[Bf-modeling] option for bevel?

[Marc Dion]

The new Loop Slide option for Edit mode's Bevel tool seems nice.  On random
line selections of the monkey head, it seems to do a fairly good job of
consistently keeping existing edges where they originally were compared to
the original behavior.

ps.  thanks for adding the *Vertex Only* option to the interactive header
menu.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Changed my mind on the default. Made the default match current behavior
> (loop slide).
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:01 AM Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, just committed this. Made the default 'no loop slide'.  Please try
>> this out and help decide what the default should be.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:45 AM Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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