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ts 2.0-faster wireframe?

    11-May-95 08:13:32
Fm: Terry Cotant[RSS] 70313,1103
To: Marc Beckersjuergen 100543,1515
Yes.. Go to your settings box and change your threshold setting. Here's the help text for threshold: As you transform objects in trueSpace's workspace, the program attempts to maintain maximum feedback by continually redrawing wireframe objects during manipulations. This is in contraxt to other programs, which automatically create bounding boxes during any transformation, reducing feedback and requiring more time for set-up. However, with complex objects and/or many simultaneously open views, forcing everything to continually redraw can cause unwanted delays, in which case the program resorts to using bounding boxes during transformations. This setting determines the maximum redraw time before a scene is simplified with bounding boxes while transforming objects. The lower the setting, the greater the likelihood that simplification will occur. If you're working with complex objects and redraw time is taking too long while transforming it, lower this setting. If more than one view window is open, the total redraw time in all windows is taken into consideration. If not all windows need to be simplified, the current window is simplified last. In other words, if you have a small Top view window open and you're dragging a complex object in the main Perspective view, it may appear as a bounding box in the Top view but as a wireframe in the Perspective view. WHen working with hierarchical objects, there is an additional level of detail between wireframe and bounding box, which is hierarchical bounding box. This creates a bounding box for each member of hierarchy, rather than a single one for the entire object.