Little things for Maxwell Mat Ed...
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:07 pm
Very low priority stuff I think, but can't hurt to put it down for kicks, eh? 
1) Let's say I want to delete a SSS layer from the "material layers" box. If I want to delete it using the "Remove Layer" menu option with the RMB, I must first select that layer with the LMB, then right click for the menu. Might it be possible to allow people to directly RMB-click-select the item they're interested in manipulating? In many places in Studio when you right click on an item, the menu selections refer to that specific item you just right-clicked on. The material layers box is an exception to that rule, but not obviously so at a glance. (and as a result I found myself deleting BSDF's instead of SSS layers; took me a little while to find out why. Silly me.) Edit: playing with it some more, I see that sometimes RMB clicking does select a layer, but it's pretty inconsistent.
2 ) Also for the Mat Layers box, the way the "Type" banner appears and stays many seconds is a little off from everything else, and is even just in the way sometimes (unlike all the other info banners in MXEd which are very much useful and well timed).
3) If the default appearence/size of the MXEd window could be just six or seven pixels taller, that would be swell. As it is (on my set-up, WinXP32) the "Bump" settings are just cut off at the bottom, and bump is something I like to at least always be able to glance at -- so I alway have to resize.
Lastly while I'm here, can someone tell me what the boxes next to the two SSS settings are? Clicking them (or hitting tab) goes into them but I can't find any key/mouseclick to type/activate anything inside them.
That's all from me. Thanks for listening, and thanks for Maxwell!
1) Let's say I want to delete a SSS layer from the "material layers" box. If I want to delete it using the "Remove Layer" menu option with the RMB, I must first select that layer with the LMB, then right click for the menu. Might it be possible to allow people to directly RMB-click-select the item they're interested in manipulating? In many places in Studio when you right click on an item, the menu selections refer to that specific item you just right-clicked on. The material layers box is an exception to that rule, but not obviously so at a glance. (and as a result I found myself deleting BSDF's instead of SSS layers; took me a little while to find out why. Silly me.
) Edit: playing with it some more, I see that sometimes RMB clicking does select a layer, but it's pretty inconsistent.2 ) Also for the Mat Layers box, the way the "Type" banner appears and stays many seconds is a little off from everything else, and is even just in the way sometimes (unlike all the other info banners in MXEd which are very much useful and well timed).
3) If the default appearence/size of the MXEd window could be just six or seven pixels taller, that would be swell. As it is (on my set-up, WinXP32) the "Bump" settings are just cut off at the bottom, and bump is something I like to at least always be able to glance at -- so I alway have to resize.
Lastly while I'm here, can someone tell me what the boxes next to the two SSS settings are? Clicking them (or hitting tab) goes into them but I can't find any key/mouseclick to type/activate anything inside them.
That's all from me. Thanks for listening, and thanks for Maxwell!