One of the things that makes the softimage (for example) knife 'better' is that you can continue to navigate the view while in the knife mode.(imagine cutting e.g. a wrinkle around a character's trouser leg). I had a brief misunderstanding when 2.5 'non blocking/non modal' stuff was announced that this meant that this artist friendly functionality was coming to blender (also useful for e.g. circle select), however my hopes were dashed when I realized 'non blocking' meant 'artists now have to redundantly hold down keys on their keyboards' (joke)
In seriousness: if this is at all possible given the 2.5 architecture it would be a big increase in functionality. On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 07:53 -0400, Howard Trickey wrote: > In fact I've been reading the bmesh knife code recently, on my project to > help close out the bmesh TODOs, and the code right now there may be doing > some closer to what you want: hitting k takes you into a modal mode where > successive left clicks make connected cuts; hitting e ends a cut and lets > you start a new series; holding down CNTRL turns midpoint snapping on, > holding down SHIFT turns all snapping off (by default, edge and vertex > snapping are on); and using the middle mouse button temporarily takes you > out of cutting mode so you spin the model. > > Who knows how long it will take to get bmesh into trunk (though I am trying > hard to contribute to making that sooner rather than later), so it is > probably worthwhile to fix the old version now, but it would be good to > settle on similar behavior between old and new so that it will be easier for > users to adapt to the change to bmesh when it comes. > > 2011/7/17 Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης <[email protected]> > > > Hi, before doing unnecessary work maybe you should check with bmesh > > too? If it's going to be merged anytime maybe it's better to work > > there? > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
