Well, personally, I think it is a good news. I am looking forward for this new feature.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Melinda Green <[email protected]>wrote: > Stickman wrote: > >> Proper polygon mesh primitives are definitely coming so it may be best >>> to wait for that if you can. >>> >>> >> >> I haven't heard ANYTHING about this, and I am very interested in it. >> The few Jiras I've seen on the issue were so woefully lacking on >> information that I feared to vote for them because there's no telling >> what could get put in. I've been looking for time to build up a more >> complete Jira on the issue of mesh primitives -- and riggable meshes. >> >> May I ask where you got this information, and if it's a source I can >> peruse? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Stickman >> >> > > I know this because I was Coco Linden until recently, and the subject came > up often in our discussions. Mesh support is certainly a very highly > requested feature and I know that many Lindens want it as much as you do. > I've done a fair bit of computational geometry and data visualization work > in the past so I know exactly how you feel. Nobody that I know of is against > the idea and as you can imagine, there has been some very early design and > prototyping work done. I won't give names or details because I don't want to > burden anyone in the lab, all of whom are working far too hard as it is. > Just feel assured that this sort of thing is very important, and your > requests and suggestions are definitely not being ignored. I don't know of > any fundamental roadblocks. It just requires some due diligence and a > Linden's concerted effort. There are simply only so many developers, > designers, QA, etc. and issues of stability and usability must always take > precedence over new features. I don't want to get anyone's hopes up but I do > want you to take heart and to not try to torture the poor sculpties too far > beyond their original intent. > > -Melinda > -- Department of Spatial Information Science&Technology, School of Earth&Space Science, Peking University ADD: Room 3028, Building 46, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China Zip Code: 100871
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