POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : YAFR : Re: YAFR Server Time
19 Apr 2024 07:35:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: YAFR  
From: Lutz Kretzschmar
Date: 8 Dec 2005 02:58:56
Message: <qqpfp1t05je36rk9cbsi7ftqppf1ch7eb5@4ax.com>
Hi Tim Cook, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> Yet another feature request.
> I'm finding that having usable hierarchical object names is incovenient, 
> as well as running into the object name-length limit...but using 
> hierarchical number scheme is troublesome to remember what it means.
> For example:
> 
> HouseGroup.Room1Group.BaseboardCSG01.RoundingCSG.Curve
> 
> vs.
> 
> 01.01.01.02.02
> 
> What'd be nice is a note or memo field for objects so I could have 
> something like "House" for Group001, "Bedroom" for Group002, a subgroup 
> of Group001, "Baseboard part 01" for CSG001, a part of Group002, 
> "Rounding" for CSG002, a part of CSG001, and "Curve" for Cylinder001, a 
> part of CSG002...and have those be viewable in the browser, so I don't 
> have to rely on confusing or excessively long object names to find my 
> way around a complex scene.

So you're saying that actually changing the "Group001" name to "House"
is not a good thing? You'd rather add a seperate comment to "Group001"
saying it is "House"? Why? I don't get that....

Am I missing something?

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


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