Today is the day i will start (hopefully) a daily dev blogging. I'll make a post every day and talk a bit about what i did the whole day in the Viewer (if i did anything).
Let's start!
Today i spend the day working on the clusterfuck called "Build Tools" also known as our ...ugh build/create/edit floater. Since Materials was implemented it's "Face" tab became a dropdown-all-the-things tab which i really dislike as i have to click the dropdown and change the Materials type every time i want to switch a texture or change a setting of specular or diffuse.
Here's a mockup of it, its not final, but its in a good and usable state, needs some finetuning tho.
Next thing was the overall Build Tools floater which (at least in german) is a horrible, disaligned and overlapping mess, this HAD TO BE FIXED! Not to mention the double grey background in "General". Overall some reorganisation and realignment to make everything work in both English and German UI.
So far there are 5 things which i would like to finish for this update:
I have to fix the Viewer icons,
add an advanced graphics panel or at least the Machinima Sidebar,
finetune CHUI a bit more,
add some more graphical fancyness (restore better SSAO, DoF and Shadow tweaks aswell as the haze fix, all of it from Tofu, add my own little finetunings and restore the old original shiny) and...
last bot not least, update the Viewer with the most recent Materials bugfixes n stuff.
Niran.
Ah, nice idea w/ the texture applier! That dropdown was annoying as hell and slow.
ReplyDeleteI am sure other viewers will pick that up.
Happy coding
ReplyDeleteGood luck with it Niran. It is cool to know how your getting along with stuff, I am sure many of us are happy to wait for each (beta) release :)
ReplyDeleteI also hope that this will help certain folks understand that it takes time to develop a viewer, and that this is a VERY new viewer, and best way to help is to report bugs (here or on the forum I guess) rather than just going "this viewer doesn't work" or a variation of.