[Bf-committers] Extrude Popup

[Martin Poirier]

--- On Sun, 2/14/10, Charles Wardlaw <cwardlaw at marchentertainment.com> wrote:

> I think that both operators being the same is important,
> but I think the default should be as it is in 2.49 --
> movement in view space.  The MMB or C press should then
> snap to normal.  I've been testing my own workflow here
> and I find that more often than not, moving in screen space
> is used with a ratio of over ten to one.  Yes, I
> actually counted. :)

2.49 extrude along normals by default too, that's why I set up 2.5 to do that same.

> For me, snapping is the most important tool.  Half of
> our meshes at work are being sculpted into shape and then
> retopologized (sometimes more than once).  Turning off
> the normal snap on extrude seems like a small thing, but
> when almost all retopo work involves extruding along a
> surface this becomes a Big Thing.
> 
> > I would really expect power use to remap those to
> > something that fits better their particular workflow instead
> > of the defaults that should be made to be ok for everybody
> > and not particular to somebody to the detriment of others.
> 
> I half-agree.  This is similar to how MMB-Pan was
> removed as an option since you can remap the keys in the
> hotkey editor.  The difference is, though, that a
> workflow issue like this -- in my opinion -- shouldn't have
> to be a power user thing.  If I weren't modeling
> organic characters all day, instead perhaps building
> windows, I might want the normal constraint all the time and
> I wouldn't want to have to edit my hotkeys to change the
> default.  Having a way to set that quickly before using
> the operator is, I think, paramount.

Default operator settings can be changed in the keymap, which is probably better for what you want. But for slower operator, I agree, being able to change them beforehand would be nice.

Martin


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