[Soc-2011-dev] Weekly Progress Report 5 - Radish branch

[Hays, Jason S.]

Jason Hays
Radish Branch-Weighting Tools
Week 5

1) what you did this week

I gave Multi-Paint an M.O. and became much more familiar with the vertex drawing code for
weight paint's vertex selection.

2) what you will do next week

After getting feedback from the requester, I'll make any necessary adjustments to Multi-Paint, but
the primary focus will shift towards vertex selection in weight painting mode.

3) any problems that will require extra attention

Nothing appears to be in the way.
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Soc-2011-dev] Weekly Progress Report 4 - Radish branch

Jason Hays
Radish Branch-Weighting Tools
Week 4

1) what you did this week

I made locking and multi-paint functions that didn't take input from each other
so that other vgroup features can be more easily added

2) what you will do next week

Next week is about making sure they work exactly as they should-- I'll be getting input from cessan,
running tests, and if its going well, try to come up with that custom list view code!

3) any problems that will require extra attention

There's an issue with multi-paint, and I'm not sure what the best solution is:

When you drag the mouse, the MDeformWeight you are painting is sometimes 'reset' and then
altered again from there using the corresponding uw in wpaint_blend()
(so that the weight doesn't instantly go to 0 or 1).

But the selected groups are not reset each time - so nonactive selected groups tend to flatline at 0 or jump to 1
when you drag the mouse in multi-paint.

I'll probably have a solution next week though--so it's okay.
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Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Soc-2011-dev] Weekly Progress Report 3 - Radish branch

Jason Hays
Radish Branch-Weighting Tools
Week 3

1) what you did this week

After receiving some additional input from my peers, I made a simple version of Multi-Paint, where you can weight paint multiple selected bones at the same time.

2) what you will do next week

I will refine Multi-Paint to work with the locking system (right now, it can't paint locked vertices
under any circumstances, but I intend to fix that).

Also, I'll attempt to make a modified list view to select multiple vertex groups to let users lock/unlock more quickly

3) any problems that will require extra attention

I don't have any show-stoppers at the moment.

Still on schedule.

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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 1:16 PM
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Subject: [Soc-2011-dev] Weekly Progress Report 2 - Radish

Jason Hays
Week 2 Radish Branch

1) what you did this week

I changed the locking system so that it fully protects the deformations and works with auto normalize.

There's a checkbox in the list view by the vertex group's name so you can see which ones are locked without selecting them first.

I added buttons to assist in managing locks on large #'s of vertex groups.
(Lock All, Invert Locks, Unlock All)

2) what you will do next week

I _want_ to make multiple vertex groups selectable
(either by selecting the bones or highlighting the names in the list)
to make a faster method for locking/unlocking groups

If multiple groups are selected, then only selected groups will be modifiable,
and the rest are considered locked.

For that idea to work, the weight related colors will need changing, it should either be the average weight displayed,
or the # of vertex groups should be the new upper bound for the highest weight color.
(Selecting 2 vertex groups makes red 2 instead of 1, for instance).

This multi-selection idea could be difficult to implement, given that Blender is coded for 1 'active' group.

If _nothing_ else, multiple groups could be 'selectable,' but the active group is just the first/last
one you selected (probably last), but the others you selected are unlocked too.
It might be more compatible with anything Blender currently does.

3) any problems that will require extra attention

Depends on how hard it is to select multiple groups.

Still on schedule.
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