bulia byak wrote:
* You can grow or shrink node selection by hovering the mousepointer over a node and using mousewheel (up = grow, down = shrink) or the keys PageUp (grow) and PageDown (shrink). Growing adds the closest unselected node to the selection; shrinking deselects the farthest selected node. There are two modes that differ by how the closest/farthest nodes are chosen:
o Spatial selection (Mousewheel, PageUp/PageDown): distancesto nodes are measured directly, regardless of which subpath a node belongs to.
o Linear selection (Ctrl+Mousewheel,Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown): node distances are measured along the path, and only the nodes belonging to the same subpath as the hovered node are considered (i.e. other subpaths are never selected).
This technique is convenient for quickly selecting an area in acomplex path starting from a center - for example, for node sculpting.
Let me know if you think linear mode will be more often used than spatial - I can swap the shortcuts so that the more common mode can be used without Ctrl.
Bulia, Great work, node operations are really getting quite powerful. In terms of just our land mapping usage, I think the linear selection would be used more (realigning doughnuts, contours, etc) However, I'm in favor of requiring a prefix key (cntrl, alt, shift, etc) on all short-cut operations or perhaps to have a simple way to toggle shortcut keys off/on since it is far too easy (at least for me) to accidentally hit keys and then have weird things happen in the drawing.