[Bf-modeling] Proportional Edit Mode (Connected)

[Jonathan Williamson]

Oh my... I feel like an idiot. It works exactly like I want it to and I
never realized. I always thought that "Connected" just isolated the PET to
the current mesh island. Ignore my message :)

Jonathan Williamson
http://cgcookie.com


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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