Nathan Vegdahl nathanvegdahl
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • https://cessen.com
  • Animator, rigger, and software developer. Currently working at the Blender Institute as a developer on Blender's animation system.

    Been using Blender since 1998, and worked on Big Buck Bunny and Sintel (two of Blender's open movie projects).

  • Joined on 2003-03-21
Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at nathanvegdahl/.profile 2024-11-11 11:47:49 +01:00
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Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at nathanvegdahl/.profile 2024-11-11 11:47:22 +01:00
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Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-11 11:40:32 +01:00
Update Action documentation

The PR is now "ready to land" from my perspective. @dr.sybren I've left a few of your comments open because they either need more discussion or I want to double-check that I've addressed them to…

Nathan Vegdahl pushed to slotted_actions at nathanvegdahl/blender-manual 2024-11-11 11:35:44 +01:00
94ad131f12 Spell out the action re-use heuristics in more detail
Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-11 10:58:30 +01:00
Update Action documentation

Re: explaining the related data-blocks: after sleeping on it over the weekend, I think I've come around to explaining this in a bit more detail, and then we can get rid of the TODO to link it. …

Nathan Vegdahl pushed to slotted_actions at nathanvegdahl/blender-manual 2024-11-11 10:54:35 +01:00
8687e22277 Hard wrap text
Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at nathanvegdahl/.profile 2024-11-11 09:57:12 +01:00
48434cd64c Update reports/2024.md
Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 17:14:24 +01:00
Update Action documentation

Added a glossary entry for "Action" and made it link back here.

Nathan Vegdahl pushed to slotted_actions at nathanvegdahl/blender-manual 2024-11-08 17:13:31 +01:00
b9dbeff1c1 Address more review comments
3457e17348 Address some review comments
2370d9309a Add links to other parts of the documentation
0c6f945265 Add diagrams of slotted action
1156f55fe0 More work on the action docs
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Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 16:46:11 +01:00
Update Action documentation

This is a bit ambiguous, as it can be read as (name) + (associated type within its action).

Ah! Good catch. I think it can be fixed by just rearranging the clauses: "Within an action, a…

Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 16:41:04 +01:00
Update Action documentation

I don't see it being in constant flux, and thus IMO it would be fine to just explain how it works.

I agree it's unlikely to change much, if at all. The reason I left it out of scope is…

Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 16:14:53 +01:00
Update Action documentation

I'm unclear on what you want here: should I change this or leave it as-is? I was aware I was lying here (😆), but I felt like it was a "good" lie for the reasons you outlined.

Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 15:55:43 +01:00
Update Action documentation

Good point about the wrapping. I'll do that after I've addressed the rest of your comments.

Re: keeping Action capitalized, I agree and actually initially wrote it that way. I changed it to…

Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 15:43:27 +01:00
Update Action documentation

That's what I was intending to get across, but clearly failed, ha ha. I'll try rephrasing to make that clearer, without getting too verbose.

Nathan Vegdahl commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104974 2024-11-08 15:32:01 +01:00
Update Action documentation

That's true, but I wasn't meaning to be exhaustive here, but rather give one place that this is visible to help illustrate the concept. I'll try rephrasing to make that clearer.

Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at blender/blender-manual 2024-11-08 12:33:40 +01:00
71a3550137 Glossary: add data-block to the list of terms
Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at nathanvegdahl/blender-manual 2024-11-08 12:31:35 +01:00
71a3550137 Glossary: add data-block to the list of terms
c2fa1d9b87 Merge branch 'blender-v4.3-release'
c72ac59208 Fix: Repair menu selction for marge by distance
f5cce63ea7 Modeling: Improve description of Poly Build tool, fix incorrect shortcut
1e0dfa294c Modeling: Fixes/updates for "Shrink/Fatten" and "Push/Pull" tools
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Nathan Vegdahl pushed to slotted_actions at nathanvegdahl/blender-manual 2024-11-08 11:46:56 +01:00
6e09a2fef7 Add diagrams of slotted action
Nathan Vegdahl pushed to main at nathanvegdahl/.profile 2024-11-08 11:31:11 +01:00
54c3b65aec Update reports/2024.md
Nathan Vegdahl approved blender/blender#129980 2024-11-08 11:30:03 +01:00
Refactor: move keyingsets to animrig

Code looks good (just some stylistic preference notes that you can ignore if you disagree), and it does appear to leave the functionality as-is based on some quick testing.