Cheetah3D 8.1 Beta 1 - Adds USDZ import/export
- Thread starter Martin
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It´s pretty sure a display glitch. Can you test my file?
Seems the recent Cheetah3D version is not compatible with your hard/software mix then. Not sure if Martin can do anything about it.
Martin
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Hi kingc8,
I'm sorry but that looks like a bug in the graphics driver. The polygon is there and it is sent to Metal. Unluckily Metal doesn't display it properly.
The Intel GPU driver on macOS 12 seems to display it properly so this bug might have been fixed in macOS 12.
You can download the last version of Cheetah3D 7 at:
Bye
Martin
I'm sorry but that looks like a bug in the graphics driver. The polygon is there and it is sent to Metal. Unluckily Metal doesn't display it properly.
The Intel GPU driver on macOS 12 seems to display it properly so this bug might have been fixed in macOS 12.You can download the last version of Cheetah3D 7 at:
Bye
Martin
Something unrelated to USDZ just came up.
In 2019 in C3D7.3 / 7.4 it was possible to load the rigid body 2 example (red ball smashes blue boxes), bake the dynamics into a cache, keyframe the folder and get all dynamics of all boxes recorded, ready for fbx animation export.
Now the hierarchy doesn't work anymore, I still can record keyframes of the folder but the box translations are not contained anymore.
It is still possible to keyframe a single box or the red ball, but without hierarchy this is totally impractical.
This was a very important export workflow also possible for gltf / usdz in the future but is now broken in C3D7.5 and 8.
In 2019 in C3D7.3 / 7.4 it was possible to load the rigid body 2 example (red ball smashes blue boxes), bake the dynamics into a cache, keyframe the folder and get all dynamics of all boxes recorded, ready for fbx animation export.
Now the hierarchy doesn't work anymore, I still can record keyframes of the folder but the box translations are not contained anymore.
It is still possible to keyframe a single box or the red ball, but without hierarchy this is totally impractical.
This was a very important export workflow also possible for gltf / usdz in the future but is now broken in C3D7.5 and 8.
ZooHead
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I finally upgraded to a Mac Studio with the M2 max so now I can check on the latest version of Cheetah.
This seems like a major mistake as there is no sub selection in the latest version.
In version 8.0b5 on my 12.7.4 Monterey iMac, if you select multiple objects there is a sub selection color as shown here.
Notice there are two colors for selected objects as well as two shades of blue in the object browser.
With my Sonoma 14.4.1 Studio Mac and Cheetah v8.1b1, this does not happen.
Why is there an Object Sub-Selection color if it is not used?
How can I tell which object is the focus of actions in the Object Browser?
This seems like a major mistake as there is no sub selection in the latest version.
In version 8.0b5 on my 12.7.4 Monterey iMac, if you select multiple objects there is a sub selection color as shown here.
Notice there are two colors for selected objects as well as two shades of blue in the object browser.
With my Sonoma 14.4.1 Studio Mac and Cheetah v8.1b1, this does not happen.
Why is there an Object Sub-Selection color if it is not used?
How can I tell which object is the focus of actions in the Object Browser?
Good finding: Sub-selection color don´t work in the v8 dev cycle.
This also also makes it impossible to choose which name to keep when merging.
ZooHead
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With some testing I found Merge takes the name of the last selected object in the Object Browser.
Although it's the first in the list with the toolbar Boolean commands.
On my M3 with Sonoma it is always the bottom element of the list, sequence of selection matters not.
I'd like to get the old behavior with one highlighted element (last one selected) back.
It looks like the sort order is responsible for which file is shown from a selected row.
Can confirm: funny-wise just the Back: image can be scaled with the Transform/Scale tool.