OK, it's been mentioned before over the past five months but the comments made by two members in the waiting........ thread, warrants further thought, discussion or maybe not.
Quotecajomi
I am not sure, whether I am to stupid, but it did not find a "orbit" camera tracking, so that the camera moves around a selected object or heightfield. I really liked the old 2D preview of TG 0.9 and only missed there a zoom function. For me it had shown, that it is in great landscapes the best way of camera moving
QuoteDeathTwister
And I as well do like the way the camera worked in the old TG the way it was set up, but I do not think with tgd2 and working with a world instead of dems or .ter files that that really would work for the new tgd2 now since we have to think in a circle, so there in lays the rub I bet. However the camera in the terrain window is a start, and it would be very nice if we could make that window bigger so we could see better what we are trying to do. hahaha Boy do I have my lists to put on planetside, my wish list is not small hahaha.
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cajomi
The only thing, with my little expierence of TG2, is the camera. I understand, that is has its orientation to the univers, not to a planet. May be, it would simplify all, if you can choose at start up, or somewhere, to set the world as univers or a one planet world. In a one planet world, the old TG2 tracking should be possible. I did not like that camara tool at once, but the longer I used it, I found it more and more powerful compared to a 3D view.
If now placing of objects would be done in this preview (with a zoom please) it would be really simple work.
Sooo, based on the above, perhaps there is some merit in having the ability to choose....
Click 1 Univers/alt'/one planet
Click 2 Rotate the terrain under a
Fixed camera position, either by wheel or prefably by click and drag through 360 degrees.
Click 3 Selects the visible terrain of choice and permits
movement of the camera over the now "fixed" terrain with zoom. vv 0.9
Click 4 To go back to stage 2 if not happy with chosen terrain./Alt'/Enlarge viewing area.
Rubbish or what ?
Yes I've paid for Deep + Animation before you ask.
PS. I haven't forgotten that the terrain/renderer is fundamentally different to 0.9v