FYI - After much deliberation about feedback on BA, I've decided to take a different route than I did with Patch [#36029]. I am going to create a NEW version of this spline-fix-patch which fixes the tooltips, bugs, and adds "rotation constraint" visuals -- while leaving the current behavior untouched -- where handle-set always affects only selected handles. I will also fix the wiki documentation to match the current behavior.
Why? I created this patch because I want the documentation, tooltips, behavior, and visuals to all match -- it doesn't matter to me which way it works, so long as it's clear. When I started, the only thing that I understood was the documentation, partially because the current behavior is not documented and partially because bugs in the visuals make it confusing. Now that I fully understand the (intended) current behavior, I see a way to fix the tooltips, docs, and visuals which will be (mostly) consistent with the current behavior. Some factors in my thinking: - While using patch [#36029], I have seen that 90% of the confusion with the current system can be eliminated simply by showing visuals for "rotation constrained" handles. - I can see the desire for handle-set behavior which only "touches" the state of the handle(s) which are actually selected. But mostly: I've realized that the "behavior inconsistency" is not possible to eliminate with *either* approach without breaking file-format compatibility -- something which I don't think is worth it at this point. That inconsistency is the overloading of "align" and "constraint" behavior, such that an align handle in align/free is rotation constrained, but in align/align is not rotation constrained. The overloading also has the side-effect that there is no way to rotation-constrain both handles. Other features which have been requested are also not possible without some amount of file-format conversion/confusion.. including rotation constraining both handles, and length-mirroring both handles. ... new patch coming soon. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers