This is part of the short term roadmap goal of simplifying the
compositor workflow
(see https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/134214).
The problem is that many users don't know how to get started with
compositing in Blender, even when they have used Blender for other
areas, e.g. modeling.
Note: although the solution makes compositor node trees reusable
accross blend files, this is a nice side effect and not the main goal
of the PR.
This PR implements a "New" button that creates a new compositing node
tree, and manages trees as IDs. This has following advantages:
- Consistent with other node editors and other parts of Blender,
therefore making it easier to getting started with compositing if users
are familiar with shading or geometry nodes
- Give users the ability to reuse the compositing node tree by linking
or appending it.
Note: The parameter "Use Nodes" is still present in this PR, but will
be removed (in a backward compatible way) in a follow up PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135223
When creating a new action slot for a data-block, via the '+ New' button
of the slot selector, use the name of the slot that was last used by
that data-block. Previously, it would always use the name of the
data-block, interfering with slot auto-selection when toggling between
Actions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138326
The "new/duplicate" button in the Action Slot selector did not actually
duplicate, and always acted as a "new" button.
This introduces the RNA function `ActionSlot.duplicate()`, which takes
care of duplicating all the animation data associated with the slot as
well. The semantics of this function should remain valid in the
future, when Actions support multiple layers & strips. Note that this
new function does not assign the slot, it just duplicates it and its
data. The assignment of this duplicated slot is done in Python,
through the already-existing API for this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137087
- Wrap the closing parenthesis onto it's own line
which makes assignments to the return value
read better.
- Reduce right-shift with multi-line function calls.
`Action.slots.new()` in the Python API previously took either an ID or nothing
as a parameter. In the former case it would create a slot with the appropriate
`id_root` and name for that ID. In the latter case it would create a default
slot with an unspecified `id_root` and default name.
This had several issues:
1. You couldn't create a slot with a specific `id_root` without already having
an ID of that type. In theory this isn't a problem, but in practice in larger
scripts/addons you don't necessarily have such an ID on hand at the call
site.
2. You couldn't directly create a slot with a desired name without an existing
ID with that name. This isn't so important, since you can always just set the
name afterwards. But it's a bit annoying.
3. Most other `new()` APIs in Blender *require* you to specify the name of the
item being created. So calling this with no parameters was violating that
norm.
4. Ideally, we want to eliminate unspecified `id_root`s, since they cause other
weirdness in the API such as slot identifiers changing upon slot assignment.
To resolve these issues, and just generally to make the API more
straightforward, this PR changes `slots.new()` to take two required parameters:
an ID type and a name. For example:
`slots.new(id_type='CAMERA', name="My Camera Data Slot")`.
This fully specifies everything needed for the slot identifier upon creation,
and doesn't require any outside data items to create a slot with the desired
type and name.
In the future if we decide we still want a `for_id`-style slot creation API, we
can reintroduce it as a separate function.
Ref: #130892
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130970
When doing action baking, the option "Clear Constraints" mentions
it's doing visual keying while not actually using that option.
Just fixing the description, even though a better solution
would be to revisit the design of the options to see if they
even make sense in some configurations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129052
The old text seemed to suggest that an Action Slot can only be created at
the moment of assigning the Action to something. That is not the case.
The operator just works on the assigned Action, and if none is assigned,
there is nothing it can do.
BaseException was used as a catch-all in situations where it
didn't make sense and where "Exception" is more appropriate
based on Python's documentation & error checking tools,
`pylint` warns `broad-exception-caught` for e.g.
BaseException includes SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt & GeneratorExit,
so unless the intention is to catch calls to `sys.exit(..)`,
breaking a out of a loop using Ctrl-C or generator-exit,
then it shouldn't be used.
Even then, it's preferable to catch those exceptions explicitly.
For an NLA strip to use a slotted Action, it needs to specify which slot
to use in that action. This is now handled by two new properties on the
strip in DNA & RNA: `action_slot_handle` and `action_slot_name`.
These serve the same purpose as their counterparts on the `AnimData`
struct.
Note that this commit does NOT add NLA evaluation support for slotted
Actions. It merely allows assigning them. Evaluation, tweak mode
support, etc. will be implemented in future commits.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127359
Add two new operators, `anim.slot_new_for_id` and
`anim.slot_unassign_from_id`. These are used in the Action editor and
the Animation panels in the Properties editor, to respectively create a
new Action Slot for an ID and to unassign whatever slot is currently
assigned to that ID.
The latter operator also replaces the C++ operator
`anim.slot_unassign_object`, which was specifically made for the
Dopesheet header. The Python ones are generic enough to be used there
too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126943
When passing strings to str.format(..) use `{:s}` format specifier
which only takes strings and wont run `.__str__()` on non-strings.
