# Objective
Needing to derive `AnimationEvent` for `Event` is unnecessary, and the
trigger logic coupled to it feels like we're coupling "event producer"
logic with the event itself, which feels wrong. It also comes with a
bunch of complexity, which is again unnecessary. We can have the
flexibility of "custom animation event trigger logic" without this
coupling and complexity.
The current `animation_events` example is also needlessly complicated,
due to it needing to work around system ordering issues. The docs
describing it are also slightly wrong. We can make this all a non-issue
by solving the underlying ordering problem.
Related to this, we use the `bevy_animation::Animation` system set to
solve PostUpdate animation order-of-operations issues. If we move this
to bevy_app as part of our "core schedule", we can cut out needless
`bevy_animation` crate dependencies in these instances.
## Solution
- Remove `AnimationEvent`, the derive, and all other infrastructure
associated with it (such as the `bevy_animation/derive` crate)
- Replace all instances of `AnimationEvent` traits with `Event + Clone`
- Store and use functions for custom animation trigger logic (ex:
`clip.add_event_fn()`). For "normal" cases users dont need to think
about this and should use the simpler `clip.add_event()`
- Run the `Animation` system set _before_ updating text
- Move `bevy_animation::Animation` to `bevy_app::Animation`. Remove
unnecessary `bevy_animation` dependency from `bevy_ui`
- Adjust `animation_events` example to use the simpler `clip.add_event`
API, as the workarounds are no longer necessary
This is polishing work that will land in 0.15, and I think it is simple
enough and valuable enough to land in 0.15 with it, in the interest of
making the feature as compelling as possible.
# Objective
We currently use special "floating" constructors for `EasingCurve`,
`FunctionCurve`, and `ConstantCurve` (ex: `easing_curve`). This erases
the type being created (and in general "what is happening"
structurally), for very minimal ergonomics improvements. With rare
exceptions, we prefer normal `X::new()` constructors over floating `x()`
constructors in Bevy. I don't think this use case merits special casing
here.
## Solution
Add `EasingCurve::new()`, use normal constructors everywhere, and remove
the floating constructors.
I think this should land in 0.15 in the interest of not breaking people
later.
# Objective
In the existing implementation, additive blending effectively treats the
node with least index specially by basically forcing its weight to be
`1.0` regardless of what its computed weight would be (based on the
weights in the `AnimationGraph` and `AnimationPlayer`).
Arguably this makes some amount of sense, because the "base" animation
is often one which was not authored to be used additively, meaning that
its sampled values are interpreted absolutely rather than as deltas.
However, this also leads to strange behavior with respect to animation
masks: if the "base" animation is masked out on some target, then the
next node is treated as the "base" animation, despite the fact that it
would normally be interpreted additively, and the weight of that
animation is thrown away as a result.
This is all kind of weird and revolves around special treatment (if the
behavior is even really intentional in the first place). From a
mathematical standpoint, there is nothing special about how the "base"
animation must be treated other than having a weight of 1.0 under an
`Add` node, which is something that the user can do without relying on
some bizarre corner-case behavior of the animation system — this is the
only present situation under which weights are discarded.
This PR changes this behavior so that the weight of every node is
incorporated. In other words, for an animation graph that looks like
this:
```text
┌───────────────┐
│Base clip ┼──┐
│ 0.5 │ │
└───────────────┘ │
┌───────────────┐ │ ┌───────────────┐ ┌────┐
│Additive clip 1┼──┼─►┤Additive blend ┼────►│Root│
│ 0.1 │ │ │ 1.0 │ └────┘
└───────────────┘ │ └───────────────┘
┌───────────────┐ │
│Additive clip 2┼──┘
│ 0.2 │
└───────────────┘
```
Previously, the result would have been
```text
base_clip + 0.1 * additive_clip_1 + 0.2 * additive_clip_2
```
whereas now it would be
```text
0.5 * base_clip + 0.1 * additive_clip_1 + 0.2 * additive_clip_2
```
and in the scenario where `base_clip` is masked out:
```text
additive_clip_1 + 0.2 * additive_clip_2
```
vs.
```text
0.1 * additive_clip_1 + 0.2 * additive_clip_2
```
## Solution
For background, the way that the additive blending procedure works is
something like this:
- During graph traversal, the node values and weights of the children
are pushed onto the evaluator `stack`. The traversal order guarantees
that the item with least node index will be on top.
- Once we reach the `Add` node itself, we start popping off the `stack`
and into the evaluator's `blend_register`, which is an accumulator
holding up to one weight-value pair:
- If the `blend_register` is empty, it is filled using data from the top
of the `stack`.
- Otherwise, the `blend_register` is combined with data popped from the
`stack` and updated.
In the example above, the additive blending steps would look like this
(with the pre-existing implementation):
1. The `blend_register` is empty, so we pop `(base_clip, 0.5)` from the
top of the `stack` and put it in. Now the value of the `blend_register`
is `(base_clip, 0.5)`.
2. The `blend_register` is non-empty: we pop `(additive_clip_1, 0.1)`
from the top of the `stack` and combine it additively with the value in
the `blend_register`, forming `(base_clip + 0.1 * additive_clip_1, 0.6)`
in the `blend_register` (the carried weight value goes unused).
3. The `blend_register` is non-empty: we pop `(additive_clip_2, 0.2)`
from the top of the `stack` and combine it additively with the value in
the `blend_register`, forming `(base_clip + 0.1 * additive_clip_1 + 0.2
* additive_clip_2, 0.8)` in the `blend_register`.
The solution in this PR changes step 1: the `base_clip` is multiplied by
its weight as it is added to the `blend_register` in the first place,
yielding `0.5 * base_clip + 0.1 * additive_clip_1 + 0.2 *
additive_clip_2` as the final result.
