This would also give you a full work history of the object; as well as, you could add animation at any point in the construction to allow you to use an earlier, simpler mesh to drive the much denser mesh down the node network. A simple example is animating the verices of a cube to animate the SubD modified mesh, this would be similar to a cube lattice modifying a ball. A more complex example would be a much simpler polygonal mesh of a person or character being animated by an armature which animates the much more complex multi-res and sculpted mesh of the character’s body. In this case you could speed-up rigging by having less vertices, you could actually parent the vertices directly to the armature bones themselves.

I know this would be an enormous re-write of the core of Blender, but would be enormously useful to make Blender future flexible and modifiable.

I love it! I just posted a note/idea on BlenderNation - Do not want to copy it here - I’d just post the link here if you do not mind.

http://www.blendernation.com/2007/04/14/parametric-objects-in-blender-2/#comment-90779

Cheers

Bruxy

I ask ZanQdo, If he can compile it. :)

http://mke3.net/blender/etc/para_modif_patch.txt

Of course, the T3 UI work you did both looked very professional, but was also highly functional as well.

I had a thought - what OS do compile on? Would you be able to release a binary snapshot of it, for people to try out? As the Glass Buttons patch got a mention on Blendernation ( and on main blender.org as a result ), an article on your T3 UI would be great, and being able to download your current build would be the icing on the cake! ( as well as generating more interest from users to have it in 2.5 )

As always, keep up the great work ( eg Tablet integration )

In the work I’ve been doing (well ‘did’ I guess) with buttons, rather than just piling on bling, there was a much greater emphasis on making something that was subtle and could be used unobtrusively, and also on usability itself with the toggle check boxes, differentiation between control types, etc.

I’d also like to see some current screenshots / movies of it :) Maybe Bart could show them in an article on Blendernation, along with a bit of a story, to show more of the community how Blender should look like soon!

One last thing - have you tried running the “Glass Buttons” patch with your T3 UI, to see what it would look like? A screenshot of both would be very cool!

Mal

But do you have more Screenshots of it ?
You dont need to post, but it would be very
nice from you. =)

Cloudsk!pper: I presume you mean the buttons. It’s pretty much the same as I had in tuhopuu3 many moons ago, but updated in my own tree, with more improvements and adaptations. I’ve never made a patch yet because it’ll take more time to extract it all from the other code I have in there, perhaps I could just upload an entire source tree.. I plan to implement it in Blender 2.5, along with the buttons window cleanup.

I’m not sure how easy this would be to actually make practical in Blender right now. One thing that concerns me is the effect of things like the Vertex group buttons - what would they have to operate on… Perhaps they would ask to convert to mesh as well.

Smick, Mal: Yeah I realised after I made the grid one that it would probably be smarter to have both resolution and width/height controls. That way you could progressively refine the mesh without changing the area.

Rather than mouse wheel, we really just need a way to have the darn number fields updating in real time as they are dragged. This lack of real time feedback is due to deep limitations in Blender’s UI code and is one of my biggest annoyances with at the moment. Probably won’t be easy to solve until 2.5, I hope Ton can take a look at it.

that’s amazing as all your stuff
keep on