Add a multiple point selection tool to the SoftBody editor

[sanyi12]

Describe the project you are working on

3D game with a 3D character

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

I try to add a cape to my character (a softbody) and I have to attach each point to each path which is a work hell.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Unreal engine has solved this by making a sphere selection tool. But any selection tool would be alright.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

In the Inspector>"Attachments" there would be a button which once pressed will allow the user to select the points. Once selected the user could assign all of them to a desired path.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

I wish I knew that myself.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

Thousands of people will thank you for it!

[fire]

@lyuma You mentioned this a long time ago.

[TomerconDevelopers]

Must want this

[Calinou]

@TomerconDevelopers Please don't bump issues without contributing significant new information. Use the :+1: reaction button on the first post instead.

[Pheubel]

I recently tried pinning a convex mesh, but found that doing so was quite tedious and hard to manage as all vertices remained visible and select-able, despite being covered by the camera facing faces.

On my personal wishlist would be:

• a selection tool that can be dragged across vertices in order to select them. I would imagine that the selection tool can have a configurable size.
• selection options to either create a new selection, add to the current selection or to remove from the current selection, like you have in photoshop and other image editors.
• only have the camera facing vertices be able to be selected, this would cut down on the selectable vertices by a lot and makes the selection tools more viable to work with. There could still be the option to turn on "vertex xray" to still show all vertices, despite them being covered by other faces from the camera's perspective.

While all three features would be nice, if only the last one were to be implemented, it would simplify the workload for my use case a lot.

[fire]

Would you have any thoughts on using @celyk 's points editor plugin? I'll poke for more details. We can try converting to a native plugin

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c509b3be-b005-4c79-ba3b-94d36a6e3033