[Bf-committers] Carve vs. Bmesh booleans
Kai Kostack
kaikostack at gmx.net
Thu Apr 19 12:50:27 CEST 2018
Hi Mikhail,
I wonder what makes you so certain that the Bmesh way is the way how a boolean
tool is supposed to work?
> Incorrect input should result in incorrect output.
Sure, you can declare everything being incorrect input that your tool can't
handle properly. Or you just can make it work better. Carve has proven that
this can work better.
> If FM result geometry must not contain loose edges, than it should do a
> post process
> (check for loose edges) after boolean operation finished.
Of course, we can and will do this if necessary, but what's about the other
users? Don't they deserve clean outputs? As I said you cannot remove these
edges in a non-destructive way using modifiers. In Python I would need to do
expensive mesh editing then, too. I'm using the cutter plane approach to
discretize elements for scientific physics simulations... a lot of elements.
These edges are wrong, they don't belong there. And if the plane is subdivided
then there are even faces generated not belonging there.
> Please do not try to make boolean tool more than it supposed to be.
I question that a boolean tool is supposed to work exactly that way. It's
inconsistent to ignore the normal of a plane and to make the decision of which
half of the mesh is to be removed depending on the target object matrix rather
than on the normals of the operator object. If you rotate the plane around 180
degrees you get the same output again, this is not useful and makes results
unnecessarily hard to predict.
Of course, I can accept your opinion on the matter. I don't want to enforce
anything, I'm just providing my feedback and explaining our use cases in the
hope that it might be helpful to improve Blender.
Best regards,
Kai Kostack
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