WINGS 3D

display problems mac osx

feeds@yuku.com (aliendoughnut) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:43:27 GMT

hi i am having display problems with wings I have the latest version. I am using a mac g4 ppc running tiger. My first problem is the menu text colour is grey and not black I have tried to adjust the colour to black but is just displaying grey making it difficult to read, next problem is when i make edges sometimes the line is not visible i know it is there because i can highlight it with the mouse lastly i cant click and drag the screen just goes black and flickers when i drag the mouse. I...

Seeking Mirai

feeds@yuku.com (MJLizak) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:39:50 GMT

Back in the 90's, I worked for the CNN Headline News graphics department in Atlanta. Headline News was an early adopter of the Symbolics graphics systems for their broadcast video production needs. I have watched the progression (more of a decline actually) of the software through Triple-I, Nichimen, Izware and Wings. Since I've always loved the Symbolics modeler, I've been looking into the possibility of obtaining a legal license of Mirai. Does anyone know if there is anyone out...

Feature Request: Bake normal Map / Bake Shader

feeds@yuku.com (joshadow) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:06:03 GMT

I was delighted when I found out that wings now can do Ambient Occlusion; just one less reason to use blender for my modeling needs.

One more thing that I have to resort to blender for though is normal map baking. Of-course there is nothing wrong with blender, but I personally prefer wings for modeling, and being able to stay in one app would cut out a-lot of time spent switching between apps and importing/exporting models.

Now, We already have a lovely shader that can...

Whatever happened to the old extrude?

feeds@yuku.com (pauljs75) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:37:05 GMT

It seems extrude-region has been changed into the extrude command. And logically, it would seem that the old per-face method would be done with RMB. But apparently this is not the case.

Yes, the old non-region extrude did have its uses, and was convienient. Say you want to make a T-shape from a cube really fast, it was plenty easy doing extrude normal. Ditto with taking any other geometry and making a structure with projections from any random selection of polygon faces.

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New special snapshot with bug fixes

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:58:51 GMT

I have had much less time for Wings than expected (because of my work), so it seems that there will not be an 1.2 release before Christmas. But here is a special snapshot with two bug fixes:

Special snapshot

I expect to have more time for Wings after Christmas and before I start working again Jan 7 next year. I might also have some time this weekend to release another special snapshot or RC4.

Scale and pivot point problems

feeds@yuku.com (lisux) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:32:52 GMT

Hi all.
I am really new to Wings and I am wondering how to scale using the centroid of my selectio nas a pivot point.
Usually in 3D applications based on handlers or gizmos qhen you select something you get a handler in the centroid of the selected gemetry and you can scale/rotate/translate in the different axes but getting this selection centroid as the pivot point.
I have seen that in Wings you can get something similar with the region commands, like Scale Axis->Region....

Symbolics Style Mechanical Bevel In Wings

feeds@yuku.com (MJLizak) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:56:37 GMT

For some time many years ago I used a modeler named "Symbolics" This software eventually became "Triple-i" that became "Mirai & Nendo"that became "Wings". It had a tool named "coplanar". In Symbolics, this tool would slice up an entire object with adjustable edge inset based on an adjustable angle tolerance. The angle setting would allow one to restrict the the coplanar operation to the more drastic angle changes on the object and not to...

Wings 1.2.rc3 bug reports

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:04:56 GMT

If you have never posted a bug report before, here are some tips on How to get the bugs you report fixed in the next release.

If the problem is display glitches (e.g. missing text in menus), always provide information about the type of graphics card and operating system.

Wings 1.2.rc3 has been released

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:03:37 GMT

Thanks for testing out the special snapshot. It seems that the new way to handle preferences works on all flavors of Windows.

I was unable to reproduce the problem with the Erlang console not always terminating when Wings is terminates. But since that problem occurs for some users on older versions of Wings too, I assume that it is unrelated to the changes of the preference handling.

And a special thanks to makr for noticing that dragging a .wings file onto the Wings icon...

Windows users -- please test the special snapshot

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:49:19 GMT

There is a new special snapshot.

