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Raxx

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2015, 04:27:36 am »
I never use that view so I never noticed...it should be noted that the old knife tool is also bugged out in perspective view when not simply knifing across the workspace.
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2015, 04:32:03 am »
Yes, many tools seem to go completely untested in perspective.
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Steve

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #17 on: December 21, 2015, 10:33:54 am »
nemyax:  ok I'll look into it when I'm back home after Christmas.
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #18 on: December 21, 2015, 11:24:41 am »
Thanks, Steve!
Raxx has some excellent suggestions in his post, and I'd like to add one more twist to his "RMB drag to move" idea: when you are RMB-dragging a point, then left-clicking should merge it with the point directly behind it (give or take a couple of pixels) in the view. A similar feature comes in super handy in Animation:Master and Metasequoia.
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2015, 07:02:08 am »
Also, the current component mode should be ignored (grey out the point/edge/face buttons?) while the topo tool is active. You expect it to work on points and edges no matter what mode you used before it—that's what you've activated it for.
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Steve

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2015, 10:56:57 am »
It's also useful to disable edges if you only want to connect points, etc. But I could make it always start with at least one of them enabled. Faces only doesn't make sense.
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2015, 09:40:32 pm »
Great tool! I realize that the idea is to prevent cutting faces unintentionally, but I think it would be nice if you could cut two or three adjacent faces and edges at once.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2015, 01:52:02 pm by ronaldefarmer »
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #22 on: December 26, 2015, 12:48:15 pm »
I personally prefer perspective view because I can go "inside" and work so that things don't block my view.   Don't know what I would do with out it.
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Steve

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2015, 10:21:20 pm »
I have a fix for perspective view but unfortunately my website is over it's quota on file count.  There are a lot of old files that I can't delete.  I'm working on this with tech support and will post something when I can.  Stay tuned!
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2015, 06:22:19 am »
Ah that would explain the photo uploading problem I had :P
Hope you get it fixed for all our sakes ;p
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2016, 10:36:42 pm »
There's also a problem with the topo tool when you have multiple editing windows open.  I have a fix for this, too, and should have this and the perspective bug fix posted soon.  (The file limit problem on anim8or.com is already fixed.)

Happy New Year!
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Steve

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2016, 04:20:13 pm »
Check out build 1208 which should fix these problems :)
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Raxx

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2016, 12:56:35 am »
Hey Steve, that seems to have fixed it, but now after arc-rotating after starting a cut, the preview line moves in a displaced fashion (though cuts can still be made where the mouse is, and it goes back to normal after the cut)
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Steve

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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2016, 02:03:14 am »
Arc-rotate.  Too many things can happen in the middle of a cut :)  I think all I need to do is recalculate the global transform after a rotate.  Thanks for the feedback - should be easy to fix.
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Re: Topo Tool
« Reply #29 on: January 10, 2016, 05:05:15 pm »
Build 1210 is ready with what I hope is a full set of features, including:

    RMB with an initial split edge now retains the split.
    LMB+Shift with no initial component collapses the point/edge.
    RMB+Shift moves highlighted point/edge in the same manner as PointMove(LMB).
    Fix incorrect location after arc rotate, screen size change.

raxx: I don't know if the delete point feature works as you wanted.  I merge all edges that has that point in common and use the average position for the merged point.  Let me know if that's OK and if I've missed anything :)
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