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.
This adds the ability to keyframe more than one value per input (e.g. a vec2,
vec3, etc.) so that you can animate, for example, an X axis separately from a
Y axis.
To allow keyframing of each axis of a vector 2/3/4, without simply separating
the inputs for each axis, the NodeInputs need to support more than one keyframe
track with the ability to merge them into a single value when necessary.
While the keyframes themselves are relatively simple, their usage is quite
complex and using QObjects as their base will help a ton of UI and backend
functionality.
The new rendering pipeline strives to simplify the nodes themselves as much
as possible and move much of the logic to an external rendering engine. This
change removes all of the responsibilities that no longer belong to the
nodes themselves and will soon be folded into the renderer.
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