UI Suggestion - use palettes

[Greg]

Hey Paul - quick UI suggestion. I think the workflow would be better served if you used palettes instead of windows. That way we could toggle the octane ui on/off with the ~ key. There's really no downside to it.

video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/40ydh7stp7i7o ... 20Paul.zip

-Greg

[face_off]

Hi Greg

The UI needs to be a "Frame" because there is no way to determine if a "Palette" is visible, but a plugin can determine if a "Frame" is visible (and this is needed for the auto-display of the Octane material/schematic when you select an Octane Override). Also, some of the node (in the schematic) creation code will only run if the Schematic palette is open, and there is no way to determine if it is open - so it needs to be parts of the Setup frame (which it CAN determine if it is open or not).

Hope that makes sense.

Paul

[Greg]

Arg, that's too bad. Is there a particular feature you need in order to make the Octane render window embedded into the main MODO interface? That way we can just make an Octane specific layout. I can start a thread over in the Lux beta forum and try and rope Stuart in on it.

-Greg

[face_off]

Arg, that's too bad. Is there a particular feature you need in order to make the Octane render window embedded into the main MODO interface? That way we can just make an Octane specific layout. I can start a thread over in the Lux beta forum and try and rope Stuart in on it.

The Modo API needs to be enhanced to enable custom viewports, and allow an addin to "write" (or paste a bitmap) to a viewport. There are other complexities (like picking up mouse clicks/drag/movement in the palette, ability to scale the window, etc), so the Modo devs would need to work with plugins devs to determine the full requirements.

Paul

[Greg]

Do you have access to the beta list?

-Greg

[face_off]

Do you have access to the beta list?

No Greg.

Paul

[Greg]

Well that's just crazy, let me recommend you and see what happens. You're a '3rd Party' developer, right? Not employed by OTOY? I'll see what I can do, they need to upgrade the SDK for 901 to include these features.

-Greg

[face_off]

Well that's just crazy, let me recommend you and see what happens. You're a '3rd Party' developer, right? Not employed by OTOY? I'll see what I can do, they need to upgrade the SDK for 901 to include these features.

That will make you the 3rd person to try Greg Yes, 3rd party developer.

Paul