Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted November 10, 2007 Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Howdy, Here are some things that might be enhancements in no particular order of importance: - ability to lock open edges of mesh (so no distortion occurs with smoothing, for instance) - complete model smoothing (with control over percentage, and not affecting locked edges) - rotate model locally (not camera) for texture projection painting -- ability to reset to default that was imported (or ability to rotate image planes in 3d to better line up with model position...this might actually be more appropriate) - Frame object hotkey (recenters camera to object and zooms to default location) - ability to edit layer names - layer intensity adjustable (initially for whole layer, but also for color, bump, spec) - radial fade option for copy/paste (so edges can be sharp or soft depending on fade) - falloff control for the smoothing curve And here are some things I've found quirky: - 'OK' buttons should function when hitting 'enter' key after changing numerical entries - 'Set Plane' seems a little non-intuitive...perhaps 'Planar Flatten' would be a better term? - Smoothing needs to be realtime (even with medium-sized brushes) -- I found that even by importing at 2million (instead of default 4 million) polys, the Head model smoothed with considerable lag with brush sizes about the same size as the tip of the nose. This is a large time-waster if you've got to experiment with every 'shift+lmb' stroke to see how aggressively it smoothed your geometry...and you can't see it until a half-second after you've laid down the stroke. My machine isn't totally archaic (PIV 2.0 duo-core, 2g RAM, nVidia 7800GO with 256mb RAM) but my performance with smoothing tool is painful. That's about it for now...hope it's of some utility to you. Oh yeah. You probably already know this, but you've done some fine work here! Kind regards, wailingmonkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted November 10, 2007 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 forgot to list this important addition: - ability to use custom repeating textures with Fill tool (with sliders for color transparency and also saturation -- so it can be added as bump/greyscale only) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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