Forum: Vue


Subject: Vue 4 Mac OS X early adopter

nathany opened this issue on Jan 18, 2002 ยท 17 posts


nathany posted Sat, 19 January 2002 at 1:21 PM

I have been sending email to E-on support, but no reply so far - I expect that won't come until after the weekend. The Mac conventions are not a huge deal, though it shouldn't be too hard to add Preferences to the Application menu in addition or instead of File/Options. So far, I'm finding that running in OpenGL with hardware acceleration and the background drawing thread on is the best way to go. May need to turn down the quality settings, as I sometimes get a wait cursor while the background thread redraws things. However, running without OpenGL gets all messed up and sometimes crashing - I sent screen shots to E-on to show what happens. Running without the background draw thread makes the view go white when you click+drag to make a selection. One definite differences between 4.04 PC/Mac and the 4.03 PC demo is that when you change between these options you actually get a Save prompt before exiting. --- The main issues are with the keyboard controls. While the quick-reference card shows Command-click as an alternative to the right mouse button, the help and the program actually use Ctrl-click. It seems that E-on may have had some trouble using Command/Apple, which never does anything in Vue4. While Ctrl-click is often used on Mac for pop-up menus (in addition to Command-click and click-hold), Command-click is the usual alternative to the RMB. You might think that using a real mouse would fix these problems - but it goes deeper. Since a lot of functions use Ctrl, various things don't work. For example Ctrl+RMB modifies the Camera Focal. On Mac Ctrl+LMB does the same. But RMB itself Rotate's the camera - which should be Command+LMB but is actually Ctrl+LMB. Now we have two functions on one key combo - obviously only one works! In some cases there are work arounds - like Space+LMB rotates the camera as well, and there are the camera controls that can be used with the mouse. Somethings though - like nudge doesn't work at all - I assume they also had trouble trapping those arrow keys on Mac. I'm sure they are aware of these issues - and hope they don't decide that what they came up with in the end is really "good enough" but are instead working on a patch that will make the keys work as they should. I haven't gotten nearly as far into the program as "rx" - nor do I own Poser 4. Hopefully this thread will provide some work arounds for other Mac users until E-on gets us a patch. - n8