Basic Alembic support

All in all, this patch adds an Alembic importer, an Alembic exporter,
and a new CacheFile data block which, for now, wraps around an Alembic
archive. This data block is made available through a new modifier ("Mesh
Sequence Cache") as well as a new constraint ("Transform Cache") to
somewhat properly support respectively geometric and transformation data
streaming from alembic caches.

A more in-depth documentation is to be found on the wiki, as well as a
 guide to compile alembic: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/
User:Kevindietrich/AlembicBasicIo.

Many thanks to everyone involved in this little project, and huge shout
out to "cgstrive" for the thorough testings with Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini
and Realflow as well as @fjuhec, @jensverwiebe and @jasperge for the
custom builds and compile fixes.

Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29

Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2060

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/properties_constraint.py b/release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/properties_constraint.py
index 4ca2f773dcc..cb5f1595ff3 100644
--- a/release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/properties_constraint.py
+++ b/release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/properties_constraint.py
@@ -880,6 +880,19 @@ class ConstraintButtonsPanel:
 
         layout.operator("clip.constraint_to_fcurve")
 
+    def TRANSFORM_CACHE(self, context, layout, con):
+        layout.label(text="Cache File Properties:")
+        box = layout.box()
+        box.template_cache_file(con, "cache_file")
+
+        cache_file = con.cache_file
+        
+        layout.label(text="Constraint Properties:")
+        box = layout.box()
+        
+        if cache_file is not None:
+            box.prop_search(con, "object_path", cache_file, "object_paths")
+
     def SCRIPT(self, context, layout, con):
         layout.label("Blender 2.6 doesn't support python constraints yet")