11-29-2012, 03:07 AM
Mary,
Welcome to Wings3D and the new forum.
You could start an introduce yourself thread in the Off Topic section of the forum. Who knows... maybe others will tell a bit more about themselves...
Ask as many questions as you like. It is good to try to figure the simple stuff out yourself. Your questions may help us to know what sort of things need to go in the new Wiki optigon got started for us.
I used Sketchup after I had used Wings3D for a while. Sketchup is fun and great for architectural stuff. I have exported stuff as .obj from Sketchup and used it in Wings3D in the past.
Wings3D has its own method for moving around the scene, which I prefer. But if you are hooked on Sketchup camera mode then you can set that in your preferences... Edit > Preferences > Camera Tab > Camera Mode.
Installing plug-ins is so easy I don't know if optigon will want to add a sticky on the subject or not. Just go File > Install plug-in > Select the file.
If a special location is required the creator of the plug-in will usually say so. My YafaRay plug-in is in a zip file that you will have to extract first. After that, just select the yafaray.beam file and it will be installed into the plug-ins folder automatically.
I have never tried putting a plug-in in a .tar or .tgz or .gz file. I will need to see how that works. Sorry for getting off topic...
Look in the "Interface and Usage" or the "Documentation Project" section of this forum for help. Also the old forum has lots more stuff in it. There is a link to that forum in the upper far right of this forum. If you want additional information about something posted in the old forum it would be good to ask here and post a link to the thread in the old forum.
oort
Welcome to Wings3D and the new forum.
You could start an introduce yourself thread in the Off Topic section of the forum. Who knows... maybe others will tell a bit more about themselves...
Ask as many questions as you like. It is good to try to figure the simple stuff out yourself. Your questions may help us to know what sort of things need to go in the new Wiki optigon got started for us.
I used Sketchup after I had used Wings3D for a while. Sketchup is fun and great for architectural stuff. I have exported stuff as .obj from Sketchup and used it in Wings3D in the past.
Wings3D has its own method for moving around the scene, which I prefer. But if you are hooked on Sketchup camera mode then you can set that in your preferences... Edit > Preferences > Camera Tab > Camera Mode.
Installing plug-ins is so easy I don't know if optigon will want to add a sticky on the subject or not. Just go File > Install plug-in > Select the file.
If a special location is required the creator of the plug-in will usually say so. My YafaRay plug-in is in a zip file that you will have to extract first. After that, just select the yafaray.beam file and it will be installed into the plug-ins folder automatically.
I have never tried putting a plug-in in a .tar or .tgz or .gz file. I will need to see how that works. Sorry for getting off topic...
Look in the "Interface and Usage" or the "Documentation Project" section of this forum for help. Also the old forum has lots more stuff in it. There is a link to that forum in the upper far right of this forum. If you want additional information about something posted in the old forum it would be good to ask here and post a link to the thread in the old forum.
oort