Gradient vertex color for proportional editing

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@feedbackex This seems like a worthwhile addition.

When you are ready, you can submit the code as a patch on developer.blender.org. Then it can be reviewed.

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as no patch was submitted as far as I know I thought this might be an interessting exercise, especially as there where some hints & pointers by brecht.

adding it here wasnā€™t all that complicated - but I need some help on improving the drawing. What I have now is a simple gradient according to the proportional editing factor. This works fine on edge & face modes, but on vertex mode the vert dots get painted over, which makes the whole thing very ugly.

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so - any ideas how to adress this? would be appreciated :slight_smile:

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Awesome work!

You should better submit the patch and then reviewers will point out what to fix and how to do this. This way patch will be finished faster.

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This is really awesome! I hope you submit the code very soon so that it will be integrated in blender and everyone can use it. Iā€™ve been looking for this a while now and you would make Blender definitely better with this.

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woaw im impressed, in maya they really put the proportional selection to the next level


dream to see this in blender
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The selectable gradient colors is a really nice, feature, because maybe not everyone wants them same (especially with the theme support already in Blender).

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I tried to do a compressed spring like this in Maya, but it failed me:
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PS: Since maya doesnā€™t have a ā€œconnectedā€ feature, I used the Volume option, it still didnā€™t work.
Therefore I prefer Blenderā€™s proportional editing!

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Maya has a ā€˜surfaceā€™ mode, which is the same as Blenderā€™s ā€˜connectedā€™ mode, except it computes geodesic distance instead of ā€˜naiveā€™ point-to-point distance. I would expect it to work in your case, actually.

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Hi @kio, just wanted to know if you managed to find a solution ? Did you make a patch on developer.blender.org ?

Cheers !

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After a bit of digging I found a solution, but I really donā€™t know if the solution is acceptable :slight_smile:

And Yes I submitted a patch a few days ago:
https://developer.blender.org/D4786

But probably a bit of bad timing as 2.80 should really feature freeze and get out of the doorā€¦

While this was a nice exercise, Iā€™m not sure if the whole approach to the proportional editing needs some major changes.

  • preview before transform mode
  • geodesic distance support
  • support of custom falloff curve

Itā€™s quite a bit of work to adress all of these I fear. And maybe just the ability to switch falloff types during transform would be a good start instead of trying to do too much.

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Amazing ! canā€™t wait to play with this

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Thanks a lot for taking the time to do this, as William said in the patch comments it is already a really nice improvement, hopefully it can be added soon, even as it is right now :slight_smile:

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Since I used to work as a UI designer and thus am permanently damaged, is there any particular reason why the colored nodes are square and not round? :slight_smile:

I saw the note about it being a technical challenge to have the color appear before the transform, so Iā€™m guessing the answer is similar when it comes to round nodes, so Iā€™m looking forward to future developments!

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i knew its the third post about maya soft select but this video is a must see
having the edges color as wel look so good ! my god !
along the surface tools too
option to customize the color and falloff ā€¦ woaaw
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I think thereā€™s plenty of reference, weā€™re just lacking developer force to tackle it. Doesnā€™t seem like it would be such a difficult endeavour for a seasoned developer, at least the visualization side of things.

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yeah i noticed too - ill update the patch to use the dots instead of the squares :wink:

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Oh wow - after looking at the code I realized that itā€™s already possible to switch the proportional editing modes during transformā€¦ and itā€™s also mentioned in the manual. Guess I was relaying too much on the bottom bar shortcut Infos - sadly this is not noted thereā€¦

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Is the color of the gradient hard coded ? Or is it themable ? (I didnā€™t try the patch yet, I have to try it I soon as I can :smiley: )

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In my patch itā€™s three themable colours, but it might make sense to change this to be the same as the weight gradient.

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we can customize the colors in your scripts ? is that what youā€™re saying ? :slight_smile: