[Bf-funboard] faster workflow in blender.

[Frédéric van der Essen]

the problem with a "repeat tool" is that it only works when you are 
using one tool at time.
it would work great for things like "extrude 10 times"
but it wouldn't work for "extrude and subdivde 10 times" or any workflow 
where you have to alternate
between tools. (extruding 10times, then subdividing is not always 
possible, and isn't a really flexible workflow)
with the proposed solution you would not only have one repeat shortcut 
for each menu, but  you also
spare a lot of clicks to select items in menus.

and selecting by numbers is nice but is complementary, pressing numbers 
instead of clicking is just
moving the problem elsewhere.

the lack of precision is when you keep a mouse button pressed, here it 
is about keeping a keyboard shortcut
pressed, and we already do it all the time in blender.


Nick Winters a écrit :

>in the menus like the specials menu [w key] you can hit a number
>corresponding to the entry you want to choose.
>
>for example, hit w then 1to subdivide
>
>merge is w,4,1 [at center] or w,4,2 [at cursor]
>
>and so on... this does take some getting used to [I don't personally
>use it], but people do use it [and have complained when new entires in
>the specials menu moved others]
>
>there have been complaints when it was suggested that we hold buttons
>down for transforms and menus... mostly due to the apparent strain and
>lack of precision available.
>
>I think your example would just ask for a "repeat" function... do we
>have any spare keys to map it to?
>On 6/5/05, Frédéric van der Essen <fred at mentalwarp.com> wrote:
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>>the current workflow in blender is quite good but requires too much LMB
>>clicks; merging two vertices requires two lmb clicks, extrude requires
>>on clic, IMO it is too much.
>>the current workflow is the following :
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>*snip*
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>>the only drawback that i see is that this behaviour maybe difficult to
>>grasp for newbies, but this "fast" method could be activated with
>>userpref...
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>>what do you think ?
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>Umm, does blender have any feature or workflow changed that is enabled
>by user prefrences? I personally think "make it an option in the
>prefrences" is a fairly ugly hack
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