Make Matcap work globally #37961

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William Reynish · 2013-12-27T02:27:04+01:00

William Reynish commented

2013-12-27 02:27:04 +01:00

When Matcap is used, apply it to the entire scene. This is needed for unifying the shading menu.

William Reynish commented

2013-12-27 02:27:04 +01:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Campbell Barton was assigned by William Reynish

2013-12-27 02:27:04 +01:00

William Reynish commented

2013-12-27 02:27:04 +01:00

Added subscribers: @billrey, @scottyp, @ThomasDinges, @brecht, @JonathanWilliamson, @DataDay, @ideasman42, @BartekMoniewski, @lichtwerk, @Brachi

Zsolt Stefan commented

2014-01-07 16:52:34 +01:00

Added subscriber: @ZsoltStefan

Zsolt Stefan commented

2014-01-07 16:52:34 +01:00

+1 for the proposal!

Even better would be an additional per-object setting that overrides this (in the Object properties, Display panel). Such as a "MatCap to use" button, which would open the little window with the available matcaps and also have an entry "NONE". (This would of course only have an effect inside the global shading mode "Matcaps")
This would be a quick way to shade a scene for the realtime OpenGL viewport (eg. showing 3D models in the viewport to clients...).

+1 for the proposal! Even better would be an additional per-object setting that overrides this (in the Object properties, Display panel). Such as a "MatCap to use" button, which would open the little window with the available matcaps and also have an entry "NONE". (This would of course only have an effect inside the global shading mode "Matcaps") This would be a quick way to shade a scene for the realtime OpenGL viewport (eg. showing 3D models in the viewport to clients...).

Paweł Łyczkowski commented

2014-01-23 22:39:42 +01:00

Added subscriber: @PawelLyczkowski-1

Paweł Łyczkowski commented

2014-01-23 22:41:06 +01:00

I approve, a global MatCap would have much better usability than single object MatCap.

Campbell Barton commented

2014-01-24 00:58:19 +01:00

Added D256 which implements this

Added [D256](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D256) which implements this

Campbell Barton commented

2014-01-27 06:06:46 +01:00

This was added this fairly recently and changing the behavior is trivial.

Before committing I'd like to know why Ton chose to do it this way in the first place and if he objects to applying this to all geometry.

This was added this fairly recently and changing the behavior is trivial. Before committing I'd like to know why Ton chose to do it this way in the first place and if he objects to applying this to all geometry.

Ton Roosendaal commented

2014-01-28 17:06:01 +01:00

Added subscriber: @Ton

Ton Roosendaal commented

2014-01-28 17:06:01 +01:00

Nice, all kinds of personal preferences and ideas for things that would be nice etc etc. Is this now a feature request tracker system?

I would just spend time on designing better viewport conventions and design in first place. Get someone who does substantial work on viewport, maintain it. make it stable, and then discuss features. My 2 cents.

Nice, all kinds of personal preferences and ideas for things that would be nice etc etc. Is this now a feature request tracker system? I would just spend time on designing better viewport conventions and design in first place. Get someone who does substantial work on viewport, maintain it. make it stable, and then discuss features. My 2 cents.

Campbell Barton commented

2014-01-28 17:08:19 +01:00

The feature is simple, I dont have a horse in this race (so to speak) but like to commit or close this ticket.

From Ton's reply I get this impression he thinks this is opening tickets for really small issues when we have much bigger tasks we should be focusing on. (getting caught up in details when viewport could use a rewrite/refactor)... which makes sense.

The feature is simple, I dont have a horse in this race (so to speak) but like to commit or close this ticket. From Ton's reply I get this impression he thinks this is opening tickets for really small issues when we have much bigger tasks we should be focusing on. (getting caught up in details when viewport could use a rewrite/refactor)... which makes sense.

Campbell Barton commented

2014-01-28 17:41:16 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

Campbell Barton closed this issue

2014-01-28 17:41:16 +01:00

Campbell Barton commented

2014-01-28 17:41:16 +01:00

applied D256, closing.

applied [D256](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D256), closing.

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Make Matcap work globally #37961