[Bf-modeling] proper behavior for knife cut, midpoint snap mode

[Howard Trickey]

So is the decision here to make it so that the normal mode is "snap to
middle" (if you get close enough to the middle), but in that normal mode
you wouldn't snap to middle of intermediate edges, but if you hold down the
"Snap to Middle" key (Ctrl), it would snap to all intermediate faces?

If so, probably should change the text for the Ctrl key to be something
like "all-midpoint snap"; even then, it may seem confusing to have a key
that turns on something that is on be default.


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:21 AM, metalliandy <metalliandy666 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Ok, cool. :)
> On 03/07/2014 04:24, Campbell Barton wrote:
> > Think its fine to leave as it is now in master.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:10 AM, metalliandy
> > <metalliandy666 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Technically I would expect the mid point snap to snap to all
> intermediate
> >> points but I can also see the usefulness of the other option where the
> it
> >> only snaps to the last edge at the midpoint.
> >>
> >> I wouldn't personally like to endorse the work around suggested as it
> would
> >> be a laborious fix that only gets compounded as the face count
> increases. It
> >> would be far faster to workaround the no midpoint snapping by
> subdividing
> >> the starting and target edges and then cut a linear line between the
> newly
> >> created verts.
> >>
> >> If we really don't want to add another hotkey (though perhaps something
> like
> >> double CTRL press would work?) I would suggest keeping the snapping to
> >> intermediate points option as it's much slower to workaround.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we could add a new addition to the constrain angle where the
> tool
> >> gives an option to snap to midpoints instead of adding a new hotkey?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> -Andy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/07/2014 17:42, Howard Trickey wrote:
> >>
> >> We have conflicting opinions (in the form of bug reports) about what the
> >> behavior should be when you have midpoint-snap on with Knife, and the
> line
> >> crosses intermediate edges.
> >>
> >> See https://developer.blender.org/T39617
> >> where the user complained that the 2.69 behavior was to snap to the
> middle
> >> of the intermediate edges too. Though I kind of liked the newer behavior
> >> (not snapping to the intermediate points), I agreed that this was a
> behavior
> >> regression and so "fixed" it to the 2.69 behavior.
> >>
> >> Now there are complaints about that fix.
> >> See https://developer.blender.org/T40805
> >>
> >> I lean towards reverting to the "don't snap to the middle of the
> >> intermediate edges" method, because there is an easier workaround to
> get the
> >> other mode: just click on each edge as you cross it while drawing the
> line
> >> (in midpoint snap mode).  And the star example in the T40805 discussion
> is
> >> compelling.  (But one could also say the that half-wheel example in
> T39617
> >> is compelling.)
> >>
> >> What is the right answer?  I don't think this is important enough to
> make an
> >> option or have different key stroke shortcuts for the two different
> >> midpoint-snapping modes.
> >>
> >> - Howard
> >>
> >>
> >>
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