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thecolclough:

--- Quote from: Raxx on April 21, 2014, 05:18:51 pm ---(think about Blender)
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ugh... do i really have to? :o

still, Raxx, fair point about new-user-friendliness.  i'd forgotten about the shift-move-relative-grid thingy (i know i was the one pushing for it, i just have a bad memory ::) ), and i wasn't aware of the other existing toggles.

if we started going down the Widgets route (which i still haven't entirely got my head around the details of, but it does sound promising):

* could i request that the Widgets not be too small and fiddly?  i appreciate the current flexibility of being able to click anywhere in the viewport to make the same movement/scaling/whatever.
* considering that it'd be a pretty radical workflow redesign, and considering the program's already on v0.98.something, do you think Widgets might be the trigger to update the version number to the long-awaited 1.0? 8)

Steve:
To be called v1.0 I think Anim8or needs a few more key features - but I'm not going to list them because I might not be able to make them work well enough.  But it'd be nice to finally have something called 1.0 :)

thecolclough:

--- Quote from: Steve on April 22, 2014, 04:35:47 pm ---...but I'm not going to list them...
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oh, great - way to leave us all on tenterhooks!  <evil genius voice>"There is a secret list.  But I'm not going to let you read it... because it's a secret!"</evil genius>  :P

i'm going to take an educated guess that one of them might be IK, but i'll understand if you don't want to tell me whether or not i'm right  ;D

so, um... worst case scenario involves us getting to the year 2033 and finding Anim8or on version 0.99993e or thereabouts?


on a more serious note, a couple of other thoughts following on from Raxx's Widgets idea:

* if there are going to be certain widgets that operate on certain dimensions, they should be colour-coded - red for widgets that operate along/around the X-axis, green for Y and blue for Z, per the axis markers currently displayed in wireframe mode
* if the right and middle buttons were freed up as R suggests, they could be redeployed to move and rotate the viewport - combined with scroll-to-zoom, wouldn't this would render the Viewpoint sub-modes more or less redundant?

Raxx:
After using Anim8or for a while with the fast selection, I don't like it. It really disrupts my work process by picking up and moving things that I don't want picked up and moved around. And right-clicking and dragging to move or rotate is just weird when combined with how it adds to the selection as well.

I feel that the widget and tweak mode idea should still be used instead.

Steve:
You can disable fast select and use the original behavior in the guide options.

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