Animation nodes was a project outside the blender foundation, it is a beautiful project, but still external …
Only recently with the Everithing Nodes project has the Animation Nodes developer joined the main devs group of the blender foundation.
Also, consider that not many people are skilled with the visual programming of the nodes animation addon …
Perhaps with time when the Everithing Node project will be completed and fully implemented in blender, over time people will be formed that will go deep in this type of instrument … as it was with shader nodes and compositing …
anyway let’s get back to topic …
the chats take us out of context.
Yes, if I had a pound for every time I was told that virtually nobody develops AN nodes, I would be a richer man! That was the reason I was told that the documentation for developers in AN was so poor. All the AN development is done with Python, so I use Atom and have invested a great deal of time in teaching myself how to do this. Sorry if I sound down at the moment, this frustration has affected me quite a lot, I feel I have a lot to offer and I feel dismissed, maybe because of my age, I don’t know…
Cheers, Clock.
Yes, let’s get back on-topic - work in this area will make Blender so much more accessible to designers.
How about ability to set shortcut?
Then it could be any.
Also, B.A.S.E. proposal includes switching snap types during action issue with direct V, E, F, L, I keys, as far they are free during action. Below in small print.
It makes sense because snaps are needed mostly during some action.
I am not so much interested in having shortcuts, more in having the required functions for precision drawing in the first place…
We need a minimum of, in an intuitive format that draughtsmen recognise:
Absolute, or Global to use the Blender term, input for all three axes.
Delta input, I don’t think there is a Blender term for this, all three axes at once again.
Vector Input (distance at angle).
Snap, or Cursor to Normal, or perpendicular if you prefer, intersection between vertex and edge, or two other vertices.
Snap, or Cursor to Intersection of two edges/four vertices.
Snap, or cursor to Percentage between two vertices, does the Mid-Point thing by default - 50% I believe.
Join unconnected vertices that are not part of a face.
Measure distances and angles from vertices to set operating parameters.
All of the above in Edit mode with vertices/edges as the input locations and in Object mode with object origins as the input locations. the maths is pretty easy, the logic is the same, it is not hard to do… I have offered to help here, offer still stands.
“Polygon Modellers” don’t need to understand, or use this stuff, but designers will use Blender far more if these features are included.
Cheers, Clock.
EDIT:
What about holes in meshes, we can do this with curves, why not normal meshes?
Are the intersecting (overlapping) subdivisions screen space dependent (from camera view) or world space dependent (from the objects world space location)?
if @mano-wii & @Ton & @main-devs will decide to implement these features, or at the last implement a good set of API that will make life easier for addon devs … I can’t imagine what flight we would see …
Also because these tools would bring a lot of new users in blender … I don’t say the professional engineers, who obviously use applications that have been well established for years, but all that new generation of DIY Makers and Amateur, who are growing with 3D printing and the CNCs, for the most varied projects … those that already use blender, but in a limited way for obvious reasons of no easy funcitional snapping and no precise modeling … all would flow into it …
Excellent work, useful to Mechanical Engineers as well!! I hope this makes it into Blender along with other CAD ideas. Is there any way these resources can be “pooled” into a comprehensive suite, with MeasureIt and Offset Edges for example? We can attract far more users to Blender with these functions…
Hi, newcomer here trying to jump to Blender after using Max professionally for arch-vis for 13 years. I hope I can contribute to the discussion. Are there any builds available that I can test and give feedback on?
no, currently the developer who is developing the new system is at a preliminary stage with the improvement-optimization-reorganization of the selection mode and the APIs that will manage enhanced snapping and precision modeling
Are there any builds available that I can test and give feedback on?