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Add Custom Space to Constraints

Constraints can currently only use World Space, Local Space, Pose Space, Local with Parent.
This patch adds Custom Space with a custom object to define the evaluation space.

The Custom Space option uses the Local Space of an other object/bone/vertex group.
If selected on owner or target it will show a box for object selection.
If an armature is selected, then it will also show a box for bone selection.
If a mesh object is selected it will show the option for using the local space of a vertex group.

It looks like this in the UI:
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The motivation for this patch is the following situation.
If you have a copy location constraint in your armature you are already limited when you want to use a specific axis. It can be done, but its unneccessarily difficult (as far as I know). But the situation is close to impossible as soon as you have a root bone in your armature (which I was told you always want). I need to only copy the location along a custom axis for a lot of things. The same goes for copy rotation/scale and all the limit constraints because I need to make that axis relative to the root bone transform.

Here is a demo video:
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This is the file of that video:
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This is the file for the tests included in this patch:
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File intended for acceptance test:
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Reviewed By: #animation_rigging, sybren, Severin, angavrilov

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7437