[Bf-modeling] Proportional Edit Mode (Connected)

[Campbell Barton]

How would `Topological Length` be different from existing 'Connected'
option for proportional editmode?

Would it ignore the actual length of edges and treat every edge as if
it were the same length?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Jonathan Williamson
<jonathan at cgcookie.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> Scaling just the lower lip on a character, without touching the upper lip.
> 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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- Campbell