Great news ;)

On 27 avr, 15:05, Toni Alatalo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 08:59 +0300, Toni Alatalo wrote:
> > There is one stupidity though that currently requires a workaround. Idea is 
> > that you can just run server.exe and start drag&dropping your models there. 
> > But currently that would make it copy all the models to the same directory 
> > where the Tundra app was installed. This little trick helps:
> > 1. create a directory anywhere in your computer for your project, e.g. 
> > d:\projects\cadworld . Unless you already have a suitable dir.
> > 2. create an empty file called whatever.txml in that dir. this is just used 
> > to automatically start Tundra so that it uses this directory for storage. 
> > Note: creating a file called .txml may not be easy on windows, if it hides 
> > the file name extension from you and insists on making it .txml.txt or so. 
> > We should come up with some nice way in the GUI to start a new project so 
> > this trick wouldn't be needed.
> > 3. doubleclick the txml in that folder to run the server
> > 4. use view-scene right-click import, or drag&drop with mouse, to load your 
> > 3d models
> > 5. save the scene with view-scene right-click 'save scene'
>
> Instead of documenting the workaround, I gave a shot at fixing it by
> adding a new menu entry in the server mode GUI:
>
> 'New Scene' - opens a file dialog where you can give the name of your
> scene file, e.g. 'my.txml'. It automatically then sets that directory as
> the default storage for your session, so you can import models etc. and
> they get placed in that dir.
>
> 'Save' - saves the current scene to the file that you defined in 'New
> Scene', without asking questions. Like in does in Notepad, my benchmark
> for how the Tundra File menu should behave :) We didn't have this
> earlier 'cause didn't have the concept of 'current document', but I
> think it's nice.
>
> Jonne earlier added Import & Export funcs to the File menu that are a
> bit different, we're currently working on merging and sanifying these to
> make a sensible whole .. for the upcoming 1.0.6 release (coming right
> now actually).
>
> > ~Toni
>
> same.

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