[Bf-committers] Tool Stack with Tool Painter!

[joeedh]

Tom M wrote:

>The third challenge is mirror support, again their are a few different
>approaches, the best and most robust approach is to use object space
>spherical coordinates.
>
>To do this get the mouse local space coordinates, transform them to
>spherical, here are the formulas
>
>http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/coords/
>
>Now flip the coordinates based on how you want to mirror (x, y or z)
>or if you want to do radial mirrors (ie have five symmetric
>tentacles), you can do that as well.
>
>Then you can either transform to local space cartesian coordinates, or
>alternatively project a ray from the center of the object outward
>along the new polar coordinate(s) and use those as your mirroring
>locations.  The advantage of projecting is that non symmetrical mesh
>can still have the mirroring used.  Also if you use projection based,
>there is a possibility of working on the wrong layer of a mesh that
>has folds and such.  (I have a few possible work arounds though, ie
>check and make sure that the radial distance is close to that of the
>original location...).
>
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I'm just using select-a-face paint mode, that happens to perform a tool 
macro at the same time :)

However, the issue of mirroring is a real one, Modo has it and I have 
this obsession with not being outdone by modo ;)

joeedh