> (and why not local location, while we > are at it?) Because the effects of local location cannot be achieved at all without that feature, much less as simply as one can achieve what hinge does.
--Nathan On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Bastien Montagne <montagn...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > I don’t think that feature adds that much complexity… On the user POV, > it changes nothing on a usual use case, just adding some options that > can become handy in some situations. In fact, it makes a quite specific > feature more generic, by just replacing two checkboxes by two « search > data » fields (or dropdown menus)… And it won’t come into your way as > long as you don’t need it! > > Removing hinge/no scale options (and why not local location, while we > are at it?) would make loading old files quite tricky (as we would have > to add constraints to mimic those options). > > PS: And I think I’ve already proven I do can work on the whole armature > subsystem, and not only on my « own little systems »! ;) > > Le 05/03/2012 07:23, Matt Ebb a écrit : >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Nathan Vegdahl<ces...@cessen.com> wrote: >>> I agree. But I would still rather see hinge deprecated than improved. >>> I guess we just have different thresholds for "added back-end >>> complexity" vs "shorter workflow". To me, this has a very minor >>> workflow benefit, but appears to make quite a lot of changes and add a >>> fair amount of complexity to the transform code base. >> +1 >> >> As a general rule, blender is already too far on the 'overcomplicated >> hard-coded special cases' side - it needs more in the way of simple, >> rock solid, generic tools that work capably and reliably, that can be >> adapted to your own usage patterns. This seems harder to achieve in >> open source where volunteer devs like to work on their own little >> systems and portions of code, but it's better for users in the long >> run. >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers