[Bf-committers] Trusted blend files and scripted drivers bug and annoyance

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Sat Aug 10 19:30:06 CEST 2013


Hi,

- If renders are useless it should do this by default?
- the #frame tag shouldn't be using python, and work always.

I'm quite sure more expression shortcuts can kept working...

-Ton-

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On 9 Aug, 2013, at 23:36, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:

> I'm also having problems with students in the simple case of a #frame
> driver in cycles seed. I can never be sure they all have the enable python
> setting on in all the computers they use even if I tell them to enable it,
> this stuff is just never guaranteed in the real world because people forget
> this stuff. Of course renders turn out useless because of fixed noise.
> 
> Daniel Salazar
> patazstudio.com
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Jace Priester <
> jacepriester at threespaceimaging.com> wrote:
> 
>> I expressed a lot of disagreement with the "Trusted" feature when there was
>> talk about implementing it, and I'm here to voice a complaint again now
>> that it has become a problem.
>> 
>> I have created an animation using a scripted expression driver and that
>> driver's value evaluates to zero. I did not notice the "Continue Untrusted"
>> button appear at the top right. I've spent hours trying to figure out why
>> scripted drivers don't work, only to save and reload and then be prompted
>> to "Reload Trusted". This has been a gigantic waste of my time and is
>> precisely the reason I did not want this "trusted" junk in the first place.
>> 
>> I am aware of the command line options to disable it, but I never expected
>> to have to do that. I understand the "Reload Trusted" prompt when opening a
>> file. However, when I create a brand new driver and enter the expression
>> myself it should work immediately. In any case, it damn sure should not
>> show a value of zero without a notice right next to it that it skipped
>> evaluation entirely. As-is, this is very misleading and indicates that the
>> expression did in fact resolve to a value of zero.
>> --
>> 
>> 
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>> Threespace Imaging
>> jacepriester at threespaceimaging.com
>> 559-284-0904
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