[Bf-modeling] Opinions about two new possible Blender primitives?

[metalliandy]

Hi Noel,

I think having presets for basic shapes such as these are always a great 
idea, but I think the preference is that they are generated procedurally 
via python. I made a polysphere addon script ages ago that was shipped 
with blender but was recently replaced with the roundcube preset in 
trunk as it was more flexible and enabled multiple options for 
generation (my script was fixed to a single preset).

Are your primitives generated via python or as actual premade meshes?

Cheers,

-Andy

On 12/01/2016 04:33, brasshat at core.com wrote:
> Friends,
>
> First, I know it's a little late, but I don't think I've wished any of 
> you "Happy New Year" before this, so let me do so now.
>
> In my own work, I have two related items that I have found 
> sufficiently useful that I have saved them to my own "library" of 
> primitives, but I have come to think that they might be sufficiently 
> useful to others to propose that they be added to the official set of 
> primitives in the Blender UI.  The objects are shown in this screenshot:
>
> <http://my.core.com/B9/E2/mjolnir/photos/Trainz/hex_primitives.jpg>
>
> The first item is a hexagonal grid plane, differing from the existing 
> grid primitive in that two  trapezoids joined along the longest common 
> edge forms a hexagon. Among the instances where I find particular 
> utility for this starting point are when working on terrain. In some 
> instances I feel the terrain is more convincing when the genesis is a 
> hexagon instead of a quadrilateral.
>
> The other item is related: a hexagonal grid cylinder. The difference 
> between this and a cylinder primitive with some added number of loop 
> cuts is that again, two trapezoids joined along at the longest common 
> edge forms a hexagon. I have personally been more satisfied with the 
> tree trunks I have generated starting from the hexagonal tessellated 
> cylinder, than from a quadrangle tessellated one.
>
> So, I'm soliciting opinions as to whether these might be valuable 
> enough to propose as additional primitives, or whether it's better to 
> retain these in my personal hoard, sharing them (blend file available 
> upon request) with only a few of my closer friends?
>
> Noel Stoutenburg
>
>
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