[Soc-2011-dev] Weekly progress report 9 - Improving Motion Capture Workflow

[Benjy Cook]

This Week:
- Two new operators for easier retargeting: Auto scale performer, and
a first attempt at auto hiearchy mapping
- UI Work:
    - Added some simple feedback for long processes, currently being
printed to the console.
    - Mocap constraints UI is now closer in "look and feel" to regular
Blender constraints (This feature will be renamed "Retarget Fixes"
shortly).
    - Added tooltips to all operators in the Mocap panels
- Even more bugfixes for retarget, for various types of special cases.
Now works perfectly with the default Rigify rig, Sintel and Mancandy
still WIP.
- Keyframing Motion capture properties now works for the Point
constraint. Also, Floor constraint has been implemented, using
Object's raycasting function in Python.
- Roadmap to completion uploaded to wiki progress page:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Benjycook/GSOC/Progress
- Displacement Mapping / Manual user tweaks: An NLA Track is created
after retarget to support this feature's implementation.
- Refactoring of the 'retarget translation' feature has begun, and is
close to being ready for commit. This is needed for path editing (To
support to set any length of path).

Next Week:
- Rename mocap constraints, and change the distance constraint to
support 2 way functionality.
- Path editing
- Continue work on retargeting complex rigs, such as Sintel and Mancandy.

Issues:
Unfortunately, school work is going to slow my progress down in the
coming week. The above goals reflect this.
All my school work has to be handed in by the end of next week, so
I'll have the following week free to catch up in preparation for the
finishing touches during early-mid August.