[Bf-committers] Again: DVar and Var tooltips

[Campbell Barton]

Hey Alexander, I had a look at how var and dvar work, I misunderstood how it
worked.
DVar is the target value, and Var is how close it will get to that value,
Ill fix the tooltips, else suggestions are welcome.

On Dec 8, 2007 11:58 PM, Alexander Ewering <blender at instinctive.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> seems like my last message didn't make it through (although it did arrive
> here), so, here we go again:
>
> The tooltips for "DVar" and "Var" in the texture map-to buttons now
> are essentially the same. However, both sliders do different things
> obviously (tested with various combinations of settings). So, the question
> is:
>
> 1) Are the sliders redundant, and can one of them be removed?
> 2) If 1) is the case, then the different visuals they produce must
>     be a bug
> 3) If 1) is not true, then why does the tooltip for both say
>     the same thing?
>
> (The "Var" slider appearently sets the influence of the texture for
> anything that is NOT covered by the other sliders (Col, Nor, Disp). This
> coincides
> almost exactly with those mapping parameters which are explicitly
> mentioned
> in the new "DVar" tooltip, so, both tooltips are semantically identical).
>
> Further clarification needed, I think!
>
>
> Alexander Ewering
>
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