Hi DesuDeus,
> Yeah Ive seen those threads before, but it's not exactly
> user-friendly aha. I was thinking about drag'n'dropping
> panels around, saving different workspaces, that kind
> of stuff.
Yes, but unfortunately it takes quite a lot of work to make all that stuff happen.
When one feature area requires a lot of work, that then means that time is taken away from other feature areas since there are only 24 hours in a day and I can't work on every single kind of feature all at the same time.
Early on in MoI's design I decided to focus my effort more on the overall default UI design to make that as good as possible, rather than spending a lot of time just on the underlying mechanisms for making more user friendly UI arranging tools.
But UI customization is an area that I do want to improve in MoI though, I hope to spend some time on it in v3, probably I'll focus on more of a kind of UI editing dialog where you can see a kind of list representation of the UI and change entries in it there.
> That raise another problem, a lot of threads get buried deep
> in the forum and nobody see them.
Well, there's a search function.... It's not possible to present every single discussion thread all at the same time because there is only so much room on the screen to show stuff, kind of like how it's not possible for me to work on every single feature area all at the same time... :)
> Why don't you use a regular forum engine with sticky
> posts and categories ?
What would you suggest for categories? If you get a ton of categories that then fragments discussions, some people won't go look in various categories, people will post in the wrong category and then there are discussions about the categories themselves, etc... It's much more simple for a fluid discussion to have things structured as the current forum.
There is a wiki available too though, that's here:
http://moi3d.com/wiki - that works as a reference index to some valuable posts, for example for the ship hull stuff there is now a link to that in the wiki.
If there was a category for "ship hull discussions", that would probably be buried in such a big list of categories that it would be hard for people to find it.
> True, but the idea is to have the people who know how
> to script to share their scripts.
Well, that's actually happened already, there is a collection of shared scripts here:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/
That's also already linked to from the wiki.
Don't forget to check the wiki if you want to find indexed stuff like that...
The wiki is linked to from the main moi3d.com home page, it's the resources link on that main page.
- Michael
