[Bf-committers] today cvs : faces/vertices duplicator feature

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The duplicating system is based on efficent re-use of the Blender  
object system, it just creates per duplicate a new matrix transform to  
draw objects with. What exactly is being duplicated (lamps, faces,  
lattices) doesn't matter. There's also nothing being duplicated really,  
the duplicates are totally virtual.

Doing things on geometry level like this is more of a modifier (like  
array modifier does already).

-Ton-


On 29 Nov, 2006, at 23:23, Campbell Barton wrote:

> True, I was thinking of faces- where material is a face property, but  
> for dupliverts - vgroups are good.
> would be nice if the weight could be used to set the scale if the  
> dupli's - or used for some other purpose.
>
>
> Martin Poirier wrote:
>> Using VGroup means you can have overlaps between
>> different duplis. Not so with material. That and
>> linking it to material, which has a visual effect on
>> the render seems a bit silly to me.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --- Campbell Barton <cbarton at metavr.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Maybe better limit it to a material? - similar to
>>> particles- vgroups are better for fuzzee stuff.
>>>
>>> Martin Poirier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> --- jean-michel soler <jmsoler at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> do you see a difficulty to add an  option
>>>>>
>>> "selected"
>>>
>>>>> (near the Scale button) to limit the duplicopy to the selected
>>>>> faces/vertices only ?
>>>>> Regards, jms
>>>>>
>>>> Or make it possible to limit it to a vertex group
>>>>
>>> (if
>>>
>>>> that can't be done already).
>>>>
>>>> That would be even more generic than selected only
>>>> (and both can be manipulated in Python).
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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