### Note for reviewers
It might be tempting to look at the code, which contains a segment that
looks like this:
```rust
if additive {
current_value = A::blend(
[
BlendInput {
weight: 1.0, // <--
value: current_value,
additive: true,
},
BlendInput {
weight: weight_to_blend,
value: value_to_blend,
additive: true,
},
]
.into_iter(),
);
}
```
and conclude that the explicit value of `1.0` is responsible for
overwriting the weight of the base animation. This is incorrect.
Rather, this additive blend has to be written this way because it is
multiplying the *existing value in the blend register* by 1 (i.e. not
doing anything) before adding the next value to it. Changing this to
another quantity (e.g. the existing weight) would cause the value in the
blend register to be spuriously multiplied down.
## Testing
Tested on `animation_masks` example. Checked `morph_weights` example as
well.
## Migration Guide
I will write a migration guide later if this change is not included in
0.15.
# Objective
- Less code
- Better iterator (implements `size_hint` for example)
## Solution
- Use `either`
- This change is free because `bevy_animation` depends on `bevy_asset`,
which already depends on `either`
## Testing
CI
# Objective
Bevy seems to want to standardize on "American English" spellings. Not
sure if this is laid out anywhere in writing, but see also #15947.
While perusing the docs for `typos`, I noticed that it has a `locale`
config option and tried it out.
## Solution
Switch to `en-us` locale in the `typos` config and run `typos -w`
## Migration Guide
The following methods or fields have been renamed from `*dependants*` to
`*dependents*`.
- `ProcessorAssetInfo::dependants`
- `ProcessorAssetInfos::add_dependant`
- `ProcessorAssetInfos::non_existent_dependants`
- `AssetInfo::dependants_waiting_on_load`
- `AssetInfo::dependants_waiting_on_recursive_dep_load`
- `AssetInfos::loader_dependants`
- `AssetInfos::remove_dependants_and_labels`
Fixes#15834
## Migration Guide
The APIs of `Time`, `Timer` and `Stopwatch` have been cleaned up for
consistency with each other and the standard library's `Duration` type.
The following methods have been renamed:
- `Stowatch::paused` -> `Stopwatch::is_paused`
- `Time::elapsed_seconds` -> `Time::elasped_secs` (including `_f64` and
`_wrapped` variants)
# Objective
Animation docs could use some clarification regarding:
- how exactly curves are evaluated
- how additive blend nodes actually work
## Solution
Add some documentation that explains how curve domains are used and how
additive blend nodes treat their children.
## Commentary
The way additive blend nodes work right now is a little bit weird, since
their first child's weight is ignored. Arguably this makes sense, since
additive animations are authored differently from ordinary animations,
but it also feels a bit strange. We could make the first node's weight
actually be applied, and the present behavior would be recovered when
the weight is set to 1.
The main disadvantage of how things are set up now is that combining a
bunch of additive animations without a base pose is pretty awkward (e.g.
to add them onto a base pose later in the graph). If we changed it, the
main downside would be that reusing the same animation on different
parts of the graph is harder; on the other hand, the weights can be
locally reassigned by using blend nodes with no other children, which
rectifies this shortfall.
# Objective
The other `Curve -> AnimationCurve` wrappers allow public access to the
inner curve, so this one should as well.
## Solution
Made the field public. Instances will still need to be constructed using
the (more ergonomic) `from_curve` method, which infers the phantom type
for the user.
# Objective
- Closes#15716
- Closes#15718
## Solution
- Replace `Handle<MeshletMesh>` with a new `MeshletMesh3d` component
- As expected there were some random things that needed fixing:
- A couple tests were storing handles just to prevent them from being
dropped I believe, which seems to have been unnecessary in some.
- The `SpriteBundle` still had a `Handle<Image>` field. I've removed
this.
- Tests in `bevy_sprite` incorrectly added a `Handle<Image>` field
outside of the `Sprite` component.
- A few examples were still inserting `Handle`s, switched those to their
corresponding wrappers.
- 2 examples that were still querying for `Handle<Image>` were changed
to query `Sprite`
## Testing
- I've verified that the changed example work now
## Migration Guide
`Handle` can no longer be used as a `Component`. All existing Bevy types
using this pattern have been wrapped in their own semantically
meaningful type. You should do the same for any custom `Handle`
components your project needs.
The `Handle<MeshletMesh>` component is now `MeshletMesh3d`.
The `WithMeshletMesh` type alias has been removed. Use
`With<MeshletMesh3d>` instead.
# Objective
- Closes#15717
## Solution
- Wrap the handle in a new wrapper component: `AnimationGraphHandle`.
## Testing
Searched for all instances of `AnimationGraph` in the examples and
updated and tested those
## Migration Guide
`Handle<AnimationGraph>` is no longer a component. Instead, use the
`AnimationGraphHandle` component which contains a
`Handle<AnimationGraph>`.
# Objective
Fix a couple of substantial errors found during the development of
#15665:
- `AnimationCurveEvaluator::add` was secretly unreachable. In other
words, additive blending never actually occurred.
- Weights from the animation graph nodes were ignored, and only
`ActiveAnimation`'s weights were used.
## Solution
Made additive blending reachable and included the graph node weight in
the weight of the stack elements appended in the curve application loop
of `animate_targets`.
## Testing
Tested on existing examples and on the new example added in #15665.
# Objective
I completely forgot that animation events are triggered in two separate
systems (sorry). The issue ~~fixed~~ by #15677, can still happen if the
animation event is not targeting a specific bone.
