[Bf-committers] Feature Proposal Update

[Bart]

Hello Rpbert,
thanx for your comments.

 > I disagree with your assessment of the mouse button functions, since MMB
 > is "lock axis" for many blender functions and that is what is
 > implemented now.

Mhmm ... this is a very technical view, i see it through the workflow 
and user view and so "lock axis" by using MMB is for me just a special 
feature of the action (like using MMB for unpaint in Border select). I 
think this way (using MMB for special features of the action) is better 
to understand and more flexible.

The most workflow problem of the knife tool at the moment is that there 
is no way to confirm cutting using the mouse and that's a bad workflow 
(right hand using mouse,left hand controls keyboard).

A uniform mouse action code that is not bounded to strong on a special 
technical behavior would improve the workflow of Blender much.

It would be great for the next release uniforming the functions and 
workflow of Blender.

Robert Wenzlaff wrote:
> At 03:16 AM 8/16/04, you wrote:
> 
>> ...and another update of my proposal, this time about the knife tool:
>> http://www.neeneenee.de/blender/features/#10
> 
> 
> While the multi-cut would be nice, it is technically difficult, since 
> the full name of the tool is "Knife Subdivide", and the subdivide 
> routines only make 1 cut per edge.  I currently pass the % cut location 
> in the edge's user flag data (ed->f1), but the mesh/edge structure only 
> has one useable flag per edge...  Allowing arbitrary cuts would require 
> arbitrary numbers of flags, (arbitrary numbers of datum is something 
> Blender does not do well).
> 
> It might be possible to do the cut in several passes, though, where each 
> segment flags the edges and calls subdivide independently (marking new 
> verts as selected, so the edges get cut a second time).    This could 
> make paint-cuts very CPU intensive and could increase the number of 
> faces generated, since the routines to detect when to use tris and when 
> to use quads need to see al the marked edges at once.  Maybe I lump them 
> as one cut until I detect an edge that already has a cut, then call 
> subdivide and  repeat.  I'll think some more about this.
> 
> I disagree with your assessment of the mouse button functions, since MMB 
> is "lock axis" for many blender functions and that is what is 
> implemented now.  (I can't actually think of anyplace MMB is "line 
> draw", but I'm sure someone will correct me.)  Paint is really just a 
> special case of line draw, where all the segments are 1 pixel long.  I 
> really hated to make the distinction between these "modes" in use, since 
> there really isn't one in the software.   If the LMB is down, knife 
> starts a new segment.  If you hold it  down, it just starts a new 
> segment for every mouse movement.
> 
> Robert Wenzlaff
> 
> 
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