[Bf-committers] [14385] trunk/blender/source/blender: Changed BLI_convertstringcode to replace any number of hashes with the frame number .

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Stephen Swaney <sswaney at centurytel.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Campbell Barton wrote:
>  > My assumption was that people weren't manually adding #'s in their
>  > filename in the first place, since Blender does this internally.
>  > I would not even say the previous way has bugs, it just isn't supposed
>  > to be exposed to the user, and isnt even documented? (AFAIK)
>  >
>  > So your right - when this is done manually the results are different,
>  > Though I think the way it worked wasn't really that useful.
>  >
>  > Regarding loading a non padded image sequence, it wont work in order,
>  > if the application isnt smart about reading the int in the filename.
>  > but the point of making this change is you can manually set the
>  > padding to be enough for the frame range your using.
>  >
>  > If your making image sequencer from 1-99 it could be good to only have
>  > ## in the filename, but if your making a 2hr movie. you'd want around
>  > ######
>  >
>  > New users wont put # in filenames, and blender will act as it did
>  > before (which screws up over 9999 frames)
>  > if a user wants to render a longer animation - over 5-7min, they are
>  > probably a bit more experienced, can read the tooltip and include
>  > ##### in their filenames so its ordered correctly.
>
>
>  I thought we had discussed simply changing the default field width
>  for naming files.
>
>  If you are going to turn this into a new feature, a proposal or description
>  of how it is supposed to work would be nice.  There are a lot of built-in
>  assumptions here and this part
>
>
>          New users wont put # in filenames, and blender will act as it did
>         before (which screws up over 9999 frames)
>
>  makes it sound like the original problem still exists.
>
>  We also need something for the release notes.


well were stuck between doing what blender used to do and having the
option work differently. making the default 6 rather then 4 chars was
my first choice but that could break existing scripts.

Theeth and Broken suggested the using ####'s in filenames for this and
it seems a good solution to me.