Thanks. This time it worked, but I swear that I tried all kinds of
finger dance combinations, including the one you described here and
the results always seemed to have some offset distance to them.
I have also noticed that RS sometimes starts behaving oddly and it
needs to be closed and started again. Like one time it would render
the view quickly, but when it got to the bottom-right last "box" it
seemed to calculate something endlessly, even though there was no
geometry there.
Hi Henry,
Sorry I didn't reply earlier, it's always nice to see a new user on this
list
!
It's always advisable to be careful when RS is rendering to the screen with
all cores... sometimes I mishit the Cancel button and click something from
the toolbar and RS seems to freeze :(
In most of the cases it's still rendering, but the result won't show up
until it's finished!
I understand your frustration, but after a while you learn to live with it,
find some walkarounds and use RS in really productive ways. This is a power
horse, but some of it is a bit under the hood ;)
But I have ridden this horse for so long now that I find other 3d software
weird and hard to get used to. A good RS sesion can be furiously fast if
it's 'in your fingers'!
And I am still not used to the two step file save mechanism. I am
certain on more than one occasion I changed the name of the file (like
from Teacup-Test-1B to Teacup-Test-1C, only to find several saves
later that it seemed to never have actually taken the name change and
I clobbered the last good save of 1B. It seems I have to change the
name in the windows dialog box and click on "Save" in that interface,
then I have to also click on "OK" in the next outer RS interface too.
I guess I'm not used to having to tell programs twice to save a file
before it actually does it.
Yes, this needs some attention from RS. Especially if you mix part of
different projects!
Also a couple times it seemed I did something and the next thing I
knew is that the view of my scene was upside down. The one time the
last thing I did before this happened was to create a new level (what
I tend to think of as a file folder) and I am used to other programs
where it automatically assumes you want to name the level/folder and I
start typing a name. So maybe it took what I typed as some keyboard
shortcut command (which is yet another reason I don't like keyboard
shortcuts.) Sometimes when I am writing fiction and furiously typing,
some other program will pop-up a box and it takes my typing as an
answer to what it was asking, and it does something that I may not
have wanted it to do.
Of course that kind of stuff happened to me too - when you think you are
typing a word, you give a chain of commands! Nothing to worry about and
certainly not something specific to RS I think.
I would recommend having a look at VSL, one of Realsoft3d's strongest
assets!
Good luck, I hope you can overcome these initial hurdles... save often!
-Mark Heuymans
