, as it seems many tools were setting that)
* #pragma warnings are the only warnings I still get, so that means we have a clean slate again
* With "AfterTrans Delete Duplicates" and NLA-scaling on, IPO-curve handles were not updated after the operation.
* Sliders drew in the wrong places. Now they are drawn using the Action-Editor api stuff, so they should appear in the right places. I've also tweaked this so that sliders are now shown for ANY selected action channel's ipo-channels and constraint-channels, provided that the channel is in view.
Now when moving keyframes in the Action Editor, any existing keyframes on the frames where a selected keyframe lands (after the transform) will be removed. This is to prevent stacks of keyframes which cause blips and headaches for animators (especially stressed animators with a looming deadline).
I've added an option to the Action Editor's View menu to turn this behaviour on/off (by default, it's on). This shouldn't need to be used too much, and may be removed in due course. If it stays, it'll need a better name...
Keyframes are now checked for whether they are visible or not before they are prepared for drawing. This should provide some improvements for large data-sets...
In general there don't appear to be any major issues, although in a few situations, long-keyframes may end up appearing/disappearing.
Snapping Mode: Active
With this mode, the active element (at this time, object or vertice) is used as snapping target. If there is no active element in the selection, it reverts back to median mode.
Edit Mode snapping, other meshes no longer have to be selected to act as snapping point.
Fix a potential bug with snapping point from other meshes.
Snapping for object mode
Changes:
- Transform snap now working in object mode and not just mesh edit mode
- Shift-Tab can be used to toggle snap on/off inside transform too (no more Esc,toggle,restart)
- Object mode snap: Closest uses the bounding box corners of all selected objects, Median uses object center and Center uses transform center (same as edit mode).
- Object mode snap: all visible meshes can be used to get the snapping point (unlike edit mode snap which is limited to selected mesh: this might be adjusted to make edit mode snap use all visible too).
To Do:
- Add "Active" snap target method: use active object (or mesh element) as snap target
- Add snapping capabilities to Scale
- (Maybe) Add "Near pointer" snap target method: use selected element that is closest to mouse pointer as snap target. Active could probably accomplish that already in a less confusing manner, so I might skip this.
This commit restores the "big red button". When Auto-Keying is enabled (record button toggled on), a menu appears beside it to choose which behaviour for auto-keying should be used. This should be more efficient for quickly turning Auto-Keying on/off.
I've also added the relevant version-patches to fix up old files so that sensible default options are in use.
Refactored Auto-Keyframing to make it easier to add more options. There are now three "states" for auto-keying: off, add/replace keys, replace keys.
Description of modes:
1) No auto-keying is done
2) Add new keyframes or replace existing ones if possible (old behaviour)
3) Only modify existing keys, but not insert new ones.
Internally, I've moved the auto-keying settings out of G.flag and U.uiflag and moved them into their own variables in Userdef, and provided some macros to access those easily. As a result, old auto-keying settings are currently lost.
Also, removed the manual calls to insertkey done in pose-relax. The reason auto-keying didn't work before was because the bones didn't have the BONE_TRANSFORM flag applied. Now, these are set temporarily.
Todo(s):
* Make icons for the TimeLine header menu (currently just a text menu)
* Add version-patches for old files
* Double-check code for all places that use auto-keying (i.e. PoseLib)
Related to bug [#7792] ("Around Selection" user preference doesn't work for linked objects), this commit makes Linked objects be considered in Transform.
This has a couple of effects:
Linked objects are used to calculate the center of transformation and such but are skipped during the actual transformation.
Linked objects can be used as orbiting targets (see previously mentionned bug).
The offshot is that selecting a linked object and hitting G doesn't cancel immediately as it did before (this could eventually be worked around, but I don't think it's that much of a problem. Disagreeing people should express themselves).
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- The render and realtime button for the particle system modifier
and the enabled button for particles now work seperate again,
made a bad design decision to tie them together. Now with only
the render button and not realtime enabled it renders.
- Fix for bug #7948: particle mode crash while constraining axis.
- Fix for bug #7945: crash loading effector groups from an old file.
- Fix for bug #7942: crash for reactor particles emitting from particles.
* Added display of current chain-length setting to the header, when transforming with Auto-IK on
* Removed debug print accidentally left in
* Fixed compiler warning in buttons_object.c
-- Peach request (from wiki feature request list) --
When translating a bone using Auto-IK, you can now use the ScrollWheel on the Mouse or the Page Up/Down keys to adjust the chain length.
Notes:
* Up decreases the length, while Down increases it.
* The previously used chain-length is stored per scene
* Currently, it might be too sensitive. Also, it would help to have some kind of indication of the current chain-length somewhere...
* The chain length specified this way determines the MAXIMUM chain length possible for all chains (if 0, then the default chain-length is used). Chains are clamped to have a chain length which does not exceed the default chain length. This restriction may be removed following further feedback...
