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Here's the Beta 9 of Sweet Home 3D version 4.0. It brings the 3 following changes: - under Linux, I programmed Alt + Shift shortcut to toggle magnetism. Please Linux users, check this; I can't check myself because I test Sweet Home 3D under Linux with Parallels Desktop and I feel keys like Alt or Shift don't send events correctly when pressed. Shift should activate alignment when moving objects, Alt + Shift should toggle magnetism and Ctrl should activate duplication, and it should be possible to combine these behaviors. - Inspired from an old Hans' request, I added a new option to let user choose whether only the selected items in plan or all home items (including a ground item at elevation 0) should be exported to OBJ. This option is proposed after the file dialog displayed by 3D view > Export to OBJ format menu item. This feature should avoid to install the Copy as new furniture plug-in in the cases where Hans tutorials required it. - As requested in a previous message, I added Pattern in plan and Top color in the 3D view options in the wall modification pane to be able to individually change the pattern used to draw a wall in the plan and the color used to paint a wall in the 3D view. Therefore, I removed the Wall top colour in the 3D view modification pane.
Hans, as the previous capture shows (partially), I have no problem to run Sweet Home 3D 4.0 under Ubuntu 12.04. I tried with both default JRE and Oracle JRE 1.6.0_37. Hope you'll find a solution in your case.
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Emmanuel,
Problem solved.
Previous versions of SH3D were compatible with IceTea Java, so they ran without problem on my standard Ubuntu 12.04. I uninstalled IceTea and installed Sun Java 7.xx and now the beta 4 runs without problem.
Hans
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Great! I'm looking forward to reading your feedback about the recent new features.
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Excellent work !
Couple of observations:
- can't get "create photos at points of view" to work. When I click "Create" button, a folder picker windows always comes up, and hitting "Select" just gets back to "create photos at points of view" window.
- the new "materials" function is greyed out on grouped objects, even if they are similar, and it's possible to change materials for them using multiple selection.
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can't get "create photos at points of view" to work. When I click "Create" button, a folder picker windows always comes up, and hitting "Select" just gets back to "create photos at points of view" window.
Are you really sure the images are not created in the folder you chose? Maybe the creation went so fast that you didn't see the progress message appear. If it's the case, I should probably display a message telling the process is finished.
the new "materials" function is greyed out on grouped objects, even if they are similar, and it's possible to change materials for them using multiple selection.
I didn't allow this kind of changes because I felt that in many cases, it would be too complicate for the end user to understand which material he's modifying. Note also that materials could have the same name from a model to an other but with different color or texture.
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Thanks for a speedy reply !
can't get "create photos at points of view" to work"
I've got an update on the problem. I've chosen "create new folder" option, and the render process started OK in a sub directory. (Permissions problem ?). It also started without problems on another PC. I'll try to investigate further to see when and why exactly the render does not start.
"the new "materials" function is greyed out"
You're right. It's not a trivial problem. However, I think you use some kind of logic to allow accessing "materials" menu based on similarity of multi-selected objects. If I select many similar objects, I'm allowed to edit "materials" for all of them, and it works as expected. However, if I group these objects, I can't. Couldn't the same same check be run against a group to determine (and allow) using "materials" menu ?
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Permissions problem ?
It's possible. For your information, the next beta will provide an improved folder dialog where the user will be able to select only folders with write permission.
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