[Bf-funboard] Toggling proportional edit during transform

[Bol Bib]

in a first effort it would already suffice to be able to toggle it on or off when doing a transform

ideally the mode of proportionel edit that is chosen is the one you had active last time.

as an additional function when you toggle on you could easily provide a popup with the 3 choices blender will now have (as opposed to 2 previously) with the last active one pre-selected.


at least that is how I see it.

> From: hadriscus at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:38:42 +0200
> To: bf-funboard at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-funboard] Toggling proportional edit during transform
> 
> Hi Matjaz,
> 
> your "fingers" example sounds like a perfect scenario for using the
> "connected" mode, because it does what you describe, unless I misunderstood
> ?
> 
> @David, I don't think it should be hardcoded because as you said, there
> would be no way of changing the hotkey for it later on. Then I am not sure
> what you're asking, I'm new to this lingo so... if I expand the modal-map
> in the input preferences I see a number of hotkeys which are effective
> during a grab/rotate/scale operation.... very few keys are effectively busy
> at the moment, so don't we have room for setting new ones ?
> 
> 
> On 13 July 2013 10:26, Matjaz Lamut <matjaz.lamut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Proportional editing doesn't look like a simple toggle. Currently it has 3
> > states with 1 more coming in 2.68 and 1 more possible that users have
> > expressed the wish to see it implemented, but not on any roadmap.
> >
> > -Disable
> > -Enable
> > -Connected
> > -Projected (2d)      <- in 2.68
> >
> > -Along geometry      <- requested and mentioned by users. Imagine fingers
> > on a hand and you only wish to affect one of them from the tip to the base,
> > without affecting neighbouring fingers. Can be done if the effect of
> > proportional editing travels along geometry rather than an influence sphere
> > around the reference point.
> >
> > In addition, you have 7 falloff curves to choose from for proportional
> > editing.
> >
> > -Smooth
> > -Sphere
> > -Root
> > -Sharp
> > -Linear
> > -Constant
> > -Random
> >
> > With so many options for proportional editing I do wonder how things can be
> > designed for nice usability. Adding proportional editing into transform
> > actions would at least double the existing commands one can already do
> > during transforms. That is, when I imagine simple toggle keys, no fancy
> > usability ideas in my head.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:12 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I estimate the coding for (1) is minimal.. but IMO this only makes sense
> > if
> > > we think proportional editing toggle is the "one remaining thing" that
> > > should be toggleable during modal grab. I don't know whether this is true
> > > or not, but I'm suspicious.
> > >
> > > A good place to start would be a breakdown of all the toggles that affect
> > > grab, which ones have modal-grab hotkeys and which don't. I'm not sure of
> > > this myself. Can you post such a quick summary?
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