## Solution
_Realy_ don't trigger animation events for paused animations.
# Objective
Pausing the `animated_fox` example perfectly as one of the feet hits the
ground causes the event to be triggered every frame.
Context: #15538
## Solution
Don't trigger animation events if the animation is paused.
## Testing
Ran the example, I no longer see the issue.
# Objective
- bevy_render is gargantuan
## Solution
- Split out bevy_mesh
## Testing
- Ran some examples, everything looks fine
## Migration Guide
`bevy_render::mesh::morph::inherit_weights` is now
`bevy_render::mesh::inherit_weights`
if you were using `Mesh::compute_aabb`, you will need to `use
bevy_render::mesh::MeshAabb;` now
---------
Co-authored-by: Joona Aalto <jondolf.dev@gmail.com>
# Objective
Add support for events that can be triggered from animation clips. This
is useful when you need something to happen at a specific time in an
animation. For example, playing a sound every time a characters feet
hits the ground when walking.
Closes#15494
## Solution
Added a new field to `AnimationClip`: `events`, which contains a list of
`AnimationEvent`s. These are automatically triggered in
`animate_targets` and `trigger_untargeted_animation_events`.
## Testing
Added a couple of tests and example (`animation_events.rs`) to make sure
events are triggered when expected.
---
## Showcase
`Events` need to also implement `AnimationEvent` and `Reflect` to be
used with animations.
```rust
#[derive(Event, AnimationEvent, Reflect)]
struct SomeEvent;
```
Events can be added to an `AnimationClip` by specifying a time and
event.
```rust
// trigger an event after 1.0 second
animation_clip.add_event(1.0, SomeEvent);
```
And optionally, providing a target id.
```rust
let id = AnimationTargetId::from_iter(["shoulder", "arm", "hand"]);
animation_clip.add_event_to_target(id, 1.0, HandEvent);
```
I modified the `animated_fox` example to show off the feature.
---------
Co-authored-by: Matty <weatherleymatthew@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris Biscardi <chris@christopherbiscardi.com>
Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
# Objective
Fixes#13832
## Solution
Additively blend quaternions like this:
```rust
rotation = Quat::slerp(Quat::IDENTITY, incoming_rotation, weight) * rotation;
```
## Testing
Ran `animation_masks`, which behaves the same as before. (In the context
of an animation being blended only onto the base pose, there is no
difference.)
We should create some examples that actually exercise more of the
capabilities of the `AnimationGraph` so that issues like this can become
more visible in general. (On the other hand, I'm quite certain this was
wrong before.)
## Migration Guide
This PR changes the implementation of `Quat: Animatable`, which was not
used internally by Bevy prior to this release version. If you relied on
the old behavior of additive quaternion blending in manual applications,
that code will have to be updated, as the old behavior was incorrect.
*Additive blending* is an ubiquitous feature in game engines that allows
animations to be concatenated instead of blended. The canonical use case
is to allow a character to hold a weapon while performing arbitrary
poses. For example, if you had a character that needed to be able to
walk or run while attacking with a weapon, the typical workflow is to
have an additive blend node that combines walking and running animation
clips with an animation clip of one of the limbs performing a weapon
attack animation.
This commit adds support for additive blending to Bevy. It builds on top
of the flexible infrastructure in #15589 and introduces a new type of
node, the *add node*. Like blend nodes, add nodes combine the animations
of their children according to their weights. Unlike blend nodes,
however, add nodes don't normalize the weights to 1.0.
The `animation_masks` example has been overhauled to demonstrate the use
of additive blending in combination with masks. There are now controls
to choose an animation clip for every limb of the fox individually.
This patch also fixes a bug whereby masks were incorrectly accumulated
with `insert()` during the graph threading phase, which could cause
corruption of computed masks in some cases.
Note that the `clip` field has been replaced with an `AnimationNodeType`
enum, which breaks `animgraph.ron` files. The `Fox.animgraph.ron` asset
has been updated to the new format.
Closes#14395.
## Showcase
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/52dfe05f-fdb3-477a-9462-ec150f93df33
## Migration Guide
* The `animgraph.ron` format has changed to accommodate the new
*additive blending* feature. You'll need to change `clip` fields to
instances of the new `AnimationNodeType` enum.
# Objective
Currently, sample-interpolated curves (such as those used by the glTF
loader for animations) do unnecessary extra work when `sample_clamped`
is called, since their implementations of `sample_unchecked` are already
clamped. Eliminating this redundant sampling is a small, easy
performance win which doesn't compromise on the animation system's
internal usage of `sample_clamped`, which guarantees that it never
samples curves out-of-bounds.
## Solution
For sample-interpolated curves, define `sample_clamped` in the way
`sample_unchecked` is currently defined, and then redirect
`sample_unchecked` to `sample_clamped`. This is arguably a more
idiomatic way of using the `cores` as well, which is nice.
## Testing
Ran `many_foxes` to make sure I didn't break anything.
This is an updated version of #15530. Review comments were addressed.
This commit changes the animation graph evaluation to be operate in a
more sensible order and updates the semantics of blend nodes to conform
to [the animation composition RFC]. Prior to this patch, a node graph
like this:
```
┌─────┐
│ │
│ 1 │
│ │
└──┬──┘
│
┌───────┴───────┐
│ │
▼ ▼
┌─────┐ ┌─────┐
│ │ │ │
│ 2 │ │ 3 │
│ │ │ │
└──┬──┘ └──┬──┘
│ │
┌───┴───┐ ┌───┴───┐
│ │ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ 4 │ │ 6 │ │ 5 │ │ 7 │
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
└─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘
```
Would be evaluated as (((4 ⊕ 5) ⊕ 6) ⊕ 7), with the blend (lerp/slerp)
operation notated as ⊕. As quaternion multiplication isn't commutative,
this is very counterintuitive and will especially lead to trouble with
the forthcoming additive blending feature (#15198).
