Full CSG. Very nice. Clipping a cube with a sphere works.
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Your rotation widget is nonstandard compared to most other 3D editors. See for example Blender[1] or Maya's[2] widgets (which are both basically the same). It's also kind of confusing as it seems like pulling one axis' rotation manipulator actually rotates about a different axis. So pulling on X rotates about Z, Y about X, and Z about Y. [1] https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Simtron/Doc:2.6/Manu... [2] https://…
Agreed, the controls need a rework. They are the legacy of the prototype version we built a while back.
I think pulling the pins is fine, but the shape should rotate around the pin's axis. I would suggest associating pulling it out with a clockwise rotation.
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Blender
As much as I love Blender, I don't think Blender is very good for "design". It lacks parametric solid modeling primitives and operators. I've tried many times to do architectural modeling in Blender. It's good for sketching and rendering stuff like that, but not so much for "design". It's just not streamlined and is missing too much fundamental stuff. Some day, I'd love to see Blender improve in that regard! Someone…
For a more of a cad thing, solvespace is my favorite. It is pretty simple as far as cads go, but still capable enough.
Re: Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool
#54Ohoh this looks very very nice! Keep it up guys, nice job!
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#55Developer here, would love to get some feedback and answer any questions you might have. The app is available on iOS, Android and Web ( https://3dc.io/download ). There is also a gallery of user built content ( https://3dc.io/gallery ).
The web app works great in Chrome for Android, which is awesome. I downloaded the native Android app, too; it looks like it targets an API less than 23. It's not a huge deal but it'd be cool if that got updated ️
We have wanted to upgrade to 23 ourselves for the new permissions API, but a lot of our users are still on Android 4.*, so we decided to keep compatibility for now. Although it is a pain in the ass if we need a new permission for say a texture feature, since half our user base gets left behind on an old version by not auto-upgrading.
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#56I've been a blender hobbyist for about a year now and it's a bit creepy how smooth this is on my iPhone at the moment. Thanks for sharing I hope I remember to dig more into this tomorrow.
Thank you! A lot of that is on Apple as well, Safari with all its bugs is really fast on mobile.
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#57Full CSG. Very nice. Clipping a cube with a sphere works.
Oh boy. Getting that to work fast enough on mobile devices warrants an article of its own.
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The web app works great in Chrome for Android, which is awesome. I downloaded the native Android app, too; it looks like it targets an API less than 23. It's not a huge deal but it'd be cool if that got updated ️
We have wanted to upgrade to 23 ourselves for the new permissions API, but a lot of our users are still on Android 4.*, so we decided to keep compatibility for now. Although it is a pain in the ass if we need a new permission for say a texture feature, since half our user base gets left behind on an old version by not auto-upgrading.
You can target a target a newer API version than your minimum version, and branch your behaviour at runtime.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have wanted to upgrade to 23 ourselves for the new permissions API, but a lot of our users are still on Android 4.*, so we decided to keep compatibility for now. Although it is a pain in the ass if we need a new permission for say a texture feature, since half our user base gets left behind on an old version by not auto-upgrading.
You can target a target a newer API version than your minimum version, and branch your behaviour at runtime.
True.
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#60Love it! Would be nice to get the option to log-in without a facebook account. I don't have facebook, so I used it without logging in. Not sure which features I was missing.