Wings will now use the officially supported API function to find the location of the AppData directory, instead of trying to find the information in the registry. That should fix the problems with preferences not getting saved on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Please test this snapshot if you use any of those versions of Windows.

Even if you use an older version of Windows, please...

Blender 2.5 Alpha released

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:58:56 GMT

You can download it here: http://www.blender.org/download/get-25-alpha/
You dont have to install anything in Windows, just click the icon inside the folder and it runs.

click file>user preferences to set preferences.

I really like how I can add any modify tool above the currently not well laid out modify menu.

Snow Leopard + Render

feeds@yuku.com (teh1ghool) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:08:51 GMT

I have checked the plug-in settings to verify both kerkythea and povray are installed into wings properly. They are. When I render with both of them, the console says that they cannot be found. Am I missing something?

Wings 1.2.rc2 bug reports

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:05 GMT

Please post bug reports for 1.2.rc2 in this thread.

If you have never posted a bug report before, here are some tips on How to get the bugs you report fixed in the next release.

If the problem is display glitches (e.g. missing text in menus), always provide information about the type of graphics card and operating system.

Wings 1.2.rc2 has been released

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:26:09 GMT

Here is the second release candidate for 1.2.

No new features will be added in the next release (which will be called either 1.2.rc3 or 1.2). We will only add updates to the translations and fix bugs.

Enjoy!
/Björn

Changes in 1.2.rc2 (compared to 1.2.rc1)
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- Using Virtual Mirror on the same object twice would leave an illegal hole in
the object. [optigon]

- Face|Intrude would crash if a...

Problem with mirror in wings 1.2rc1

feeds@yuku.com (makr) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:59:43 GMT

Since all my so-called bugs turned out to be strictly non-bugs, I thought it would be better to post outisde Here's the problem.

In certain cases, mirroring an object - by scaling it -100% - can produce weird results. In the image below the object has been scaled -100% in the z-axis. (If I make 2 copies of the object - one above the other - the results are a bit more weird. The top copy moves
off-center
...

Bump mapping / Normal map in viewport?

feeds@yuku.com (3DTiger) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:28:37 GMT

I would love to be able to import a normal map or bump map, and have it visible on the mesh in the viewport.

Say I paint the texture using an external program, and have wings3D automatically detect if the image has changed, and auto-load the texture, and display the mesh with bump data.

Do you think this is possible?

Wings 1.2.rc1 bug reports

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:00:38 GMT

Please post bug reports for 1.2.rc1 in this thread.

If you have never posted a bug report before, here are some tips on How to get the bugs you report fixed in the next release.

If the problem is display glitches (e.g. missing text in menus), always provide information about the type of graphics card and operating system.

Wings 1.2.rc1 has been released

feeds@yuku.com (bjorng) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:59:09 GMT

It's been almost six months since 1.0 was released. I thinks it's time to think about releasing 1.2, the next stable release.

This is the first release candidate for 1.2. There might be a few minor new features sneaked in into the next release candidate, but from that release there will be no more new features, only bug fixes.

I expect that 1.2 will be released before the end of the year.

After the 1.2 release, there will be new development releases...

null locator object

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:12:28 GMT

There are a few people on this forum who like the locater ring in Blender and Ive been wondering if a similar thing would be good for Wings. The reason I dont like Blender's locater ring is that you can only position it in 2D space in relation to the viewport plane. I think for Wings it would be better to have a null object that can be translated like any other mesh geometry, and have that be used as an alternative to vectors, so that you dont have to rely on existing mesh geometry to do...

New major feature?...

feeds@yuku.com (Dimitri) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:29:14 GMT

No doubt Wings has become a very stable modeller in its present state... And every improvement has made it even better... It is, admittedly, nearly the sole modeller I use but... in recent times there is a lack of adding a major new feature in it (although the small, step by step improvements are so many, as I said)... Take for example the high polygon meshes handling... It is a problem that hinders it from having a 'sculpting' feature, for example... Nowadays everywhere you hear...