[Bf-modeling] Proportional Edit Mode (Connected)

[Jonathan Williamson]

Thanks for the improvements Campbell!

While on the topic of PET, the biggest improvement I think it needs is
support for Topological Length, rather than just proximity. This would work
almost exactly like Select More/Less, such that you can grow out the area
of influence, based on the adjacent, connected geometry.

Two examples of how this would be used are:

   1. Scaling just the lower lip on a character, without touching the upper
   lip.
   2. Posing an arm by rotating around the shoulder, without affecting the
   ribcage.

Each of the above is quite tricky to do with the current PET. You always
have to do a lot of cleanup work. I generally just avoid PET and do it
manually for these reasons.

Jonathan Williamson
http://cgcookie.com


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> To follow up on this topic, from the feedback so far my impression is
> that PET currently works acceptably, minor improvements are always
> nice but I didn't hear anything very urgent about PET failing or being
> broken, or connected behavior being really annoying the way it is now.
>
> Aside from Andy's comment about visualizing weight - I'm going to call
> this `Good Enough`, and move on (in fact move back to mirror feature
> discussed before).
>
> Feel free to disagree and raise issues with PET - but think we can
> move onto more important topics.
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