Current behavior of bevel is to 'loop slide' along unbeveled edges
when possible, but this produces uneven bevel widths sometimes,
so this option lets user choose between having the loop slide effect
or having more even bevel widths. Trying it out with default being
'no loop slide', so different from current behavior. May reverse this
choice later, depending on user reactions.
Now the bevel tool, modifier, and internal operator have a material
slot # parameter that the user can set. If left at default of -1,
behavior is as current -- bevel face material is taken from the
closest original face (this may be ambiguous). If material slot
is >= 0, it gives the material slot index number for the material
to use.
Parameter controls concavity / convexity.
<.25 means: concave inward
.25 means: straight slanted
>.25 means: concave outward
.5 means: circular (the default)
1 means: straight along original sides
For now, there is a hard lower limit of .15
because more work is needed to get decent
results in the range below that.
The profile is actually a superellipse, and the
parameter is 1/4 of the exponent in the implicit equation
for a superellipse, except at the extreme values of 0 and 1.
Now there is an 'Offset Type' dropdown on tool
shelf with types:
Offset - current method, offset of new edge
from old along sliding face
Width - width of new bevel face (if segments=1)
Depth - amount a chamfering plane moves down
from original edge
Percent - percent of way sliding edges move
along their adjacent edges
The different options mainly are useful when
beveling more than one edge at once.
Leaving as a TODO to put these in the modifier,
as doing that has more permanent effects so
want to let users shake out problems with this
first.
This is a quick fix that perhaps overestimates the point
of first geometry collision, but at least for now it should
allow models that used the old modifier and a too-big
bevel amount to not look awful.
The correct solution to this problem is much more involved
and I'll get to it later.
Now modifier takes a segments parameter.
Bevel edge weights will multiply the overall amount.
For vertex-only, you can give a vertex group name,
and the weights in that will multiply the overall amount.
