[Bf-committers] Intesting smal suggestions

[Xavier Thomas]

Hi,

2016-01-25 11:38 GMT-02:00 Ivam Pretti <ivamprettimn at gmail.com>:

> I have three small suggestions to make that will improve a lot the
> usability
> of some important features in blender:
>
> first - > Shrink modifier: it needs a influency vertex group, so we can
> adjust the vertices that are the target to shrink to.
>
> Its usefull to cloths and a lot of other things.
>

Pretty much all the modifiers could use lots of extra options, in the goal
to make them useful for more use case and keep your objects more
procedural/parametric. The problem is when to stop adding stuff that is too
specific, because it bloats the UI and code and confuse users. A better
solution would be "object nodes" with the current modifiers as nodes and
inputs as sockets so you can pass the vertices/edges and faces you want to
each modifiers.


> second -> a new modifier: weld vertices or something like that. vertex
> close enough mix each other in pars to one vertex of different meshes.
>

Sometimes using the shrink warp modifier with snap to vertex and vertex
group can do what you want, sometimes not. In the past I thought of writing
a "bridge loop" modifier to fill holes in a object and fill gaps between 2
meshes. But it would suffers from the same caveat as other modifier when
combining with other modifiers. Also I think object nodes would permit to
do that .

Long story short: I am very excited about the "object nodes" and think you
should be too.
https://www.youtube.com/user/lukastoenne