== PoseLib - Pose-Library Tool for Blender ==

"A slightly late Christmas present for the Animators out there :-)"

This tool allows animators to store frequently used poses in an action, and be able to label those poses to help them retrieve them later. In a way, it acts as a glorified clipboard for poses.

One of the cool features with this is the ability to select which stored pose to use interactively in the 3d-view. Once a few poses have been stored in the PoseLib, simply use the "Ctrl L" hotkey to start previewing. Use the Mousewheel or the Page Up/Down keys to change poses, and confirm/cancel the preview in the same way as you do for transforms.

Usage Notes:
* Each Armature may get its own PoseLib. PoseLibs are simply actions with extra data, so they can get relinked.
* Manually editing actions used as PoseLibs is not a good idea, as some data may not be able to be found. Tools to automagically find poses in an action could be investigated...
* PoseLib will only apply/retrieve poses to/from selected bones
* A basic UI for this can be found in the "Links and Materials" panel. Most of the PoseLib tools are presented there.

Useful Hotkeys (also found in Pose->PoseLib menu):
* Ctrl L  - interactively preview poses
* Shift L - add a new pose or replace an existing pose in the PoseLib with the current pose
* Ctrl Shift L - rename an existing pose in the PoseLib 
* Alt L - remove a pose from the poselib.c

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/action.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/action.c
index 162ee582d74..86e119f5e6f 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/action.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/action.c
@@ -163,6 +163,15 @@ void make_local_action(bAction *act)
 	}
 }
 
+static void free_act_poselib (bAction *act)
+{
+	if (act->poselib) {
+		bPoseLib *pl= act->poselib;
+		
+		BLI_freelistN(&pl->poses);
+		MEM_freeN(pl);
+	}
+}
 
 void free_action (bAction *act)
 {
@@ -177,6 +186,9 @@ void free_action (bAction *act)
 	
 	if (act->chanbase.first)
 		BLI_freelistN(&act->chanbase);
+		
+	/* Free PoseLib */
+	free_act_poselib(act);
 }
 
 bAction *copy_action (bAction *src)