Contributor ajz3d Posted June 8, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 (edited) Most of the tools in the Sculpt Room (if not all) and the Brush tool in the Retopo Room affect all faces that are caught within the brush radius. The brush acts like a volumetric sphere that will edit everything that is inside its falloff radius. In many cases it makes working with certain areas of the sculpture or a model very difficult or even impossible. I am thinking about regions like lips and other similar narrow openings and areas where two surfaces intersect. This animated GIF depicts the problem using Move tool as an example: As you can see, I can't move the lower area without affecting the upper one and vice-versa. What I suggest, is to introduce some sort of additional brushing algorithm that would use surface continuity for determining geometry to be affected by currently selected tool. The algorithm, before altering the geometry, would look up what face/vertex lies under the centre of the brush and grow the selection of components to be affected according to their surface connectivity. Then it would modify this selection by alpha of the brush. (blue colour indicates the geometry that will be affected by the tool) Edited June 8, 2015 by ajz3d 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted June 8, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 That would be an excellent improvement, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Aleksey Posted June 8, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 100% this. I think this explains a lot of problems i have. would also eliminate the need for freezing in many cases. plz plz plz. should make a trello card for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 please the link to mantis card ? +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted June 9, 2015 Author Contributor Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) Unfortunately, my Trello user either doesn't have privileges to add new cards or I don't know how to add one. I can only vote on existing cards. If it's okay, I can create a feature request on Mantis. Never mind. I'm writing the Mantis request now. Edited June 9, 2015 by ajz3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted June 9, 2015 Author Contributor Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Mantis feature requests for sculpt and retopo rooms: http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1916 http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1917 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted June 9, 2015 Author Contributor Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Trello cards: https://trello.com/c/JUclIWMJ https://trello.com/c/luEEmnrA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member arumiat Posted June 17, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 17, 2015 +1 voted trello Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member pooby Posted June 19, 2015 Member Report Share Posted June 19, 2015 Yes this is essential. +1 from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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