keKit for Blender (2.8+)

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:02am

Hi! new update is awesome! TY

but found a bug with loop cut and slide on selected(

and have a couple of questions

is there easy way to determine initial settings for bevels for me? (most of the time i use ‘korean’ bevels with profile = 1 with 2 segments)
-is it possible to make 2nd option for ‘loop cut and slide’ (holding shift for example) which applies set flow tension (from looptools addon) after performing cut

APEC · August 18, 2021, 10:07am

Its a simple marco if you use Pie Menu Editor addon

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:16am

Thank you. Yep i use some of macros but haven’t idea how to make asked one

APEC · August 18, 2021, 10:24am

I assume you need and interactive behavior sliding with set flow, then it definitely need a new or rewrite “loop cut and slide” operator.

About the bevel it also need new operator,
if you need interactive beveling with profile = 1 and segments = 2

Hologram · August 18, 2021, 10:28am

For loop cut with set flow, you may consider Fast Loop

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:28am

no, not interactive - just like Fast Loop * shift+mouse click to insert a loop with flow

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:29am

thank you, but Ke LCaS preferred for me

APEC · August 18, 2021, 10:46am

About keBevel you can change code slightly and get what you need
in ke_contextops.py
line 57
change bpy.ops.mesh.bevel('INVOKE_DEFAULT', affect='EDGES') to
this bpy.ops.mesh.bevel('INVOKE_DEFAULT', segments=2, profile=1, affect='EDGES')

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:47am

but it needs to be fixed with every update…

APEC · August 18, 2021, 10:47am

yes, unfortunately

impacman · August 18, 2021, 10:52am

so maybe adding this kind of prefs in .json possible in future… or taking 'em from standard blender hotkeys setting…

APEC · August 18, 2021, 10:55am

only if @Kiellog add options for every modes (vert,edge,face), like in Modeling - Subd Tools (Options)

Kiellog · August 18, 2021, 8:10pm

Hey! Well that was quite the thread ;> sorry, missed that bug for the last release, will check it out for the next one.
As for bevel presets, that would be like a preferred starting mode, mostly for edges. but I’m prob not going to hard-code it just to fit that exact use-case, so it gets a bit more complicated. Hmm.

P.S, Fast Loop looks excellent! I wanted to do something VERY similar. Now I don’t have to! Yay ! ;D
(Haven’t tried it yet tho)

impacman · August 19, 2021, 5:19am

Michael_Knubben · August 19, 2021, 11:52am

Have you considered using a Displace for the Array, rather than moving the object itself? That’s how I always did it when setting it up manually: leave the object at 0.0.0 or whereever, add a Displace modifier set to X, move the object that way. This way the original object doesn’t move!

Kiellog · August 19, 2021, 3:06pm

Hey, I assume you mean Radial or Linear Array? No, not really. Might work, but I’m not doing anything more with the old array modifier.
I want proper Instances, thus, I have a half-finished geo-nodes variant going, but the 3.0-alpha is so unstable…its not much fun. Next versions of Radial/Linear Array wont be done until 3.0 is released anyways tho.

Michael_Knubben · August 19, 2021, 3:27pm

Fair enough. Looking forward to your GN take on it!

A-Law · August 20, 2021, 5:16pm

I love this toolkit. Thank you so much for making it available!

A-Law · August 20, 2021, 5:25pm

One question: How do I restore "Global View 3d Generic’? I accidentally deleted something in the keymap, and now I get this error in the Custom Operator Hotkeys portion of the keKIT addon panel.

Kiellog · August 21, 2021, 4:58am

Hey, thx!
looks like the hotkey for the shading pie was removed. “Global View 3d Generic” is the category where the hotkey is found (or not found). You can add a new one there: