On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:28 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
A recently added "3D polyhedron" extension is actually more useful than it seems at first site, because it can load arbitrary OBJ files which are basically 3D model objects. Nifty, eh? ;-)
What is not so cool is that users are supposed to provide full path to an OBJ file in a text input box. Is it actually possible to hook an Open File dialog to extensions?
I guess my question here is I don't understand why this isn't an input extension and it's an effect. It doesn't seem to effect anything on the canvas. Input effects can have preferences also.
Well, the point of the current version of the extension, as I see it, is in providing a set of polyhedrons *and* an ability to render arbitrary OBJ files.
Having preview for models with not so many faces is quite cool, but it surely is not so great when one tries to render a huge OBJ file with over 80K faces. A clear case of functionality clash for me. Maybe the current extension should be splitted into an input extension that would handle any OBJ file and a regular render extension that would list just several "presets".
Alexandre