Editor Improvement Suggestion

[BES]

I have been working with 3D World Studio Again ...and I noticed Leadwerks 3 Editor has a similar layout to 3D World Studio..

 

But the Leadwerks 3 editor is missing some stuff that make it harder to use..

 

Short list of improvements:

 

Carve

Hollow

Slice plane

Extrude Face

Selecting Verts

Restore Face

Hide Mask

Export

Export Selected

 

Click-able stuff on the top of the editor with hotkeys would be nice..

 

Thanks!

[BES]

Just for a visual of what I mean..

 

 

This WHOLE section in the attached picture was done with extruding and moving vertices..

 

I wanted to make the hall ways so that the middle section was raised ...but got to that corner and had to make a 3 way intersection piece pretty much..

 

I made that in 3D World Studio and I would not be able to make that in the Leadwerks 3 editor at this time.

 

[Josh]

I agree. Also, OBJ and VMF export are added now.

[BES]

Awesome! thanks.

[cassius]

Being able to place lights in perspective widow would be high on my list.

[takis76]

Hi,

I had discussed this in the past and all of these nice functions will be added in future version. I also was suggest and creating , adding or deleting normals and faces on terrain to able to make entrances in underground levels. Another nice idea is creating more primitive 3D objects , like cone , sphere , torus , pyramid , hexagon and adding boolean operations , merge or subtraction surfaces and objects.

The next version of leadwerks engine took some time. The editor needs more tools to be added. Most of the 3D modeling programs have a lots of advanced tools. Also the maps exported from 3D world studio must be fully compatible.

I tried to export one map in B3D and I imported in Leadwerks engine and I wasn't able to edit all separated objects in the scene, all was merged as a single object. More tools like texturing and uv mapping or unwrap texturing must be added.

 

I know is a lots of stuff.

[cassius]

You can export to gmf from 3dws and then change extension to mdl I just did it five minutes ago.It needs version 5.6 of 3dws which was issued especially for le 2 users.

[cassius]

I am not sure we can expect the editor to become a fully fledged 3d app but something like 3dws would be great.