Dan,
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
How many people send models to someone else in this community? What percentage of the users are you catering to with this attitude? Even 1%? I doubt it. And even if they do send models to someone else, they are expecting to get a whole mess of other things any way as the current functionality exists, so they are prepared for dealing with extraneous materials, lights, objects etc.
And as to opening the model with a different theme, I'll bet you most users don't swap themes either. And even if they do, adjusting the default material in a new theme is an extremely minor price to pay for the ability to be able to change the default material if you need to. Additionally, changing themes currently results in multiple default materials because Wings3D forces default materials on you that are dependent on the themes.
As I already stated above, creating a new material and changing the default material are very different things. Creating a second material does not allow any newly created object in the scene to contain the material that you want. It forces you to have to manually add the second material to every single object you create.
The reason you are getting so many default materials is because Wings3D forces you to have only one default material. So any changes you make to that material are then overwritten every time you close and reopen Wings3D or change themes to a theme that forces a different default material on you. It is that very inflexibility in Wings3D that is being worked on with this patch.
And once again your response seems to indicate that you are under the impression that this patch forces the default material in Wings3D to change. The default behavior of Wings3D is unchanged by this patch. So anyone who feels like you will simply not change the default material!
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
(03-24-2014, 08:10 PM)dgud Wrote: The default color should be the same, when I send the model to someone else,
or when I open the model with a different theme.
How many people send models to someone else in this community? What percentage of the users are you catering to with this attitude? Even 1%? I doubt it. And even if they do send models to someone else, they are expecting to get a whole mess of other things any way as the current functionality exists, so they are prepared for dealing with extraneous materials, lights, objects etc.
And as to opening the model with a different theme, I'll bet you most users don't swap themes either. And even if they do, adjusting the default material in a new theme is an extremely minor price to pay for the ability to be able to change the default material if you need to. Additionally, changing themes currently results in multiple default materials because Wings3D forces default materials on you that are dependent on the themes.
(03-24-2014, 08:10 PM)dgud Wrote: A default material is a default material, it is predefined if you don't like create it another material,
it takes five seconds.
As I already stated above, creating a new material and changing the default material are very different things. Creating a second material does not allow any newly created object in the scene to contain the material that you want. It forces you to have to manually add the second material to every single object you create.
(03-24-2014, 08:10 PM)dgud Wrote: I couldn't figure out why I was getting error messages when I had opened a model after changing theme, and got several default materials.
The reason you are getting so many default materials is because Wings3D forces you to have only one default material. So any changes you make to that material are then overwritten every time you close and reopen Wings3D or change themes to a theme that forces a different default material on you. It is that very inflexibility in Wings3D that is being worked on with this patch.
And once again your response seems to indicate that you are under the impression that this patch forces the default material in Wings3D to change. The default behavior of Wings3D is unchanged by this patch. So anyone who feels like you will simply not change the default material!