Thomas Sarkanen 502797ca50 Animation Curve Runtime & Editor Improvements ...

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]

2023-02-27 07:20:58 -05:00

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