This patch fixes the issue by changing the evaluation order to
postorder, with children of a node evaluated in ascending order by node
index.
To do so, this patch revamps `AnimationCurve` to be based on an
*evaluation stack* and a *blend register*. During target evaluation, the
graph evaluator traverses the graph in postorder. When encountering a
clip node, the evaluator pushes the possibly-interpolated value onto the
evaluation stack. When encountering a blend node, the evaluator pops
values off the stack into the blend register, accumulating weights as
appropriate. When the graph is completely evaluated, the top element on
the stack is *committed* to the property of the component.
A new system, the *graph threading* system, is added in order to cache
the sorted postorder traversal to avoid the overhead of sorting children
at animation evaluation time. Mask evaluation has been moved to this
system so that the graph only has to be traversed at most once per
frame. Unlike the `ActiveAnimation` list, the *threaded graph* is cached
from frame to frame and only has to be regenerated when the animation
graph asset changes.
This patch currently regresses the `animate_target` performance in
`many_foxes` by around 50%, resulting in an FPS loss of about 2-3 FPS.
I'd argue that this is an acceptable price to pay for a much more
intuitive system. In the future, we can mitigate the regression with a
fast path that avoids consulting the graph if only one animation is
playing. However, in the interest of keeping this patch simple, I didn't
do so here.
[the animation composition RFC]:
https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/51-animation-composition.md
# Objective
- Describe the objective or issue this PR addresses.
- If you're fixing a specific issue, say "Fixes #X".
## Solution
- Describe the solution used to achieve the objective above.
## Testing
- Did you test these changes? If so, how?
- Are there any parts that need more testing?
- How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there anything
specific they need to know?
- If relevant, what platforms did you test these changes on, and are
there any important ones you can't test?
---
## Showcase
> This section is optional. If this PR does not include a visual change
or does not add a new feature, you can delete this section.
- Help others understand the result of this PR by showcasing your
awesome work!
- If this PR adds a new feature or public API, consider adding a brief
pseudo-code snippet of it in action
- If this PR includes a visual change, consider adding a screenshot,
GIF, or video
- If you want, you could even include a before/after comparison!
- If the Migration Guide adequately covers the changes, you can delete
this section
While a showcase should aim to be brief and digestible, you can use a
toggleable section to save space on longer showcases:
<details>
<summary>Click to view showcase</summary>
```rust
println!("My super cool code.");
```
</details>
## Migration Guide
> This section is optional. If there are no breaking changes, you can
delete this section.
- If this PR is a breaking change (relative to the last release of
Bevy), describe how a user might need to migrate their code to support
these changes
- Simply adding new functionality is not a breaking change.
- Fixing behavior that was definitely a bug, rather than a questionable
design choice is not a breaking change.
---------
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
# Objective
It is somewhat unlikely we will actually be able to support
`TransformCurve` (introduced in #15434) after the `AnimationGraph`
evaluation order changes in the immediate future. This is because
correctly blending overlapping animation properties is nontrivial, and
`Transform` overlaps with all of its own fields. We could still
potentially create something like this in the future, but it's likely to
require significant design and implementation work. By way of contrast,
the single-property wrappers `TranslationCurve`, `ScaleCurve`, and
`RotationCurve` should work perfectly fine, since they are
non-overlapping.
In this version release, creating `TransformCurve` in userspace is also
quite easy if desired (see the deletions from this PR).
## Solution
Delete `TransformCurve`.
## Migration Guide
There is no released version that contains this, but we should make sure
that `TransformCurve` is excluded from the release notes for #15434 if
we merge this pull request.
# Objective
A step in the migration to required components: scenes!
## Solution
As per the [selected
proposal](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2FPJtNGVMMQhyM0zIvCJSkbA):
- Deprecate `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle`.
- Add `SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components, which wrap a
`Handle<Scene>` and `Handle<DynamicScene>` respectively.
## Migration Guide
Asset handles for scenes and dynamic scenes must now be wrapped in the
`SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components. Raw handles as components
no longer spawn scenes.
Additionally, `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle` have been
deprecated. Instead, use the scene components directly.
Previously:
```rust
let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf"));
commands.spawn(SceneBundle {
scene: model_scene,
transform: Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0),
..default()
});
```
Now:
```rust
let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf"));
commands.spawn((
SceneRoot(model_scene),
Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0),
));
```
# Objective
Fixes#15541
A bunch of lifetimes were added during the Assets V2 rework, but after
moving to async traits in #12550 they can be elided. That PR mentions
that this might be the case, but apparently it wasn't followed up on at
the time.
~~I ended up grepping for `<'a` and finding a similar case in
`bevy_reflect` which I also fixed.~~ (edit: that one was needed
apparently)
Note that elided lifetimes are unstable in `impl Trait`. If that gets
stabilized then we can elide even more.
## Solution
Remove the extra lifetimes.
## Testing
Everything still compiles. If I have messed something up there is a
small risk that some user code stops compiling, but all the examples
still work at least.
---
## Migration Guide
The traits `AssetLoader`, `AssetSaver` and `Process` traits from
`bevy_asset` now use elided lifetimes. If you implement these then
remove the named lifetime.
# Objective
This PR extends and reworks the material from #15282 by allowing
arbitrary curves to be used by the animation system to animate arbitrary
properties. The goals of this work are to:
- Allow far greater flexibility in how animations are allowed to be
defined in order to be used with `bevy_animation`.
