raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 · 1706 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 22 July 2009 at 12:54 PM
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One question I do have though, is there a way now to multi select (Ctrl + click Select) body parts or in the Material Room material zones to apply surfaces to more than one area at at time??
No there is no multi select.
One of the fundamental requirements with Poser 8 is to maintain backward compatibility with everything that has gone before. In particular, this applies to all Python scripts.
There is a big difference in the data model between having a "current actor" or "current figure" versus having potentially dozens of "current actors", potentially not on the same figure. This would break everything.
It's quite a bit of serious work re-writing the data model to accomodate multi-select.
Related to this is the total absence of a concept of "current material zone". Unless you're in the material room, there is no such thing. Which is why you cannot simply double click a material file and get it to load. There's no notion of where it should go, without more input from the user.
We discussed adding a dialog box for the case of double clicking a material. This dialog would pop up a list of material zones from the current actor and allow you to check off which material zones to load it into. We all agree that's a good idea, but felt that the development and testing of this (and a hundred other "good ideas") would unnecessarily postpone the release.
Many trade-offs (buid this, not that, build now or later) had to be considered. Far more "good ideas" did not make the cut than did make the cut. Nobody on the team wants to do the wrong thing, i.e. leave a good idea on the table, but the realities of running a business drive the decisions. We can arm-chair quarterback these decisions all day, but I can tell you that juggling all these choices is a very difficult job.
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