View the git history of a project

[Wyn-Price]

The url studio.dumbcode.net/git/Dumb-Code/ProjectNublar-Assets/tyrannosaurus would allow you to see the history for the trex assets in the project nublar repo.

Here you can select an item (model / texture / animation), to see the git history of that item. This can just be a "basic" description, with a button to generate a full description

Basic description examples:

• Model: 5 Cubes added, 1 Cube removed, 8 Cubes changed
• Texture: +12kb (15%)
• Animation: 1 keyframe removed, 3 keyframes changed

The more advance description would then be a visualisation of the change

• Model: A side by side of the old model and the new model.

  • Cubes whose values have changed will be orange in the NEW model
  • Cubes who have been deleted will be red in the OLD model
  • Cubes who have been added will be green in the NEW model

• Texture: A side by side of the old texture and the new texture

  • Maybe a scrubbable bar to view the comparison?
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• Animation: A side by side play-able version of both the animations

You can also compare commits with each-other. There can be a button by each commit to compare, clicking which will split the screen into two columns, with a dropdown at the top of each column to select which commit to compare with. The screen would then show the "advance" changes full screen.

I'll do mockups soon

[Wyn-Price]

So a mockup of the UI:

With no commit selected:

With a models commit selected: Note that the viewports on the right have the same camera. When the user moves the camera in one, the camera in the other one matches.

With an animations commit selected: Note that the viewports on the right have the same camera. When the user moves the camera in one, the camera in the other one matches.

The texture comparing would be exactly the same, and use the following

Note that the compare from and to in the top right can be set to be anything. Selecting a commit will simply set the from to be that commit's parent, and to to be the selected commit.

More types of comparing

For the model + animation comparing, the viewport size would be exactly the same for both of them. Therefore, when the model/animation is rendered, we can literally compare pixels, and notify when pixels have changed. This could potentially be a checkbox at the top right of the split viewer, that would join the two viewers up and render it in "difference mode". (note difference mode should probably be done in grayscale, as there are no textures)