Symmetry On - Off by a switch on layers

[Garagarape]

On most of characters you will find both symmetric and non symmetric parts.

In Voxel or retopo room, once you've chose symmetry or not, you have to deal with it till the end.

 

My retopo workflow now, which is quite time consuming, is to work with symmetry "off"

and to retopo half the character for symmetrical areas (one layer),

and build entirely asymmetrical parts on another layer.

When this done, I export the whole as an obj file, import it into Maya,

then mirror the symmetric parts before merging them with the asymmetric chunks.

 

What would be really nice, is to be abble to switch "on-off" the symmetry on each layer

(Oh! both arms are the same, ok, arms layer, symmetry "on" / this body part is asymmetric,

ok, lets put it on another layer with symmetry "off").

 

Could this option be considered for the release to come?

I know that's not easy, but that would be really useful.

 

besides, symmetry with Z axis in the retopo room, create a flipped mesh on one side.

[Garagarape]

Oh,,, poor me. No reply

Then I'll reply to myself

Yes +1 for this feature

[Carlosan]

+1

 

may be the best option will be to think local symmetry as a new MODIFIER development

 

and to have MODIFIER STACKS 

 

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The modifiers you apply to an object are stored in a stack. By navigating up and down the stack, you can change the effect of the modifier, or remove it from the object. Or you can choose to “collapse” the stack and make your changes permanent.

There are other general things to know about using modifiers:
You can apply an unlimited number of modifiers to an object or part of an object.
When you delete a modifier, all its changes to the object disappear.
You can move and copy modifiers to other objects using controls in the modifier stack display.
The order or sequence in which you add modifiers is important. Each modifier affects those that come after it. For instance, adding a Bend modifier before a Taper can give you distinctly different results than if you first added the Taper followed by the Bend.

[Garagarape]

Hey, Carlosan!

 

Yes. I know this is a tricky thing, not very easy to implement.

At least, a "by layer" thing would be helpful IMO.

A local symmetry modifier with modifier stack would be a lot more complicated,

but also a lot more powerful.

I don't know what could be the incidence of implementing such a tool on the entire soft behavior.

But there must be something to do to make symmetry better.