About the Indigo Palette..

[CTZn]

The Indigo Palette is the very MtI interface under all its aspects.

I consider its code being around a version 1.0, meaning that it is functional but still has room for improvement. Because of that functional state though, developements on the Palette are now of a lower priority, and that was about time as far as I'm concerned

We can use that thread to discuss what improvements could happen in the future for the Indigo Palette.


Gzavye made some propositions wich I report hereby:

• - use the right mouse button for the main and settings marking menus instead of the middle mouse button
  
  - Merge 'Renderer' and 'Launch' panels together
  
  - Merge Camera, Tonemapping and Environement panels together, in an attempt to regroup all camera related items.
  
  - Missing threads management, indeed I forgot about that since I do rely on the various exec priorities MtI is offering.

[benn]

Thoughts guys?

[CTZn]

Yeah I must enroll more testers, if not users. Things are coming along nicely though, see:

I've added a caption for bump and displacement mapping, before that the Palette was not involved into their creation.

To do so you can now either:

- drag a texture onto the control
- type the (existing) texture name
- or click the mapping button to create a new texture.

before creation of displacement:



after:




You can disconnect the texture and return to the previous stage by holding the middle mouse button over this bar:




there is a menu beneath (whenever the asterisk is used in a label, it warns about an available marking menu).

The update is coming soon.