[Soc-2016-dev] Weekly Report #4, UV-Tools

[Phil Gosch]

Short correction, the behaviour of the old hiding is of course not the 
same as new hiding with sync selection, the former one deselects while 
the other one ...hides elements.

- Phil


Am 16.06.2016 um 09:10 schrieb Phil Gosch:
> Hey,
>
> I'm sending my report one day early since I won't be available for the
> rest of the week.
>
> Report #4 for UV-Tools:
>
> What I did this week:
>
> * "Proper" hiding for UVs!
>
> It was not possible to hide UV elements without altering the mesh
> selection state, which many users complained about. I implemented "real"
> hiding for UVs (the mesh selection in 3D view stays the same), using the
> good old H/Alt+H shortcuts. Hidden islands are not taken into account by
> most UV operators (this needs user testing, I may missed one) except
> unwrapping operators, which automatically un-hide all affected UVs to
> avoid user confusion.
>
> There's one thing my mentor and I are unsure about and we need user
> feedback: Should we keep the "old" hiding behaviour as seperate
> operators (they basically just de-select parts of the mesh in 3d view)
> or can we savely remove that behaviour? I know from myself I never used
> it in all those years, but maybe there are some good usecases I'm not
> aware of? (Be aware that that behaviour is replicable with "new" hiding
> if Sync Selection is active!)
>
> I provided a win build for users to test here: [1]
>
> * Design the operator and decide on implementation details for
> bin-packing ("Pack Islands") improvements. Since this is a large task
> which likely will take some time without visible progress I preferred to
> have a written outline of the required work and subtasks, which can be
> found here: [2]
>
> What I plan on doing next week:
>
> *Prepare/Do midterm evaluation!
>
> * Start coding the implementation of the new packing algorithm, the
> modal operator for it and all the helper and utility function required
> for it.
>
> * Testing, bugfixing and getting to know more of the code
>
> Questions:
>
> We still haven't found a solution for the MSVC compiler question from
> last week.
> Also feedback on the removal of "legacy" hiding behaviour would be
> appreciated (see above for details).
>
>    [1]
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?397599-GSOC-2016-UV-Tools&p=3063892&viewfull=1#post3063892
>    [2] https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:SaphireS/gsoc2016/Packing
>

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