keKit for Blender (2.8+)

impacman · November 10, 2020, 8:00am

Hi! Thanks a lot for mesh clean! have a question:
Is it possible to add anyhow checking for uv zero area faces?) >.<

impacman · November 10, 2020, 9:48am

Also have a question about direct loop cut - sometimes it cuts not whole edge ring (as i understand it depends of initial selection) - is it some kind of feature?

Kiellog · November 10, 2020, 5:56pm

hey!
uvchecking - yes, at some point I’ll probably do a similar thing with UV’s, but more of a selection tool - trying to automatically fixing UVs most likely results in garbage, usually.

dlc - it checks the ring loops and will stop when the flow is interrupted (no longer quads, but ngons) , it might go the ‘wrong’ direction, or just miss in certain cases. maybe. I suggest going with DLC&Slide as you can select all the rings you like to cut, and it will be more controllable.

APEC · November 11, 2020, 5:13pm

@Kiellog
Hi.
Can you check, why your “Cursor Fit and Align” breaks default “Set Cursor to the Normal”.
After using “Cursor Fit and Align” then “Set Cursor to the Normal” stop recognizing normals of selected elements…
For me it’s not critical, but this is strange behavior…

Kiellog · November 11, 2020, 6:16pm

Hmm, I’m not really sure what is expected behaviour. When i use RMB placement i have it on surface project and geo, and it aligns. But when using the panel (or piemenu) “Snap cursor to active” (i dont see any “Set Cursor to the Normal” variant) it does not, just moves location. I thought this was as intended, if that is what you mean.

APEC · November 11, 2020, 7:10pm

Here is what I meant.
It’s like after “Cursor Fit & Align” cursor remember rotation angles and did not changes with blender align tool

Summary

just wanted you to know about it, no need to deep investigate…

Kiellog · November 11, 2020, 7:18pm

I’m sorry, I dont know what that is. There is an (un-enabled) add-on that comes with blender called “align tools”, but it does not seem to have that functionality.

No worries, I was mostly curious of what tool that is

APEC · November 11, 2020, 7:21pm

oh, my bad
just forget about it.
It’s some addon that enabled from 2.8…
I’ll find it and report to the author.
Yep…found “Set Precise Mesh /CAD”

APEC · November 11, 2020, 8:46pm

Maybe it conflict with some values?

[Release Addon] Set Precise Mesh /CAD Add-on

This is what happens to the cursor when working with Set precise mesh

bpy.context.scene.cursor.rotation_quaternion
Quaternion((1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0))

bpy.context.scene.cursor.rotation_euler
Euler((2.1862761974334717, -5.96255631535314e-08, -0.7853982448577881), ‘XYZ’)

This is what happens to the cursor when working with keKit

bpy.context.scene.cursor.rotation_quaternion
Quaternion((0.9238795638084412, 0.3826834559440613, 0.0, 0.0))

bpy.context.scene.cursor.rotation_euler
Euler((0.0, 0.0, 0.0), ‘XYZ’)

The strange thing is that after keKit changes the cursor “rotation_quaternion”, the “rotation_euler” change stops. This is why Set Precise Mesh stops working correctly, because it uses “rotation_euler”. Why is very strange.

If it’s not difficult, tell the developer keKit. Maybe he knows something.

Kiellog · November 11, 2020, 8:58pm

Hmm. I think the default is euler, and other things may take that for granted. I will add a check and apply whatever the user has set and restore it post op, should solve any such issues.
thx!

Kiellog · November 11, 2020, 11:21pm

v1.372 Released!

Bug fix release, but a couple of new tools too:

rovh · November 12, 2020, 1:54am

Hi. I am the developer of Set Precise Mesh. Thank you for fixing this bug. The problem was in “bpy.context.scene.cursor.rotation_mode” or not?

Kiellog · November 12, 2020, 6:56am

Hey!
Yeah, The issue was that I set 3d cursor rotation it to quaternion. Any user can change this from default though, I’d recommend you check for this too, to avoid any issues. (I simply reset to default afterwards if set to quaternion now,or user setting otherwise)

APEC · November 12, 2020, 9:33am

@Kiellog
Hi,
I see your tool is growing.
You can save some space with Save Kit Settings relocating to the tool name like in Render Button addon. See how he add icons to the tool name.

Kiellog · November 12, 2020, 11:57am

Yup, I am considering condensing a lot more, especially less-used items (and hotkey-only items) can easily be just icons instead.

APEC · November 13, 2020, 12:49pm

@Kiellog
Hello,

Have you ever compared two objects by switching between them?
How do you think is it possible to create such functionality?
Switching visibility between two or more objects…
Found this

github.com

K-410/blender-scripts/blob/master/2.8/toggle_hide.py

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import bpy
bl_info = {

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but it seems abandoned…not working in 2.90+
The problem is in (I think)
# Select objects marked in outliner
script just deselect objects and cant get selected again for toggling…

Kiellog · November 13, 2020, 8:12pm

Hey. I know there has been a bit of work on the outliner, and that operator is still undocumented, so I dont really know what’s going on…but, I just added a selection on the hiding parts, which makes the toggling work, but now they appear unselected in the outliner? Maybe thats good enough for now?
toggle_hide_hack.py (2.8 KB)

APEC · November 13, 2020, 9:37pm

Yes, thank you!
It’s enough for me.

APEC · November 14, 2020, 9:34am

Hi,
I made some investigation and found this
if put bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active = o (or objs.active = o as we have objs = context.view_layer.objects at the bottom) after # Re-hide others

        # Re-hide others
        for o in hid_objs:
            if not o.select_get():
                o.hide_set(True)
        
        bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active = o
        return {'FINISHED'}

object become active after switching
but there is one big BUT, it’s not keep selection, so it unhide all hidden objects also)
Thanks for your time, I’ll write PM to the author for update.

Kiellog · November 14, 2020, 4:44pm

v1.373 Released!