http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas en-us Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/102/ multi-threaded cloth simulation
multi-threaded preview render
multi-threaded playblast render

another nice update for the preview renderer would be (as seen in modo) to render like a progressive jpeg. so the longer you wait the clearer the render gets. this lets you have preview open all the time on a seperate view and constantly see your changes

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Also sometimes you might want to clear the rotation or the scale on a certain axis only.

In edit mode it'd work in the object's local co-ordinates, I believe (rotation and scale are probably unusable, unless you count face normals, and that's only for the rotation angle of a face).

It'd work like this:

press alt+g
-->
menu item 1: clear location
menu item 2. clear loc X (would be toggled with XKey)
menu item 3. clear loc Y (would be toggled with YKey)
menu item 4. clear loc Z (would be toggled with ZKey)

Same with rotation and scale.


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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/54/ http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/237/ We all know the problems Blender has with booleans, since I hear they are updating that with the coming of BMesh, I'd like to suggest a stencil/ drill tool that would be similar to the ones many other 3D/animation applications have. It could operate much like the current retopo tool but would allow a direct "drawing" of vertices/polys into the given mesh. Anyone familiar with the Lightwave version of this tool should understand the methodology.

Extrude and Bevel Tool
The bevel modifier does not allow enough control on complicated objects and the current Bevel script has a tendency to complicate topography.
A bevel tool with an extrude option is needed in Blender (it would be nice to be able to define the angle at which the extrude would take place relative to the viewport by using the ctrl+middle mouse button). The bevel tool should give options on whether or not the creation of tris is acceptable. Also being able to make multiple bevels in a single step to create a "crown molding" effect would be quite useful.

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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.

edit:
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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http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=510

Mesh lights with indirect ray bouncing(even single bounce) would be a comparable to Global Ilumination!

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For those who just want to show their character and the armature in their animations.

Without extra work such as: modeling custom bones and childing them to the real bones of the armature.(specially if there is a couple hundred bones)

this would be nice if the same were done also for empties and lattices.

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The first part of my idea is the inclusion of an optional grid, separating the screen vertically and horizontally into thirds using four grid lines.

The second part is that those grid intersections could be used to quickly set up the composition of shots. Any of those four intersections could be parented to an empty (which in turn would be parented to an element of the scene). This means that the camera would be able to track something off-centre while you simply focus on getting something else in shot and lined up at the other side of the screen.

In my opinion this would speed up efforts to compose shots with the ability to fit multiple objects into the frame organically.

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*Idea acquired from python templates

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That properties,if controlled locally(for every strand),could help a lot in improving rendering quality and optimizing memory usage.
A common use could be making short fur little(and more sharp),and long fur bigger(and soften)simply texturing start/end and width fade.
As it now I simply don't know how to do this behaviour.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/428/ http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/453/ I'd like a 'Dynamic' constraint, usually to be applied on bones. It is a 'fake soft body'.

The constraint would just make the bone tend to stay in its position (inertia), accelerating to reach its new position, then oscillating after reaching it (as if the bone had a rubber joint).

Better to explain with images:

http://www.moscafilms.com.br/emilioleroux/blender/dynamicbone.mov


On its simpler form, the constraint would not need a target. Just:

STIFNESS -how stiff the bone acts. How quick or how lagged it will spring to the target rotation

DAMPING - the tendency to stop oscillation more quickly. (A theorethic damping of 0% would make things oscillate forever in real life. That's why cars have dampers)


It would be incremented by other options:

DRAG - something like 'air density', which would make the motion be slower, like underwater -or undersyrup-, without messing with physics.

GRAVITY - an additional value that would try to pull dynamic bones to the world's 'down' axis.


With the advent of pyConstraints, I grew excited and started the project, but now I see I am both new to python and blender, and also my math is very poor. I am willing to work on it, tho, but I need help (or, more honestly speaking, i could help someone).



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Why not only leaving it empty, for the user to asign a material, like when you delete a material with "delete link to this datablock". There is still an unassigned material in the editing buttons (F9) "Link and Materials".

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Additional features that could take curve fields to another level:

1. A strength slider to increase and decrease the field effect on the particle system's motion.

No method currently exists to adjust the strength of the pull/push of the curve field. Its difficult to adjust timing with the current system. And a strength control would unify its method of functionality in tune with the other existing fields. All other fields have a strength setting why not the curve field?

2. A curve force along the whole length of the curve and not just from the starting point. Another way to describe it is that particles would be pulled along the whole length of the curve not just from the starting point. A good solution is that each point on the curve acts as a pulling/pushing force. This should be an option and able to be turned on/off.

Current usage of the curve field is limited to essentially a path for particles to follow. This could be expanded upon if each point could act with the same push/pull effect and drawing particles in along the entire length of the curve. That way simulating more controllable fluids, smoke, sand, etc. would be a lot easier to accomplish.

3. Tapering of the particles along the path. This could be adjustable via the curve handles.

No method currently exists to control the shape of the particles traveling along the path. In the example of the tornado it would have been beneficial to have the particles deform in shape while following along the path.

4. Option to slow particle motion around bends. With a strength slider to control the dampening.

When attempting to simulate an effect generally you are trying to simulate it in a physically accurate way. With that in mind things like fluid, lava, etc have different motion when flowing around curves. The current curve force lacks the ability to simulate this effect.

See Blenderartists thread for a look into my experiments: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1166671#post1166671

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So emitted "balls" would roll with real phyiscs-collision!

greets,
daFassi

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Here is the new color picker that I designed, now all we need is a brave programmer to make it a reality!

If you think it can make it even better, share it!



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The way I can see this being implemented:
- Set the scale of the highlight shape similar to how the arealight now sets its area size.
- Just like the earea light make a pulldown menu with the available shapes, point (default), round, square, rectangular, custom
- When you select custom you can input the name of an object. This can be a (flat) curve object, polygon object, etc. This wil display the custom shape at the origin of the lamp, similar to the custom draw type for the armature/bone system.
- At the lamp texture and input tab you get an extra mapping option next to Global, View and Object, you also get Highlight. This wil simply project planar on the custom highlight shape.

I understand that this might not be easy to implement as the existing specular and diffuse shaders assume round highlights. You also neet to take into account the distance op the lamp to the object in order focus/defocus the custom highlight shape.

A feature like this could greatly increase realism I think. This would also make make rim lighting (with lamps, not the ramp shader) much easier.


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