[Bf-committers] Why must sync selection be disabled to select UV islands?

[gandalf3]

Wow! This is why blender is awesome!

Thanks so much :)

On 03/18/15 04:41, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> Committed, https://developer.blender.org/rBaff4aa173a78c7bbd7d08666f995d48ea18cdb50
>
> On 18 March 2015 at 11:29, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>> I meant Border Select (shortkey "b"), Sorry for the confusion.
>> Maybe the other term slipped into my memory from usage
>> with another tool :-[
>>
>> Nevertheless i believe that selecting an island via Border select
>> (or Lasso select) and selecting the island by using "L" should
>> give identical results.
>>
>> And i agree that using any select tool in vertex selection mode
>> might be less useful than using it in face selection mode.
>>
>> cheers
>> gaia
>>
>> On 18.03.2015 11:00, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
>>> "Rubber band tool"?
>>>
>>> On 18 March 2015 at 10:40, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>>>> I made a simple experiment:
>>>>
>>>> - i select "keep UV selection in sync"
>>>> - then use the rubber band tool to select an UV island
>>>>
>>>> As a result i get the related vertices selected on the 3D View,
>>>> just as expected. AND i also get all UV vertices selected
>>>> which belong to other UV islands, which i also expect because
>>>> i have actually chosen to keep UV in Sync with 3dView...
>>>>
>>>> Now here is my problem with your argumentation:
>>>> If you say, the selection by UV Island is "wrong and unusable",
>>>> what makes it ok to have the rubber band selector available,
>>>> which actually "suffers" from the same issues?
>>>>
>>>> -gaia-
>>>>
>>>> On 18.03.2015 10:16, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
>>>>> because selecting an island will also select its vertices, and those
>>>>> vertices can belong to other uv islands, and if you select those
>>>>> vertices you'll have to select uv vertices on other islands as well.
>>>>> Ergo, you either select more islands - which makes the tool useless,
>>>>> or you leave your selection state invalid.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 March 2015 at 08:02, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I would be surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but finding old
>>>>>> stuff on the mailing list isn't easy..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, trying to select UV islands with L while sync selection is
>>>>>> enabled gives the error "Cannot select linked when sync selection is
>>>>>> enabled".
>>>>>> Why must sync selection be disabled? I can't think of any obvious reason
>>>>>> why there would be a conflict of some sort.. As a matter of fact this
>>>>>> seems like it would be a really useful ability.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some technical limitation which prevents this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> -gandalf3
>>>>>>
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-gandalf3