V1.7.10: Imports and exports improvements

Warning:
This version of the add-on is NOT COMPATIBLE with Blender 3.1 and higher (because of issues with Python 3.10)

1.7.10 (2022-03-03)

Fixed:

• Popup property panels appearing for several operators
• Shots Play Mode was wrong in Blender 3.x

1.7.08 (2022-03-04)

Rendering:

• Fixed rendering in Playblast mode

UI:

• "Render Shot Prefix" parameter was renamed Render Sequence Prefix

Code:

• Cleaned the debug folder to make it a well-integrated package
• render_sequence_prefix renamed to render_sequence_prefix

1.7.1 (2022-02-11)

Fixed:

• Image output were left in the rendering folder

Edit Files and OpenTimelineIO:

• Fixed several bugs in Edit List File import and export
• Improved the Import dialog window
• Imported edit framerate and resolution can now be used to update the scene
• Added a global and project value to control the index of the first frame in the output file names
• Added a global and project value to control the number of digits in the output file names

Rendering:

• Added the ability to render image sequences for shots instead or in addition to the videos
• Added a checkbox in the render panel to choose to keep the intermediate rendered images
• Added a Reset Render Properties button

Grease Pencil:

• Fixed bug when painting on hidden objects

UI:

• Added button to take range
• Added information for output render
• Added the main panel items menu in the Render Panel

Code:

• Code cleaning to match Flake8 rules
• Refactor code for output media
  ***Warning: temp directory names have changed ***

Debug

• Added debug function to fix entities parent in old blender files

v1.6.9: Brand new version for Blender 3.0!

1.6.9 (2021-12-04)

UX

• Improved performances during animation play
• Fixed crashes on undo and redo with the overlay tools
• Improved warning messages
• Exposed a render param to preserve rendered images
• Added a button to convert camera binding to shots

Fixes

• Fixed Make All Cameras Unique script

Preferences and user settings

• Can show or hide overlay tools

Overlay tools

• Added controls for the Interactive Shots Stack in a toolbar in the Timeline editor

• Exposed preferences to display disabled shots in the timeline and shots stack

• Exposed a Compact mode for the shots stack in the settings

• Refactored code for the handlers

• Improved the look and feel of the Interactive Shots Stack

• Improved the look and feel of the Sequence Timeline

UI

• Rewampped all the Settings panels

• Added a viewport target to specify which view will receive the camera and sequence timeline

• Added a nodesheet target to specify which timeline or node sheet editor will receive the interactive
  shots stack

• Added a button to toggle the scene sound

• Fixed the Frame Time Range button in the Timeline

• improved behaviors when clicking on Set Current shot with modifier keys

Add-on preferences

• Added a Frame Shot in Timeline option to change the timeline zoom when a shot is selected
• Added a render parameter in the Render Prefs panel to allow the generated files to be kept on disk

Documentation

• Updated online documentation

Dev

• Import OpentimelineIO 0.14 from pip
• Refactored Logger integration

1.5.77 (2021-11-05)

Tools

• Removed Camera tools (Create Camera From Viewport and Move Selected Camera to Viewport)
  and introduced a button in the Shots section instead
• Made the number of occurrences of each camera appear in red when the camera is used
  by several shots

UI

• Introduced some new icons (Overlay Tools, Retimer, Camera to Viewport...)
• Changed some custom icons, moved some buttons, improved responsive design
• Exposed key mapping for:
  • Shots Play Mode: Alt + Space
  • Toggle Overlay Tools: Not defined

1.5.75 (2021-11-05)

• Improved warnings display
• Add a button tp convert camera bound markers to shots
• Fixed bugs in the Best Play Performance mode
• Fixed a bug in the play of the sequence timeline

1.5.74 (2021-11-04)

Due to heavy framerate drops when playing the animation with the timelines visible
this version received a deep refactor on the opengl tools:

• Code refactor and cleaning of the opengl features, leading to a new tools category
  named Overlay Tools with the followings features:

  • the Sequence Timeline in the 3D viewport
  • the Cameras HUD in the 3D viewport
  • the Interactive Shots Stack in the Timeline editor
  • the start of an opengl graphics components library in utils_ogl.py

• Added a Best Play Performance toggle button near the Display Overlay Tools
  to prevent these tools to be drawn at play time in order to increase performances

• Added settings to control which overlay tools should be disabled at play time

v1.5.73: # 1.5.73 (2021-09-19)

1.5.73 (2021-09-19)

• Integrated OpenTimelineIO for Blender 2.93 and higher (Windows only)
• Small integration fixes

Features

Added 2 new tools for cameras in the Shots Tools panel:

• New Camera from View: Create a new camera from the current 3D view and put it in the viewport
• Selected Camera to View: Make the selected camera match the the current 3D view

New Shot dialog box:

• Added an option to make the new camera match the current viewport
• Improved the UI
• Added a label to indicate the number of shots using the selected camera

Retimer Tool

Many improvements / bug fixes / code cleaning on the Retimer:

• Bug fix: Grease Pencil wasn't updated after a time change

New features:

• Introduction of an Offset Time mode
• checkbox to force time change on locked animation channels
• doc (in the tooltips)
• time cursor and time range are also affected by retiming (with an option to avoid it)
• display of the retimer is a user pref, not a scene pref anymore
• more stability when the shots are displayed in the timeline

Code:

• deep code refactoring and cleaning

v1.5.66: # 1.5.66 (2021-09-23) (WIP)

1.5.66 (2021-09-23)

UI and Installation

• Cleaned user feedback at install time in case of errors
• Added a warning when scene contains camera binding and a Clear operator

v1.5.65: # 1.5.65 (2021-09-20)

1.5.65 (2021-09-20)

Shot Manager now works on Blender 2.93!! (with OpenTimelineIO features turn off though :S )

UI and Installation

• Better user feedback in case of installation errors

Documentation

• Improved online documentation

v1.5.62

Stabilized version

v1.5.5-alpha1: Merge branch '100-make-resolution-independent' into 'master'

1.5.5-alpha1 (2021-08-23)

Features

• First public pre-release