[Bf-taskforce25] RNA-IPO

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Roland,

> Also -- with the Action DNA wrapped, what you like me to look at next?
> Timeline RNA? Start porting Action Editor tools to operators?

In case Joshua has no immediate todos for you, there's fun goodies in 
the armature directory to wrap to operators. Mostly it's the tools for 
editmode and posing.

I can help with this too, we can talk in irc a bit on which ones are 
best to try first. Also an armature_ops.c has to be created for this...

Today I'm away, but during the weekend I'm available for help.

-Ton-

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On 13 Jan, 2009, at 18:11, Roland Hess wrote:

> Joshua -- I really like this structure you have worked out.
>
> A couple of things that immediately come to mind:
>
> - It would have to be transparent for the casual and existing user. The
> implementation would have to allow them to keep working like they have
> been from a work flow perspective, and add power when they want to dig
> deeper. For people already doing advanced animation work, no one's 
> going
> to complain if the paradigm shifts enough to really smooth things out
> and grant some power.
>
> - As for the f-curve modifiers -- that's a great opportunity. They 
> don't
> just need to be procedural. Picture being able to add another curve 
> with
> only, say five points, as a modifier to a set of mo-capped curves. Pull
> around those five bezier points and have it pull around/affect the "hi
> res" mo-cap curves. That's some serious power. In reality, a curve is
> just a user-defined function of x->y mappings, so it is a still a
> "procedure." The point is that something like this shouldn't be
> constrained -- make it open and artists will take it places you've not
> even considered.
>
> - I really like the idea of each ID-block having it's own link to the
> bAnimData block. This sort of thing could be used for speedups where
> pose caching is missing. The armature portion of a linked group does 
> not
> cache it's pose (not a proxied one -- I'm talking about targeting the
> Action to the proper subobject in NLA), and neither does the onion
> skinning with armatures. With a system like this, you make sure that
> along with that animation link for each ID block you also have the
> proper structure (probably in RNA) to cache things like posing.
>
> Roland
>
> Also -- with the Action DNA wrapped, what you like me to look at next?
> Timeline RNA? Start porting Action Editor tools to operators?
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