[Bf-funboard] soft selection

[alex]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Tom Musgrove wrote:

> the term soft select refers to the selection 'intensity' being proportional 
> with the selection radius.  Generally with the center of the selection has 
> full intensity and the edge of the radius has almost no intensity.  Generally 
> both the radius of selection and the maximum intensity can be varied 
> interactively.
>
> By intensity, it is meant that a transform performed on a selection is 
> proporptional to its intensity, thus central objects are displaced, scaled, 
> and moved more than are edgeward objects.
>
> As the following flash from MeshSurgery (a max plugin) shows this can 
> extremely useful as a sculpting tool.
>
> http://www.tools4d.com/MeshSurgery/flashclips/brush%20move.html
>
> More complex examples can be seen in the Zbrush videos, in this video, the 
> reveleant portion of the film is about 20% through 50%  of the way into the 
> movie, and shows the sculpting of muscle and facial detain onto a primitive 
> model.  (The rest of the movie is extremely impressive as well, but aren't 
> relevant to the current discussion).
>
> http://pixologic.com/zbrush/media_links/krol_movie_show.html
>
> Soft selection can be done both algorithimically (ie intensity = i_max/ 
> radius) or via an alpha mask.  Preferably both methods should be available.

Try the Proportional Editing Tool.


alex at schnittenparadies.de