[Bf-committers] Bounding box, linked size, and Transform Properties

[Matt Ebb]

I read your message and saw the screenshot, but I still don't really  
understand what's going on there. I think it needs to be made clearer.

What does adjusting the 'bounding box' actually do? Does it mean that  
potentially even if an object's vertices are only 1BU wide, the  
object itself seems 2 BU wide even though there's nothing there in  
that extra space? This seems pretty weird, even by Blender standards.  
What would it be useful for?

As a side note if anything is going to happen there, it would really  
be a good (and long-overdue) thing to change the word 'Size' to  
'Scale'. The word size is very misleading, since it doesn't define an  
absolute size, but the scale from a somewhat arbitrary reference  
point, and many people have been confused by it.

cheers

Matt


On 11/06/2006, at 14:51 PM, Chris Want wrote:

>
> Howdy,
>
> I've written some code that allows a person to manipulate
> the bounding box size of a mesh object through the
> transform properties panel:
>
> http://bebop.cns.ualberta.ca/~cwant/bbox_transform_properties.png
>
> The bbox values, when manipulated, set SizeX, SizeY and SizeZ
> so that the object will have a bbox of the desired size.
> In the example picture, the object is the default 2x2x2 cube,
> which is why the bounding box values are all double that of
> the size values.
>
> There is also a mysterious, badly drawn, 'chain' icon there:
> this links the size/bbox values so that they vary together
> (i.e., if you modify one value by, say 10%, the others values
> will change by 10%).
>
> If nobody (with commit rights) has any objections, I will
> commit this tomorrow.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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