- Delegate responsibility over keyframe interpolation to `bevy_math` and
the `Curve` libraries and reduce reliance on keyframes in animation
definitions generally.
- Move away from allowing the glTF spec to completely define animations
on a mechanical level.
## Solution
### Overview
At a high level, curves have been incorporated into the animation system
using the `AnimationCurve` trait (closely related to what was
`Keyframes`). From the top down:
1. In `animate_targets`, animations are driven by `VariableCurve`, which
is now a thin wrapper around a `Box<dyn AnimationCurve>`.
2. `AnimationCurve` is something built out of a `Curve`, and it tells
the animation system how to use the curve's output to actually mutate
component properties. The trait looks like this:
```rust
/// A low-level trait that provides control over how curves are actually applied to entities
/// by the animation system.
///
/// Typically, this will not need to be implemented manually, since it is automatically
/// implemented by [`AnimatableCurve`] and other curves used by the animation system
/// (e.g. those that animate parts of transforms or morph weights). However, this can be
/// implemented manually when `AnimatableCurve` is not sufficiently expressive.
///
/// In many respects, this behaves like a type-erased form of [`Curve`], where the output
/// type of the curve is remembered only in the components that are mutated in the
/// implementation of [`apply`].
///
/// [`apply`]: AnimationCurve::apply
pub trait AnimationCurve: Reflect + Debug + Send + Sync {
/// Returns a boxed clone of this value.
fn clone_value(&self) -> Box<dyn AnimationCurve>;
/// The range of times for which this animation is defined.
fn domain(&self) -> Interval;
/// Write the value of sampling this curve at time `t` into `transform` or `entity`,
/// as appropriate, interpolating between the existing value and the sampled value
/// using the given `weight`.
fn apply<'a>(
&self,
t: f32,
transform: Option<Mut<'a, Transform>>,
entity: EntityMutExcept<'a, (Transform, AnimationPlayer, Handle<AnimationGraph>)>,
weight: f32,
) -> Result<(), AnimationEvaluationError>;
}
```
3. The conversion process from a `Curve` to an `AnimationCurve` involves
using wrappers which communicate the intent to animate a particular
property. For example, here is `TranslationCurve`, which wraps a
`Curve<Vec3>` and uses it to animate `Transform::translation`:
```rust
/// This type allows a curve valued in `Vec3` to become an [`AnimationCurve`] that animates
/// the translation component of a transform.
pub struct TranslationCurve<C>(pub C);
```
### Animatable Properties
The `AnimatableProperty` trait survives in the transition, and it can be
used to allow curves to animate arbitrary component properties. The
updated documentation for `AnimatableProperty` explains this process:
<details>
<summary>Expand AnimatableProperty example</summary
An `AnimatableProperty` is a value on a component that Bevy can animate.
You can implement this trait on a unit struct in order to support
animating
custom components other than transforms and morph weights. Use that type
in
conjunction with `AnimatableCurve` (and perhaps
`AnimatableKeyframeCurve`
to define the animation itself). For example, in order to animate font
size of a
text section from 24 pt. to 80 pt., you might use:
```rust
#[derive(Reflect)]
struct FontSizeProperty;
impl AnimatableProperty for FontSizeProperty {
type Component = Text;
type Property = f32;
fn get_mut(component: &mut Self::Component) -> Option<&mut Self::Property> {
Some(&mut component.sections.get_mut(0)?.style.font_size)
}
}
```
You can then create an `AnimationClip` to animate this property like so:
```rust
let mut animation_clip = AnimationClip::default();
animation_clip.add_curve_to_target(
animation_target_id,
AnimatableKeyframeCurve::new(
[
(0.0, 24.0),
(1.0, 80.0),
]
)
.map(AnimatableCurve::<FontSizeProperty, _>::from_curve)
.expect("Failed to create font size curve")
);
```
Here, the use of `AnimatableKeyframeCurve` creates a curve out of the
given keyframe time-value
pairs, using the `Animatable` implementation of `f32` to interpolate
between them. The
invocation of `AnimatableCurve::from_curve` with `FontSizeProperty`
indicates that the `f32`
output from that curve is to be used to animate the font size of a
`Text` component (as
configured above).
</details>
### glTF Loading
glTF animations are now loaded into `Curve` types of various kinds,
depending on what is being animated and what interpolation mode is being
used. Those types get wrapped into and converted into `Box<dyn
AnimationCurve>` and shoved inside of a `VariableCurve` just like
everybody else.
### Morph Weights
There is an `IterableCurve` abstraction which allows sampling these from
a contiguous buffer without allocating. Its only reason for existing is
that Rust disallows you from naming function types, otherwise we would
just use `Curve` with an iterator output type. (The iterator involves
`Map`, and the name of the function type would have to be able to be
named, but it is not.)
A `WeightsCurve` adaptor turns an `IterableCurve` into an
`AnimationCurve`, so it behaves like everything else in that regard.
## Testing
Tested by running existing animation examples. Interpolation logic has
had additional tests added within the `Curve` API to replace the tests
in `bevy_animation`. Some kinds of out-of-bounds errors have become
impossible.
Performance testing on `many_foxes` (`animate_targets`) suggests that
performance is very similar to the existing implementation. Here are a
couple trace histograms across different runs (yellow is this branch,
red is main).
