[Bf-taskforce25] data api proposal

[Joshua Leung]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:37 PM, lorenzo pierfederici <
lpierfederici at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> mmh, maybe a bit off-topic...
>
> but it would be great if we could have, in this "animation container",
> the ability to "animate" a property by connecting it to another
> property, so that when the source changes the destination gets
> updated.


This is the whole idea behind separating drivers from normal animation data.
Thus, drivers become attached to the properties or so, instead of existing
in animation containers.


> This could have its own node editor view with nodes sockets
> auto-generated from properties, where we could manipulate connections
> and use operators like offset, clamp, sum, and all the way up to
> constraints and custom python expressions.
>
> I think something like make_connection(), break_connection() could fit
> the Data API scope... but I guess it depends on how the animation
> system will relate to it.
>
> lorenzo
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