[Bf-committers] select loop behavior

[Yousef Hurfoush]

although it's not a killer but annoyingly enough change, i could model without it, or select in edge mode,
but surely it slows down the workflow, thanks anyway :)

Regards
Yousef Harfoush
bat3a at msn.com



> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:15:17 +0100
> From: metalliandy666 at googlemail.com
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] select loop behavior
> 
> It's problematic because of the examples in the first post. If I am 
> trying to select a loop similar to the picture in the first post then it 
> selects the whole face, which means I have to either change to edge mode 
> and deselect the offending edge or reselect the other verts. manually. 
> As fredrik said, this causes workflow problems when working with single 
> strip quads when doing things like retopo or in my case blocking out a 
> high/lowpoly surface.
> 
> Without trying to sound like a dick, I cannot imagine a real world 
> example where any modeller who is at least relatively experienced would 
> want to select the boundary of an ngon in the manner that you presented 
> in your example...people just shouldn't model that way. Ngons should 
> never be used as a boundary... only ever on flat, non deforming surfaces 
> and only then if they are surrounded by a loop of quads. They can always 
> inset the ngon and the problem is fixed for them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Andy
> 
> On 13/05/2013 12:51, Campbell Barton wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:31 PM, metalliandy
> > <metalliandy666 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Hmm, It really depends on what the target audience is for this I
> >> suppose. It plays havoc when doing subd work, for which ngons should
> >> only be used on flat areas that are surrounded by quad loops.
> >> How much do people select ngons in this way vs quads?
> > Are you talking about the original post from Yousef?
> > How to deal with mixes of NGons+Quads+WireEdges+BoundryEdges... is
> > disputable and could be changed/improved.
> > But I fail to see how a detail about the behavior of selecting the
> > endpoint of dangling quad would cause havoc to your workflow.
> >
> > Can you give details as to why current behavior is so problematic?
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