== Action Editor - Groups for Action Channels (Peach Request) ==

Now, you can assign Action Channels to named (folder-like) groups, which help to organise the channels (important for more complex rigs). These are collapsible, can be "protected", and show a "summary" of the keyframes in the channels the Group contains. They are drawn as bright-green (active) or a darker shade of green (not active) channels.

* Each Action has its own set of Groups. 
* An Action-Channel can only occur in one Group at a time. It can also not occur in any group.
* Action-Channels can be moved between Groups
* Groups + grouped-channels always occur BEFORE un-grouped channels

Important Hotkeys:
* Shift-G  :  Adds the selected Action-Channels to the Active Group. This will create a new group if need be
* Ctrl-Shift-G : Always adds a new group, and adds the selected Action-Channels to it
* Alt-G : Removes selected Action-Channels from their groups
* Ctrl-Shift-Alt-G : (Note: this will be removed soon) This is a simple debugging-hotkey I added, which just prints a list of the groups, channels, and their addresses...
* NKey / Ctrl-LMB: While hovering over the name of a group, this shows a popup like for other channels, which allows the editing of the channel's name, etc.


Assorted Notes:
* Some tools may not work yet with this (Ctrl Numpad+/- for example)
* Fixed some bugs in various places in Action Editor code
* Added theme colours for group channels
* The nomenclature of these tools may change in future when a better alternative is found
* The ability to auto-assign action-channels to groups when they are keyframed will be coming up shortly

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/src/usiblender.c b/source/blender/src/usiblender.c
index 147f5a79137..dd6d3eb6d15 100644
--- a/source/blender/src/usiblender.c
+++ b/source/blender/src/usiblender.c
@@ -396,6 +396,14 @@ static void init_userdef_file(void)
 			SETCOL(btheme->ttime.cframe, 0x60, 0xc0, 0x40, 255);
 		}
 	}
+	if ((G.main->versionfile < 245) || (G.main->versionfile == 245 && G.main->subversionfile < 13)) {
+		bTheme *btheme;
+		for (btheme= U.themes.first; btheme; btheme= btheme->next) {
+			/* action channel groups (recolour anyway) */
+			SETCOL(btheme->tact.group, 0x39, 0x7d, 0x1b, 255);
+			SETCOL(btheme->tact.group_active, 0x7d, 0xe9, 0x60, 255);
+		}
+	}
 	
 	/* GL Texture Garbage Collection (variable abused above!) */
 	if (U.textimeout == 0) {