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continuously having to readjust the view and restarting the transformation can be a bit annoying if you want to move something rather far (or if you do fine movement with shift) for example.

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here is an example: http://www.luxology.com/training/video.aspx?id=36

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i know that motion retargeting is very difficult to do but i still hope that some genius(es) someday will work on this for blender. :)

programs like xsi, maya and motion builder support motion retargeting and it shouldn't be hard to find some example videos.

also features like offered in endorphin or euphoria would be great. i am not sure if bullet already would be powerful enough for something like that?

http://www.naturalmotion.com/euphoria.htm

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it doesn't seem like this would be hard to add (but i have no clue about the ik code)? just solve the IK and if the IK target isn't positioned on the bone anymore after the mouse button gets released then set its position back to the bone? it should be an option.

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the new "limit distance" contraint is very overcomplicated for this purpose. you need a helper bone to prevent cyclic dependency problems and it's very fiddly to set the right distance.

why not have a simple checkbox in the IK solver constraint for enabling a snap back like described?

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actually i am quite used to it in the meantime, but when i was new to blender i found the constant accidental cursor placing very irritating.

it still sometimes happens that i accidentally place the cursor. for example when i miss the transform widget.

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it would be great if there were an option to not use the view plane, but always the global x/y/z plane which is most similar/parallel to the view plane. this can be very handy if you work in 3d views.

additionally it would be nice if the work plane could be locked to be parallel to a specified polygon for a while.

(an application who uses work planes like that is modo.)

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and it would be great if brecht finished the approximate one bounce GI he mentioned in a blog post once.

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this would be very helpful for previewing shadows and it would enable very fast rendering of high quality opengl previews or playblasts.

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it would be great if there were an option to not use the view plane, but always the global xy/xz/yz plane which is most similar/parallel to the view plane. this can be very handy if you work in 3d views.

(an application which uses work planes like that is modo.)

it should only be an option! i am not for removing the old way.

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since blender is a 3d content creation software which comes with an integrated game engine it could be the ideal tool for machinima.

you would first build and set up your characters and the environment and then control them in realtime in the game engine and record their movements and animations. think of digital puppetry... the camera movement would be recordable too. network support like described on wikipedia isn't necessary. the characters also could be recorded one after another.

it would be similar to how recording bullet physics already works.

maybe doing something like this already is possible with python? but a good machinima workflow for non-programmers would be great. there could be node-based animation sequence and character controller editors (similar to what is planned for apricot i think). probably the game engine's character animation features would have to be improved a bit (blending of animations, mixing armature animation with shape keys for faces,...) or maybe it would make more sense to do it with one of the planned plugins for external engines.

finally animations could be rendered either with the game engine or with blender's renderer (this possibility would be another huge advantage over other tools used for machinima).

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