[Bf-taskforce25] RNA-IPO

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

>> * for a modifier property - ob.modifiers["Subsurf"].render_levels
>> * for a bone - ob.pose.bones["hand.R"].loc

I would address all pose bones via the ID action...

ob.action[name?].channels["hand.R].loc

or directly

action.channels["hand.R].loc


-Ton-

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On 5 Jan, 2009, at 12:35, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Joshua Leung wrote:
>> What is unclear though, is what we should do with things like bones,
>> modifiers, and constraints.
>> If we just used them in a straightforward way, as with the previous
>> examples:
>> * for a modifier property - ob.modifiers["Subsurf"].render_levels
>> * for a bone - ob.pose.bones["hand.R"].loc
>>
>> However, the problem with this is that it's entirely possible to end 
>> up
>> mixing settings from objects, bones and constraints in the same
>> IPO-block. Thus, actions are effectively made quite redundant in such 
>> a
>> scenario, and you end up loosing benefits such as action-channel
>> grouping, unless some context wizardry is employed...
>
> It does bring up this problem yes, what is the distinction between an
> Action and an IPO-block? Is it even useful to make a distinction?
> Maybe we don't need one, and an IPO block is just an Action that is
> owned by the ID block, and IPO blocks are redundant.
>
> Brecht.
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