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Well, on my phone and back when my Ello Touchscreen worked (Backlight died) LMB-Click was touch. LMB-Drag is Touch-Hold-Drag, RMB-Click was Touch-Hold.

So, the only things not doable are MMB and RMB-Drag.

With Multi-Touch interfaces (Win7+ and Phones) you could maybe do something with multiple touches or guestures and touch.

However, as RMB-Drag is usually zoom Z axis, this can be pinch-zoom.
Actually, you could still use the pinch for the Add-Selection Box, that could work, although people might want it to always zoom.

This leaves MMB as something totally un-usable in a touch interface.

Touch would need a bit of thought as it tends to be the opposit to mouse in regard to touch default spinning and zooming a model, vs mouse default selecting things.

Trev

Got another suggestion, Current mouse co-ordinate in the bottom tray.

I was using the knife tool and even with CAD mode on there is no indication of where Im cutting.

Trev

Edit:
Just a reminder that Ambient Occluder is still acting oddly on internal surfaces

Just thought Id post my tiny little suggestion here as well as it being twice in the current development thread.

I say tiny because in DirectX its literally 1 switch.

Ok, did a bit of reasearch and found some code samples.
The GL stuff at bottom seems simpler, maybe I missed something, but its direct from the OpenGL website.

C++
HRESULT SetSamplerState(
  [in] DWORD               Sampler,
  [in] D3DSAMPLERSTATETYPE Type, // D3DSAMP_ADDRESSU, D3DSAMP_ADDRESSV (U,V sometimes known as S,T)
  [in] DWORD               Value //D3DTADDRESS_WRAP, D3DTADDRESS_CLAMP, D3DTADDRESS_MIRROR
);
C#         
// For this example, device is a valid Device object.
//
using System;
using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D;

// Load a texture.
Texture tx = new Texture(device, 4, 4, 0, 0, Format.X8R8G8B8, Pool.Managed);

// Set the texture in stage 0.
device.SetTexture(0, tx);

// Set some sampler states.
device.SamplerState[0].AddressU = TextureAddress.Clamp; //CLAMPS U
device.SamplerState[0].AddressV = TextureAddress.Mirror; //Mirrors V



OpenGL (U,V sometimes known as S,T)
    GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S     integer     CLAMP_TO_EDGE, MIRRORED_REPEAT, REPEAT
    GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T     integer     CLAMP_TO_EDGE, MIRRORED_REPEAT, REPEAT


Open.GL source
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT); //Normal
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE); //Normal Clamp and smear Horizontal
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT); //mirror Vertical



These are to go as part of the texture definition in material editor

Trev

Well, Ive had no labels either and Im not an Intell GPU. (Front,back,perspective)
I can still click them, but the text is invisible.

Scales DO show (grey numbers up the left and bottom of screen aligned to grid)

Trev

Odd... It worked for me in Windows build 10130.
http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,5168.msg38641.html#msg38641

I never thought to check Windows build 10240 (RTM).

I will today and report back.

Trev

Ok, tested in build 10240 and it works, however you must right click the icon and say "Run as Admin" (or set it to always run as admin in properties)

The reason is that an8 makes changes to the registry for making sure its associated and also for window position etc.

Rotate bug?

What rotate bug? It seems to work fine as is...

Trev

I use the View Tool and Alt Button more or less 50/50.
The View Tool was there first and what I learned, the Alt Button is soo much more powerfull, however I just 'slip' back into old habbits.

Usefull functions of the View Tool, FrameAll and zoom without mmb.

Otherwise, yes, I can live without it. As I say, the Alt Button is way more powerfull.

Trev

Ok, so, Ill post our little solution to the problem we found.

First the Problem is that AN8 has Gimble Lock at ZY while most other software has Gimble Lock at XY.
Now, an8 actually proves to be far supirior since the liklyhood of getting GimbleLock is reduced as not many things run the ZY axis.
(It should be noted that an8 uses quaternuions internally which do NOT suffer gimble lock, however this is not the problem)

HOWEVER this proves to be a real problem when directly importing animations made in other software, since as other software approach gimble lock the start to add values to both X and Z which themselves do nothing. An8 however shows these values literally and so you get weird effects.

So, our solution was to move the Gimble Lock back to the XY axis by adding 3 bones at each joint. (originally was 5 as seen in image, however quaternuions do not suffer gimble lock and so the 2 rotations could be combined)



First we take whatever direction the bone is coming from and point it X+
(Image shows z90, this is variable depending on original bone orientation, i.e. had the bone already been pointing X+ then it would rotate 0. If the bone was pointing X- then the bone would rotate 180)

Then we rotate it Y90 (these 2 operations being combined in quaternuions)

Then we add the 'Joint' as a 0 legnth fat bone. (this sets the bone dialoge angles to 0,0,0)

Then we undo all before.

Rotate -Y90

Rotate back to original cource pointing to next bone. (in image the next bone was directly above the first, so we rotate -Z90. Had the next bone been to the right we would rotate 0, had the bone been to the left slightly then we would rotate 100 etc.


All connecting bones are 0 legnth and 0 diameter.

One final consideration and we are done.

Ignore all lables in the bone Orientation Dialoge, the Order is Z, X, Y, Not P Y R.

Attached is an example of a working animation direct from GoldenEye.



Trev


P.S. can anyone tell me if the atached .an8 shows the guard in scene mode?
He works in sequence mode but in scene mode his model is invisible, all I can see is his skeleton working
If he is invisible then does anyone know why?
(clearly something went wrong since the animation pictured above, which actually shows him)

P.S.S Doesnt matter I found it... Sub put him on the root bone accidently in the latest version.
The root bone is useless grrr