This makes the node system somewhat more high-level with the intent of making
working with them far more flexible and stable. By making the architecture more
abstracted, it becomes far less rigid which should allow us to do even more
with it and make it much less crash prone.
Yep, this is another one of my "famous" sweeping rewrites. Expect things to break.
Goals for this are:
- Greatly simplify node connections (particularly with arrays) so the code requires less maintenance/is more stable
- Redesign node structure to address issues where UI would stall for lengthy periods of time
- Less reliance on shared ptrs/greater reliance on QObject system for inheritance/memory management
- General code cleanup and improvements
The macro defined namespaces confused the hell out of lupdate and more or less broke translations permanently. Looks like the only way we can do it is to have a hardcoded namespace, which goes against my instinct, but honestly how likely is it that we'll change the namespace anyway (I guess forks might want to do it, but that's their problem ;) )
* Implements "auto-fit" setting for curve view and sets it on open.
* Improves scroll zooming on all TimelineViewBase derivatives.
* Improves code sharing for better maintenance.
A huge optimization that ensures only the parts of a node graph that have
changed get pushed to the renderer. For thread-safety, the node graph is
copied elsewhere so that users can make changes asynchronously and the graph
can update when its threads are ready. Up until now, if an input value changed,
every node's values would be re-copied, or worse, if a connection was changed,
the entire graph would be recopied. This has been negligible in testing since
we've been largely testing with small graphs, but for massive projects, it's
important that this be as optimized as possible.
Since the node graph can have transform cross nodes, input keyframes may occur
at a different times requiring transforming between sequence time and media
time. This commit implements such a mechanism in all UI classes that need it.
Cuts down on a lot of duplicate code between
TimelineWidget/ViewerWidget/CurveWidget/NodeParamView
and TimelinePanel/ViewerPanel/CurvePanel/ParamPanel since they all use similar
time functions.
When dragging a value in the UI, we use a "single frame update" because we want
to prioritize the currently visible frame to give visual feedback as soon as
possible. Previously, we generated a single frame InvalidateCache() signal
from the widgets themselves, but this had the major downside of not necessarily
emitting the time that the viewer was actually showing (due to either node time
transformations or times differing between the effects panels and the viewer
panels). Now, we send a different signal that viewers can handle themselves to
update the time that they're currently showing. This means the fast updating
will work no matter how many viewers are connected at whatever time each viewer
is set to.
When adjusting a slider, keyframe time, or curve value, it is undesirable to
re-cache the entire affected area while the user is still dragging UI objects.
Since the video is unlikely to be playing, the priority must go to the
currently active frame so the user gets visual feedback on the rendered image
as soon as possible. This was implemented in some areas, but this commit should
have that functionality in all areas.
itsmattkc