[Bf-committers] Material IPO's and Dupliframes

[Chris Burt]

This isn't a bug, or a feature request, or a functionality issue, its 
more a case of implementation. Currently material IPO's are not 
evaluated per frame for dupliframes when rendered. Simple scenario: 100 
dupliframed cubes with one material assigned. If a material IPO is 
assigned to this cube that changes its color from green to red over 
those 100 frames, shouldn't those 100 cubes display as having 100 
different shades of color? Currently when you render its evaluated as 
though they are real objects each with the same material on every frame, 
but other IPO's (i.e. Loc, Rot, Size) aren't evaluated this way. Again 
this doesn't seem like a bug, it just seems like a piece of the 
implementation is missing. Not sure who would be interested in looking 
at this, but it might be worth doing before release else I'll be forced 
to add it to the bug tracker :P :D

Chris Burt