[Bf-committers] Loopcut tool

[joe]

Yep, that's the plan :) I especially intend to write a much nicer knife tool.

Joe

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Roger Wickes <rogerwickes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> +1 on the importance of an easy-to-use and intuitive knife tool and loop cut. I use it all the time to add detail where I need it, without introducing tris.
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> Loopcut is one of *the* most-wanted features in 2.5, so I figured
> waiting for macros to improve to a more usable level wasn't a good
> idea.  I will be modifying the code to make more use of macro features
> as they become available/stable.
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> Joe
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Roland Hess <rolandh at reed-witting.com> wrote:
>> I see there was a new commit for a Ctrl-R-LMB for loop cut. I'm guessing
>> that's a response to my mail to this list from yesterday? Hard to tell
>> with no additional information and no recorded discussion...
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>> I was thinking about this last night, and wondered if this isn't
>> something that should wait for macros. Really, that's what the nice
>> functionality of the old tools was -- several discreet tools chained
>> together in seamless sequence. First, you got a previewable loop select,
>> which rolled over/integrated with an ability to choose multi-cut and
>> slide the not-yet-cut edge, which rolled over into a tool that actually
>> made the cut(s).
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>> This seems like an ideal case for a macro. As long as there are ops for
>> loop select, cutting along a selected set of edges and edge slide, you
>> can macro this. In the end, you could do all of these steps
>> individually, but from a tools standpoint, the user would use the
>> command (or key, tool button) to trigger the Loop Cut Macro which:
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>> Does the interactive loop select,
>> Cuts,
>> Lets you tweak the cut operator afterward for both multiple cuts and
>> edge slide.
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>> Sound reasonable?
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>> Roland Hess
>> harkyman
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