UI: Drag Select Edge and Face Keymap Configuration #109309

Lukas Sneyd · 2023-06-23T21:56:45+02:00

Lukas Sneyd commented

2023-06-23 21:56:45 +02:00

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Ability to configure selection details in the keymap.

It is limited and unclear how blender selects edges and faces with box, circle, and lasso. I added some more ways to do this. Keymap for each tool has a dropdown with options for edges and faces.

Can follow along at 0:42 of this youtube video about my custom build #109150

Blender selects edges in a hybrid fashion with box and lasso. If the box or lasso contains at least one edge with both of its verts inside, you will only select edges that are like that. If you are touching some edges, but none of them have both of their verts inside, you will select any edge that is touched by the box or lasso. With circle you select any edge that is touched by the circle regardless of other factors. With this, the keymap now has these options for selecting edges:

Default does what Blender does, and circle doesn't have this since it does Touch by default
Touch will select anything the selection area touches
Enclose will select edges that have both verts inside the selection area

Blender selects faces in a hybrid fashion with box, lasso, and circle. If X-Ray is off, you select any faces you touch, and if X-Ray is on you select them by their center. With this, the keymap now has these options for selecting faces:

Default does what Blender does
Touch will select anything the selection area touches
Enclose will select a face if all their verts are inside the selection area
Center will select a face if the selection area touches their center

Touch faces in xray is from the work kio did on select through https://archive.blender.org/developer/D6322

Issues
At 8:32 in the video above

Intersect doesn't work with Touch or Enclose face in X-Ray. Don't know why, looked at it a few times, doesn't make sense to me. It will fallback to a Center select instead. Figured it's better to do something close to what is expected rather than nothing.

Enclose face works in near select, but it's hard to use if user can't see all the verts of a face. If there is a visible face, but some of it's verts that would otherwise be on screen are behind something else, the selection bitmap thinks they don't exist. This means that it also thinks that part of these faces are outside the selection area, even though they aren't, and they get excluded from selection. One thing user can try is avoiding the selection bitmap entirely, but this requires the use of Viewport Facing Select #109357 and Select Through #109319. Turn on Select Through, and set Viewport Facing Select to work in X-Ray, Verts of Front Face, Edges of Front Face, and Front Faces. Threshold at zero is best in my opinion. Now they get a decent result, but have to deal with the baggage that comes with Select Through and VFS. They don't always get everything they can see, at least when encountering some weird faces that have triangles pointing in very different directions. Also, they're going to select like X-Ray so if there's something that is facing the viewport, but they don't have line of sight, they're going to select it without actually seeing it.

Ability to configure selection details in the keymap. --- It is limited and unclear how blender selects edges and faces with box, circle, and lasso. I added some more ways to do this. Keymap for each tool has a dropdown with options for edges and faces. ![image](/attachments/7f41f258-6bfd-4dc7-ade5-3fbc32065e54) Can follow along at 0:42 of this [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVrFCOa7RO8&t=42s) about my [custom build](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-with-better-selection-and-more/1471220) #109150 Blender selects edges in a hybrid fashion with box and lasso. If the box or lasso contains at least one edge with both of its verts inside, you will only select edges that are like that. If you are touching some edges, but none of them have both of their verts inside, you will select any edge that is touched by the box or lasso. With circle you select any edge that is touched by the circle regardless of other factors. With this, the keymap now has these options for selecting edges: Default does what Blender does, and circle doesn't have this since it does Touch by default Touch will select anything the selection area touches Enclose will select edges that have both verts inside the selection area Blender selects faces in a hybrid fashion with box, lasso, and circle. If X-Ray is off, you select any faces you touch, and if X-Ray is on you select them by their center. With this, the keymap now has these options for selecting faces: Default does what Blender does Touch will select anything the selection area touches Enclose will select a face if all their verts are inside the selection area Center will select a face if the selection area touches their center Touch faces in xray is from the work kio did on select through https://archive.blender.org/developer/D6322 **Issues** At 8:32 in the [video above](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVrFCOa7RO8&t=512s) Intersect doesn't work with Touch or Enclose face in X-Ray. Don't know why, looked at it a few times, doesn't make sense to me. It will fallback to a Center select instead. Figured it's better to do something close to what is expected rather than nothing. Enclose face works in near select, but it's hard to use if user can't see all the verts of a face. If there is a visible face, but some of it's verts that would otherwise be on screen are behind something else, the selection bitmap thinks they don't exist. This means that it also thinks that part of these faces are outside the selection area, even though they aren't, and they get excluded from selection. One thing user can try is avoiding the selection bitmap entirely, but this requires the use of Viewport Facing Select #109357 and Select Through #109319. Turn on Select Through, and set Viewport Facing Select to work in X-Ray, Verts of Front Face, Edges of Front Face, and Front Faces. Threshold at zero is best in my opinion. Now they get a decent result, but have to deal with the baggage that comes with Select Through and VFS. They don't always get everything they can see, at least when encountering some weird faces that have triangles pointing in very different directions. Also, they're going to select like X-Ray so if there's something that is facing the viewport, but they don't have line of sight, they're going to select it without actually seeing it.

