[Bf-committers] New group select menu

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

- I like the Shift+G menu!

- Shift+P and Shift+C is a bit overkill... you know in blender you can  
activate menu items with the keys 1-2-3.. etc? Plus it has a builtin  
memory, so the 2nd time a <SHIFT-G, Enter> is sufficient.
We have a huge lack of available hotkeys, so better to reserve a few  
for future usage.

- The wire colors: there have been a few proposals and experiments on  
wire colors in Blender. I like to challenge everyone here (and on the  
forums) to come with a coherent proposal for how the colors could be  
improved. This also related to zbuffered drawing. We can even choose to  
implement a couple of different wire-color systems, as a per-window or  
User preset.

-Ton-


On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 23:35 Europe/Amsterdam, instinctive new  
media wrote:

>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> to make object selection and hierarchy management in
> Blender a bit easier, I've hacked together a
> "Group selection" menu (SHIFT-G), which provides the
> following functions:
>
> - Children: Add all children (recursively) of the
>   active object to the selection. Children of
>   children etc. are also selected.
>
> - Immediate Children: Add only first-level children
>   of the active object to the selection
>
> - Parent: If the active object has a parent, make
>   it the active object instead (step up one level in
>   the tree)
>
> - Objects on shared layers: Add all objects to the
>   selection that share at least one layer with the
>   active object.
>
> Additionally, to make a scene and complex hierarchies
> more visible, I've added two colors which can be seen in
> wireframe mode:
>
> - If an object is drawn in DARK PINK instead of black, it
>   will be affected by transforming the active object (i.e.,
>   the active object is an ancestor)
>
> - If an object is drawn in DARK ORANGE instead of black,
>   it is the parent of the active object.
>
> Take a look at this screenshot for clarification:
>
> http://intrr.org/gs.jpg
>
> (The "Group members" option can be ignored - it is for
> selecting all members of the active group object, but that
> feature is still buggy and needs more testing/discussion)
>
> Now I think we can agree that this menu is useful for everyone,
> and the colors are quite helpful, too.
>
> The tricky part is: Hotkeys would be very fine for this stuff.
>
> SHIFT-P is free and could be used for 'Select Parent'. SHIFT-C
> would be obvious for 'Select all children', but it is currently
> in use for a weird function that resets the cursor and the view
> to (0/0/0). I don't know if anyone uses that key, I personally
> never did, but that doesn't mean anything:)
>
> A current reference of most, if not all keybindings in blender
> can be found here:
>
> http://loom.intrr.org/blenderkeys.txt
>
> So, any suggestions?:)
>
>
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