Select a chain of edges within limits#35
Sometimes, when I Shift-select a chain of edges, I wish I could tell Phi to stop the selection at a certain point. Why not actually being able to do that?
A possible interface could be, select the “from” and “to” vertices, then Shift-click an edge in between.
Agree. The user is describing a soft-selection falloff. This along with other falloffs would be great additions.
OK makes sense. Currently we select entire chains until we hit a bifurcation (where we wouldn’t know which edge to pick next) or a fixed edge. This includes closed loops of edges.
I am thinking of the following:
- Select one edge,
- Then shift-select another one,
- All edges in between are also selected, if we can form a “clean chain” (no disconnections or bifurcations).
Care is needed if the two selected edges are on a closed loop: how do we know which part of the loop the user actually wants selected? I would go with selecting the entire loop in this case. Or the shorter one.
Of course you lose the immediate single-click convenience to select entire chains/loops of edges that we have now, but 2 clicks is not terrible.
Adding to the list for next release (probably).
- Double click edge to select the entire chain.
- Select an edge and then mmb click another edge to select up to the second selected edge in a chain, provided there are no bifurcations. Agree with you that it should select the shorter side of a closed loop.
- Select two adjacent edges, hit up button to add to chain of selections
This is good! My only concern is that so far we have stayed away from double-click altogether, we try to do everything with simple clicks, keyboard shortcuts, and only SHIFT to modify the operations. I’m worried about making the interface too complex, then users will start thinking “if I double-click this or that what will happen?”, also if you double-click too slow it’s like a select/deselect… Also if this were to run on an iPad one day (that’s the plan) I’m not sure how all this would change…
Thank you for the suggestion, we’ll find a way to make it work!
Released in Version 1.3.3