[Bf-funboard] Food for thought: lower subsurf subdiv value during transform?

trip trip at spymac.com
Wed Oct 20 05:41:35 CEST 2004


joeedh wrote:

> [oops, sent this to wrong list first]
>
> Hi.  While I was doing some stuff of the new transform code (which, I am
> happy to report, I have managed to implement a scaling function that
> works 95% exactly the way it does now), I thought of an idea:  Lower the
> subdiv value of subsurfs doing transformations.
>
> I quickly hacked in the new transform() code something that did just
> that, and it seems to work pretty well.  This is especially well suited
> for if you are making spikey objects with individual face extrude (my
> favorite tool, that's why I wrote it), since usually a subdiv level of 1
> isn't enough but anything higher then that will lag during 
> transformations.
>
> I think it should work as thus:
>
> 1) The user enables Lower Subdivide in the global info settings.
> 2) The user sets the amount, or presses Automatic which will do it based
> on mesh vert count/
> 3) When the user does any kind of transformation, the subdiv level is
> lowered.
>
> joeedh
>
Wee have that in zbrush, it has  a slider for the amount of detail that 
is preserved, though if to low it will make you dizzy from seeing the 
mesh change so much.

Another idea in addition to this would be to use normal maps constantly 
so it still shows the detail even while in lowpoly view mode.


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