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Hi,
Below some issues or improvements we thought of:
- Have animation preview of actors in the actors library that plays in the thumbnail when hovering over it also play in the larger preview window. At the moment it's just a static image in the larger preview with the animation only in the thumbnail, which doesn't make much sense. We actually end up finding it easier going on the anima website to quickly check animations than going through the actors list in the program as a result.
- Would be nice to have a search function for the actors library, similar to the shop website where you can search for people using terms such as "man sunbathing" and whatnot. The shop shows that these actors do already have tags assigned to them - so please let us search for them.
- Would also be good to be able to filter actors in the actors library around these tags. Again, the website has this feature - allowing you to filter people by characteristics such as gender, clothing, activity and more.
- You can manually create groups in the actors Library to organise sets of actors for ease of use. It would be useful to be able to manually sort the position of these groups in the list though - at the moment they are just sorted by when they were created and cannot be moved.
- The ability to create sub-groups would also be quite handy, or move groups into other groups (like Layers in other programs)
- The ability to search for actors by clothing colour options would be useful, and also to be able to lock actor material randomisations to specific colours in Areas, Tables and Crowd paths etc. For example, being able to place a diverse group of people, but have them only using their 'black' clothing colour option (provided the actors in question have that). Would be handy, for example, for stadium visualisations where you would have fans wearing primarily one colour (the football strip) in areas.
- The Table tool should really be renamed to Chair. Its purpose is to add groups of chairs and even the icon is that of a chair. I get that it's probably to differentiate the 'group' (Table) from the constituent objects (Chairs) , but in practice the terminology just leads to confusion. Especially as much of the time when you're creating large sets of seated people with this tool, no 'tables' are going to be involved (stadium seating, for example).
- When setting the orientation of the chair object when using the Table tool, dragging the mouse around will provide options to snap the orientation to an axis, but only as long as you keep the mouse held in that direction. It would be useful to be able to 'lock' the orientation using, for example, the Shift key.
- This actually goes for any orientation, not just ones that fall along an axis.
- Table tool: it would be useful to be able to add additional chair objects to an existing Table group after it has been created. At the moment if you say, accidentally missed some chairs, you would either have to start from scratch or deal with having a separate group or objects for these missed chairs. You can add additional points to a Path after it has been created - so an equivalent level of functionality for the Table tool would be very welcome.
Below some issues or improvements we thought of:
- Have animation preview of actors in the actors library that plays in the thumbnail when hovering over it also play in the larger preview window. At the moment it's just a static image in the larger preview with the animation only in the thumbnail, which doesn't make much sense. We actually end up finding it easier going on the anima website to quickly check animations than going through the actors list in the program as a result.
- Would be nice to have a search function for the actors library, similar to the shop website where you can search for people using terms such as "man sunbathing" and whatnot. The shop shows that these actors do already have tags assigned to them - so please let us search for them.
- Would also be good to be able to filter actors in the actors library around these tags. Again, the website has this feature - allowing you to filter people by characteristics such as gender, clothing, activity and more.
- You can manually create groups in the actors Library to organise sets of actors for ease of use. It would be useful to be able to manually sort the position of these groups in the list though - at the moment they are just sorted by when they were created and cannot be moved.
- The ability to create sub-groups would also be quite handy, or move groups into other groups (like Layers in other programs)
- The ability to search for actors by clothing colour options would be useful, and also to be able to lock actor material randomisations to specific colours in Areas, Tables and Crowd paths etc. For example, being able to place a diverse group of people, but have them only using their 'black' clothing colour option (provided the actors in question have that). Would be handy, for example, for stadium visualisations where you would have fans wearing primarily one colour (the football strip) in areas.
- The Table tool should really be renamed to Chair. Its purpose is to add groups of chairs and even the icon is that of a chair. I get that it's probably to differentiate the 'group' (Table) from the constituent objects (Chairs) , but in practice the terminology just leads to confusion. Especially as much of the time when you're creating large sets of seated people with this tool, no 'tables' are going to be involved (stadium seating, for example).
- When setting the orientation of the chair object when using the Table tool, dragging the mouse around will provide options to snap the orientation to an axis, but only as long as you keep the mouse held in that direction. It would be useful to be able to 'lock' the orientation using, for example, the Shift key.
- This actually goes for any orientation, not just ones that fall along an axis.
- Table tool: it would be useful to be able to add additional chair objects to an existing Table group after it has been created. At the moment if you say, accidentally missed some chairs, you would either have to start from scratch or deal with having a separate group or objects for these missed chairs. You can add additional points to a Path after it has been created - so an equivalent level of functionality for the Table tool would be very welcome.
