Quote - As with the (currrent) 'option' to disable dot-checking, my reasoning goes something like this...

I'm all for options - unless that option provides little or no advantage for the task at hand (and in fact causes trouble more often than not) and therefore it's existance simply adds to user-confusion on what it does and why he may or may not want to use it.

...if you feel strongly enough that these types of options should still be there, then I would recommend intializing them to the best 'default' setting and moving them to some "Advanced Options" area of the interface.

Disabling the dot-checking in the current interface (for example) is something you (the user) should NOT be doing, unless they understand what the ramifications are - it will give bad results for the task at hand ('good' correlations between the two meshes, for morph and/or shape transfers).

Understood.  I'll think about a GUI-shuffle to try to separate things, or something.  Maybe an eventual disabling of certain options.

But I honestly don't like completely removing the ability to generate only one or two weights.  I know the results will be less "correct", but that's only from the perspective of applying the tools the way we are.  Given the option, a creative user might find some worthwhile application of a setting which is useless, or even worse than useless, for the purposes we're considering during development.

Given that the settings default to five weights, a user would have to deliberately lower the value to three or less, to seek those results.  I don't see any valid reason to prevent them from doing so.  Possibly the status box should let them know what they're getting into, with such a setting, or something.

However, once a setting >= 3 has been selected, I can see the value of a process to try to extend the range until at least three weights can be generated, or a maximum extension range has been reached.  It's a good idea.  :thumbupboth:

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