MoIV2 Beta Nov-21-2008 Questions

 From:  Michael Gibson
2168.23 In reply to 2168.9 
Hi Lewis,

You wrote:
> But I would also like to see the ability to set new
> construction planes and save them,

This is definitely in the cards, but probably not until after I get the "scene tree browser" type thing working.

I think that browser panel (discussed some in this other thread) will be a kind of "one stop shopping" area for listed / named entities of various sorts, and if it works out how I'm kind of thinking it would probably be best to list things like saved cplanes there rather than trying to make a special UI for managing the list of them.

One other thing that you may be interested in, is that MoI v2 has some functions to be able to draw directly on to any planar surface using it as a temporary construction plane. The nice thing about that is that it kicks in if you just click your points on the surface while in the 3D view, you don't have to do any extra cplane setup/restore/etc... steps. So that may help reduce the need to set a cplane for some common situations. Some examples on that here:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1621.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1621.21
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1621.27

- Michael