F-Curves tagged as "disabled" now have their channels drawn with a red line underlining their names.
"Disabled" F-Curves are skipped for evaluation, and typically result (for example) from assigning an action from one armature to another, but the new armature does not have some of the bones the action's F-Curves need in order for the datapaths (referring to the property the F-Curves affect) to be resolved. This is to prevent heaps of invalid channels slowing down animation playback.
I've also added a new operator, found by:
Channels -> Revive Disabled F-Curves
in the Graph Editor and DopeSheet/Action Editors, which will clear all the disabled tags for all the F-Curves in the animation editor at the time (based on the filtering criteria).
Use this operator to clear the disabled tags, allowing such channels to be able to be evaluated again (perhaps after adding the offending bones for example, or when using the action on the original armature again).
This commit restores the ability to reorder channels in the animation editors (DopeSheet/Action/etc., Graph/Drivers, NLA). The hotkeys for this are:
- Shift-PageUp = Move Up
- Shift-PageDown = Move Down
- Ctrl-Shift-PageUp = Move to Top of List
- Ctrl-Shift-PageDown = Move to Bottom of List
Do note that only animation data can get reordered using this.
So, do not expect to be able to change the object order (that is actually taken from the order that Blender actually evaluates them per update/frame).
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In the process, I've fixed a couple of other bugs:
* Removed 'optimisation step' check in anim_filter.c for dopesheet with no filtering options modified, since this meant that the ANIMFILTER_ANIMDATA data filter was not getting processed (and potentially there were other maintenance problems with that).
* Made NLA Editor's channel list not totally duplicate the basic Animation Channels keymap. Instead, the "NLA Channels" keymap now only defines the parts that are different, and this then gets specified before the standard one so that these different parts will override the standard ones.
* Attempted to fix BorderSelect on NLA Channels list. Still not totally working correctly yet though.
* Moved "Euler Discontinuity" menu entry from "Channels" to "Keys". It really belongs in the latter, since it affects the keyframe values, rather than some aspect of the channel (i.e. ordering of channels or how they're displayed)
Early when implementing the Graph Editor in 2.5, a key complaint that was levelled at the old 'IPO Editor' was that it was a constant annoyance that adjacent handles were getting selected in addition to the keyframes, when only the keyframes were intended. I solved this by making this default to only selecting keyframes and ignoring the handles, but this means that it isn't possible to batch move several handles at once.
I've now improved this situation by adding an option to the border select operator (involved using Ctrl-B instead of B) which makes the handles get treated separately (as if they were separate verts, as in 2.4x). The default is still to only select keyframes, to have consistency with the DopeSheet...
Also performed some more renaming work in the code...
Running scripts directly didnt call the register function, even though this is not essential its good to be able to run a script directly and see changes in the UI.
This commit adds a few more execution contexts for operators, given the increasing tendency for some special regiontypes to exist within areas that must have their own set of special operators.
Examples of these include the "channel" operators in the Animation Editors (i.e. those in the 'Channels' menu), and the "Fit to Preview Window" operator for the Sequencer.
Previously, operators such as these would not function when clicked on from the menus, and they would not show the hotkeys they were mapped to.
Also, fixed a few operator definitions in the Animation Editors which were missing ot->prop defines. This meant that some hotkeys (mainly selection) were shown incorrectly in the menus.
This commit introduces the Select More/Less Operators (Ctrl +/-) for keyframes. This works like the ones for curves, by only selecting/deselecting keyframes lying in the same F-Curve. Inter F-Curve selection is not done by this operator. That is the job for another one.
This is especially useful for F-Curves set in the 0-1-0 pattern (i.e. 3 keyframes forming localised peaks), where the peaks can be selected by clicking on them individually, and immediately surrounding '0' values are selected too using "Select More".
- In 2.4x, this setting was the lock button in the headers.
- Now, this option can be found in the View menus of all relevant editors
- Basically, this option toggles whether objects (using animation data that's being edited) get updated during animation editor transforms to give realtime feedback on the effects of tweaks.
- By default, this is enabled, since this fits in nicer with 2.5's everything 'live' paradigm. However, it is recommended to disable this on slower computers or when updates for heavy rigs are causing too much workflow lag
- Also, removed some old crufty settings from action editor data
Brecht, I added a Layout template function, template_dopesheet_filter -> uiTemplateDopeSheetFilter, this creates the group of buttons for filtering ID type (and some other options) for animation editors (Graph, NLA and Dopesheet). I hope this is all right, if not, we can move this maybe to a .py file as a function for reuse.
