Hi All,

just bought a copy of Moi3D and I'm very happy with it. I have a few questions/suggestions:

Are there any plans to add the following in V2.0:
1) A layering system
2) The ability to lock/hide an object from within a "scene editor" to prevent accidental changes
3) A rib file output - just to kick of a render using some of the many free renderman renderers out there
4) A basic colouring option to distinguish between objects in a large scene

Options 1,2 and 4 could all be controlled from with the "scene editor". The software is very impressive and easy to use and as projects get more complicated you'll need a way to manage scene elements (as an example look at the guy who created an entire sci-fi hanger on this forum - that must've been a challenge to manage :-) ).

Other than that... great work Michael! I look forward to using this with Silo3D and lightwave.

Object handling and grouping is a top priority for the next release, there are some discussions already you might want to read.... Use search or read the topic list to find them.....

Hi Jay,

Welcome to MoI forums.


Michael is currently working on layering etc (layering should be seen as grouping or how Michael wants).

You have a license to use MoI so why not download the V2 beta to see the progression and to give feedback. http://moi3d.com/beta.htm

Regards, have fun with MoI,


- Steve

Hi Jay, thanks very much for your order!

Probably your #2 - RIB export won't be part of v2, but I do expect that your other items will be.

There has been some previous discussion on scene management type stuff in these threads:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2150.5
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1944.1


These particular areas are still in progress and have not been fully implemented in a v2 beta release quite yet. But there have been a lot of other things added in to v2 so far. There are notes on the new stuff that is done for v2 so far here:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/doc/V2releasenotes.html
and for the latest beta here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2170.1


- Michael

Thanks for the response everybody. I should've have looked for the other entries but instead I just started typing as the ideas occurred to me :(

There lots of ways to do the layering approach and the suggestions people have made are really good. I guess the ideal approach would be unobtrusive and yet give the ability to browse the scene, select elements, group elements, ungroup them, assign basic materials, rename, lock/unlock to prevent accidental editing.

As I said before, this is great software and very easy to use with my tablet.

And V2.0 looks really stable so far - the CPlane is really very useful.