Planetside:I may have been a little brash yesterday in my posts and for this I apologise.
I think I just feel a little dissapointed with small additions like the measuring tool, compass etc. only to find that one of the
major strengths of TG - the freedom of the node network - appeared to have been so 'hobbled' for the final release and maybe my wording was a little blunt. I know I couldn't have done any better in getting the product out there, and I don't want to demotivate any of you, the job you're doing is no small task and to keep everyone happy is kind of an impossibility, especially with the constant hounding by disgruntled customers.
To hear that the problem with something so simple as assigning node inputs is most likely an oversight that will be rectified is what I'd hoped would be the case. It just felt like another step backwards and, that I haven't posted much in the forums about TG-Final, given the sheer volume of pissing and moaning about dates/plants/pricing/etc... it kind of all flooded out. I'm good at putting feet in my mouth at times.
I do understand the problems you guys have been up against and can appreciate the workload has been a major struggle. When I read back on my posts it does strike me as pretty rude, especially the 'no cigar' part.
Jo:What I mean about the parts shader, and this is probably not the way the shader has been designed(but in my opinion should be
), is that in most app's that load and render models, each respective 'part' can be easily hidden/disabled from rendering by a simple checkbox. e.g. if I load a tree and want to only render branches, no leaves, most applications have the simple functionality to disable the parts individually from the model, each part behaves as an object in itself...
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Like so.
Again, this may not be the design of the parts shader and can be worked around with individual shader opacity values etc. It's just kind of dissapointing, even when I can import more than 16 textures now.
Sorry to sound like a whiner, I've just been reasonably quiet on the whole thing these past weeks and felt kind of bumped with a prog' with seemingly less functionality than we were given before... Size-10 oral extraction in progress.