<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Hello everyone,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This week's been a little busy for me. I've been getting ready to present to a research conference next week. I'll be gone from next Tuesday to next Thursday. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Early this week I talked to Campbell and Antony on how to add the average brush as a default option in both weight painting and vertex painting. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I've also been figuring out what I'd like to do with my extra free time, and I'm planning on adding the following features to wvpaint next week:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Advanced Splash Prevention</span></font></li><ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Currently, spherical vertex selection has the tendency to accidentally paint vertices in saddle point topology, and geometry that is very thin (like a cylinder). I plan on comparing the surface normal of the 3D brush location with each vertex's normal. If the normals are orthogonal or obtuse, don't paint them. As the normals become more acute, the cooresponding vertices take on more of the brush's color. </span></font></li></ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smudge tool</span></font></li><ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To replicate a smudge tool found in gimp or photoshop, I plan getting the direction that the brush is moving and using that direction to weight the blur of vertex colors/weights to a particular direction. </span></font></li></ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cone tool</span></font></li><ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Instead of using a spherical vertex intersection test, we'd use a cone intersection test, where the tip of the cone is at the 3D brush location and the direction of the cone would opposite the direction the brush is moving.</span></font></li></ul></ul></div></blockquote></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I have some sudo code for each of these features, and I think they'll help artists out quite a bit. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Today me and Bastien were able to roughly figure out what was causing a bug that prevented vertices from being painted. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">So that's where I'm at this week. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Let me know anyone has questions/feature requests!<br>-Nate</div>
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