[Bf-funboard] Feature request about proportional editing

[Martin Poirier]

--- Joe Eagar <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Claudio "malefico" Andaur wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This afternoon I was remodelling a character
> (yeah, a bird in case you 
> > wonder) and found out that I needed proportional
> editing to be aware of 
> > seams, so those vertices beyond a seam (if that
> seam is closed) were not 
> > affected by proportional editing. Something like
> the Connected mode, but 
> > working on seams.
> >
> > I think this could be a feature others might enjoy
> as well, so if anyone 
> > is willing to work on it or discuss it here in the
> funboard, it'll be 
> > highly apreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > malefico
> >   
> Well it *is* possible with current code. . .it'd
> just be nasty, 
> memory-hungry code.  I can give pointers on how to
> do it with current 
> editmesh if someone wants to implement it. . .but I
> doubt any such thing 
> will make it into svn.  It'd be a local patch.

Just want to precise what Joe said VS what I said.
What would be memory hungry is the connectivity
calculations (which would be hard, as I said). If that
is out of the way (say, with bmesh), the rest is just
transform as usual.

Martin


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