[Bf-funboard] Re: Some skinning feature ideas

[Michael Crawford]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Tony Mullen wrote:

>> K.  suppose you take what would normally be the "normalized" view,
>> represented as black an white, and multiply that with the color.  Now
>> you get what I mean?  This way you display normalized, and non-
>> normalized values at once.  then you actually *can* change the
>> default view.  for this to work though, lighting should probably be
>> removed from weight paint mode and wire made default.
>
> Dude, this is nuts.
>
> If you're not joking, then we obviously have very, very different
> ideas of what the word "intuitive" means.

I totally aggree it's not intuitive.  But if others like it... who  
knows.  Hey.. if it was up to me, weight painting would use RGB to  
individually influence weight per XYZ direction (signed, with 128 of  
each channel representing the zero point), enabling better shoulder  
deformation for example without using shape keys and drivers...  One  
would start off painting with gray and move away into all sorts of  
wonderful, but admittedly difficult to initially decipher, colors.   
It might be hell to get used to...  but again.  I'm a vim type  
person.  Can't there be a "crazy/eccentric/advanced" mode for people  
like me?  There is a greater potential for usefulness if a person  
could get used to such a mode (which would take time and practice)...  
but here i am now asking for an optional mode...  oops.