Wings 3D Development Forum

Any harm in increasing the number of IDs reported upper left ?

Like the list vertcies 1,4, 7, 9

to 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13


So that IDs of hexagon verts might also get included before threshhold is reached and its just says 7 vertices selected.

I would like to puch the limit up from < 5 to < 7


I'm suspicous that this was picked somewhat arbitrarily. If this would be annoying ... maybe I could make it a preference. I have bumped it up for myself and a fabricator who needs to interograte the model sometimes and uses this as a debugging tool.

I just wanted to ask first rather than just do a pull-request for change. I can always patch this later.

In real work apps ... Hexagons are common in nature and both hexagons and pentagons appear in any number of natural "FOAMS". I don't think the same is true for higher order polygons so much. I think the hexagon is at least arguabbly a good cut off. I personally think quads is not so great a cut-off.

I don't think it's really that important to most users. Any cutoff is going to be arbitrary.

Maybe add an item to the Develop menu to create a window that shows a table of the currently selected elements.

Exposing Ids to users should remain limited. There is no need to clutter their work space.

Please can you explain why cutoff is going to be arbitrary as i am not getting it please explain.

Actually ... the cut-off I was referring to was not arbitrary at all. It had to do with the properties of "FOAM" and triangles and other "natural" or easy to occur things.

I was not asking for 9, 10, 11. Just that hexagons be covererd and maybe one more. So my request was anything but arbitrary. I was asking on behalf of a 3D prototyper with worlds of experience in modelling for realization. It should be a preference.

While I myself have rarely needed more than the amount displayed currently, I can see it being useful in a small number of circumstances.

In which case, why not display it in the Console window? Or at least have some kind of command to show the vert/edge/face IDs of the currently select object.