[Bf-taskforce25] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [19527] branches/blender2.5/blender/source /blender: 2.5: Added basic insert/remove keyframes from UI buttons.

[Joshua Leung]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <brecht at blender.org>wrote:

> Revision: 19527
>
> http://projects.blender.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php?view=rev&root=bf-blender&revision=19527
> Author:   blendix
> Date:     2009-04-04 01:30:32 +0200 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> 2.5: Added basic insert/remove keyframes from UI buttons.
>
> - I key over a button inserts a keyframe.
> - Alt+I removes a keyframe.
> - With right mouse button a menu with these options pops up.
> - Buttons are colored green if the property is animated, yellow
>  if it is on a keyframe. I followed the colors from the UI
>  mockups, but the flicker on keyframes seems too distracting in
>  practice?
>
I guess we'll have to see how this turns out (the flickering) with many
buttons showing this, but currently the 3D-View object name indicator string
also changes colours on keyframes and it's not too bad there, though it's
only a single string. One option that might work (assuming that it is really
distracting), is to not change to showing keyframes (i.e. yellow colours)
when animated playback is running.

- This only works for properties on the ID itself at the moment,
>  path callbacks need to be filled in for all structs but mesh
>  still.
> - It doesn't work when you're over a related label, that needs to
>  be made to work.
> - I made it insert keyframes outside of any keyingset. Not sure
>  how this is supposed to integrate?

The basic idea behind KeyingSets is that they are to be used by to user to
conveniently insert keyframes for a modest to large number of properties.
For example, KeyingSets will be most useful for animators who will generally
want to insert keyframes for loc/rot/scale on a whole set of bones
(dependant or independent of selection), when blocking out motions. There
are a number of other situations as well.

However, I guess it is reasonable that there is a way for casual animators
to be able to insert keyframes on a few frames for a small number of
properties only (i.e. lighting artist just changing energy of lamp). They
will hopefully find that trying to do this for a group of settings at once
will be a pain, at which point they should create a Keying Set for those
properties. So, IMO, both options should be available, as they serve
different niches.

Something we can investigate further, is to be able to add the property
referenced by the currently active button (i.e. via the RMB menu or hotkeys)
to add that property to the active Keying Set (like in the Outliner).


Regards,
Joshua
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