[Bf-modeling] option for bevel?

[Howard Trickey]

Any further thoughts? If not, I will probably do as Marc suggests and put
it into master and see what the reaction from users is.

Marc, adding the header toggle option for vertex only is easy, so I will do
that.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:50 PM Marc Dion <marcdion1974 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You do nice work, do what you feel is best.  If it causes some catastrophe
> and nations begin to crumble then just use some fancy GIT fan-dangling to
> undo it. ;)
>
> Bevel doesn't have many options as it is; all three of the usual
> Transforms(Translate, Rotate, and Scale) already have more options
> available to them than bevel does so you'd be well within the limits of
> what is already common for other tools.
>
> On a related note:  Could you please consider adding 'Bevel->Vertex Only'
> to the header toggle options? That display is still only about 60% full.
> (Hopefully this won't sidetrack your question).
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would like people's opinion on this task / patch for bevel:
>>
>> https://developer.blender.org/T45260
>>
>> It is a problem that I can only figure out to solve by adding an option,
>> which the patch calls "loop slide", whose effect is this:
>>
>> If false: the meeting point between beveled edges is placed to, as much
>> as possible, make the widths of the bevel edges match the user's spec. Any
>> unbeveled edges attached to those points just move their ends accordingly.
>>
>> if true: if there is an unbeveled edge between two beveled ones, the
>> meeting point will slide along that edge. If there is more than one, but
>> only one that is not in the same plane as the beveled edges (so it affects
>> the silhouette) then slide along that one.
>>
>> As the task says, there are some cases where each behavior is desired by
>> users.
>>
>> But I hate adding new options, especially ones that are hard to explain
>> like this one is.  So two questions:
>>
>> 1) should I make this an option?
>> 2) if so, what is the best name for it and the best default value? The
>> patch has the name as 'loop slide' and the default value false, but I think
>> I would prefer the default value true, since the cases where people want
>> loop slide seem to come up more often.  But I am not sure. Another name
>> could be something like 'preserve widths', with the meaning opposite of the
>> loop_slide option.
>>
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