<img width="669" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-27 at 9 41 50 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ba4e9ac-3aea-452e-aaf8-1492acc2d7fc">
<img width="673" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-27 at 9 45 18 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8982538b-04cf-46b5-97b2-164c6bc8162e">
---
## Migration Guide
Most user code that does not directly deal with `AnimationClip` and
`VariableCurve` will not need to be changed. On the other hand,
`VariableCurve` has been completely overhauled. If you were previously
defining animation curves in code using keyframes, you will need to
migrate that code to use curve constructors instead. For example, a
rotation animation defined using keyframes and added to an animation
clip like this:
```rust
animation_clip.add_curve_to_target(
animation_target_id,
VariableCurve {
keyframe_timestamps: vec![0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0],
keyframes: Keyframes::Rotation(vec![
Quat::IDENTITY,
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2.),
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2. * 2.),
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2. * 3.),
Quat::IDENTITY,
]),
interpolation: Interpolation::Linear,
},
);
```
would now be added like this:
```rust
animation_clip.add_curve_to_target(
animation_target_id,
AnimatableKeyframeCurve::new([0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0].into_iter().zip([
Quat::IDENTITY,
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2.),
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2. * 2.),
Quat::from_axis_angle(Vec3::Y, PI / 2. * 3.),
Quat::IDENTITY,
]))
.map(RotationCurve)
.expect("Failed to build rotation curve"),
);
```
Note that the interface of `AnimationClip::add_curve_to_target` has also
changed (as this example shows, if subtly), and now takes its curve
input as an `impl AnimationCurve`. If you need to add a `VariableCurve`
directly, a new method `add_variable_curve_to_target` accommodates that
(and serves as a one-to-one migration in this regard).
### For reviewers
The diff is pretty big, and the structure of some of the changes might
not be super-obvious:
- `keyframes.rs` became `animation_curves.rs`, and `AnimationCurve` is
based heavily on `Keyframes`, with the adaptors also largely following
suite.
- The Curve API adaptor structs were moved from `bevy_math::curve::mod`
into their own module `adaptors`. There are no functional changes to how
these adaptors work; this is just to make room for the specialized
reflection implementations since `mod.rs` was getting kind of cramped.
- The new module `gltf_curves` holds the additional curve constructions
that are needed by the glTF loader. Note that the loader uses a mix of
these and off-the-shelf `bevy_math` curve stuff.
- `animatable.rs` no longer holds logic related to keyframe
interpolation, which is now delegated to the existing abstractions in
`bevy_math::curve::cores`.
---------
Co-authored-by: Gino Valente <49806985+MrGVSV@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: aecsocket <43144841+aecsocket@users.noreply.github.com>
# Objective
- Provide a generic and _reflectable_ way to iterate over contained
entities
## Solution
Adds two new traits:
* `VisitEntities`: Reflectable iteration, accepts a closure rather than
producing an iterator. Implemented by default for `IntoIterator`
implementing types. A proc macro is also provided.
* A `Mut` variant of the above. Its derive macro uses the same field
attribute to avoid repetition.
## Testing
Added a test for `VisitEntities` that also transitively tests its derive
macro as well as the default `MapEntities` impl.
# Objective
Improve the performance of animation.
`animate_targets` only does work for entities with a `AnimationTarget`
component, but the query it uses has no filters and matches all
archetypes, resulting in extra work checking and ignoring every other
entity in the world.
In addition, it uses `EntityMutExcept::get`, which has to look up the
`ComponentId` for `AnimationTarget` each time it's used.
Fixes#15412
## Solution
Instead of `entity_mut.get::<AnimationTarget>()`, add `&AnimationTarget`
to the query and read it directly. This requires adding
`AnimationTarget` to the list of exceptions in the `EntityMutExcept`.
Since the resulting type is getting long, add an alias for it.
This does mean that `AnimationTarget` is no longer available through
`entity`, which means it's not possible to animate the `AnimationTarget`
component itself.
## Testing
I ran performance traces of many_foxes comparing this branch to main.
Red is main, yellow is these changes:
# Objective
- Fixes#6370
- Closes#6581
## Solution
- Added the following lints to the workspace:
- `std_instead_of_core`
- `std_instead_of_alloc`
- `alloc_instead_of_core`
- Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use
formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A)
to split all `use` statements into single items.
- Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix
--allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and
intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically
(usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate
root).
- Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating
prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses.
- Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use
formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A)
to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling.
- Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use`
statements due to conditional compilation attributes.
## Testing
- Ran CI locally
## Migration Guide
The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher.
## Notes
- This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've
outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this
fails and someone else tries again in the future.
- Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy
contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std`
where possible.
- This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std`
options for Bevy.
---------
Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
Currently, Bevy restricts animation clips to animating
`Transform::translation`, `Transform::rotation`, `Transform::scale`, or
`MorphWeights`, which correspond to the properties that glTF can
animate. This is insufficient for many use cases such as animating UI,
as the UI layout systems expect to have exclusive control over UI
elements' `Transform`s and therefore the `Style` properties must be
animated instead.
This commit fixes this, allowing for `AnimationClip`s to animate
arbitrary properties. The `Keyframes` structure has been turned into a
low-level trait that can be implemented to achieve arbitrary animation
behavior. Along with `Keyframes`, this patch adds a higher-level trait,
`AnimatableProperty`, that simplifies the task of animating single
interpolable properties. Built-in `Keyframes` implementations exist for
translation, rotation, scale, and morph weights. For the most part, you
can migrate by simply changing your code from
`Keyframes::Translation(...)` to `TranslationKeyframes(...)`, and
likewise for rotation, scale, and morph weights.
An example `AnimatableProperty` implementation for the font size of a
text section follows:
#[derive(Reflect)]
struct FontSizeProperty;
impl AnimatableProperty for FontSizeProperty {
type Component = Text;
type Property = f32;
fn get_mut(component: &mut Self::Component) -> Option<&mut
Self::Property> {
Some(&mut component.sections.get_mut(0)?.style.font_size)
}
}
In order to keep this patch relatively small, this patch doesn't include
an implementation of `AnimatableProperty` on top of the reflection
system. That can be a follow-up.
