General Category > Ongoing Anim8or Development
Initial CAD-style feature
cooldude234:
--- Quote from: Trevor on September 25, 2014, 07:15:17 pm ---If im not mistaken though, text uses 'Smooth Line' which I deliberatly left out of the CAD Measuring system for this reason.
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What do you mean text uses smooth line?
Trevor:
If you look at my image above, the left window uses the 'Line' Tool (Pressed) the button next to it (little squiggle) is 'Smooth Line'
Actually... I just found the tooltip button again and they are called
Straight Path and Curved Path.
Trev
cooldude234:
--- Quote from: Trevor on September 29, 2014, 01:25:23 pm ---Actually... I just found the tooltip button again and they are called
Straight Path and Curved Path.
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Okay that makes more sense because smooth line usually refers to AA (anti-aliasing).
But you say that text is made out of lines.
--- Quote from: Trevor on September 25, 2014, 07:15:17 pm ---but forgot that text is considered a 'line' and so that would be thousands of little straight lines.
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Which I am sure isn't true. I wouldn't even say Steve is rastering it to the screen. It look's like the majority of text (in the Opengl viewport) is being blit straight to the framebuffer itself (woo! old school).
ALSO (just to be clear)
I think this feature should have it's own button (the CAD button) which would enable the ability to edit paths based mathematics and with an overlay.
Just that way you can separate the simpler modeling tools from the CAD ones to make the UI more organized.
Steve:
You're correct, cooldude234. Text in Anim8or is raster not vector. Vectors can look fairly ugly, especially when small. Plus OpenGL drivers have a lot of latitude in how the draw lines so it's hard to make vector text good looking on all graphics chips.
Trevor:
hmm... if text if raster then for do you do the modeling commands to it like fill and extrude, or even lathe if you want :P.
This is why I assumed it was a curved path, because it uses the same tools.
Trev
As for Seperate CAD button, it is already. the rullers dont show up unless you enable CAD mode.
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