Shape Extruder?

[ggaliens]

OK. Shape Extruder basic now has preview dialog and is RELEASED in recent distro.

[puzzledpaul]

In the absence of tuts wouldn't it be useful to tell prospective (especially new) users where to find this feature?

Looks like 'cube' has been overwritten, btw ...

pp

[oort]

ggaliens,
I installed your build last night. I noticed during installation there was a dialog that said my Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 X86 was not up to date. Shouldn't you be using 2010 instead? At least I think that is what is used in the official release. I aborted updating that when it told me that I first needed to close Outlook.

It is nice to see previews of the models before saying ok. I had to use Manual mode because my computer is old (Pentium 4 2.4GHz). I still think it would be better if it were possible to have simple dialogs i.e. Height: 2, Diameter: 4, Length: 8. As it is, I blindly change numbers in the formulas to see what happens...

oort

[ggaliens]

You create the shape specs with the "NAMES" you want. If they look awesome ... they can become part of shape extruder for all times.


I came close to using Manual mode. There are a few optimizations I can make to have it go much faster.

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With some regret ... I did bump the cube by-hand so that I could get back pole-position for "Lots more" on that menu. "Cube" went from being implemented by core wings3d to being implemented by n-cube plugin. This was a problem for me.

What I probably should to is call my plugins "xtras" in the directory structure. This would allow me to be last man in which affords me some choices. Maybe Optigon would have a better idea of how I can get on top of each menu. Currently ... under the covers ... it is like all out battle for menu position.

I can make changes for next release to try and get cube back where it was.

I am hoping to not distribute as "Snapshot" once 1.5.x goes to from Snapshot to Dev release. I will go back to TARBALL release. Meaning I'll be less likely to "muck around".

I didn't want "Lot's more to be in middle of that menu". But if that is preferred ... I'll go with that.

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I could not find this one to download form Microsoft.

WINGS_VCREDIST_VERSION=10.00.40219.1

And when I did download 2010 a long time ago ... I think I had a few problem with it.

[micheus]

ggaliens, did you try to install the Erlang OTP with the option Microsoft DLL's checked (even if it is already present)?
If you have a version greater than this one the install will fail, but you will get the vcredist installer added to your Erlang install dir (i.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\erl5.9.3.1\vcredist_x86.exe) - (version 10.0.30319.01 - it's the minimal requirement, I think)

I believe this should be the one you have to make available to NSIS when building the installer.

[ggaliens]

Thank Micheus.

I'll try to get this straightened out. It has been very annoying to me at times ... so probably more so for folks such as oort.

[ggaliens]

PP ... I did fix the Cube menu item problem with latest release.

Just FYI.