Some Wishes

Jonathan_Hutchinson1 · August 11, 2020, 8:55am

CollpaseMeshVertex/Edge/Face - could we have more than one undo step?
Align / ToCurve - could it work for Mesh vertices too? At the moment I can do this by converting to a SubD, aligning, and then back to a mesh again.
I would also hesitantly wonder whether a MeshFaceEdgeVertex toggle would be possible… again, to do something similar at the moment is possible by making into a SubD, doing the selection and action, then ExtractControlPolygon again.
Intersect between Polysurface and SubDFace (sub object selected)
BringToFront for Controls (Cage edit curves etc.)
ControlPointsInFront is a test command which I’ve found super useful recently. Wonder if an extended version for curves could work too? Or perhaps, just for BringToFront to give the points of a ‘brought to front’ curve higher priority.
BringInFrontOf - select a source, select a target to bring in front of.
Could Picture objects be BringToFront/SentToBack? Currently they don’t appear to be able to make use of those commands.

theoutside · August 11, 2020, 5:41pm

Jonathan_Hutchinson1:

CollpaseMeshVertex/Edge/Face - could we have more than one undo step?

undo is controlled in tools>options>general

Align / ToCurve - could it work for Mesh vertices too? At the moment I can do this by converting to a SubD, aligning, and then back to a mesh again.

Subd and mesh will converge as Subd develops. I’d assume that as these needs become apparent there will be more crossover.

I would also hesitantly wonder whether a MeshFaceEdgeVertex toggle would be possible… again, to do something similar at the moment is possible by making into a SubD, doing the selection and action, then ExtractControlPolygon again.

already have it- SubDFaceEdgeVertexToggle

Intersect between Polysurface and SubDFace (sub object selected)

Works in v7 - (7.0.20223.23135, 8/10/2020)

BringToFront for Controls (Cage edit curves etc.)

can you clarify what you as asking for here?

ControlPointsInFront is a test command which I’ve found super useful recently. Wonder if an extended version for curves could work too? Or perhaps, just for BringToFront to give the points of a ‘brought to front’ curve higher priority.

more detail? when and why would you use this?

BringInFrontOf - select a source, select a target to bring in front of.

more detail? when and why would you use this?

Could Picture objects be BringToFront/SentToBack? Currently they don’t appear to be able to make use of those commands.

you can just physically move them as needed (or use a named position) …how would this be different?

Jonathan_Hutchinson1 · August 12, 2020, 7:39am

CollpaseMeshVertex has an internal undo. If you run the command once, and collapse 10 vertices, you can only undo one with the command line undo. If you Ctrl-Z after finished in the command, you undo all the collpases. So you can either undo one or all. If you Imagine if you could pick 10 points with the lasso select tool, but only undo one step back with the command line Undo.

Not yet - it works for SubDs, but doesn’t translate to meshes. Select faces from a mesh cube, use SubDFaceEdgeVertex toggle. It does nothing (as expected, it’s a mesh and not a SubD).

Morph Controls / control objects are what’s created when you run Cage Edit. I had some visibility issues trying to see a control which was a curve, and realised BringToFront doesn’t apply to this object type, it seems.

If you have quite a few objects, then rather than running BringForward repeatedely, it seems logical to be able to select the ‘thing’ you want to BringInFront of. Maybe it will be one to try and script instead.

Nope - not yet. Tested in today’s new WIP. Intersect a Box Polysurface with a SubD Sphere. Subobject select a SubD Sphere sphere face that intersects the polysurface, and the polysurface. Zero intersections will be found.