[Bf-committers] Proposal for Animation Actuators in BGE for Blender 2.50

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi Aligorith/Joshua,

> * Why the need for "armature" and "shapekey" modes still? I can
> understand a potential reason for having the shapekey one, but why a
> separate one for bones? Does the GE really need such different
> settings there?

Currently Armature/Shape Key actuators have the options:
 blendin, priority, continue

F-Curve (old IPO) has Child + Force, Add, Local (those 3 only
effective for dynamics objects.

Do you think those settings are possible/compatible for all animation
cases (bones, shapes and actions) ?

It looks to me that parameters such as blendin and priority only make
sense for actions of the same type, but them how to determine that?

I think this is the only reason I see for keeping separate subtypes
for animations.

--
Dalai

2010/6/8 Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Some thoughts about this:
> * +1 for doing away with several different actuators. Having a single
> one is probably enough :)
> * Why the need for "armature" and "shapekey" modes still? I can
> understand a potential reason for having the shapekey one, but why a
> separate one for bones? Does the GE really need such different
> settings there?
> * Action Groups can be used for specific optimisations (i.e. only
> evaluating certain sets of F-Curves). However, remember to make these
> known well, since not everybody will use the default keyingsets and
> the grouping that those impose.
>
> Regards,
> Aligorith
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> Campbell asked me to give some thought on how to adjust the animation
>> actuators for the new animation system in Blender 2.50.
>> I think it's a good opportunity to enhance the current system and I
>> hope this is something Jörg can work in his GSOC project.
>>
>> Therefore this is my humble contribution:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Dfelinto/AnimationActuator2.50
>>
>> I would love to hear feedback on that. (and if the wiki formatting is
>> too bad well I can look at that later).
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dalai
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