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Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-06-23 21:56:58 +02:00

3872a555e4 More ways to box circle and lasso select edges and faces accessed from

the keymap

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-06-23 22:00:53 +02:00

e12216c208 Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

Lukas Sneyd referenced this pull request

2023-06-23 23:17:40 +02:00

WIP: Box Lasso and Circle Select Keymap Options for Faces and Edges #105527

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2023-06-23 23:19:00 +02:00

Selection Options #109075

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-07-05 10:55:02 +02:00

0fce9b00f1 remove conflict in scene types

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5f91071cc9 add scene-types back

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-07-05 11:12:18 +02:00

31705b7d1c Revert "add scene-types back"

This reverts commit 5f91071cc9.

didn't work

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-07-05 11:55:32 +02:00

1c3be7f077 try to add scene types in again

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21e30f66d1 Revert "try to add scene types in again"

This reverts commit 1c3be7f077.

still not working

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b1975d8cff Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

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582b81882d third times a charm?

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61bc27c477 Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

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9f991c1739 Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

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16e686f1d2 Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

Lukas Sneyd changed title from ~~WIP: Drag Select Edge and Face Keymap Options~~ to Drag Select Edge and Face Keymap Options

2023-07-15 23:46:43 +02:00

Lukas Sneyd commented

2023-07-15 23:47:07 +02:00

First-time contributor

I was told to tag you guys. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, but I will try this. Thanks for your time
@ideasman42 @harley

I was told to tag you guys. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, but I will try this. Thanks for your time @ideasman42 @harley

Harley Acheson referenced this pull request

2023-07-16 19:57:53 +02:00

UI: Automatic X-Ray #109318

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2023-07-17 02:02:16 +02:00

UI: Automatic X-Ray #109318

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2023-07-17 05:50:03 +02:00

UI: Select Through Option #109319

Harley Acheson changed title from ~~Drag Select Edge and Face Keymap Options~~ to UI: Drag Select Edge and Face Keymap Configuration

2023-07-17 22:37:36 +02:00

Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2023-07-17 22:41:44 +02:00

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-07-23 15:55:57 +02:00

2d41c48154 remove operator props conflict

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9424986960 Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-07-23 16:26:40 +02:00

122155e493 add operator prop changes back

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-08-01 07:55:37 +02:00

11e6eae66b remove conflicts ed_view3d.h v3d_iterators and v3d_select

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-08-01 08:00:18 +02:00

d445c88208 remove newline conflict

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15f3f563a6 remove newline conflict

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4c80e2e5bc Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

Lukas Sneyd added 1 commit 2023-08-01 10:07:29 +02:00

1af4a37584 add conflicted changes back

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3e53a3fb6c remove conflicts

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39c704b0e4 add deconflicted back

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ed40e8e5fa Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

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9be619a93a Merge branch 'main' into drag-select-edge-face-keymap-options

This pull request has changes conflicting with the target branch.

source/blender/blenlib/BLI_lasso_2d.h
source/blender/blenlib/intern/lasso_2d.c
source/blender/editors/curves/intern/curves_selection.cc
source/blender/editors/include/ED_view3d.hh
source/blender/editors/space_view3d/view3d_iterators.cc
source/blender/editors/space_view3d/view3d_select.cc
source/blender/editors/uvedit/uvedit_select.cc

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