[Bf-committers] Weekly developer meeting minutes, march 4 2012

Nathan Vegdahl cessen at cessen.com
Mon Mar 5 08:59:00 CET 2012


> (and why not local location, while we
> are at it?)

Because the effects of local location cannot be achieved at all
without that feature, much less as simply as one can achieve what
hinge does.

--Nathan


On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I don’t think that feature adds that much complexity… On the user POV,
> it changes nothing on a usual use case, just adding some options that
> can become handy in some situations. In fact, it makes a quite specific
> feature more generic, by just replacing two checkboxes by two « search
> data » fields (or dropdown menus)… And it won’t come into your way as
> long as you don’t need it!
>
> Removing hinge/no scale options (and why not local location, while we
> are at it?) would make loading old files quite tricky (as we would have
> to add constraints to mimic those options).
>
> PS: And I think I’ve already proven I do can work on the whole armature
> subsystem, and not only on my « own little systems »! ;)
>
> Le 05/03/2012 07:23, Matt Ebb a écrit :
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Nathan Vegdahl<cessen at cessen.com>  wrote:
>>> I agree.  But I would still rather see hinge deprecated than improved.
>>>   I guess we just have different thresholds for "added back-end
>>> complexity" vs "shorter workflow".  To me, this has a very minor
>>> workflow benefit, but appears to make quite a lot of changes and add a
>>> fair amount of complexity to the transform code base.
>> +1
>>
>> As a general rule, blender is already too far on the 'overcomplicated
>> hard-coded special cases' side - it needs more in the way of simple,
>> rock solid, generic tools that work capably and reliably, that can be
>> adapted to your own usage patterns. This seems harder to achieve in
>> open source where volunteer devs like to work on their own little
>> systems and portions of code, but it's better for users in the long
>> run.
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