Quote from: TheBlackHole on October 04, 2009, 01:49:29 AM
I'd like high power with a simple interface. As Obi-Wan Kenobi once said, "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." So get out of your simple, black-and-white mindset and, just for once, allow a gray area to enter your mind. Plus, there's math all over the interface, and that cannot be tolerated by math-o-phobes like me.
I do a lot of programming, I'm a computer science major currently co-oping with IBM. I understand the complexity and issues that come into place with programming features, and while yes its technically possible to make a "simple" ui, they would also have to destroy some of the power possible as they would have to remove the complex options. We arn't the best at simplifying something down and making stuff pretty/non math. As math is what makes sense to us. And math makes a lot of sense in this product.
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And there needs to be a preview for all fractals, one that DOESN'T take an hour for Terragen to render.
Uh... isn't there that whole "preview" of all shaders that happens? That you can also open inside a larger window if you want?
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Spherical mapping needs to center the center of the map, NOT the north pole, in the camera. Is that so impossible?
I don't know industry standard on that spherical mapping, but that might be changeable but it might also be against what the standard is.
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Is everyone who's developing Terragen too lazy to remove the huge concentration of interface math? I think NOT!
http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/24/40/There is TWO programmers with planetside. What we have here is a very impressive product from such a small team. They have a lot on their plates, getting features they promised in. Simplifying the UI might happen sometime, but only once they finalize everything and get actual features in. As it stands I find the ui is quite sufficient and easy to learn. And a lot of us like having the math there as an option. And its ment to be there as an option - ignore it if you dont understand it. If you really need to understand it, learn it. Math is EVERYTHING to do with how this stuff work, so completely ignoring math isn't so much an option.
They are not being lazy.
Only compromise i can think of is to have a "simple" mode that you can toggle into, which just hides a ton of options that generally are never needed.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm attacking you, really just trying to inform you that if it does happen, don't expect it anytime soon. Planetside has a huge plate of work, and very small amount of programmers. This isn't autodesk where you have thousands of people in charge of programming, ui specialists, etc.