Since it's fashionable today, may I ask you to vote for this Quality report too please? It's to add an orthographic projection to FireMonkey's 3D views. Currently they have a perspective projection only (ie where objects get smaller as they are further away). An orthographic projection doesn't shrink with distance, and is used for technical 3D work, everything from engineering diagrams to 3D graphs.
Since it's fashionable today, may I ask you to vote for this Quality report too please? It's to add an orthographic projection to FireMonkey's 3D views. Currently they have a perspective projection only (ie where objects get smaller as they are further away). An orthographic projection doesn't shrink with distance, and is used for technical 3D work, everything from engineering diagrams to 3D graphs.
In a "business" 3D environment, it's a strange omission. Every 3D environment I know of, apart from FMX, has these two always.
It can be achieved in FMX currently via hacks, but they may be fragile as the FMX code changes. Better to have it inbuilt. Even better, I just so happen to know it's not actually that much code to implement, so I'm really hopeful they might be able to add it.
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-9670
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-9670
In a "business" 3D environment, it's a strange omission. Every 3D environment I know of, apart from FMX, has these two always.
It can be achieved in FMX currently via hacks, but they may be fragile as the FMX code changes. Better to have it inbuilt. Even better, I just so happen to know it's not actually that much code to implement, so I'm really hopeful they might be able to add it.
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-9670
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-9670
I have a blog post in progress, my Delphi wishlist. When it's done, I'll post that... Better than a hundred posts here :)
ReplyDeleteStefan Glienke David Millington It would definitively be bad idea that we start posting and asking for votes about every single QC report.
ReplyDeleteBut raising awareness about some reports we find important is another thing. Whether or not some issue affect many people or only some is not relevant. That is why we have voting system. We don't have to vote for issues that we do not find relevant for our work.
Very important. Currently it is needed to use git on the commandline and apply a patch to a copy of the fmx folder before users can compile my 3D project from distributed source.
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