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. -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
