[Bf-committers] Cursor snaps to objects

Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com zanqdo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 05:33:48 CEST 2012


Wow! Talk about hidden feature :D It's quite cool, but i think it
shouldn't be located in the preferences but in the N panel instead
with a simple name like Stick to Surface

http://www.3developer.com/tmp/snapsurface.png

cheers

Daniel Salazar
patazstudio.com


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, it used to be included (hidden) in the Auto-Depth option, but
> Andy wanted to use cursor depth without other auto-depth navigation -
> so it was split out.
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Jonathan Williamson
> <jonathan at cgcookie.com> wrote:
>> Oh, good call Luke. I was not aware of that and has mistakenly enabled it. Thanks!
>>
>> Is that an addition to 2.64? I hadn't ever seen it.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Williamson
>> Education Manager and Instructor
>> CG Cookie, Inc
>> http://cgcookie.com
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Luke Frisken wrote:
>>
>>> Does this still occur with the cursor depth option turned off?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com (mailto:jonathan at cgcookie.com)
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> > Hey everyone,
>>> >
>>> > At what point did the 3D Cursor get changed to snap to any object
>>> > underneath it when placing it with the LMB? What was the rational behind
>>> > this?
>>> >
>>> > In my experience this is already causing a lot of problems when wanting to
>>> > set the cursor for a specific purpose. This is particularly problematic
>>> > when using Empties with Images as references or background images, as
>>> > anytime you place the cursor it snaps to the position of the empty.
>>> >
>>> > Any thoughts on this?
>>> >
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>>> > Jonathan Williamson
>>> > Education Manager and Instructor
>>> > CG Cookie, Inc
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