It seems stupid but I'd like to have the original GLUT teapot in the Add->Mesh menu. Why not?
I think that having the suzanne mesh is a wonderful to learn blender. It's a ready model to experiment modelling tools during learning... But I'd like to have the GLUT teapot!
Totally agree with you! I'd also like to see a demo set of scenes available as a seperate download. That way we'd all be able to compare performance, features and bugs
While I like the teapot I really think that we should reserve the menu for useful primatives. The teapot was just a complicated object to show spiffy features. I think our monkey fills that position nicely and at the same time provides a blender uniqueness. Sort of like the cow mesh.
I'm against adding all kinds of complicated meshes to the menu. (Not against useful simple meshes that speed things up though)
If you want a teapot mesh though download the test apps there are at least two blends with the teapot in them
I agree with sirDude.
Better would be to implement a library for dummys.
With sets, lights, scenes, objects, materials etc. Selectable from thumbnail. That are imported and put on the cursor.
Maybe this could be done in python?
I thought the GLUT teapot because I noticed that a lot of OpenGL applications use it to show features like a template model. Yes, it's a duplicated funcionality if compared to suzanne.
BTW, why the monkey's scream has been dropped of from the source when adding the suzanne mesh?
Oooohh! Ooooh! That was funny.
It would be really easy to write a script to make a teapot. Come to think of it it wouldn't be too bad to write a script that would take a selected object and make it into a primitive that would regester in a script menu. The cool thing would be the ability to register scripts in the add menu so people could easily make or download their own primitive scripts.
steve_t wrote:It would be really easy to write a script to make a teapot. Come to think of it it wouldn't be too bad to write a script that would take a selected object and make it into a primitive that would regester in a script menu. The cool thing would be the ability to register scripts in the add menu so people could easily make or download their own primitive scripts.
-steve
I think this is a nice idea. Unfortunately I can't program in Python and I have no plans to learn it in short terms. I'm too busy with university these days. But I like your idea. It permits to users to choose which is the "standard mesh base" to use, which, IMHO, should be appreciated by users.
David Weese from BlendedPlanet (rip....) used to have a .blend called primitives that contained regular solids, a torus and a teapot. you could add any of them by doing the F1-append thing....
Can't find the file anymore. Too bad.
i am considering adding a python script hard coded with some primitives, and allow the user to add primitives to the script by editing a bpydata file.
It probably wouldn't be too hard, just read out a list of vertices and then faces and then read them back using the conjugate functions.
mjordan wrote:I think that having the suzanne mesh is a wonderful to learn blender. It's a ready model to experiment modelling tools during learning... But I'd like to have the GLUT teapot!
The GLUT version of it is not even genuine, it has a bottom !
BTW the version found in blender test files seems to be the GLUT one.
Secondly, you dont really need a menu for that, just use a reguar blend file as repository, and when in need of an object, use the append command to browse inside it and get what you need.
You can store this way objects, materials, textures, whatever you need.