ZBrush's QMesh - extrusion w/ auto weld&cleanup

I've seen, that in ZBrush 4R7 some methods of low poly modeling were introduced, and while the majority of them is not news (and no means for precise modeling), some innovation caught my attention that is called QMesh, especially a specific funtion of that brush. It's the ability to auto weld/fuse an extrusion with its neighbouring faces and auto clean up the mesh. A video clip can show more, than I am able to explain with words: http://youtu.be/i0DGujFOxJg

I can imagine that this saves a lot of work and speeds up modeling significantly. It saves you the trouble of deleting the inner or outer overlapping faces that occur with extrusion and afterwards welding the vertices together. The benefit is that you're also able to subtract volumes easily, because you're not left with overlapping faces. I tried but found no easy and fast way of doing that in NVil. See the picture below for end result. And returning this to its original cube form by building up the volume again through extrusion is not so fast either because of aforementioned problems.

So the request is for this kind of auto-weld, auto clean-up extrusion. The sliding of the non-welded edges as seen in the video would also be nice.

+500

Try this
http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Feb-21-15.rar

  * Edit > Options > Extrusion Options > Polygon Extrusion Auto Weld Enabled.
  * Edit > Preference > General > Polygon extrusion auto weld threshold angle.

Have fun.

Probably a good time for me to remind about the missing ability of polygon extruding to snap points.

Also a good time to put forward the problems with co-planer polygon creation(which this tool can also create).

Vaquero, can you explain how to use these features, can not understand. May be some video will be great.

Подробная информация об использовании оперативной
(JIT) отладки вместо данного диалогового
окна содержится в конце этого сообщения.

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System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Индекс находился вне границ массива.
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.Component.SelectEdgeAtPoint(Single x, Single y, ArrayList objects, Boolean ignoreCulling, Boolean allowSubdEdges, Boolean canSnapToEndPoint, Single allowance)
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.CharacterHolder.SelectEdgeAtPoint(Single x, Single y, Single allowance, Component hintComponent, Boolean freezedComponentBlocked, Boolean ignoreCulling, ArrayList objects)
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.Util.GetEdgeSnapPoint(Single x, Single y, Single tolerance, Boolean snapToEdgeMidPoint, AbstractGraphicWindow graphicWindow, ArrayList characters, CharacterHolder exclusiveCharacter, Component hintComponent, Boolean freezedComponentBlocked, Vector3& intersectPt, Object& objEdge)
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.GetSnapPointCore(ReferenceVector3 origianlPtRef, Single x, Single y, Boolean snapToGridPlane, Boolean snapToGridPoint, Boolean snapToGridLine, Boolean snapToFace, Boolean snapToPolyCenter, Boolean snapToEdge, Boolean snapToEdgeMidPt, Boolean snapToVertex, Boolean snapToSpline, Boolean snapToObject, Boolean snapToMesh, CharacterHolder excludedCharacter, Object& snappedObject, Boolean& isOthographicPlaneSnapping)
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.UpdateSnapPointSearch()
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.ModelDesigner.Update()
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignGraphicWindow.FrameMove()
   в DigitalFossil.BaseGraphicWindow.FullRenderDetail(Boolean forced)
   в DigitalFossil.BaseGraphicWindow.Render(PresentTarget pt, Boolean forced)
   в DigitalFossil.BaseGraphicWindow.FullRender(Boolean forced, Boolean allWindows)
   в DigitalFossil.BaseGraphicWindow.FullRender()
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignForm.FullRender()
   в DigitalFossil.AnimationDesign.AnimationDesignForm.Render()
   в DigitalFossil.StartForm.DoRender()
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Darcvizer, can you reproduce the bug? If can, can you tell me the steps to reproduce it? A video will help.

I can not repeat the mistake, it was an accident when I test new tool.
I used to streamline>extrude.
Founded and another mistake.
https://yadi.sk/d/5llBQKDMesomC

https://yadi.sk/d/WYWIKsMVespiQ

I have fixed the latest bug.

Probably a good time for me to remind about the missing ability of polygon extruding to snap points.

Also a good time to put forward the problems with co-planer polygon creation(which this tool can also create).

What are these? Can you give detail?

I just had a test run with simple geometry in the latest feb 24th build and this tool is great! Unfortunately it often produces unexpected results. I made a lengthy video that shows annotations for each unexpected behavior. Most of the time it occurs when extrude streamline tool is executed with nmb action. It works better with lmb, even though it's the same streamline basic tool.
http://youtu.be/sfSgGYt3mOc

I don't know how to recreate the bugs shown in the video.

What is the value of your auto weld threshold angle? Which tool have you assigned to NMB?

And what is your value for this setting, Edit > Preference > General > Extrusion threshold in pixels. The default value is 4.

this feature is kinda cool....I could see it being useful on hard edged modeling techniques.

small request:

can we have a soft snap at .5 and .25  so that we can have precise extrusions?

i guess using shift is enough