display options

archie · Dec 20, 2009

display options

in the object tag and also the editor styles we can choose between shaded and wireframe display.
but i think it would help to read a mesh better if there was an intermediate option, best with a slider.
50/50 is not as helpful as 75/25 (25/75) as demonstrated below, adding a little shading to a wire gives better understanding of the structure as adding a little wire helps making sense of a shape.

Dranix · Dec 21, 2009

I’m not sure if that is possible with OpenGL.

Andreu · Dec 21, 2009

I think this is a great idea. I would love to see this implemented.:icon_thumbup:

archie · Dec 21, 2009

Dranix said:
I’m not sure if that is possible with OpenGL.

i dunno about opengl and neither about blender, but since podperson posted this i've become aware that there is room for improvements :smile:

hairball600 · Dec 21, 2009

In the color picker for the material, there is an alpha slider.

archie · Dec 21, 2009

hairball600 said:
In the color picker for the material, there is an alpha slider.

hairball, thanks for that hint !

(though it's not much of an alternative as you cannot spot the vertices and the other material settings interfere)

Screen shot 2009-12-21 at 9.22.04 PM.png

DarthSidious05 · Dec 22, 2009

This would be an interesting and welcome addition if possible.

podperson · Dec 24, 2009

Pretty much anything is possible in OpenGL -- the entire Mac UI is drawn in OpenGL in a sense. But even if you mean "easy in OpenGL" the Blender edit view -- on the linked page -- (and Silo's views) are all done in OpenGL and they have translucent polygons, hybrid views, and displayed normals.

I assume Archie is referring to this (Blender) screenshot (Blender is a cross-platform OpenGL program so... it's not only possible in OpenGL, it doesn't require any Quartz magic):

http://www.cheetah3d.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8917&stc=1&d=1260980338

(Sorry I linked it rather than inlined it but this forum won't accept img urls that don't end in .png or .jpg or whatever.)

That said, I think Martin is very proud of how *fast* C3D's refreshes are. Frankly, I doubt many folks are modeling 10M poly scenes in C3D, so a slower but more *useful* edit view would be preferable.