On 6/24/2012 2:20 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> The SDL user interface is radical in its own way too. With a visual
> modeller, it would be ridiculously difficult to position a sphere so
> that it exactly coincides with the end of a cylinder. With SDL, it's
> trivial.

Number one irritation that I have with the damn things. Wings 3D you can 
bring up the "literal location", or what ever, find the real center, and 
then move your other object to coincide, but it would still be better if 
it combined that with the hierarchical system in say Moray, so you could 
just "uncurve/mode/rotate" the damn thing, relative what you are trying 
to position it against, and fix the problem.

Still, you can get a version of Wings, from here:

http://s331378245.onlinehome.us/

which includes a mess of stuff for everything from Greebling, to Carve 
3D CSG functions (which appear to be buggy, as I reported, when you try 
to CSG an object/surface, with a face, instead of where you cross "two" 
faces (i.e., a side). No idea if they have figured out where the bug in 
that is or not, but someone else made the code for the library, so...

But, this is the sort of thing that **should be** trivial, if the people 
that made the application took any thought, at all, to the idea that 
people might want to be at all precise about anything, instead of just 
throwing it in, and hoping. lol

BTW though-- if they can find the bugs, Carve 3D would be a crazy 
addition to Moray. ;)

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