Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-16 Thread Harshit Mehta
Hello, This is in continuation of my previous mail. If http://goo.gl/snnt89 doesn't works, paper in pdf can be seen at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=288280. I am sorry for any inconvenience caused. > Harshit Mehta > Email: harshitmehta2...@gmail.com > Phone No: +918058412102 > IRC nick: Ha

Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-16 Thread Harshit Mehta
Hi, Thanks everyone for going through my ideas. I am dividing my reply in two parts. *** Improvements in decimate I agree that it would not be right to disturb the generic way modifiers are, but a decimate as a brush could be done. Further, selective poly-reduction could be done by making vertex

Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-15 Thread Bastien Montagne
Imho, 1) and 2) are already available through the vgroup option? And anyway, they would not be OK in modifier world IMHO, you could however think of a "Decimate" brush in sculpt mode, no idea how much it could be wanted... 3) and 5) Sounds interesting. And we’d need to know more about that mys

Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-15 Thread Bastien Montagne
IMHO this would better be done as a separated addon… Can see how it could be useful for people coming from other softs, but "default" Blender user would not like to see its app too much cluttered with compatibility stuff - we already have custom keymaps, and those are a PITA to maintain for cor

Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-15 Thread Grigory Revzin
Hi Since the Spacebar-menu already is a kind of a "micro-search engine", mabye it's a better idea to focus on its improvement? I don't feel there is a need for a new panel if Space-menu's there. You can start with adding aliases/keywords for some operators (e. g. "Set As Bind Pose" Maya-esque alia

Re: [Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-15 Thread Harshit Mehta
Hello, I have already stated a part of my work (improvements in decimate modifier) i wish to do for GSOC '14. I said in previous mail that i would love to add one more modifier. Instead I thought of a search feature in blender. While switching from Maya to blender, one problem i faced was finding

[Bf-committers] Prospective GSOC [Harshit Mehta]

2014-03-13 Thread Harshit Mehta
Hello everyone, I am using blender since last two years. Before that I was onto Autodesk Maya (student version). This winter I got chance to download blender code and build it. I tried it on windows with MSVC9 following wiki. Since then I am trying to get myself familiar with source code. Recently