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| Posted by Puybaret at Jan 15, 2017, 4:12:07 PM |
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Re: Indicate model size in furniture list I prefer by far the second solution which is less risky and at range of more users (it's difficult for many users to unzip a .sh3d file). A column showing the file size of a piece of furniture has been in my top list of features to add for a while, but I didn't program it yet because I'm not sure about what it should show, and how this value should be computed. - What name should be used for this column? - Should this value display the files size of the 3D model of a piece and its icon? - Should it display the size of compressed or uncompressed files? - Should it be displayed in the furniture list and in the catalog when you roll over a model? - To avoid to display exact values, should it rather display an abstract indicator showing 1 to 4 weights? The choice depends on what users want to do with these values. If they just look for the furniture with the largest file sizes, they will click on the File size column to order them by this criterion, and it will work whatever is displayed in the column. But if the File size column shows kB or MB, users might be confused by the displayed sizes. Is 1 MB big or not? How the sum of these sizes should be compared to the .sh3d file size itself? Are these sizes different if the .sh3d file is compressed or not? Worse, in the Online version, 3D models available on the server are not saved in the .sh3d file itself and only imported 3D models are part of the file that is saved to the server. In that case, adding sizes will be necessarily very different from the size of the .sh3d file (although imported models can be distinguished from others because they are written in italic in the furniture list). At the moment, my choice would be to show the uncompressed size of 3D model files + icon, but any suggestion will be welcomed. ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
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