View in 3D gone?

[DESTROYER123]

Why?

 

[PurgeandFire]

GhostWolf went on a rampage and took down all his resources and left the hive.

Just kidding. It should still be there (unless something was changed in the past few weeks). I don't know why it wouldn't be showing up for you. Keep in mind it only shows up in the models section.

 

[Lautanen]

GhostWolf went on a rampage and took down all his resources and left the hive.

Like everyone else? Blame the dark wizard or whoever he was...

 

[Chaosy]

Funny how you blame him and not Ralle.

 

[Lautanen]

'Cause ralle gave him power, just because tdw was his very good friend? Y, isn't that funny...

 

[Chaosy]

Indeed, but tdw is hardly the reason many people left and deleted their stuff. It was Ralle who demoted and banned a lot of members not tdw (or maybe he did ban some of them but the main issue was the demotes.)

I wont talk more about it here, its not the righty place, we can continue with VM's if you want.

 

[LordDz]

3D View

It's still there.

 

[Hawkwing]

View in 3D is still there. Maybe it's an issue with your browser?

Funny how you blame him and not Ralle.

We really don't need to have this conversation.

 

[Lautanen]

I don't remember much about that time...Anyhow this forum is dead silent, I just decide to log in because boredom. Not even bronies hang out here anymore, lolz...

 

[LordDz]

The hell are you talking about? It's alive and plenty of people asking stuff everyday. Go back to the cave you crawled out of.

 

[Lautanen]

Define alive...

 

[DESTROYER123]

Error 404.
Button not found.

 

[GhostWolf]

It's there for me. I didn't touch it in quite a long time.

 

[LordDz]

Define alive...

Alive may refer to life.
Life is something everyone should enjoy. If you wish to read more you can do so here.

It's also a music album by Daft Punk that you can listen to here.

Did you also know that alive is a christian music festival in Ohio? Who could have known? Well now you do!

If you need more information and my own option on life, I will happily reply back again! Enjoy life! Enjoy being alive!

 

[Chaosy]

on topic, the view 3D exists and work fine for me.

 

[muzzel]

Yo Ghostwolf u should add a feature to load two models and attach one to the other using a specified attachment point. Would be nice for viewing attachmentmodels...

 

[GhostWolf]

How would you select the models?

 

[muzzel]

No clue, ur job to find out. But a textfield where you can paste a link to a model (the thread in the models section) would work, something more convenient would be cooler tho.

Thing is- some attachmentmodels look really cool when you view them separately, but when attached to a unit they are way too big or something..

 

[Dr Super Good]

Must be your fire-fail or google chrome plated stuff or animal safari. It works absolutely flawlessly in IE11 (for once, usually it sets the computer on fire).

The button is set to automatically hide under certain conditions. Something with your browser setup might fail those conditions even though it will still work flawlessly. Try a direct link. Remember that some browsers default to having WebGL disabled which is required for it to work (or at least used to in older versions such as those found on lab machines in universities).

 

[Heinvers]

I think that your browser is DEAD)
That 3D view is there.

 

[Ralle]

*Flashbacks, nightmares, nausea...*

It very much depends on the Browser. Which one are you using?

 

[DESTROYER123]

Chrome.
It was always there until it dissapeared a dark night........

 

[GhostWolf]

Does this work for you? http://www.hiveworkshop.com/model_viewer/?mpq=Assets/units/zerg/baneling/baneling.m3

 

[GhostWolf]

Attachments.
Still need to clean the code a little and make it more generic, but yeah, this was quite easy.
What about GUI for it though?

 

[Ralle]

Do you have an API to add multiple models to it now? I can see a very good use of this. *rubbing hands together*

 

[GhostWolf]

Yeah, but it needs cleaning. You could always just make multiple instances of Model (e.g. particle emitters type 1), but I am trying to make it a little easier.
This made me think about creating whole scenes and allowing to link to them (via url variables), but we'll see if I am not too lazy, or if this is even useful for anyone.

I still have no idea what sort of GUI to make for it.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I wonder if we could ever get a view in 3D for the skins section? It could be pretty useful IMO.

 

[GhostWolf]

If you mean a textured plane like in WC3ME, I never quite got the point of it. How is it different than an image? Or perhaps selecting a model and then the custom textures to use?

If the latter, how would you want it to work? Allowing selecting (in the viewer) any arbitrary texture from the MPQs/hive/path and assigning it to some path?
It's really the same issue as with the attachments - can't think of any clean GUI.

 

[PurgeandFire]

If you mean a textured plane like in WC3ME, I never quite got the point of it. How is it different than an image? Or perhaps selecting a model and then the custom textures to use?

If the latter, how would you want it to work? Allowing selecting (in the viewer) any arbitrary texture from the MPQs/hive/path and assigning it to some path?
It's really the same issue as with the attachments - can't think of any clean GUI.

Haha, no I didn't mean the textured plane.

I meant for the skins section to have a preview that will show the texture automatically wrapped onto the model (not the UVW):
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/skins.php

Although, it may be difficult to link up textures because they don't contain the data for the model they correspond to (they can correspond to multiple models). I suppose you could have a dictionary to match textures to the models that use them. It would at least work for (1) models that are in the mpq (2) regular unit models, but you would have some specific issues with doodads, tilesets, and skins for custom models.

For example, this skin:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/skins-552/undead-footman-61652/
Would use the "Path" part (Textures\Footman.blp) to say that it corresponds to the footman model. Then there could be a button (View in 3D) to display the footman using that texture (pretty much identical to the regular model viewer). There may be some issues with skins that don't have those paths specified, but there isn't much we can do about that (unless mods go around updating them). I think it would still be pretty useful. I'm not sure how feasible it is, but at least it wouldn't require UI considerations.

 

[GhostWolf]

When I get less lazy, I will make a generalized way to override texture paths, which will allow you to put whatever textures (custom or not) you want.
The GUI wont be so nice, you'll have to directly put urls/IDs/paths, and this will also apply for attachments, since anything else is completely server-sided, and I want the viewer to be as independent as it can (and as you've stated, even if it were server-sided, it isn't very reliable).

I am thinking of a new fullscreen menu that can be opened via a button/key shortcut, since the tiny row at the bottom is not enough for anything serious.
If you have any thoughts for a new design, do share. I can't design anything decent.

 

[DESTROYER123]

For a strange reason:
Fixed!
+2rep to all of ya!

 

[GhostWolf]

Good to hear.
If you have any further issues / suggestions in the future, please use the new sticky thread.