Preview of Preview Dialog features.

[optigon]

If you are going to work on Merge, it would be nice if it were possible to control what things get merged in, when merging files. At times you may just want the object and at others you might want the object and lights. Or maybe you want the object, lights, and saved views. This is an old request I made in the old forum... This feature is available in Kerkythea.

Thanks,
Will keep this in mind.

[sandieg]

If you are going to work on Merge, it would be nice if it were possible to control what things get merged in, when merging files. At times you may just want the object and at others you might want the object and lights. Or maybe you want the object, lights, and saved views. This is an old request I made in the old forum... This feature is available in Kerkythea.

Edit: I just noticed that you responded to my suggestion of saving settings and Reset to defaults. Glad you were able to add the Reset button.

Saving settings to the preferences file is what I was thinking of. That is how it was done in Yafray and how I am doing it with YafaRay. It probably is overcompensating and may very well not be the best thing to do. I did a test on adding it to N-Cube to see how it would work. Here is a link to the old forum where I posted the code to make it work for N-Cube... Save Settings N-Cube

I thought having this available in Micheus's improved Image Planes command would be good so that once the user sets his options the first time all future image planes added would be quicker to add, assuming a user will want to use the same settings every time an image plane is created.

Having a standard library of blocks (objects) is probably better for keeping the preferences file cleaner...
oort

nice tips, i'm going to try all of that

[ggaliens]

Can we still discuss maybe adding an option to detect next iteration is same as current to avoid long recalculations on hitting the "OK" button ?

[micheus]

I think the only way to ensure the user will get the result it expect would be if preview mode is Auto. But, I'm not sure that could be assumed as a rule for every code that uses the preview dialog.