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should this not now be in V1 forum?

v0.98 has come to an end.

Trev

You have quite a wasteful modeling technique if you are gearing pixie toward Games.
Just because PC's and consoles have more memory and CPU power, doesn't mean modelers (or their tools) should be lazy.

The car did utilise most of the grid, but the house, I could have 1/2 the number of triangles used there just by getting rid of the grid.

As for the fact you are advertising competition software (and not using it as a feature request demo) I do not see any advantage over an8 here. You say it exports to unity, but An8 also exports to "Wavefront OBJ" which is all your doing, then using separate software to import obj and export unity file.

This of course is all my opinion, at least its another piece of free software

Trev

I love an8 because it was one of the first modelers I used.
I was at school when I wanted to model and tried finding free software. Choice wasn't huge, not to mention I was using win9x and some like blender have discontinued support.

As mentioned by everyone else, the learning curve was not big, and I soon started making basic images.

Now of course, it fits very well with N64 modeling and my techniques have vastly improved.

There are some technical features Id like (HDR + Tone Mapping, More CAD, Diffuse inter-reflection, vertex colour bake), and as others have mentioned, a multi-threaded renderer would be excellent.

Trev

An8 seems best suited to cm units as far as camera work goes, but I know other games use m as units and some mm as units.

In the end it makes no difference so long as you know the target unit.

Annotations in CAD more would be awesome

Trev

It asked me too, never did with previous builds.

Windows Defender uploaded the file to MS but clicking Run Anyway works and it doesn't bother again.

Hopefully this will be fixed on MS end.

Trev

You still don't have Angle to last point, that would be nice.

Would be nice if at least selected edges had lengths and angles between connected selected edges.

I know there was talk of there being too much clutter, but selected edges should be ok.

Trev

Aww that's a bummer...

Id have thought the renderer would have been multi-threaded. it would still work on a single core 98 box since the OS takes care of threads and which core to run them on.

My idea of multi-threading the renderer would be to divide the render-view into a grid and each grid-square render on a separate thread.
For each grid as soon as 1 pixel gets a colour, fill the square with that colour, repeat for each corner of the square then divide up the square into 4 rendered pixels etc., etc. until the frame is fully rendered (or stopped).
You could set a menu option for the number of grids. (thereby limiting the number of threads to a user amount for large images)
It would be up to the user to choose either (in my case) 16 threads, each logical processor would run at 100%, or use more for a finer grid but incur OS latency in thread switching.

Trev