I started ABX very informally, so I did not really have logical version numbers initially, and I'm not sure about the earliest packages I made. In April 2021, I started trying to formally package with a consistent version number, with the following meanings: 0.1.0 (<2021): Versions before 2021, with "Copy NLA" and "L.Ink Compos" and not much else. There were some experimental version of context.py, file_context.py, and blender_context.py in the source, but they were unused and buggy or incomplete. 0.2.0 (2021-02 to 2021-05): Versions from April/May 2021, with major design changes: * "Copy NLA" became "Copy Animation", and acquired new options: - NLA (Old NLA behavior) - Dopesheet (copy the "active action", which appears in the dopesheet). - Copy/Rescale (instead of linking the animation, copy it, possibly rescaling) - Scale Factor (if other than 1.0, the animation is scaled when copied) * "L.Ink Compos" became "Ink/Paint Config", and also got new options: - Ink-Thru (Freestyle ink workaround for transparency, can now be turned off) - Billboards (Accurate alpha-billboard ink masking technique) - Separate Sky (Generate sky on a separate render layer for accurate compositing) * "Lunatics! Properties" got a new field for the scene "suffix" or title, used exclusively to give some extra information in the scene name. This was to accommodate short shot codes I was using, like "G.PoV" meaning "Georgiana point-of-view shot", to clarify the letter-codes for the shots, especially since I was changing some of them around. 0.2.5 (2021-05): The last version before introducing the file_context data system into the main functions of the program. It contains fully-working and tested file_context.py and accumulate.py, but they haven't been updated with specific changes to accommodate the Blender UI yet, and the abx_ui.py module doesn't use them. I made this version as a stable fallback for production with all of the recent bugfixes, but none of the new (and likely buggy) data system features. Includes: * render_profiles feature in the Render panel. This is a quick select for changing the render settings and output filepath to be named consistently and use the correct settings for the most common pre-visualization renders I make, and the full PNG stream render. - The profiles are hard-coded, because there's no contextual data yet. - EXR files may be generated from previz. I didn't make any attempt to stop this, because it's usually not relevant (they'll be clobbered by the full PNG renders, which are done last -- but this could be a problem if I tried to regenerate the previz later) 0.2.6a (2021-06): * Default behavior from YAML files. * Attempts to automate file and scene naming. * Render Profiles basically works, and uses defaults set in the project's abx.yaml file(s). This is the last version with the full file_context system, and I never really got it to work right. So, I decided to move on without it. CURRENT DEV: 0.2.7: After another review, I decided to eliminate file_context and related modules from ABX, replacing them with a much simpler "abx_context" module that just updates from the filepath and gets the relevant 'abx.yaml' files from the project directories, using "accumulate" (which is still present). I never got the ranks/branches system working as planned, and it's increasingly clear that this code is more appropriate to use with KitCAT. It has unnecessary features to support non-Blender files, and it's possible for it to mess things up or break, if the project context is unexpected. Project Properties will exist, but will be a very simple naming utility, with the various names we need implemented simply as Blender scene properties. Lunatics Properties will be removed after moving dependencies in Ink/Paint to the new system. ROADMAP (for 2021?): 0.2.8: ? 0.2.9: ? 0.3.0: New features. Hopefully: * Recognize/use "role" field. * Ink/Paint Config for compositing (as opposed to rendering) * Appropriate config tools for anim, mech, etc -- other roles * Automate Freestyle "Ink-Camera" clipping system. * Character Armature comparison (find misnamed or extra bones) * Insert characters into an animation file * Find/report broken dupligroups and/or animation proxies * Generate linking report(s) -- information to support correct linking diagrams, or possibly source for auto-generating them? 0.3.1: Pop-up report generation? I had this working experimentally, years ago, and it'd be useful to generate pop-up reports for some of the introspection features I want to add. 0.3.x: Improvements to data system and other capabilities. * Possible integration with KitCAT? There's significant overlap between ABX and KitCAT and I already call the metadata files "kitcat" data in the sources. Will they be merely interoperable, or should I actually make ABX into the KitCAT plugin for Blender? * Port ABX to Blender 2.8+, keeping 2.7 support, if possible. If I'm really going to use 2.8 for compositing, I will need this. 0.4.x & beyond: Version with fairly-complete Blender 2.7 & 2.8 support & integration with KitCAT. Might consider adding support for MoCap and Digital Puppetry tools? Possibly add tools for "machinima workflow" with UPBGE or Godot platforms. Integration with Papagayo / Lipsync data for animation? Maybe find the appropriate data files and run the lipsync importer on them? Or perhaps incorporate the lipsync importer code?