Hi Bard,
> How do you know this? Have you a numbered return on
> the use of a Cone in a 3D software? ...
I know it from my long experience of developing CAD software and working with customers and helping them do stuff.
Especially by helping people work through their problems I get a chance to see what kinds of problems they are running into and see patterns in how many people are experiencing the same problem. The particular problem of "not being able to create a torus fast enough" is extremely rare...
> Yes, that will be good all that. I thought to suggest to plan a
> custom space or box of "Ressources" with tabs for user, where
> we could slide and drop customs colors, textures (maybe),
> shapes, lines (strokes), patterns or backgrounds.
Yeah I want to have customizable tabs eventually but that's more complex to implement and it's probably further out.
In a sooner time frame than that, I want to have a "Plug-ins" button on the bottom toolbar next to Options which will pop up a menu where various extensions will be listed. I'm not exactly sure when that will happen either yet though.
> I asked me also, if it will be possible to apply a degree
> of transparence to objets.
Yeah this comes up more often - I do want to have this as well, but the way video cards function does not make it particularly easy to make translucent things, it basically requires a lot of special sorting work to be done by the application and it's something that could easily degrade performance significantly unless it's done quite carefully. Things that can impact display performance a lot require a lot of additional development time with stuff like a lot of measurements and testing being done, so it's time consuming work.
It's difficult for me to know exactly when some particular feature that will require a lot of work will be completed. Often times focusing on an area that requires a lot of work is a tradeoff that means doing that particular feature would then postpone other features until some later time. Right now I kind of place new modeling functions at a higher priority level.
- Michael
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