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Author Topic:   Requests
Lithium
Member 		posted March 21, 2001 08:04 PM         
Added some requested features:

1. MRU list - I added a max of 2 MRU files to the File menu. Too many MRUs
clutter up the menu, so hopefully 2 is enough.

2. More saved .ini features - mostly preview mode flags.

3. Clean up the Preferences menu. I'm using property sheets now. These
are really cool dialog windows.

4. Can now change the grid spacing in preview mode.

5. Clean up the torus mapping. Before I just applied a cylinderical mapping
to it, but due to the wrapping nature of a torus, back faces are not unwrapped
properly. So now I'm generating the uv coords. upon creation, which allows me
to flatten out the entire torus like a cylinder. Pretty neat stuff if you ever
use them before.
http://www.geocities.com/uvmapper

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JVortex
Member 		posted March 21, 2001 11:31 PM            
well since i was the one who asked about the MRU list i guess i should be the one to "complain" .
the MRU list should really have at least 4 entries i think. i mentioned it before because when working on my tank it would have been nice to have "one click" access to:
Tank Body
Tank Turret
Tank Barrel
Tank bmp (would the bmp work on therre?)

ok, so im not sure on the bmp, but even so it should hold at least 3 for when youre working on tanks. come to think of it it should probably ignore manually loaded luv files as well (and no i havent d loaded the new version yet, im about to, maybe it does ignore these). but maybe an option to let the MRU store luv's?

anyhow, guess ill d load it now and just shut up

great program man, keep doin it. i love this thing.

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Lithium
Member 		posted March 22, 2001 01:32 PM         
Ah, so now you tell me?

I'll consider it.

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Lithium
Member 		posted March 22, 2001 08:53 PM         
Ok, it's up.





[This message has been edited by Lithium (edited March 22, 2001).]

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JVortex
Member 		posted March 23, 2001 12:38 PM            
cool cool cool. many thankies in your general direction.

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peeeto
Member 		posted March 26, 2001 09:16 PM         
hi Lithium - i was wondering if you would find it interesting/useful to integrate a mesh simplification algorithm in UnWrapper.

check out: http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~garland/research/quadrics.html

while QVis already can provide an opengl preview of the model as it's being simplified, i thought that this may interest you..?

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peeeto
Member 		posted March 26, 2001 09:24 PM         
interstingly, this algorithm can aparently incorporate texture information as well. see section 7.2 of http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~garland/papers/quadric2.pdf

p.s. i've corresponded with the author in the past, and he has been very responsive to my inquiries...

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Lithium
Member 		posted March 27, 2001 02:40 PM         
Well, it would be nice, but things of this nature are better suited for
3D modelling packages. For example, MilkShape3D has recently added something
like this to reduce a model's poly count. You could check that out.

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peeeto
Member 		posted March 27, 2001 09:59 PM         
OK - i just wanted to show ya in case you were interested in adding more bells & whistles to UnWrapper. UnWrapper, QSlim & Qvis work perfectly well on their own...

i might check out MilkShape3D - but i'm planning on concentrating on learning Blender !

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