[Bf-committers] Material IPO's and Dupliframes

[joeedh]

Chris Burt wrote:

> 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

This especially is bad for particles, and prevents making 
halo-replacement objects since the IPO isn't applied relative to the 
particle start time.

joeedh