[Bf-funboard] Transform-refractor feature request

joeedh joeeagar at prodigy.net
Mon Mar 14 02:24:27 CET 2005


Martin Poirier wrote:

>--- joeedh <joeeagar at prodigy.net> wrote:
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>>zippy wrote:
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>>>Hey theeth while your at the construction of this
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>>new mesh I have a 
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>>>feature request.
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>>>Much like this vid 
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>http://www.luxology.com/modo/102/video/102-ElementFalloffDistance1.aspx
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>>>, can you give an option to O keys purpotional
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>>edit a fall off of only 
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>>>the mesh connected to the affected mesh, So
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>>example is moveing a 
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>>>finger todays method will move anything else in
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>>the radius of that 
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>>>mesh but with this feature it would only move the
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>>connected mesh 
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>>>untill the radius is larger that the entire area
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>>of conected mesh....
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>>>So another example would be folding a grid and
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>>grabbing one end and 
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>>>pulling....
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>>This isn't a very hard thing to do with HE mesh (the
>>wonders of 
>>recursive programming ;) ) however, the normal mesh
>>structure may have a 
>>little bit more difficulty. . .
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>>This idea has been discussed before in irc, and I
>>think that theeth 
>>plans to do it, at least for normal mesh (HE mesh
>>would be my 
>>responsibility).  not really sure though.
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>On the contrary, it would be hard to do for anything
>since the transdata structure doesn't keep
>connectivity information and it's not in my plans (for
>the moment).
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>Martin
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Ah, but you told me that it could all be done in the conversion functions ;)

But, maybe I'll take a crack at it :)

joeedh


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