Hi, A lot of editing still depends on a 3d cursor to exist, hiding it completely is not good feature, unless it bypasses every call that uses the 3d cursor.
For us now, a useful hiding for 3d cursor is in special edit modes like paint or sculpt (assuming it is not used). -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands On 9 Jun, 2013, at 14:18, Dima Glibitsky wrote: > Hi, thanks for the quick reply :) > Perhaps the main question is, then, if there are any cases when users > want to hide the cursor in the Object mode. I'll try to ask that on > the BlenderArtists. > I can imagine that some CAD-like addons might use the option to > disable the default cursor to display something more advanced instead > (e.g. local coordinate axes/planes). In this case, non-coders won't > have to know about the existence of this setting. > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If painting and sculpting doesn't require use of the 3d cursor, it can be >> just hidden by the mode itself? Options and more buttons don't make using >> Blender easier. We have too many already :) >> >> -Ton- >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org >> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute >> Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands >> >> >> >> On 9 Jun, 2013, at 13:27, Dima Glibitsky wrote: >> >>> Adds a View3D setting to hide 3D cursor. >>> >>> In python: SpaceView3D.show_cursor >>> In C: V3D_HIDE_CURSOR (#defined as 16 for v3d->flag) >>> >>> This feature has been long requested by some users, the main >>> motivation being that 3D cursor distracts them during the >>> sculpting/painting process: >>> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?243932-Hiding-3D-Cursor >>> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?266381-Turn-off-3d-cursor >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SqZz9PTlQ >>> >>> Patch tracker page: >>> projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=35685 >>> The patch: http://www.pasteall.org/42942/diff >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