This patch builds on top of the new `EntityMutExcept<>` type in order to
widen the `AnimationTarget` query to include write access to all
components. Because `EntityMutExcept<>` has some performance overhead
over an explicit query, we continue to explicitly query `Transform` in
order to avoid regressing the performance of skeletal animation, such as
the `many_foxes` benchmark. I've measured the performance of that
benchmark and have found no significant regressions.
A new example, `animated_ui`, has been added. This example shows how to
use Bevy's built-in animation infrastructure to animate font size and
color, which wasn't possible before this patch.
## Showcase
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fa73492-a9ce-405a-a8f2-4aacd7f6dc97
## Migration Guide
* Animation keyframes are now an extensible trait, not an enum. Replace
`Keyframes::Translation(...)`, `Keyframes::Scale(...)`,
`Keyframes::Rotation(...)`, and `Keyframes::Weights(...)` with
`Box::new(TranslationKeyframes(...))`, `Box::new(ScaleKeyframes(...))`,
`Box::new(RotationKeyframes(...))`, and
`Box::new(MorphWeightsKeyframes(...))` respectively.
# Objective
- Fixes#15236
## Solution
- Use bevy_math::ops instead of std floating point operations.
## Testing
- Did you test these changes? If so, how?
Unit tests and `cargo run -p ci -- test`
- How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there anything
specific they need to know?
Execute `cargo run -p ci -- test` on Windows.
- If relevant, what platforms did you test these changes on, and are
there any important ones you can't test?
Windows
## Migration Guide
- Not a breaking change
- Projects should use bevy math where applicable
---------
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: IQuick 143 <IQuick143cz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Joona Aalto <jondolf.dev@gmail.com>
# Objective
- Crate-level prelude modules, such as `bevy_ecs::prelude`, are plagued
with inconsistency! Let's fix it!
## Solution
Format all preludes based on the following rules:
1. All preludes should have brief documentation in the format of:
> The _name_ prelude.
>
> This includes the most common types in this crate, re-exported for
your convenience.
2. All documentation should be outer, not inner. (`///` instead of
`//!`.)
3. No prelude modules should be annotated with `#[doc(hidden)]`. (Items
within them may, though I'm not sure why this was done.)
## Testing
- I manually searched for the term `mod prelude` and updated all
occurrences by hand. 🫠
---------
Co-authored-by: Gino Valente <49806985+MrGVSV@users.noreply.github.com>
# Objective
As discussed in https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/7386, system
order ambiguities within `DefaultPlugins` are a source of bugs in the
engine and badly pollute diagnostic output for users.
We should eliminate them!
This PR is an alternative to #15027: with all external ambiguities
silenced, this should be much less prone to merge conflicts and the test
output should be much easier for authors to understand.
Note that system order ambiguities are still permitted in the
`RenderApp`: these need a bit of thought in terms of how to test them,
and will be fairly involved to fix. While these aren't *good*, they'll
generally only cause graphical bugs, not logic ones.
## Solution
All remaining system order ambiguities have been resolved.
Review this PR commit-by-commit to see how each of these problems were
fixed.
## Testing
`cargo run --example ambiguity_detection` passes with no panics or
logging!
This commit adds support for *masks* to the animation graph. A mask is a
set of animation targets (bones) that neither a node nor its descendants
are allowed to animate. Animation targets can be assigned one or more
*mask group*s, which are specific to a single graph. If a node masks out
any mask group that an animation target belongs to, animation curves for
that target will be ignored during evaluation.
The canonical use case for masks is to support characters holding
objects. Typically, character animations will contain hand animations in
the case that the character's hand is empty. (For example, running
animations may close a character's fingers into a fist.) However, when
the character is holding an object, the animation must be altered so
that the hand grips the object.
Bevy currently has no convenient way to handle this. The only workaround
that I can see is to have entirely separate animation clips for
characters' hands and bodies and keep them in sync, which is burdensome
and doesn't match artists' expectations from other engines, which all
effectively have support for masks. However, with mask group support,
this task is simple. We assign each hand to a mask group and parent all
character animations to a node. When a character grasps an object in
hand, we position the fingers as appropriate and then enable the mask
group for that hand in that node. This allows the character's animations
to run normally, while the object remains correctly attached to the
hand.
Note that even with this PR, we won't have support for running separate
animations for a character's hand and the rest of the character. This is
because we're missing additive blending: there's no way to combine the
two masked animations together properly. I intend that to be a follow-up
PR.
The major engines all have support for masks, though the workflow varies
from engine to engine:
* Unity has support for masks [essentially as implemented here], though
with layers instead of a tree. However, when using the Mecanim
("Humanoid") feature, precise control over bones is lost in favor of
predefined muscle groups.
* Unreal has a feature named [*layered blend per bone*]. This allows for
separate blend weights for different bones, effectively achieving masks.
I believe that the combination of blend nodes and masks make Bevy's
animation graph as expressible as that of Unreal, once we have support
for additive blending, though you may have to use more nodes than you
would in Unreal. Moreover, separating out the concepts of "blend weight"
and "which bones this node applies to" seems like a cleaner design than
what Unreal has.
* Godot's `AnimationTree` has the notion of [*blend filters*], which are
essentially the same as masks as implemented in this PR.
Additionally, this patch fixes a bug with weight evaluation whereby
weights weren't properly propagated down to grandchildren, because the
weight evaluation for a node only checked its parent's weight, not its
evaluated weight. I considered submitting this as a separate PR, but
given that this PR refactors that code entirely to support masks and
weights under a unified "evaluated node" concept, I simply included the
fix here.
