[Bf-committers] [Patch] Draw object in BoundBox when transform

[Jonathan Merritt]

LECOCQ Guillaume wrote:

>Hello, I make a patch for a french user who wants to works with his
>big scene without wit for the redraw.
>
>He has some object with some vertice, if he moves an object, turn the
>view, ... Blender redraw slowly all times.
>The idea : when moves, rotates, turns view, ... all objects in the
>current area is drawn in BoundBox and after make the change, all
>objects return to there drawtype state.
>  
>

Cool! :-)  Conceptually I think this is a great idea, and I remember
seeing something like this in 3D Studio Max that really seemed to speed
up viewport navigation.  However, I think that it would be even better
if Blender could automatically detect when the redraw time has become
long enough that the boundbox drawing mode is required.  So, when the
scene is being drawn, the boundbox drawing mode would not be used until
the redraw time exceeds some minimum value.

Hopefully I'll be able to test the patch tomorrow.

-- 
Jonathan Merritt BE(Mech)/BSc
PhD Student - Equine Biomechanics
The University of Melbourne
Veterinary Clinical Centre, Werribee