CompuServe Messages

Clint: After playing with VP2 for a week, I have some suggestions to make for the next enhancement: First, and this is sort of trivial, I think that the documentation for Viewer could use some enhancement. At least you point to the area of the keyboard to experiment with. I would also like to see comand line switches to control looping/single shot playing of the VANIM. Since I doubt that I would ever have VANIM as an end product, it is not vital, but would be nice. Secondly, the new scripting tools make me feel as if I have sat down a banquet and been told that I can have all the salad I want. The add command still uses the old format, saving only the camera positions and headings. I can see supporting the old format for compatability's sake (tho I would handle that issue with a utility), but feel that VP should generate scripts in the new format. The script writer should also support the full range of script commands. Thirdly, there are great holes in the Arexx script commands. Although I can set any varriable I want, there is no way to 'get' current settings. I would like to be able access the elevation of any point in the DEM, the rgb settings of the color map, whether CLOUDS, SKY, OAK etc. are on, etc. I would also like access to the file's Header data. I realize that these issues all fall into the area of metascripts, but that is the direction you all are pointing, isn't it? Knowing VRLI's great customer support, I trust that you all have had John working on these very issues for weeks now, and that a timely release was the only reason that they were not included in the upgrade. This is not a complaint, it's just that you ahve gotten me wanting MORE. Consider me greedy… -Homer