While `{!s}` is an equivalent to `%s`, for the most part `%s` was
used for strings, so using `{:s}` is clearer and more specific.
Part of modernizing scripts in Blender, where the previous convention
was to use percentage formatting which has become the "old" way to
format strings in Python.
See proposal for details #120453.
Ref !120552
Caused by 30b0c5b225
That commit removed `use_insertkey_xyz_to_rgb` but
I didn't see the use of that in the python script.
Fixed by removing the usage of that property from the python script as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120509
Don't assume armature of active object is what is displayed in the properties editor, both in C++ and Python code.
Object pointer was left out from some notifiers, as this means only that object was changed. But an armature datablock can be shared by multiple objects.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119663
The last good commit was f57e4c5b98c075f3dfc61faebbcb43c99a778956.
After this one more fix was committed, this one is preserved as well:
67bd678887d7f8aec9f3b23bbf1aaf29f80d0da4.
Use `context.pose_object` when baking a pose, on on top of the objects
in `context.selected_editable_objects`. When in pose mode, it's expected
that the pose of the active will be baked, regardless of whether the
pose object is selected itself.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119317
Add an operator to remove all unused bone collections. This is added to
the bone collections "specials" menu and the tree view context menu.
A bone collection is considered "unused" when it has no bones assigned,
and also no child collection that has bones assigned.
The previous commit introduced a new `RPT_()` macro to translate
strings which are not tooltips or regular interface elements, but
longer reports or statuses.
This commit uses the new macro to translate many strings all over the
UI.
Most of it is a simple replace from `TIP_()` or `IFACE_()` to
`RPT_()`, but there are some additional changes:
- A few translations inside `BKE_report()` are removed altogether
because they are already handled by the translation system.
- Messages inside `UI_but_disable()` are no longer translated
manually, but they are handled by a new regex in the translation
system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Fix the 'Show All' bone collection operator, by making it operate on all
collections instead of just the roots. It also now ensures that all
ancestors of the solo'ed collection are shown (otherwise it's the only
visible one, but given that its parent is hidden, it's still not
visible).
This also fixes a related issue, where calling the operator without
passing the `name` parameter would do nothing. Now it soloes the active
bone collection.
Add custom properties to Action Bake.
objects will bake all animatable custom properties. Armatures will bake all bone custom properties,
as well as object (armature) custom properties.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113208
Extract:
- Compositor error messages.
- `bUnitDef`s were broken after cleanup commit 2b77cd726d. Since each
unit's "display name" is now preceded by a consistent "name_display"
comment, the regex which extracts the unit is greatly simplified.
It now relies on the presence of the comment instead of the struct
order.
- "Preset" menu and "Apply Preset" button from the curveprofile
template.
- Operator labels from the catalog context menu.
Disambiguate:
- "Bake Data": can mean "Which data to bake" (verb), or "The data that
were baked" (noun).
- "Cache" in the Simulation Nodes panel is a verb, not a noun.
- "Mix" in the snapping menu is a noun, not a verb.
- "Top" and "Bottom" can mean the upper part of an object or the
highest point or element of something like a menu or list.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115963
- "Frame Step" -> "Number of frames to skip forward while baking each
frame": expand description which was just copying the prop name.
- "b-bone" -> "B-Bone": title case.
- "Volumes Lighting" -> "Volume Lighting": typo.
- "Volumes Shadows" -> "Volume Shadows": typo.
- "Insert Blank Keyframe (All Layer)" -> "(All Layers)": typo.
- "the an" -> "an", typo.
- "Inverse" -> "Invert": use verb instead of noun for an action.
- "Desination" -> "Destination": typo.
- "Hides all other F-Curves other than the ones being framed": remove
extra "other".
- "Remove Bone from Bone collections" -> "Collection", singular because
the operator is only applied to the active collection. Also title
case on "Collection".
- "Change Stroke material with selected material" -> "Assign the
active material slot to the selected strokes": rephrase by reusing
the message from the non-Grease Pencil materials.
- "VisAction", "VisArea" -> "Visibility Action", "Visibility Area":
expand abbreviation. This is not exposed in the UI right now but
will show up in the API docs.
- "Stop Mode Right / Global Down" -> "Stop Move" (typo).
- "... for node input %s": remove extra space.
- "Move along their normal" -> "Move shadows along their normal":
rephrase unclear sentence.
- "Stat Vis" -> "Mesh Analysis": stands for "Statistical
visualization"? Unclear and not shown anywhere. Reuse the label
specified in the UI code instead.
- " Output data...": remove leading space.
- "Attribute domain for the selection and group id inputs": title case
on "Selection" and "Group ID" as that is how they appear in the UI.
- "Ior" -> "IOR": uppercase acronym, for consistency.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115964
