[Bf-committers] 3D Transform Gizmo

Mal mal at candomultimedia.com
Tue Mar 22 21:44:17 CET 2005


Can I just say congratulations to Ton and Theeth on the new 3D transform 
gizmo, and it's underlying transformation re-write.

This REALLY IS going to make Blender usable by the masses, and is going 
to be the biggest usability update to modelling in Blender since the 
additional face and edge selection modes ( from way back when it used to 
be vertex only selection / manipulation ).

Regards...
Mal

BTW just a thought... if you look at the various transform gizmos, they 
are a mix of coloured 3D models ( cones / boxes ) and lines.  Would it 
be possible to allow users to create their own 3D transform gizmos?  Eg 
create a 3D model, with different colours ( eg red, green, blue for 
manipulation of axis ), and define this as the usable gizmo ( scale, 
rotate, translate ).  Also maybe even a visual skin model, to go over 
the functional model.

If this wasn't possible, it might be interesting to run a quick 
competition, to see who could design ( graphically ) the best 3D gizmo ( 
created directly in Blender of course ;) )



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