[Bf-committers] Google Summer Of Code: UV - Tools

[Piotr Arlukowicz]

Another very important feature which is already present and is not so good
is the packing of islands. It changes the surface of islands in a very
unpredictable manner, making similar islands to be scaled very differently.
This makes packing islands nearly unusable.

And another one, which is very missed - is the ability of creating a groups
of island, which will then act as a single island. This would help manual
unwrapping and packing the map A LOT easier! Pinning here does not help
much and other tricks still don't make this work-flow fluent enough.

pio


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2016-03-21 14:00 GMT-04:00 Joe Eagar <joeedh at gmail.com>:

> I had an embarrassing moment last year when trying to help a coworker
> find a feature in Blender's UV editor.  It. . .no longer existed.  We
> definitely need some work done here.  One thing that absolutely drove
> her insane was the inability to hide UV islands without altering the
> mesh selection state.  That was a big deal for her.
>
> It might be worth concentrating on improving the UI workflow and not
> spend too much time on new unwrapping features.
>
> Best,
> Joe
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Phil Gosch <phil at saphirestudio.at>
> wrote:
> > Hey again!
> >
> > I just submitted/shared my proposal via the GSOC form and would love to
> get some feedback from possible mentors, seasoned devs and Ton of course.
> As usual I'm also available via IRC.
> >
> > I'd especially be interested in what specific improvements to the Unwrap
> algorithm ("Improved automatic UV Layout") the mentors had in mind when
> writing the ideas page as well as general feedback regarding the proposal.
> >
> > Thanks in advance and best wishes,
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 13.03.2016 um 12:49 schrieb Phil Gosch:
> >> Hey everybody!
> >>
> >> My name is Phil Gosch, I'm from Graz University of Technology and I'm
> >> interested in the "UV Editing Tools" GSOC project.
> >> I'd be very happy to realize this project and wanted to get some
> >> help/tipps or hints beforehand, that's why I'm writing this mail.
> >>
> >> About me: I'm a long time Blender user and active member of the Blender
> >> community. Besides university I'm working as a 3D/Technical Artist
> >> freelancer, where I'm mostly doing illustrations, visualizations
> >> including custom tool development and gameart/gamedev. You can have a
> >> look at my portfolio at my homepage [0] or at my Blender Network profile
> >> [1].
> >>
> >> As someone who uses Blender as his main tool on a daily basis I know the
> >> UV Editor (and its shortcomings) and because of that fact I not only
> >> think I'm fitting for this project but I also have a great personal
> >> interest in improving these tools. I'm no complete stranger to Blender
> >> core coding, I already had some of my patches applied to trunk a few
> >> years ago. Of course the codebase is changing all the time, that's why
> >> I'm already getting familiar with the codebase again. I already compiled
> >> the newest Blender version and I'm spending my free time reading
> >> uvedit_*.c files. ;)
> >>
> >> I think the outline presented at the ideas page [2] makes sense, however
> >> while writing my proposal I found that I liked the idea of trying to
> >> convert some of the useful UV python scripts I'm using to C code (I'm
> >> sure people have lots of scripts they use which I don't even know
> >> about). So if you use a python addon for the UV tools and would like me
> >> to consider it for inclusion into my proposal, please let me know by
> >> answering to this mail. :)
> >>
> >> If any of the potential mentors (Bastien, Campbell, Howard) have some
> >> useful input I'd be very thankful! Also if anyone could have a look at
> >> my proposal before submitting that would be great! It's not finished
> >> yet, but you can poke me anytime on IRC/blendercoders, I'm always
> >> lurking there. My IRC nick is "saphires".
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Phil
> >>
> >> [0] http://www.saphirestudio.at/
> >> [1] https://www.blendernetwork.org/phil-gosch
> >> [2]
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016/Ideas
> >>
> >> PS: Sorry if this mail shows up twice, there was an error when I first
> >> tried sending it
> >>
> >
> > --
> > pixel-pusher at saphirestudio.at
> >
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