Wish List Cont.
4. Polygons – You should give the user the option of minimizing polygons on
flat
surfaces. This feature is found in the Data Manipulation section of
Pixel-3D,
and has served me quite well. I actually used this feature to optimize
some colomns and arches built in a CAD program, and saved a considerable
amount of both points and polygons. The polygon reduction in Pixel-3D
also
removes any redundant POINT that is not necessary to the shape of the
polygon
5. Polygons – Flip alternating polygons (ie: from Sculpt-4D) when
converting
surfaces. Try to determine facing by the curve angle of the adjacent
polygons. It would be nice if the user had an option for this.
6. Polygons – Give the user an option to remove doubled polygons on objects
that have a closed interior. I have a ton of architectural objects that
have twice as many polygons as they should, and I can't figure out a way
to delete the interior objects. Heck, I'd be happy if you could just
get rid of the doubled polygon, Id flip them myself if it deleted the
wrong
one.
7. Scale – Though you may not have control of this, the object was about
100x
larger than it should have been. It would be cool if you prompted the
user
for a bounding box size (HeightxWidth) that would determine the final
object
size.
8. Degenerate objects – The knobs and the guitar neck were degenerate
points,
though it seems that they were that way in the original. Maybe you could
warn the user when objects are found to consist of only one point.
(Check out my replacement knobs, I think they're cool :^)
9. Points – As mentioned above, it would be cool if you could remove
colinear
points not necessary to the shape of the object.
10.Other features that would be cool –
An option to ADD points to curves by using current points as control
points
on a spline curve. You could give the user options like adding points
based
on 'angle to next point' – this would allow you to smooth a curve by
adding
a point every N degrees along the interpolated spline curve.
This would be a VERY useful feature.