[Bf-taskforce25] Wrapping pose channel vs. bone flags and other stuff

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Some settings (like matrix and head/tail) can become read-only?

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 16 Jan, 2009, at 1:06, Joshua Leung wrote:

> Hi Roland,
>
> I was just having a look through the RNA wrapping for PoseChannels, 
> and it looks like you've left out the most important bits, and exposed 
> stuff you shouldn't have.
>
> Important things missing
>  * loc/rot(quat)/scale settings have not been exposed yet. These are 
> the user-editable transform settings used to pose armatures. The new 
> animation system will definitely need this...
> * bone group setting - I'll probably fix this myself...
>
> Incorrectly exposed things
> * 'protected' setting - this is really the transform locks stuff PER 
> CHANNEL (locx/locy/loc/rotx/roty/rotz/scalex/scaley/scalez) instead of 
> a single boolean. Check how this is done for objects, since it uses 
> the same flags.
>  * pose head/tail location - these are set internally and shouldn't be 
> editable by the user. Personally, I'd prefer if they were not exposed 
> at all, but that is debatable. Same goes for the matrices...
>
> Weird things
>  * 'parent' entry seems to be duplicated here for some reason... 
> Perhaps it's just an old build I'm running.
>
> Regards,
> Joshua
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Roland Hess <me at harkyman.com> wrote:
>> Joshua -- saw your note in the armature/bone rna about whether to wrap
>>  the bone or pose channel version of that data. My vote would be to 
>> keep
>>  it in bone, and for the most part leave pose channel unwrapped.
>>  Re-looking at the two, there isn't as much overlap as I remember.
>>
>>  I'd suggest: wrap for read-write (when appropriate) in Bone, and also
>>  wrap in Pose channel but read only, and a note in the doc string that
>>  it's a bone-level flag.
>>
>>  Roland
>>  harkyman
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