[Plugin][$] Vertex Tools

thomthom · 9 Jan 2019, 17:19

Hi!
I'd have a suggestion for a small feature development.
When doing soft selection we have two options of falloff - linear and cosine. What if we had more options, e.g. "pinchy" fallof shape, as illustrated below, on the left?

I can see such idea was already posted years ago but I dared to bring it anyways, cuz it would be a fantastic improvement of already very good tool!

Yes, that is also on the list. something like a pinch and bubble parameter like 3dsmax offer.

rv1974 · 9 Jan 2019, 18:14

I hope target weld is in that list as well

thomthom · 9 Jan 2019, 19:55

@rv1974 said:

I hope target weld is in that list as well

This ol' thing?

rv1974 · 9 Jan 2019, 20:05

Oops.. I meant welding based distance threshhold

thomthom · 9 Jan 2019, 20:10

Like this?

rv1974 · 10 Jan 2019, 06:31

Wow morning full of surprises.
Many thanks!
The only thing left to be clarified is when v2019 will be out

thomthom · 10 Jan 2019, 11:35

@rv1974 said:

The only thing left to be clarified is when v2019 will be out

Good question. I'll make a post when I know myself.

thomthom · 11 Jan 2019, 17:17

@rv1974 said:

Wow morning full of surprises.

Btw, Merge Close Vertices is already included in v1: https://evilsoftwareempire.com/vertex-tools/manual/tools#merge_close_vertices

rv1974 · 17 Jan 2019, 09:55

@thomthom said:

@rv1974 said:

The only thing left to be clarified is when v2019 will be out

Good question. I'll make a post when I know myself.

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pbacot · 17 Jan 2019, 10:04

Know thyself.

Einstein · 6 Feb 2019, 22:47

Hi!
I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

Box · 7 Feb 2019, 03:47

@einstein said:

Hi!
I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

Adjust the Gismo to the direction you want then Make Planer.

thomthom · 7 Feb 2019, 09:42

@einstein said:

Hi!
I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

You can also scale to zero for the same effect in the model axis planes.

Einstein · 9 Feb 2019, 15:10

Wow, scaling to 0 It is a game-changer I wished SketchUp had for a long time. And only now I realised FredoScale can do it as well.
Curious how many more surprises are hidden in these little buttons

Box · 9 Feb 2019, 15:21

One of the most frustrating things about teaching is how much students don't learn. Which can be read as hear, see, retain, remember, bother to take in, have any interest in, or simply haven't been exposed to. Amongst others.
Pretty much everything has already been asked, answered and argued over in these forums, much like the rest of the internet you never get to the end of it and there's not much that hasn't already gone before.

thomthom · 9 Feb 2019, 15:44

@einstein said:

Wow, scaling to 0 It is a game-changer I wished SketchUp had for a long time. And only now I realised FredoScale can do it as well.
Curious how many more surprises are hidden in these little buttons

I don't recall if v1 snap to scale 0 - but v2 will for sure. Making it easier.

(I had similar revelation about scaling negative to flip/mirror.)

@box said:

One of the most frustrating things about teaching is how much students don't learn. Which can be read as hear, see, retain, remember, bother to take in, have any interest in, or simply haven't been exposed to. Amongst others.
Pretty much everything has already been asked, answered and argued over in these forums, much like the rest of the internet you never get to the end of it and there's not much that hasn't already gone before.

Challenge with all the gems in the forums is that they aren't always easy to find. Often they are buried deep in lengthy threads.

Box · 9 Feb 2019, 15:49

So true, I didn't mean anything by it. Just noting that we all tend to read what's in front then scroll on rather than following the story.

algorad88 · 25 Feb 2019, 13:10

Hi Thomas,
Thank you so much for the great plugin.
Is there a chance to add some features to VT:

1st: to extrude with scale similar to the move tool by holding the Ctrl key?

2nd: Furthermore moving only in one direction at a time is time consuming, I've seen you've got another type of gizmo which has three planes which you can move in two direction by clicking on each of them?

3rd: Also, the soft selection selects vertices in a sphere shape, could you add a feature to firstly choose which vertices to select and then continue to soft select?

thomthom · 25 Feb 2019, 22:04

@algorad88 said:

1st: to extrude with scale similar to the move tool by holding the Ctrl key?

Yes - in fact, it's already added to the upcoming v2.

@algorad88 said:

2nd: Furthermore moving only in one direction at a time is time consuming, I've seen you've got another type of gizmo which has three planes which you can move in two direction by clicking on each of them?

Also coming in v2.

@algorad88 said:

3rd: Also, the soft selection selects vertices in a sphere shape, could you add a feature to firstly choose which vertices to select and then continue to soft select?

Can elaborate on this? Screenshots? Example model?

algorad88 · 1 Mar 2019, 15:12

@thomthom said:

Yes - in fact, it's already added to the upcoming v2.

Also coming in v2.

Thanks for the great news

@thomthom said:

Can elaborate on this? Screenshots? Example model?

This is how Vertex Tools selects vertices if I type 30 for soft selection:

But I only want the bottom quads selected. So, firstly I have to group those quads and then modify the vertices:

But this method has some deficiencies:
first, we will have separated quads by modifying vertices.
second, to join them again, we need to move those vertices which both takes much time and may not be accurate
third, we need to explode the group to join the parts again.
But if there were an option just like grouping which let you choose which vertices to affect the soft selection, then we could eliminate those steps