[Bf-committers] Proposal to store Initial value in Custom ID Properties

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:27 PM,  <malefico at licuadorastudio.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Custom ID Properties (I think that's the right name)
> assigned to certain bones with my rigs which works really nice in pose
> mode.
>
> During animation I found however that it slows me down because I cannot
> "reset" all those sliders as quick as I do ALT+S/R/G but instead I have to
> select each bone that has properties, and set those sliders to it's
> default value.
>
> So I thought I could write an operator to reset all those for me and speed
> my workflow up a bit.
>
> However when investigating how to do this (return all properties to their
> INITIAL value) I figured out this information is not stored. The structure
> has MIN, MAX, SOFT_MIN, SOFT_MAX, and TIP, but nothing abut the initial
> value the property had.
>
> You might think that this is silly, all I should do is set them to 0.0,
> however, not all properties have that as initial value, think of Chain
> Length in an IK Solver, or Subdivision level to give a couple examples.
>
> I could use my own python defined custom properties (storing the initial
> value and then create an operator to clear that out everytime I need), but
> it's definitely convenient to use the GUI for this purpose saving the need
> of run any script prior to use a rig.
>
> So I humbly propose adding a field in the structure of Custom ID
> Properties, so the initial value could be store for future reference.
>
> I appreciate any feedback on this :)
>
> Best regards
>
> malefico.

Agree this would be useful, I need to update the custom property UI
with type selector for float/string/bool... etc so I'll add default
value while I'm at it.

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- Campbell