Normals editor for Blender 2.74-2.79 (needs to be updated for 2.8)
WIP, wiki will be updated to reflect current changes soon
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Features:
- Normals editor for split and vertex normals
- Manual Editing by input vector or a rotating arrow object
- Automatic generation of normals using different presets:
- allows generating normals for selected vertices, faces, or the selected mesh
- supported methods:
- Default
- Bent from cursor location
- Smooth (average of connected/selected face normals)
- Weighted (using face areas as weights)
- Flat (if using split normals)
- Transfer (originally based on Vrav's Transfer Vertex Normals)
- Pie menu with auto-generate presets and mode switcher
- bound to Mouse Button 4 by default, set up in 'init.py'
- refer to 'keyslist.txt' for key names
- search for: 'kmi = km.keymap_items.new('wm.call_menu_pie', 'BUTTON4MOUSE', 'PRESS')'
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Changelog:
1.0.3 (current)
- performance optimization: removed function call to create normals data
1.0.2
- Transfer now takes split normals into account for source objects (if available)
- removed last instance of average calculation, removed an unused variable in transfer functions
1.0.1
- removed old face index variable
- added new mode enum to cleanup
1.0.0
- New Feature:
- added new manual edit mode using a manipulator object
- General Code Cleanup:
- removed some unused variables left over from testing features
- removed unneeded average calculations (let normalization handle it)
- created common functions to build mesh data used by all other functions
- switched vertex normal editing to bmesh
- UI:
- moved shared selection-related variables to data (top) tab
- Generate panel overhaul - back to ENUM to save UI space
- Generate:
- added weighted normals mode (by connected face areas)
0.0.7
- fixed ridiculous memory usage + half-working split normals transfer caused by typos
0.0.6
- overhauled Transfer functions:
- transfer should no longer reset existing normals
- fixed weird behavior with 'selected only' enabled
- created specialized version of the function for split normals
- added toggle to use face selection instead of vertex selection while using split normals
0.0.5
- fixed Default Auto-generate mode for split normals in Blender 2.75 (change should also work in older versions)
- tooltip text fixes
- consolidated pie menu and other functions into one file, removed unneeded temp_data file
- added a function to flip normals on selected object
- pie menu is now only for Auto-Generate modes, no more bad attempt at nested pie menus :)
0.0.4
- moved Transfer tool to Auto-Generate section of panel
- Transfer mode updated to use the Selected Only toggle to generate for selection
- consolidated variables
0.0.3
- rewrote transfer vertex normals for speed + compatibility
- ui fixes/optimizations
- generation speed optimizations
- changed way the script detects normals to use
- added Flat generation mode (split normals only)
- removed some unneeded variables
0.0.2
- added transfer functionality to ui panel
- menu usability optimizations
- added license
- moved variables back to init file
- changed pie menu icons
0.0.1
- initial upload
