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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
After several issues with SH3D 5.2 on Linux (Graphical issues and crashes with WebStart, long startup time with installer), I'm glad to see after some testing that the 5.3 release supposes to be much stabler on Linux. I can confirm the notable performance decrease - although more related to the plan instead to 3D. In fact, it's not really usable anymore from an UX perspective. So I'll unfortunately have to continue with 5.2 for now
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
The version 5.3 Beta 14 comes with the following features/fixes: - Textures coordinates on floor borders are computed differently to ensure textures are always showed correctly: textures are now mapped from bottom to top and starting at each room point. - Selected items are kept visible in the plan when Zoom in or Zoom out tools are used. - Scale and origin of an imported background image are initialized from the values of the image available at previous or next level when it exists. - When a background image is used, walls are painted with a half transparent pattern while drawing them or while placing doors and windows.
Final version 5.3 should come soon
Okh, your WiFi connection malfunction is strange. Sweet Home 3D doesn't use Internet except at start to check if there's a new version. Could you disable updates check in preferences to see if it behaves better? The extra spacing you report in the catalog must come from the long information you set on one item.
D5KjC6RC, thanks for your feedback, even if your report is worrying. If you feel that version 5.3 beta isn't usable, I wonder if I should use Java3D 1.6.0 or not. But as you think that slowness doesn't come from the 3D part, I'll see if it comes from the Java version itself.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
Under Mint 18 the program opens, displays an error message concerning some error in de 3D rendering system, and tells me to update my DirectX/OpelGL drivers, then closes.
Using the Jar version displays the same message.
Version 5.2 runs without problems.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
Final version 5.3 should come soon
Looking forward to it and the xml approach.
Okh, your WiFi connection malfunction is strange. Sweet Home 3D doesn't use Internet except at start to check if there's a new version. Could you disable updates check in preferences to see if it behaves better?
Yes it is pretty strange... Tried beta 14, with and without Update Check. Everything seems ok. At one point, I did indeed loose my WiFi connection again, but I do not think it is SH3D as such that kills it. I think it may have to do with many programs simultaneously accessing the 64 GB SD card, generating read/write errors and taking down Windows Explorer. But then it is NOT a SH3D issue, it is a problem with how the system mounts the SD card. Will let you know if it happens in some sort of identifiable way related to SH3D.
The extra spacing you report in the catalog must come from the long information you set on one item.
That is what I thought. But I suppose it is new to 5.3 as my libraries did not change since 5.2.a. Probably few people will notice as not that many use information fields in the libraries extensively. But I would prefer the more compressed view with title and first line of the information fields so I can see more models at the same time. I also tried the Category folders view, and there too there are some oddities with how info is presented. Sent you screenshots.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
Version 5.3 was released tonight. Thanks to you all for your feedback and your support
Hans, I finally added a second executable command file named SweetHome3D-Java3D-1_5_2 to Linux installers, to let you and people who feel that performances with Java 3D 1.6.0 are not good, run Sweet Home 3D with Java 3D 1.5.2. From the feedback of more Linux users, we'll see if finally I can get rid of Java 3D 1.5.2 in installers one day or the other. Remember that the Java option -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.version=1.5.2 lets you also run Sweet Home 3D executable Jar with Java 3D 1.5.2 under Windows and Linux, and that the Java 3D version in use is now indicated in the About dialog box.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 5.3
Just noticed that performance degrades as well, when opening a home with sh3d-5.3(jre1.6.0_45) that has been previously saved by sh3d-5.3. That's to day, I experience only "good" performance by using the old JRE with 5.2 version homes.
