Hi Gev### [at] jpberlinde, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> I've noticed that Lutz Kretzschmar is writing/reding in this group.
> Guy, do you have too much time hu? ;-)
Hehe, no, unfortunately not, otherwise your fifth wish would be
granted<g>. This is our support forum and we do take support
seriously. If we can do support in public it helps keep the email
quantity down.

> So I would like to start a feature-wish-list...
Ufff, as if we didn't have enough to do<g>. No, seriously, feel free
to start a wish-list, but don't expect it to become a reality in any
particular order (or at all). We are about to come out with a smaller
release (hopefully before the end of the year), but the changes won't
be too big (please don't ask).

> - Object Libraries
I take it you've seen the Object Library on our website?

> - possibility to place one object several times in the image... when you
> change the source-object, all others will be changed. This could be memory-
> and rendering-time-sparing
This has been possible since Moray V2.5. When you copy an object using
the Duplicate function, there is a checkbox called 'Reference Object'.
If you activate this, Moray will make a shallow copy of the object
(which is exactly what you described above). If you leave it unchecked
it makes a deep copy (creates copies of all subobjects too).

> BTW: Why takes the animation plugin so much time? 
I see Xander has answered this. 

> It would be enough for me if the translation/scale/rotation fields 
> would be replaced by a formular editor/parser ...
Yeah, but not for us. If I wanted to animate with formulas (only), I'd
stick to POV-Ray scripting language. We do want to offer an animation
interface that allows more visual control of the animation.

> Just a suggestion... Perhaps it's more complicated as I can imagine...
Yup, I think maybe<g>. A long time ago, when I started Moray (6
years?) I thought about making every value a formula, but it turns out
that this is totally unsuitable for a graphical program.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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