Animation Studio Improvements

[Deweh]

Suggested Animation Studio Improvements:

• [ ] Separate keyframes for translation and rotation
• [ ] "Set keyframe" keybind so I can place keyframes for the base pose or for some curve edits during the animation without actually modifying the bones
• [ ] Keybind to enable/disable camera panning through mouse (like wheel click in 3ds max/blender)
• [ ] Keybind to enable/disable the cursor menu so I can rotate the camera with mouse
• [ ] Show the name of selected bone

[jarari]

Bug fixes

• [ ] Deleting all keyframes on the bone allows it to follow the animation

Suggestions

• [ ] Unlink IK bones from pelvis
• [ ] Make IK bend the connected bones (which is usually the default behavior of IKs in animating software)

[Deweh]

@jarari

• [ ] Unlink IK bones from pelvis

This can be done by changing the effectorParentNode in NAF_graphInfo.xml

• [ ] Deleting all keyframes on the bone allows it to follow the animation

This is intentional. NAF's animation system passes through vanilla animation data if the active NAF animation has no data for the corresponding bone, which allows for partial animations.

• [ ] Make IK bend the connected bones (which is usually the default behavior of IKs in animating software)

I'm guessing you mean roll, as the bones do bend to point at each other. The IK solver properly applies roll when set to continuous mode (preserves the result of the last IK solve and solves based off of that), but when using continuous mode the skeleton can easily twist around into obviously wrong orientations if moved around in certain ways.

The solution I came up with for this was deterministic mode, which solves based off of the animated position & rotation each time. The downside of course is that the task of setting bones to the correct roll is then up to the animator, but I figured that's better than having the skeleton randomly twist into the wrong orientation.

Also with continuous mode, the IK result ends up slightly different each time depending on the movements that came before, which messes with animation baking. All-in-all, continuous mode gives a better result, but is much less stable. I can add an option to toggle continuous mode on though.

Note: This is using an implementation of the FABRIK solver. It may be possible to get a stable roll solve with an analytical two-bone IK solver, but I've already spent upwards of 3 weeks straight working on the IK system, so I'm not too eager to delve back into that :P