Too many bugs, too many missing features, too little time. Here is yet another micro step on the road to 1.0.
Enjoy!
/Björn
- There is now a pre-built Linux release available.
(So far, the Linux release can only be found in the
Download area in sourceforge.net/projects/wings.)Just as the Mac and Windows releases, the Linux version
is self-contained (it includes a stripped down Erlang/OTP
and ESDL). I have chosen to package it as a shell script rather
(rather than an RPM) to make it as widely useful as possible.Temporary problem: To fool web browsers that think that the
the .run file was a text file, I have compressed the .run
using gzip.To pack up the file: gunzip wings-0.98.17-linux.run.gz
To install, type ‘sh wings-0.98.17-linux.run’ at a shell prompt.
It will install Wings in your home directory. To run the installed
Wings, run the ‘wings’ script in the install directory.So far I have only tested the Linux package on my Redhat 9 Linux
system.Note: There is no file dialog plug-in included, as I haven’t
got WingsOne’s qt_file plug-in to work reliably on my Redhat 9
system (using the Gnome desktop). Any help from you Linux gurus
out there would be appreciated. Ideally, I would want to distribute
a file dialog plug-in that would work on as many Linux systems as
possible. (It could be based on QT or GTK or whatever.)
Updated the information line to make it clearer and conserve space.
(Thanks to PuzzledPaul.)Updated help text for Help|Advanced Menus from PuzzledPaul.
The OpenGL renderer will now always name the rendered image
“<<Rendered>>”; when rendering again the previous rendering
will be replaced. To keep a rendered image, rename it before
rendering again.The Scale Uniform command now accepts MMB as well as RMB to pick the
point to scale from. The Rotate, Scale Axis, Scale Radial, and
Flatten commands had their MMB and RMB functions swapped. (So that,
in general, selecting only an axis will be done using RMB.)
(Thanks to wasamonkey.)The Move, Extrude, and Extract commands now move along the selection’s
normal when MMB is clicked.Extract Region + RMB would leave a ghost selection.
(Problem reported by PuzzledPaul.)There used to be a crash when loading a wings file where
a face had material which had no definition in the file
(this is not supposed to happen in the first place, but…).
Now silently replacing such materials with the default
material. (Problem reported by wasamonkey.)Select|Edge Loop|Edge Loop to Region is now trying harder to
do something sensible when multiple edge loops are selected.
First of all, if the edge loops are in different sub-objects
(objects that have been Combined), each sub-object will be
considered separately. In every sub-object, the smallest collection
of faces sandwhiched between one or more edge loop will be selected.
(Problem reported by wasamonkey.)Fixed a problem with a bevel operation being incorrectly limited.
(Problem reported by PuzzledPaul.)Fixed bug which made it possible to select the virtual mirror face.
(Problem reported by xr4y.)Subdivide (in the face pop-up menu) is again called Tesselate.
Sorry for the confusion my previous renaming caused.Internal changes and improvements in various places by Dan and Raimo.
//negative9