Joys of Sweep

[Fonte Boa]

First time Optigon released Sweep tool, i couldnt unfortunately understand its extreme importance: using Sweep, you can Extrude, Inset and Bend simultaneously, if i could express by this way!

I recorded three short videos just to show and invite wingers to use it more and more and more.

In all the situations, i created a hotkey to
Sweep | RMB Sweep Region.
So every time i hit this hotkey, Wings waits i pick the Sweep axis:
i pick it with lmb and execute with rmb click.

Sweep waits for various user inputs; they are listed in left side of info line:
Drag: extrude the selection
Lmb+drag: rotate the selection around picked ax
Ctrl+Rmb+drag: scale the selection
Rmb+drag: rotate the selection around Normal

Tip:
Ctrl+D: repeat, but first you have to pick again the Sweep axis.
D: repeat, using the last picked Sweep axis.
Shift+D: repeat the last Sweep operation, without new user inputs.

Thanks for watching: any feedbacks are appreciated. I'll try to record another ones, more didatic, but if anyone have questions about what is being shown at video, just let me know and i can explain better: it is really a fantastic tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLIZbccetnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ffgTShWGYU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EsVYZ7Frw

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At the first video, i Lmb drag to rotate the selection, but keeping Shift hold,
and this key was set here to rotate any selection by increments of 15 degrees.
User can set this value at:
Edit/Preferences|Constraints tab|Rotation Constraints.

[Fonte Boa]

One more. Same way: i hotkeyed Sweep | rmb Sweep Region
and used Shift+D to repeat the first Sweep operation.

To freely experiment, it is recommended to increase Wings number of "undos" in
Edit/Preferences/Misc ("undo levels").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzIYcr2Qy...e=youtu.be

[Geta-Ve]

That last video of yours really blew me away, I had never thought of using sweep in that fashion before. the obvious idea that comes to mind is horns for characters. But potentially ... Great job man! I have definitely learned something today.

[Hassebas]

Thanks a lot for pointing me to the possibilities of 'sweep'.
I was about to ask for a plugin to make all kinds of spirals, like a fiddlehead, or ornaments on old buildings. 'Sweep' does the job as well.

[kenmo]

Very kind of you to share these...

[cyseal]

Fonte Boa, could you replace the youtube links in your posts? I can't load the video at all.
All I see is grey rectangle instead of video.

[Fonte Boa]

Strange. I can see all them here. I remember you had this problem trying watch a Micheus Video: what was the solution?

All Sweep videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/wings3dchan...uery=sweep

[cyseal]

This is what I see.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13451287/wcap2.PNG

[Fonte Boa]

But you can see the videos in the following link, direct in youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/user/wings3dchan...uery=sweep

[cyseal]

Yes, thanks for the link.