Re: Some ideas for KPM
Andreas Zehender <[email protected]>
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Hi! On Tuesday 31 December 2002 23:24, Daniel Matthews wrote: > > I thought about that, too. But imagine the memory overhead if a > > calculation can be used for _every_ object attribute. > > Not in near and far future, maybe together with scripting and animations. > > Awww! :o( What about simple variables and may be just -=*/() for object > geometry? It would make a *huge* difference to the power of the interface. It doesn't make any difference how complex the calculations are. We would have to change every single member variable in every object, all access functions, every property edit widget. I think this would at least double the memory consumption. > >> 5. Instant World Tool, ground plane - sky - sun - clouds - sea/water > >> etc. actually a set of these including a Photo Studio setup would be a > >> handy menu. > > > >I would say this fits into the idea of the object library. We could create > > a library with basic scene elements. > > Yes a new menu call object manager with an interface to a library (user > expandable) would be cool, particularly if it had a rendered preview. I > guess this touches on the issues of how to handle and represent reusable > CSG groups and other finite object with variable geometry. Then from this > flows parametrics, Parametric CSG being the ultimate in geometry reuse. That's exactly what we plan. The CVS already contains a very experimental version. We didn't annouce it yet because it is in very early development state and most likely to change. Parametric CSG is linked with your first point (simple variables and calculations) and is not possible at the moment. > I wish I could help with the code development, but at the moment I haven't > the skills and time, perhaps later in the year I could try a plug-in. In > the mean time is there a place I can upload any demo .kpm files I have > made? No. I don't have enough web space to create a scene gallery. Jérémie, did you make progress in creating a new homepage on your server? Andreas -- -------------------------------------------------- Andreas Zehender, Dipl. Ing. (BA) Student, 10th semester computer science http://www.azweb.de [email protected] | [email protected] -------------------------------------------------- List archive and information: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kpovmodeler-devel