[Bf-funboard] idea to replace center cursor and friends

[Doug Ollivier]

Well if you have a toggle to be able to move object centres (i.e. 
centres are selectable and movable) you may as well design the interface 
method to be able to handle "multiple centres" in the future.

In reply to Jason, you would just flick between "object mode" and 
"centre mode" with centremode, simply right clicking on a centre would 
activate it and you could transform your model around it.  by no means 
would i ever suggest some kind of list menu like blender currently uses 
for things like groups.  in fact the whole system would need a single 
new button (a toggle), and then all be interface driven.

Just considering the future possibilities before implementing one that 
limits them.  not trying to twist your proposal Bassam.

Doug Ollivier


Bassam Kurdali wrote:
> hmm, basically what I meant was to use "normal " object mode transform,
> but have a mode where it just affects object centers. You would select
> objects as usual, do transformations, snapping, multiple selections,
> around cursor -etc. all the convenience of transform, without moving any
> object data (barring mishaps due to parenting relationships, which the
> current system suffers from anyway). When done, detoggle the mode, and
> you're back to normal. I'm told maya does this using the insert key as a
> toggle. 
> multiple pivot points is an interesting idea, but totally out of the
> scope of my original one, and as far as I can tell , independent from
> it.
> If we're on a roll of asking for extra things, I'd say some way to
> animate a pivot point would rock (more than multiple pivot points)...
> think of IK, and feet...mmm... that could be accomplished by some
> bizarro "pivot" constraint and animating the target object, but I
> somehow doubt that would work. I know some tools (CAT I think) lets you
> animate pivots and even the location of the Ik solver on a chain, but
> have no idea how they accomplish this (admittedly awesome) feat.
> Bassam
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 18:52 -0500, Jason van Gumster wrote:
>   
>> I agree that being able to select and move center points would be good
>> and useful and helpful.  However, this I'm not so sure about:
>>
>>     
>>> the other thing which would be useful, is "multiple" rotate/transform 
>>> points per object which you can select through so you can basically
>>> save extra common centre points (to avoid the shuffle even more)
>>>       
>> In the amount of time (or less) that it would take you to go through a
>> list or dialog to pick which center point you want to use, you could
>> just as easily place the 3D cursor where you want and rotate around
>> that.  Of course, it's not unlikely that I'm missing something here, so
>> please feel free to clarify.
>>
>>   -Fweeb
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