Although strictly-speaking, this only applies to a certain type of NLA
Strip (there are 3 types), but since only the classic "Action Clip"
gets much attention, it's probably worth exposing this here too to
make batch editing of strips a bit easier.
1) Added a new operator to swap the order of strips within a track
(Alt-F).
This makes it possible to select two strips (or more precisely, two
islands of consecutive + selected strips) in a single track and change
the order in which the appear without needing a extra tracks to
perform the move through.
As usual, the non-overlapping rules apply, so there may be some cases
where swapping in this way is not possible without adjusting the
intermediate strips first manually. Otherwise, everything just gets
too tricky to manage deciding what adjustments should be done to the
obstructing strips to make a fit.
2) Freeing meta-strips didn't free their local data properly (i.e.
modifiers they may have had).
3) Adding strips to tracks, where the endframes for the strips
overlapped would cause problems with incorrect ordering of strips. I
still need to double-check whether evaluation works ok in this case...
Issues:
- It looks a bit crowded though, so perhaps we could do without, and
just leave it for the TimeLine only?
- Due to the way the invoke() testing works, the rename operator
called from the menu currently fails. Will need to experiment more
with execution options to find a workaround.
This commit restores the ability to reorder channels in the animation editors (DopeSheet/Action/etc., Graph/Drivers, NLA). The hotkeys for this are:
- Shift-PageUp = Move Up
- Shift-PageDown = Move Down
- Ctrl-Shift-PageUp = Move to Top of List
- Ctrl-Shift-PageDown = Move to Bottom of List
Do note that only animation data can get reordered using this.
So, do not expect to be able to change the object order (that is actually taken from the order that Blender actually evaluates them per update/frame).
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In the process, I've fixed a couple of other bugs:
* Removed 'optimisation step' check in anim_filter.c for dopesheet with no filtering options modified, since this meant that the ANIMFILTER_ANIMDATA data filter was not getting processed (and potentially there were other maintenance problems with that).
* Made NLA Editor's channel list not totally duplicate the basic Animation Channels keymap. Instead, the "NLA Channels" keymap now only defines the parts that are different, and this then gets specified before the standard one so that these different parts will override the standard ones.
* Attempted to fix BorderSelect on NLA Channels list. Still not totally working correctly yet though.
* Moved "Euler Discontinuity" menu entry from "Channels" to "Keys". It really belongs in the latter, since it affects the keyframe values, rather than some aspect of the channel (i.e. ordering of channels or how they're displayed)
Running scripts directly didnt call the register function, even though this is not essential its good to be able to run a script directly and see changes in the UI.
- In 2.4x, this setting was the lock button in the headers.
- Now, this option can be found in the View menus of all relevant editors
- Basically, this option toggles whether objects (using animation data that's being edited) get updated during animation editor transforms to give realtime feedback on the effects of tweaks.
- By default, this is enabled, since this fits in nicer with 2.5's everything 'live' paradigm. However, it is recommended to disable this on slower computers or when updates for heavy rigs are causing too much workflow lag
- Also, removed some old crufty settings from action editor data
change how data is added. eg.
bpy.data.add_mesh(name) --> bpy.data.meshes.new(name)
bpy.data.remove_lamp(lamp) --> bpy.data.lamps.remove(lamp)
image and texture stil use add_* funcs
