[Bf-funboard] Tiny wish for Move shortcut

[Matjaz Lamut]

Hello,

Sorry to immediately jump in with proposals how it would be cool to see
even more of this :) I find double key presses a great idea and think they
have a lot of potential to streamline Blender's keymap. I couldn't resist
adding my 2 cents when I saw there's work being done in this area :)
Currently there are two places where they are used (rotate/trackball, the
new move/edge slide) while 2.49 also had circle/border select mapped to
B-key. What do you think of expanding this behaviour? For example:

E - extrude
E, E - extrude individual faces

I - inset
I, I - inset individual faces

S - scale
S, S - shrink/fatten

B - border select
B, B - circle select
(from 2.49)

Or for the view keys.

numpad 3 - right view
numpad 3, numpad 3 - left view

numpad 1 - front view
numpad 1, numpad 1 - back view

numpad7 - top view
numpad 7, numpad7 - bottom view


Seeing it's a behaviour already present in Blender, I don't see it breaking
any of the current UI paradigms. In addition, when expanded to other tools,
it would contribute to Blender's internal consistency, where a single rule
of interaction would apply to many places. One more benefit is doing less
finger acrobatics with keys and modifier keys.

Is there a chance to see this included in Blender?


Regards,
Matjaž







On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Julio Iglesias <j at zafio.com> wrote:
> > Awesome! the lack of UV correction is a bummer but still, it is a
> pleasure
> > to use. Thanks!
>
> YW :), Adding CustomData(UVs, vcols etc) wont be too much work.
>
> > Multiple verts is nice, but shouldn't it work also accessing the tool
> from
> > the menu or the other shortcut too?, for the sake of consistency?
> > On the other hand... eventually, a lot of people will probably stop
> > accessing it that way, so I guess it is not worth the trouble.
>
> Currently we have 3x vertex slide tools in blender, I had to add 3rd
> becuase the otheres were not implemented in our transform system.
> I'll look into removing the other 2 but I didnt write them so I was
> hesitant to remove them immediately, but Ill check on this before
> release.
>
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Julio Iglesias <j at zafio.com> wrote:
> >> > "G key" moves as usual...
> >> > "G key" again to Slide selected vertex* or edge.
> >> >
> >> > * without the initial "edge lock" please, just take the edge where the
> >> > mouse cursor is, rather than creating that superfluous step of select
> and
> >> > lock the edge/direction...
> >> >
> >> > Regards.
> >>
> >> Great idea, committed r53767, 53768
> >>
> >> Notes.
> >> - Edge slide is used, unless it cant find an edge loop, then vertex
> >> slide is used as a fallback. (this way single verts works as expected)
> >> - Vertex slide can slide multiple verts at once.
> >> - Corrective UV's are not yet supported by vertex slide, but support
> >> can be added.
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