Runtime notes:
- Removes 'smart name' usage across the animation systems.
- Changed curve blending from a uniform array (sized per skeleton) to a sparse array of sorted named values. Blends and other combiners are performed using a dual iteration 'tape merge'.
- Skeleton curves are no longer guaranteed to cover all curve names that can be found at runtime.
Editor notes:
- Curve metadata (flags, bone links etc.) is still present on the skeleton, but can also now exist on a skeletal mesh
- Curve metadata (for morph targets) is still populated on import
- Curves can now be used arbitrarily at runtime
New features:
- New Find/Replace dialog that allows for batch-replacing curves and notifies across all of a project's assets
- New curve debugger tab in various Persona editors that allows for viewing curve values live. This also now allows viewing curves for specific pose watches.
- Pose watches now output curve tracks to the Rewind Debugger
#rb Jurre.deBaare,Nicholas.Frechette,Sara.Schvartzman,Helge.Mathee,Kiaran.Ritchie,Jaime.Cifuentes,Martin.Wilson,Keith.Yerex,Andrean.Franc (and more!)
#jira UE-167776
#jira UE-173716
#jira UE-110407
#preflight 63fc98c81206d91a2bc3ab90
#preflight 63f3ad4f81646f1f24c240c2
[CL 24421496 by Thomas Sarkanen in ue5-main branch]
- Added new compression and 'compiling' API/path
* Relies on newer DDC API
* Only fetches compressible data when data is not found in DDC
* Fetching data happens off the GT now (including Additive animation)
- Deprecated and replace AnimSequence API around compression
** AnimStreamable still relies on old, synchronous, compression path **
IAnimationDataModel
- Removed bone track data being stored as FBoneAnimationTrack
- Bone animation can now only be referenced by Name (not track index anymore)
- Deprecated any API relying on FBoneAnimationTrack
- Added API to retrieve FTransform(s) for given frame(s) with provided bone name
- Added API to lock model against modifications during evaluation (required for non-racing off-GT evaluation)
Animation Sequence
- Frame-rate is now stored on a per-platform basis, allowing for future replacement of frame-stripping (editing property is disabled for now)
- Now allows for storing _transient_ per-platform compressed animation data (required for multi-platform cook)
PerPlatformProperties
- Added per-platform FFrameRate implementation
#preflight 63999f102540a78d2778adb7
#rb Thomas.Sarkanen, Nicholas.Frechette, Devin.Doucette
#fyi Zousar.Shaker
[CL 23510521 by Jurre deBaare in ue5-main branch]
Tested compiling fortnite, unrealeditor, lyra, qagame with non-unity/pch
#preflight 63635997876630122adeab9f
#rb none
[CL 22958990 by henrik karlsson in ue5-main branch]
Skeleton compatibility is now bi-directional. Specifying a compatible skeleton A -> B now implies B -> A.
Skeleton compatibility is now an editor-only concern. The runtime will attempt to do the 'best it can' via name -> name mappings. Only the editor will prevent assigning incompatible skeletons in (e.g.) asset pickers etc.
Skeleton compatibility checks in editor can now be disabled in the editor preferences (and each asset picker now has a checkbox option in its view settings that allows for quick access to this).
Moves FSkeletonRemapping to its own file (which is now private).
Skeleton remappings are now generated on demand on worker threads just before animation decompression and stored in a registry, guarded by FRWScopeLock for thread-safety.
Fixed some anim BP compiler edge cases where asset references on pins were not getting preloaded correctly, causing skeletons to be erroneously reported as missing.
Exposed the current asset registry filter in SAssetView so that menu extensions can access it (and use it to provide context)
#jira UE-166054
#jira UE-167355
#rb Jurre.deBaare,John.vanderBerg
#preflight 635902602e6690262afa86f9
[CL 22878911 by Thomas Sarkanen in ue5-main branch]
- Skeletal mesh is now import using the skeletalmesh compile system to make sure all properties are locked and will stall another thread trying to access them.
---- This fix multiple crash if a viewer display the skeletal mesh and use some properties.
- Remove animation pipeline ensure(no skeleton) if we import with force static mesh and there is some translated animation node
- Fix crash when importing static mesh and the get mesh payload return an empty mesh description
- Reimport of skeletalmesh is not calling anymore postedit change if we reimport with interchange, interchange will call it in a post edit step.
---- This fix multiple crash if a viewer display the bones of the re-import skeletal mesh.
General:
- Reimport handler now have a reimport async version so the caller can control if a reimport is done asynchronously or synchronously
#jira UE-166986
#rb danny.couture , jeanluc.corenthin
#rnx
#lockdown jeanmichel.dignard
#preflight 634f61fdec03b54e9cdfe0bf
[CL 22634973 by alexis matte in ue5-main branch]
* Tab filters are now applied before tab widgets before are created for animation blueprint editor instead of only when a user tries opening a new tab. This prevents disallowed tabs in default layouts being created.
* Event graph documents are not opened if event graph permissions are disabled when loading blueprint editor.
* Added new blueprint permission to optionally disable function overrides.
#rb thomas.sarkanen
#preflight 6346928ef04e6f8505f7b879
[CL 22547860 by eric knapik in ue5-main branch]
* A transaction is now made from when the slider begins moving to when the value is committed.
#jira UE-137121
#rb thomas.sarkanen
#preflight 633708e1d165c45137089a35
[CL 22279187 by lucas dower in ue5-main branch]
Correctly apply context to tool menu
#jira UE-164429
#rb Jurre.deBaare
#preflight 63319338665f6b8f7fe54c45
[CL 22188382 by thomas sarkanen in ue5-main branch]
* No longer have to explicitly press Enter to commit to the name change.
#jira UE-158072
#rb thomas.sarkanen
#preflight 6329b9cd9840225da2638c0d
[CL 22094263 by lucas dower in ue5-main branch]
* Fix for Persona mesh sections showing as selectable when not.
* Fix for editor viewport cursor style not updating if using orbit camera mode.
#jira UE-157811
#rb thomas.sarkanen
#preflight 63246538ea1c94f4c5b3dfc7
[CL 22052213 by lucas dower in ue5-main branch]
This change also added a delegate to FPersonaToolkitArgs with reference to a IDetailBuilderLayout so assets can customize the Preview Scene Settings.
#JIRA https://jira.it.epicgames.com/browse/UE-148894
#rb halfdan.ingvarsson
#preflight
#preflight 631b7a00967ffc68fb262e06
[CL 21924418 by kiaran ritchie in ue5-main branch]
