The Brain Amplfier - 50's comp entry

 From:  Michael Gibson
2297.2 In reply to 2297.1 
Hi Tony, Wow! My brain feels amplified just looking at it, let alone sitting in that chair! :)

What a great amount of detail in all the controls!


re: Mirror flipping normals - this one is fixed for the next beta, hopefully not too much longer for that. Still working on just a few more export meshing speedups at the moment.


re: Sluggish view - that is not particularly surprising given the amount of detail that you have there... But it is likely for your case there that curve/edge drawing is actually taking the largest amount of time. If you still get a sluggish display with the mesh angle turned up to 50 and "add detail to inflections" unchecked, then the other thing that you can do is to hide the edges on pieces that you are not going to be actively working on. That will probably give a significant boost.

Curve drawing is always done to a rather fine level currently, it does not get adjusted to be coarser when the mesh angle is set to coarse. A bit later on in v2 I'm going to try to adjust the fineness of the curve drawing to be a little more jagged in denser scenes which should help.

Also turning off Options / View / Display hidden lines will speed up curve drawing, since having hidden line display on requires 2 curve drawing passes.

- Michael