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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
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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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
Great! I'm looking forward to reading your feedback about the recent new features.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
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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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
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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And some more feedback :
- can't get "create photos at points of view" to work
It seems it happens when you just click "Select" in folder picker, without changing the last used directory. You can use the same directory as long as you click some other dir and click your dir back. This bug is definitely about mouse clicks, not permissions.
- "create photos at points of view" outdoor light settings
Currently, the settings for date/time for outdoor light are not available in "create photos at points of view" dialog. Even if you change date/time in "create photo" dialog, the "create photos at points of view" will use settings stored at the time points of view were created.
I think it would be better and more intuitive if date/time for outdoor light settings were added to "create photos at points of view" dialog, instead of silently storing this information on points of view
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