[Bf-funboard] custom/normal/etc view enhancement possibilities

[Martin Poirier]

--- On Fri, 5/30/08, Bassam Kurdali <bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:

> The patch works great here!
> One (potential) hiccup is that the menu could be very big;
> I get
> global/local/normal/view+all my custom views (when rigging,
> I tend to
> have one for every off-axis limb or digit (on one side)
> right now I have
> hand, and five for each digit. so that menu has 4+6=10
> items. That's
> managable, but if it grows any further it would start to be
> a pain.

Agreed.

What could be done also is adding a little eye icon next to the CTO in the floating panel, clicking on them would align the view.

Would that be better when dealing with longer lists?

> Not sure I have a suggestion, other than (perhaps)
>  a- limit it to global/local/normal/view/active-custom
> orientation? 

Seeing as Global and View are pretty much useless, those could be removed too.

>  b- have a standard menu, but the first item is
> "current" so you get
> global/local/normal/view and even the whole list of custom
> orientation,
> but the first item in the menu is current orientation, so
> you can hit
> ctrl-numpad * enter to align to your active view. 

Yes, that might work.

>  c- just have current/global/local/normal/view. slightly
> limiting, but
> keeps the menu always the same looking, would work for my
> particular use
> cases, but as always, others may have different uses for
> the same
> feature.

Not sure I like that one, since it looses a lot of the power of working with CTOs.

This one could be an option too:

d- It could always align using the current orientation (bit more fiddling around, but it would mean it aligns to the "work" orientation)