[Bf-committers] Selecting of Bones in Armatures

[Martin Poirier]

I don't see why it would make more sense or be more
intuitive. If you think of the bones as edges and the
joints, it makes a lot of sense to me. Acting on the
bones as atomic structures would be like an "edge"
mode for meshes (like Wings has). Acting on the joints
is much easier and precise when rigging than acting on
the bones (which would be like posing in FK where you
get not precision at the end of the limbs).

Nonetheless, a way to select both joints of a bone by
clicking on the bone itself would be nice.

Martin

--- Jeremy Wall <zaphar@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are some good reasons for the different
> selection methods in
> editmode since the objects your actually editing are
> the "joints".
> however from the end user perspective using a the
> rotation scale and
> translations tools for regular objects may make more
> sense and be more
> intuitive. Especially since Blender doesn't really
> make use of a
> "Joint" based system per se. So I actually rather
> agree with Alexander
> on this one
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:29:39 +0200 (CEST), Alexander
> Ewering
> <blender@instinctive.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Chris Want wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > End-user questions like this should be asked
> > > at http://www.elysiun.com .
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > P.S. Maybe we need a blender-users mailing list
> > > for the forum adverse? (like me)
> > 
> > I wouldn't characterize this as an end-user
> question. It's a workflow
> > problem and suggestion... The question is valid:
> Why has selection of
> > bones never been possible by just clicking on them
> (like it is in
> > Pose mode)? I always found the strange editmode
> "select the endpoints"
> > convention disturbing, or at least inconsistent,
> as well.
> > 
> > Though I agree it would be more appropriate on
> bf-funboard. But
> > it's definitely no simple end-user question :)
> > 
> > 
> > | alexander ewering              instinctive
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