A new example, `animation_masks`, has been added. It demonstrates how to
toggle masks on and off for specific portions of a skin.
This is part of #14395, but I'm going to defer closing that issue until
we have additive blending.
[essentially as implemented here]:
https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/class-AvatarMask.html
[*layered blend per bone*]:
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/using-layered-animations-in-unreal-engine
[*blend filters*]:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/animation/animation_tree.html
## Migration Guide
* The serialized format of animation graphs has changed with the
addition of animation masks. To upgrade animation graph RON files, add
`mask` and `mask_groups` fields as appropriate. (They can be safely set
to zero.)
# Objective
* Fixes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/14889
## Solution
Exposes `bevy_animation::{animatable, graph, transition}` to the world.
## Testing
- Did you test these changes? If so, how?
- These changes do not need testing, as they do not modify/add/remove
any functionality.
- ~~Are there any parts that need more testing?~~
- ~~How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there
anything specific they need to know?~~
- ~~If relevant, what platforms did you test these changes on, and are
there any important ones you can't test?~~
---------
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
# Objective
`bevy_animation` imports a lot of items - and it uses a very
inconsistent code style to do so.
## Solution
Changes the offending `use` statements to be more consistent across the
crate.
## Testing
- Did you test these changes? If so, how?
- No testing is needed beyond lint checks, and those finished
successfully.
- ~~Are there any parts that need more testing?~~
- ~~How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there
anything specific they need to know?~~
- ~~If relevant, what platforms did you test these changes on, and are
there any important ones you can't test?~~
# Objective
Add a convenience constructor to make simple animation graphs easier to
build.
I've had some notes about attempting this since #11989 that I just
remembered after seeing #14852.
This partially addresses #14852, but I don't really know animation well
enough to write all of the documentation it's asking for.
## Solution
Add `AnimationGraph::from_clips` and use it to simplify `animated_fox`.
Do some other little bits of incidental cleanup and documentation .
## Testing
I ran `cargo run --example animated_fox`.
# Objective
Fixes#14782
## Solution
Enable the lint and fix all upcoming hints (`--fix`). Also tried to
figure out the false-positive (see review comment). Maybe split this PR
up into multiple parts where only the last one enables the lint, so some
can already be merged resulting in less many files touched / less
potential for merge conflicts?
Currently, there are some cases where it might be easier to read the
code with the qualifier, so perhaps remove the import of it and adapt
its cases? In the current stage it's just a plain adoption of the
suggestions in order to have a base to discuss.
## Testing
`cargo clippy` and `cargo run -p ci` are happy.
# Objective
fix#14742
## Solution
the issue arises because "finished" animations (where current time >=
last keyframe time) are not applied at all.
when transitioning from a finished animation to another later-indexed
anim, the transition kind-of works because the finished anim is skipped,
then the new anim is applied with a lower weight (weight / total_weight)
when transitioning from a finished animation to another earlier-indexed
anim, the transition is instant as the new anim is applied with 1.0 (as
weight == total_weight for the first applied), then the finished
animation is skipped.
to fix this we can always apply every animation based on the nearest 2
keyframes, and clamp the interpolation between them to [0,1].
pros:
- finished animations can be transitioned out of correctly
- blended animations where some curves have a last-keyframe before the
end of the animation will blend properly
- animations will actually finish on their last keyframe, rather than a
fraction of a render-frame before the end
cons:
- we have to re-apply finished animations every frame whether it's
necessary or not. i can't see a way to avoid this.
# Objective
While scrolling through the animation crate, I was confused by the docs
and code for the two methods. One does nothing for resetting an
animation, the other just resets the weights for whatever reason.
## Solution
Made the functions work accordingly to their documentation.
`start` now replays the animation.
And `play` doesn't reset the weight anymore. I have no clue why it
should. `play` is there to don't do anything to an already existing
animation.
## Testing
I tested the current 0.14 code with bevy playground in the Animated Fox
exampled and changed it such that on pressing space, either `play` or
`start` would be called. Neither changed anything.
I then inlined the function for start there and it restarted the
animation, so it should work.
---
## Migration Guide
`AnimationPlayer::start` now correspondingly to its docs restarts a
running animation.
`AnimationPlayer::play` doesn't reset the weight anymore.
# Objective
- Fix issue #2611
## Solution
- Add `--generate-link-to-definition` to all the `rustdoc-args` arrays
in the `Cargo.toml`s (for docs.rs)
- Add `--generate-link-to-definition` to the `RUSTDOCFLAGS` environment
variable in the docs workflow (for dev-docs.bevyengine.org)
- Document all the workspace crates in the docs workflow (needed because
otherwise only the source code of the `bevy` package will be included,
making the argument useless)
- I think this also fixes#3662, since it fixes the bug on
dev-docs.bevyengine.org, while on docs.rs it has been fixed for a while
on their side.
---
## Changelog
- The source code viewer on docs.rs now includes links to the
definitions.
# Objective
Fixes#13910
When a transition is over, the animation is stopped. There was a race
condition; if an animation was started while it also had an active
transition, the transition ending would then incorrectly stop the newly
added animation.
## Solution
When starting an animation, cancel any previous transition for the same
animation.
## Testing
The changes were tested manually, mainly by using the `animated_fox`
example. I also tested with changes from
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/13909.
I'd like to have an unit test for this as well, but it seems quite
complex to do, as I'm not sure how I would detect an incorrectly paused
animation.
Reviewers can follow the instructions in #13910 to reproduce.
Tested on macos 14.4 (M3 processor) Should be platform-independent,
though.
