Week of July 26th - August 1st
After receiving feedback on last week’s report and discussing further with my mentor we have decided to make some changes to the plan for the remaining two weeks of the GSOC coding period.
Test Build
I will now be releasing a build of my branch soc-2021-knife-tools each week for everyone to help test by searching for bugs and provide feedback on the features I have implemented.
- The first build is now available for all platforms at: Blender Builds - blender.org
Please share any feedback you may have on my feedback thread. I will work on fixing any bugs found or making any suggested improvements over the next few weeks, alongside the plan discussed below.
New Plan
Based on feedback from last week, I am going to spend the rest of the GSOC period focusing on re-implementing a better version of multi-object edit mode support. The goal is to allow cutting across multiple objects in the scene and making cuts from one object to another. This will require a complex re-write of large parts of the Knife Tool code but should make it possible to implement much more useful features in the future as well.
The plan to implement edge removal mode has been abandoned as it seemed a rather niche feature now that undo is implemented. It also became clear that multi-object edit mode support for the knife project tool already exists in that you can use multiple objects for projection. There is no way to differentiate between objects being projected onto and being used for projection and so this feature is not necessary.