I submitted JIRA issue VWR-23202 to provide the simplest in-world editing capability, that of moving vertexes on a mesh.
The reasons why include making a clothing item fit better, a large mesh object fit within a land parcel, or fit the other objects in a linkset. As someone learning to build it would also be more fun and interesting to edit shapes. Even for an advanced builder, while we can load the parts of a complex build into our 3D program and get them to fit each other, we cannot load all possible avatar shapes, or the surrounding land for large items, and see how the mesh will fit the surroundings until it is there. I am not proposing a full blown mesh editor, that is best left to specialized software. What I want to see is a way to adjust items so they are more useful once imported/transferred to others, and a learning path for new people. Once they have a taste of modifying a simple library mesh, if they want to do more advanced work they can get some outside software. This is similar in my mind to what we do with textures. We can adjust the color tint, tiling ratio, etc on a texture (simple mods), but if we want to make a whole new texture you get GIMP or Photoshop. For the UI, I suggest using the same XYZ movement gizmo we use now for whole prims, the same numerical input boxes, and the same selection highlight. Just add a radio button to "Edit vertex" like the "Edit linked parts" on that's already there. To simplify asset database and server overhead, it may make sense to do the editing local in the client until you leave edit mode. But I will leave technical implementation to those who know more about that side of things. Daniel > > > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:47:48 -0700 > From: Stickman<stick...@gmail.com> > > > Having said that, very simple editors that are not designed to have > fancy features but be as basic as possible would allow people to > create things without going to an outside source. But it must be clear > and planned that they will never evolve beyond a basic level. > > Stickman > > > ------------------------------ > > From: "Science Fiction Computer - SCi-Fi PC"<partn...@scifipc.com> > Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Unity 3D as possible base / 2.x Codebase > plugin capable? > > > If mesh becomes a standard in SL, a basic mesh editor ought to be included > by default. > > ... > > SL Viewer Mesh Editor doesn't need to be Maya, it just needs to be 'there' > and 'basic' to encourage new content creators to create and feel that they > begin to learn and participate without significant barriers. > > We must try and avoid any situation where a New User in SL feels > disadvantaged or unable to create before they start. > > Regards, > > DMC Zsigmond-Jurassic > Science Fiction. > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
