[Bf-taskforce25] Blender spring cleaning

[Joshua Leung]

Perhaps I should explain a bit...

by default, most rigs will be set to 'shaded' drawtype, which means that any
meshes consisting of edges+verts only will not appear if the view drawtype
is solid or greater. To get around this, many riggers had to resort to
setting their rigs to be 'wireframe' only. This works fine as long as you
don't want some shaded controls too. Also, there are problems when
proxifying rigs, since the rig gets assigned to a new object which will by
default have 'shaded' drawtype. This was quite undesireable for animators to
have to remember to do that on every shot they set up. Rather, getting the
rigger to specify this as part of their rig specifications is a better idea
IMO.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
>
> --- On Wed, 5/13/09, Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Blender spring cleaning
> > To: "The Blender 2.5 TaskForce" <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
> > Received: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 6:44 PM
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM,
> > Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com>
> > wrote:
> >       - Kill the "W" button next to the bone
> > shape object field.  If
> >
> > someone wants the shape to always be wireframe, they can
> > just model
> >
> > the mesh with only edges.-1. I think
> > you've already forgotten the problems associated with
> > modelling rig controls as just meshes without wireframes;
> > namely, that you need to set the entire armature to draw as
> > wireframes only then. This is not even always possibe for
> > linked objects.
> >
> >
> > I WILL NOT kill this until there's a much better
> > alternative for the way the drawing system works w.r.t.
> > draw-modes.
>
> It doesn't work like that right now, but couldn't it just use the max draw
> type value from the source object?
>
> Martin
>
>
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