headus 3D tools

[melamkish]

First, great work on this fine program. I found it last month and have finally gotten a chance to really take it for a workout.

I'm working on a high poly jacket with a lot of small and long polys, especially in the seam areas and collar. Here are my requests based on trying to get a good map.

In future versions, continue to keep the old flattening methods available. The current and newer methods can sometimes be too aggressive and twists the uv's all over the place. The old flattening brush has been the best tool here.

The ability to fully span the workspace window across two monitors and a way to zoom faster, perhaps a view selection tool.

First in uv view, the home key just does not zoom close enough. The collar is rolled and extends all the way to the bottom of the jacket becoming very small at the bottom. When zoomed in far enough to see the mesh adequately, the other side of the collar is too far off screen to scroll and when zoomed out far enough to see both ends, too small to compare both sides. The home key helps zoom out, but then re-centering the view and zooming way back in is a lot of mouse movement.

I can only resize the view space a couple inches onto the second monitor (using two 19 inch LCD's). If the window could be resized to cover both monitors it would be very helpful in the above case to minimize all the zooming and movement as well as allowing a greater work area.

Angular snap. I noticed the "A" hotkey added to the latest version. Being able to do angular snapping on both shells and edges would be useful for more precise alignment when trying to stretch an edge (ie edge straightening) along a curved edge.

User selected line color options. I think this has been touched on, but I find the yellow used for the line selection extremely hard to detect at times, especially against the white in 3D view.

Vertical light control. The current horizontal control is very useful, but sometimes getting light into a narrow, deep seam or crevices a bit tricky while trying to rotate the model and get the lighting set to evaluate where to cut.

Dual views. Being able to see two views at the same time would be extremely useful. Although it is very easy to switch back and forth, mark polys, look for compression or stretching, If I could have, say uv view open on one monitor, and 3D view open on the second monitor, updating in real time, I could make adjustments in uv view and see the changes as they are made in the second window.

Comments.

The videos are excellent and very useful. I have watched every one of them several times. Besides learning how to use the tools, the techniques for cutting and assembling a map have been a great learning experience!

Thanks for all the hard work.

[headus]

First off I've moved this out to its own topic ... things sort of get lost in the 9+ pages of the general wish list.

[headus]

[melamkish]

Dongle arrived safely.

Excellent feedback, Phil.

[headus]

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