location day and time interface
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:48 pm
Hello,
I think the world, with the sun moving arround is a great design.
I like it.
But it is not practical from my viewpoint.
One of the problems I am having has to do with graphic cards. Most graphic cards do not like the world, and shows only a part of it, some other show a black space only.
In case of numerical input, it works ok, but if you want an intuitive aproach it is not easy to place a sun direction, by just moving the sun. There are some restrictions in the movement, that has to do with the poles that makes it very difficult to have a control on the sun direction in relationship to the 3d viewport.
The small compass icon, with the sun angle information, in not clear enough. Sometimes you do not know if the sun is coming from Nort West, or Southeast...
If a simple latitud and longitud graphic controller is added, it will be of great help.
Another item to be solved, is the Matter of the fixed North direction.
There are some times in which the buildings aren´t aligned to the North direction exactly, and we would need a correction of some degrees.
Considering that for working reasons we would prefer not to rotate the building, it would be great if a way to correct this will be added!
Thanks
Ernesto
I think the world, with the sun moving arround is a great design.
I like it.
But it is not practical from my viewpoint.
One of the problems I am having has to do with graphic cards. Most graphic cards do not like the world, and shows only a part of it, some other show a black space only.
In case of numerical input, it works ok, but if you want an intuitive aproach it is not easy to place a sun direction, by just moving the sun. There are some restrictions in the movement, that has to do with the poles that makes it very difficult to have a control on the sun direction in relationship to the 3d viewport.
The small compass icon, with the sun angle information, in not clear enough. Sometimes you do not know if the sun is coming from Nort West, or Southeast...
If a simple latitud and longitud graphic controller is added, it will be of great help.
Another item to be solved, is the Matter of the fixed North direction.
There are some times in which the buildings aren´t aligned to the North direction exactly, and we would need a correction of some degrees.
Considering that for working reasons we would prefer not to rotate the building, it would be great if a way to correct this will be added!
Thanks
Ernesto