Sure. Last week I was working on the last few touches. While testing the precise alignment of the sun with the photograph of the sun I observed that it was always a few degrees off. I was about to just chalk it up to weirdness and just hard-code an adjusted rotation. Then I discovered that in making the double-sphere figure, i had accidentally started with an EnvSphere that wasn't zeroed in its rotation! Doh!

That means I have to go back and rebuild the double-sphere figure from scratch, which I will do this week. 

I am having some difficulties with the Poser docking window system. I have tried and tried to figure out how to persist the UI panel position in and out of docking position. If I make it a plugin, it seems that Poser will handle it, but I'm (perhaps foolishly) trying to make it work well for Poser 8 which doesn't have that plugin system, just the wx AUI panel manager.

My system for remembering your content folders is working now so when I close Poser and reopen, the components come back in the same state - with the same set of folders and the particular selection of sIBL selected again autmatically. However - there is no way at present to remove previously loaded folders. I could just instruct the user to open and edit the saved state file, but that's probably not nice enough. I don't want to clutter the main UI panel with such things so I'm probably going to have to make a popup that will let you manage the memorized folders.

That is for the case where the current document does not have the sIBL loaded yet. For the case where you have the sIBL loaded and are reopening the UI, it needs to also save its state in the current document. There's a system for doing this in Poser but I don't think it existed in Poser 8, so I may have to come up with some other mechanism that uses dummy nodes in the material room to carry textual information in the labels. I could try to infer which sIBL you have from the fact of which image is in the sphere, and work backward to the sIBL that supplied that image. But - it still needs to be written.

The idea of supporting sIBL or just raw images is working. But when I loaded a bunch of my collected raw images, I began to not know which is which. They mostly have unhelpful names like 3048348343093_8fd.jpg. I'm thinking that I need to make a visual catalog with thumbnails so you can pick the image. I hate to do that since it is redundant with your own folder Explorer (or Finder on the Mac) and mine would not be as good as that.

Last week I also spent some time refining the effects system. The ability to adjust contrast without altering hue works fine. The parts that offered a way to adjust contrast of red, green, or blue independently works but seems less useful, and even counter intuitive. For example, if you ask for more contrast in blue, you actually perceive it as creating more yellow in the image. The reason this is so is that for the areas where it is already blue, it becomes more blue, and for areas that are not so blue, it becomes very much not blue, i.e. yellow. I may just remove that part - no use having a feature that works so strangely that you never use it.

Thanks for the continued interest. I am away from home this week on business, and so I cannot make progress until the end of the week. I am, however, much more dedicated to finishing this than any of my previous projects. I wanted this in beta (users testing it) last week, but that was not to be. I will be back on the project this weekend.

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