Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted October 16, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 I'm finding the MOVE tool to be one of the most useful tools in the Voxel tool box I made this maquette with almost 90% move tool work But for certain specific uses it's a bit lacking. When i want to pull out a mass it tapers the mass out...I don't want that...I'd like the mass to pull straight out. The extrude tool just doesn't cut it for this. I would want it more like the EXTRUDE tool in maya polygons where you select polygons then just extrude them out in a mass. What I'm proposing is a modified MOVE tool with a new name where you paint/select on the surface of your voxels then just pull the painted/selected voxel surface out the way you pull out the selected polygons in a Maya EXTRUDE. You could pull the mass out as far as you want without tapering off of the mass...it would also offer a more precise selection of the surface area you want to pull out than the present MOVE tool does..this new precision would make it much easier to say, just pull out an arm from the selected voxels of the shoulder area, then just pull out the forearm from precisely selected voxels of the elbow and have an angular bend at the elbow without any messy pulling of areas you don't want pulled as it does now.. Of course this may already exist and I don't know about it but if it doesn't I think this would be a very useful tool.. Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member kay_Eva Posted October 17, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Yeah it already exists. Use a different pen alpha with a harder falloff And both the E panel selections and the freeze tool can be used to get precise areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted October 17, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 holding the control key while moving will constrain to the 'normal' direction...it also respects the alpha of choice for the pen shape... maybe close to what you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor tree321 Posted October 17, 2011 Contributor Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Another option is to use the pose tool-select with pen.This way you can paint your selection as you wish.It also respects alphas. http://www.screencast.com/t/JHHYrGlj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted October 19, 2011 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 That's all great. Thanks a lot guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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