[Bf-funboard] Re: Some skinning feature ideas

[Bassam Kurdali]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 02:17 -0400, Michael Crawford wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Tony Mullen wrote:
> 
> >> K.  suppose you take what would normally be the "normalized" view,
> >> represented as black an white, and multiply that with the color.  Now
> >> you get what I mean?  This way you display normalized, and non-
> >> normalized values at once.  then you actually *can* change the
> >> default view.  for this to work though, lighting should probably be
> >> removed from weight paint mode and wire made default.
> >
> > Dude, this is nuts.
> >
> > If you're not joking, then we obviously have very, very different
> > ideas of what the word "intuitive" means.
> 
> I totally aggree it's not intuitive.  But if others like it... who  
> knows.  Hey.. if it was up to me, weight painting would use RGB to  
> individually influence weight per XYZ direction (signed, with 128 of  
> each channel representing the zero point), enabling better shoulder  
> deformation for example without using shape keys and drivers...  One  
> would start off painting with gray and move away into all sorts of  
> wonderful, but admittedly difficult to initially decipher, colors.   
> It might be hell to get used to...  but again.  I'm a vim type  
> person.  Can't there be a "crazy/eccentric/advanced" mode for people  
> like me?  There is a greater potential for usefulness if a person  
> could get used to such a mode (which would take time and practice)...  
> but here i am now asking for an optional mode...  oops.

oooh, interesting :) how would this work with
transformation/location/scale? perhaps we'll end up with 9 different
channels of weight! seems too complex to manage by a human to me, but
then again, you're not human ;)

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