[Bf-funboard] New Keymap: selection

[Knapp]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Luke Swanson <lswan58 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, had some trouble sending this, so my apologies if this suddenly shows
>> up as a double-post:
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> I'm a die hard fan of it
>> >> going on double click. (It should, by the way :P)
>> >
>> > Ah!  Of course, double-click.
>> >
>> > How about this:
>> > LMB click = select
>> > LMB drag = border select
>> > LMB drag + Alt = lasso select
>> > LMB double-click = loop select
>> > LMB double-click + Alt = ring select
>> >
>> > And then shift = add, ctrl = remove.
>> >
>> > I think circle/paint select is actually better as a modal tool, since
>> > that gives the user a clear opportunity to resize the brush.  So we
>> > can just leave that assigned to C (or some other key).
>> >
>> > The only thing this leaves us without is shortest-path select, which
>> > is important in my experience for UV unwrapping of dense meshes, and
>> > sometimes for tweaking vertex weights during rigging.  IMO it's not as
>> > important to be super quickly accessible since it's less frequently
>> > used (please speak up if disagree), but it shouldn't be too bizarre
>> > either.  Suggestions?
>>
>
> This proposal seems quite  sensible. For shortest path select I would
> propose dropping it to a hot key or command and adding functionality to the
> ring/loop select tools to allow for partial loop/ring selection. This means
> that after the ring/loop is calculated it is checked for selected
> verticies/edges/faces if it finds two of these then it limits the selection
> to the shortest path between these two verticies/edges/faces along the
> loop/ring. Wings3d has this feature and I find it more useful/predictable
> than shortest path select in Blender.

It could be switched with a roll of the mouse roller, middle button.


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