Back in the days before the RTP (TG v3.x) you had the possibility to open more 3D Preview Windows as floating window.
This functionality - sadly - was never brought back. In a thread back then Matt explained that this had to do with how the RTP works.
Having that you could have different point of views of the terrain you were working on and zoom in as far as you like. They were all independent
Perspective views - with any combination of shading - and the 3D Preview embedded in the main program window would show your render view.
Exactely what I (one) needed to work faster and more efficent. Everything in only one view needs lots of clicking and changing pov and resetting...
On a personal note...
This feels like beating a dead horse (is that the expresion
) but I for one would happily give back the RTP for that functionality.
Together with a cropped render this gave much more reliable results. Since the RTP is off very often and the preview to get to it rather slow (at least on my computer) I barely use it and render crops anyway...
CHeers, Klaus
(--) shutting up again