re: Text realtime preview - I do want to try for that eventually, it was difficult enough that I just didn't have time to work on it for V1.

It kind of needs a somewhat fancy caching system so I can avoid recalculating previous letters when you are typing.

One thing that might be easier is to have just a wireframe preview in this particular case, instead of actually building the actual resulting solids as the preview like everything else normally does.

- Michael

as far as text i agree that a wire would be good enough representation to see size and placement.

as far as my example about booleans, i guess it wasn't a good example because what i meant was if you only had a bool button and had to select objects before individual bool "types" showed up, i guess i wasn't refering to individual options; kind of an extreme example to try and make a point.

did you ever consider a preview button so that things like text and bool's could be seen before clicking done and having to undo and start again if results aren't what was expected? maybe this could be an interim fix for ver1 until the realtime preview is coded for ver2. sort of a pre-emptive history?

Hi xrok1, mostly I've tried to avoid having a special preview button and just dynamically do the preview whenever you change options.

So for instance for text I will just show the preview as you type automatically. (Once I get a chance to work on it some more).

For some commands it is not easy to do this though, because offering a preview means that you have to stay inside the command, and that usually means there is an extra step required to end the command by pushing "Done".

So take boolean union for example. Right now you can select 2 spheres, then push Boolean / Union, and it then calculates the boolean and finishes without you needing to push any more buttons or anything, you just move straight into the next command that you want to do.

To offer a preview would mean there would have to be a "showing preview" stage with a Done button, and you would have to push Done or right click there as an extra step before the union command would finish.

For some things it is just easiest to not have a preview and instead you just use undo if you don't like what happened...

- Michael

well, thanks for the replies, its your software and i trust your decisions from what i've seen so far. once again awsome program keep up the good work and i can't wait to see what comes next.