As this is a wish list thread... How about shader layers and named instead of numbered selections. If adding layers into the shader, how about adding a way to scale a certain layer to fit. A simple example... Put a ball on screen. Create a material of whatever colour and apply it. Create a second layer or new material and open up some drawn cartoon eyes as a png file or whatever. Scale it to fit and move around on the model to where you want it.
How about adding all of PodPersons pose utilities. These are a huge time saver.
If I select "only key changed parameters" that is what i expect it to do. For example, if I move a leg either using bones or rotating the actual polygons, it would key those changes and nothing else. I dont need or really want keys made throughout the entire hierarchy.
Lighting. How about a simple way to get certain lights to work only on certain models. Perhaps a way that could work would be if I placed all models I want to have lit by a point light, inside that lights own subtree. This would enable better lighting abilities.
Morph Tag - I have to look up how to use it every time. To me the obvious way to use it is click the plus and it would create a morph target with the slider fully enabled. Move the polygons to where you want them then finally slide the slider back to zero (which switched off that target) and thats it. click + again to create a new one and as before have the slider fully enabled, tweak the model and slide the slider back to zero/off to set it. That would be so much easier to remember and would work more intuitively. (As a side note, if you want to over drive a morph at some point then perhaps when you press the + you could slide the slider half way, tweak the model and then slide the slider to left to switch it off/ set it. Then while animating if you do happen to slide the slider past the half way point it would push it into a more extreme pose. Either that or add the ability for a numeric input to drive it further.)
Particle arrays - Need the ability to choose a random rotation/scale etc. For example if I use the surface mesh and place trees on a ground object I would like to have the ability to randomise the rotation and even perhaps the scale of each instance so that they are not so uniform.
There might be a reason for some of the above but I thought I would point out, as I get more into Cheetah, anything that doesn't seem to sit right.
I know it seems like I am constantly nit picking and so therefore it must seem like I hate Cheetah. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am just playing with everything and trying to get to grips with them and see where they could perhaps be improved/made more intuitive.
I just read the sticky at the top of this forum section. If required I will split out these thoughts into separate threads now.
Mike
