Re: node highlighting

I speak from experience, As one who started learning Solidworks on a
first generation pentium with 32MB ram. If your machine has to
identify every point, edge, surface, midpoint, quadrant, tanget,
perpendicular etc. as your cursor crosses the screen and report back
with a different cursor to tell you what's available it can be
staggering for your reesources.  I used to wait 5 to 10 seconds after
crossing the screen for the trail of cursors to catch up so I could
begin tomake a selection.  The newer machines are much faster and
support bigger RAM, but if you were working on a complex scene like
the really organic scenes in Elephants Dream you'd bring your CPU to
it's knees with that kind of overhead. Fields of grass, heads of hair,
a really detailed animal character thats a lot of feedback.


Lou

--- In [email protected], m p <ysvry@...> wrote:
>
> "As for the cursor feedback on available features to
> select, I don't miss it. Select the object you want to
> work on, go to
> edit mode and edit. Again in a solid modeling
> workspace that feature
> is nice but a waste of resources (RAM) in blender."
> 
>  your talking a bit out off your neck here Lou,
> changing the color of the point or object in focus
> will hardly cost any additional ram and it will aid
> the workflow tremendously, as you dont have to keep
> guessing wich point will be chosen.
> 
>





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