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(closed) Delete 2 cursor types and auto selection off switch.

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schlumpf:
Triangle cursor and non-auto-select have a use case: being able to edit specific vertices exactly.

Amaroth:
Sadly, thats something (along with more things) noone has really made clear and commonly known through community of actual users. I have personaly never thought about using triangle cursor in that way, and I have been using Noggit for nearly 6 years now. Making clear to users what is tool supposed to work like and which feature is supposed to be used for what purpouse is arguably as much important as creating that tool. I'll try to help with this as much as I can when Qt version is released.

Steff:
Auto selection off is simple the way noggit did it in the past and I dont need the triangle cursor to exactly edit stuff....
Also there is vertics edit mode now, where you can even select vertics and move and angel them specificly so even this usecase is no longer a point. In my opinion to much features are not always good. Sometime less is more. Special if you are new to an Application and start to learn it.

Amaroth:

--- Quote from: Steff on June 08, 2017, 11:12:34 pm ---Auto selection off is simple the way noggit did it in the past and I dont need the triangle cursor to exactly edit stuff....
--- End quote ---
Neither do I, but I have never thought about that possibility. And some users, especially beginners, would probably find single verticle editing easier with this little trick, I just wonder how many of them were aware of it. Because if you have no idea how ADT's terrain's wireframe looks, that triangle can be damn useful. If you know it instinctively like we both do, well, you don't need triangle cursor anymore.

Steff:
I relay don´t care the most time about the triangles. I just edit the ground ;)
And I think that is what the most people do at start. Just pick the tools and try around.
As a conclusion we should just keep the triangle mode but add the selection mode switch from menu to the options tab of the ground tool. Then people see it and perhaps try what it do.

I will make a video series if qt is ready but most people just try around and don´t watch or even read stuff.

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