[Bf-committers] Blender developer weekly meeting notes - May 26, 2013; Leap Motion

[Sean Olson]

Got mine too.  I agree it could work well with gestures combined with Pie
Menus - I was thinking along similar lines.  Imagine something like this:

Hold a number of fingers up, this will activate a set pie - (So for
instance,  hold two fingers out like horizontal bunny ears and it will
activate pie #2) - then swipe in the direction of the menu you want to
select.  So, if you wanted to select the NE Pie of Piemenu #5 you would
would just lay your hand out flat and swipe in a diagonal up direction.
 (The number of pies could be increased a lot by using binary with your
fingers as digits, but I think this might get way too confusing).

View navigation could be fun too - I find the precision was a bit
frustrating with free control (I had trouble positioning a cube in test
apps), but jumping into orthogonal views could work.  Imagine this - Make a
fist (track palm) and move it vertical up to go into bottom view, vertical
down to go into top view, left to go into right view, and right to go into
left view, push forward like a punch to go into back view and pull to go
into front.  Could work nicely.  (I described the objects versus object in
opposite terms because then it feels like you are actually "throwing the
object in the correct direction", you "push" the front of the object to the
left in order to see the right side of the object).

Also, there is some good series of articles here on integrating leap into
3d programs and what works/what does not - worth a good read.  Might help
save some time in experiments that just don't work at all.
http://goo.gl/7qlTt

Thanks for weathering my brainstorms,
-Sean


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jakub Żółcik <j.zolcik at allblue.pl> wrote:

> Haven't even got shipping tracking link to mine yet :(
>
> As I was expecting Leap Motion won't do any good for modeling I got a
> little bit different idea. When I will get mine I will try to develop
> set of gestures that will allow replacing keyboard when using blender
> and enable view control. I think it will be especially efficient with
> pie menus. What do you think?
>
> Jakub Zolcik
>
> W dniu 2013-05-26 20:40, Jonathan Williamson pisze:
> > I got mine as well. It's definitely different and takes a bit of getting
> > use to. I think it shows a lot of promise for cool presentation tools,
> but
> > not so much for productive tools.
> >
> > Jonathan Williamson
> > http://cgcookie.com
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> - Leap Motion device seed has started, we wait a bit for it to arrive
> >> everywhere. There's a developer from Leap who already added support for
> the
> >> BGE, he will be connecting with us soonish.
> >>
> >> Got mine last week. They sent it fed-X! I live in Germany. Been
> >> playing with it a little bit. It is rather fun but also hard to
> >> control so far. I am not put off by the hardness. The mouse was a pain
> >> when I started with it too. Had to keep picking it up and sometimes it
> >> ran off the desk. :-)
> >>
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