[Bf-committers] Inconsistancy in blender

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:58, Campbell Barton wrote:
> Hi Ton, was just refering to things like 'Light', Twoside, Halo, Tex, .. 
> etc.
> - Cam
> 

The Texture Face panel doesn't show general settings, but the properties
of the active face. And the active face is not defined in Edit Mode. I
don't think this would be predictable behavior.

Brecht.

> Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is unclear... faces have many properties, so what's the 'mode'  
> > here? For texture faces?
> >
> > When faces get created in Blender it tries to duplicate the 
> > information  when it's available, otherwise it uses settings from 
> > buttons or a  default. Now with addition of edges in Meshes we have 
> > new problems to  solve still. And we still dont have reliable code for 
> > retrieving  information from vertices or edges when they are selected 
> > for making a  face.
> >
> > The copying code in Blender (in editmode) is far from clean, and 
> > could  need cleanup badly. But it's also very sensitive stuff... 
> > patches for  that are welcome, but need to be verified.
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> >
> > On Monday, Jul 19, 2004, at 15:38 Europe/Amsterdam, Campbell Barton  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, just writing because Im modeling a model where Im making heaps 
> >> of  faces and I noticed an inconsistancy in the way blender works.
> >>
> >> Here it is
> >>
> >> You make a face from 3/4 verts.. or extrude.
> >>
> >> The new face is the colour of the current vert colour- at first this  
> >> annoyed my but now I am used to it its good.
> >>
> >> The inconsistancy is that the face isnt the same MODE as the current  
> >> mode configuration.
> >>
> >> Does anybody agree that new faces should have the mode as the 
> >> buttons  are set?
> >>
> >> If I made a patch would anybody be interested in commiting it?
> >>
> >> - Cam
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