Point Jumper by David Ikeda

Please excuse my humble notepad-generated webpage. I am currently very busy with my classes and will attend to it in time.

Point Jumper is a collection of very simple scripts for people like me who like to tap keys all the time.

It basically allows you to register a row of selected points, then jump back and forth between each column(registered point) one at a time with the Jump Forward and Jump Backward scripts. Before I confuse you trying to explain how it works, please take a look at the animation below.

Point Jumper allows you to very quickly tweak a series of points by using the move tool and jumping back and forth on each point in the registered set of points then middle-mouse/control drag to move the points without having to ever click on or select the points again as you normally would when using move/drag. It's designed to be a time-saver. I've also found it helps me to visualize things sometimes - I can click on and select points that are difficult to click on or even impossible to click on in shaded perspective viewports and tweak them without having to rotate the view in order to select/click on the points.

To use it, simply make a selection of points and click Pt Register Points. This will register the points and give you visual feedback by selecting the first point in the selection set. Use Pt Jump Forward and Pt Jump Backward to jump points. Note - the register operation can get slow at times with large selections - however, it's something you just have to do once and then the selection will be locked so waiting a few seconds shouldn't be too troublesome. Perhaps in the future I can write an accelerated version once I learn the SDK.

To really take advance of point jumper, you should bind the Pt Jump Forward and Pt Jump Backward scripts to keys. I have them bound to the left and right arrow keys which works very intuitively. When registering your points, I recommend selecting them in a clockwise order so that you can visualize jump forward moving in a clockwise direction and jump backward in a counter-clockwise direction.

Point Jumper will work in symmetry mode but what you must do is register points on one side with symmetry turned off first. After that, turn you can turn it back on and jump between points with symmetry.

Additionally, Point Jumper allows you to register multiple rows using the Pt Add Row script. This is something which I think makes things more confusing when jumping between points of multiple selection sets. Use it only for simple situations and just register a row of points one at a time. To use it, once you register a row of points using Pt Register Points, use Pt Add Row with additional selections of points to add additional rows. Use Pt Next Row and Pt Prev Row to jump rows. You can add as many rows as you like. To clear all rows and start over with just 1 row, use Pt Register Points - this has the effect of clearing all existing rows and registering one row at the same time. I got my up/down arrow keys bound to Pt Next Row and Pt Prev Row. Use whatever you like.

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