At 9:00 Uhr +0100 28.11.2002, Fabrice Closier wrote:
I took the tour on M site yesterday... two little questions:it's the new Object Inspector, which you saw in action, it has not much in common with the 3DPI.
i saw DMX wil export dvd, what does this mean exactly? That a projector could be exported as "Ready to be burned" dvd?
Also saw a builded in 3d objects inspector... what does this means? That Ullala's 3dpi is builded in or is that another one?
It is a very cool new feature, which lets you inspect all director objects and variables.
so it offers all functionality the old watcher window offered, but additionally it let's you inspect nearly all director objects, in that you can expand the object reference in the OI and view all subproperties and change most of them in place even if the movie is running.
you can add member references as well as sprite references to be inspected in the OI. thus you can add a 3-D member or a sprite containing a 3-D member and view all its palettes and the values for their properties. you can edit them also.
but the 3DPI offers far more than that.
the 3DPI not only lists and let you change the properties, but also offers buttons to call all methods provided by the SW3D xtra, with widgets for the parameters.
when you edit values in the OI there is no error checking, like you have in the 3DPI. entering invalid values in the OI just throws a script error, like it would be the case if you'd do the same with plain lingo yourself in the message window.
talking of the message window, the 3DPI has that great customizable tracing feature.
there are so many features, that the 3DPI offers, that it would take much time to list them all.
there are the picking functions, the parent child hierarchie in the member tab, which lets you change the parent child hierarchie in a straightforward manner, there are previews etc. etc. etc.
If you use the 3DPI you may know most of these great features already.
This doesn't mean, that I want to diminuish the use of the OI, like I said already the OI is a very powerful and useful feature, which will save you much time you spent in the debugger in previous versions of director.
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