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Published: 2010-04-17 06:16:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 926; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 20
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On the left: The scene inside SimplexGui.On the right: Rendered via console-picogen (which not really has a name).
Meaning: Loading/Saving of scene-files is complete. Except for a little oversight: I totally forgot to add volumes (but not the volume renderer) into the GUI.
Expect a release in a week (some minor quality-assurance-todo-points are on my list)
edit: Ough I was too fast. I looked at my todo list, which says I have to:
* Have a standalone production rendering process
* Completize Spectral Raw Data Import (minor thing)
* Volumes into GUI
Still, I think I can hold the release date in a week
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Hmm, the gui looks pretty good so far. Hope you're doing good on the other parts as well.
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Thank you
There already exist a number of new "widgets" to make it more usable, and someday (I actually hope before upcoming [northern hemisphere] winter, maybe in 2 months) a new GUI with focus on usability (instead of focus on completeness vs. the renderer) will emerge
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You're very welcome.
I agree, gui is as important as function, cause what use is a application
nobody is able to use?
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Absolutely. Or in this case, nobody but programmers, as the heightmap definition really is a tiny program manifested in actual source code
On the other hand, surely, having the heightmap as a program opens up for all possibilities GUI-wise. Photoshop-like layer editing is possible (and in fact I've already started implementing this under my old dA-account [~greenhybrid ], as well as node-based editing like many commercial packages employ.
A third idea is that the source-code can be parameterized, and then building a mini-GUI based on that. E.g., there could be
(* $HEIGHT ([LibnoisePerlin] x y))
and the $HEIGHT-variable in that example could be used to build a small GUI where there is a simple input-box that says "Height: []". I think it wouldn't get easier than that
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I agree, although even then it wouldn't been readable for all programmers... 
I rather like the idea of parameterized source-code and I think I've done something
similar in the past when I wanted things more flexible without having to write the
main class anew everytime I'd liked to add a new formula for my fractals.
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