Hi Michael,

I've just installed MoI V4 beta Nov-13-2017 for Mac OS. It's great to have MoI in its native, non-WINE glory again. I've missed that feeling a little since moving from Windows to Mac OS.

My system specs:

• iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
• Processor: 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7
• Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB

Here are my first observations (my apologies if some of this has been reported before):

• I like the font and the clear look of some new icons, such as the History, Copy and Paste icons.

• I love the new keyboard shortcut input.

• Some keyboard shortcuts I had assigned to Command + key have been automatically changed to Alt + key, such as Alt + I for ImportObj in my case. But pressing Alt + I didn't work. Then I reassigned it to Command + I again, and the shortcut worked. Other Alt + key combinations such as Alt + O to open a file do work though.

• The viewport update feels a bit snappier than the WINE version. I'm very pleased with that, although I haven't tried a heavy scene yet.

• Pressing the Mac OS system shortcut to toggle full screen mode (Control + Command + F) doesn't work.

• The viewport labels (Front, Perspective, etc.) initially show as blocks:




… After I had created something I noticed that the labels appeared in the boxes, along with a number that varies when I hover over different viewport elements. I guess this is a debug thingy. :)




• Max's FatLines script returns an error.

• The Loft command update seems to operate differently than before, and gives a different result compared to recreating a Loft from the same curves...

— I created three copies of the same ellipse curve, and used points in the center of the outer ellipses to end the loft in a polar manner. I then used Loft with the Loose and Exact settings, and no capping. This was the expected result:




— When I change the position of some ellipse points, extra connecting lines appear, making the Loft object less smooth (to my experience this didn't happen in V3):




— Deleting the Loft object and re-running the Loft command on the points and ellipses results in a different, smoother object, although still with multiple connecting lines in stead of one:




— Rebuilding the Loft with the Auto option (in stead of Exact) does result in one connecting line:




Regards,

Metin

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