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<\/a>There’s a few things happening above:<\/p>\n
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- The new Output Manager dialog is easy to use and shows every file path that will be exported<\/li>\n
- Filenames can now use template substitutions within Outputs. The filename for each device is being dynamically created from the device name and the world resolution.<\/li>\n
- Any part of the template path that doesn’t exist will be created. In this example, a “<project> Assets” folder is created to place the “<name>.r16” file within.<\/li>\n
- Outputs within Macros work. You can see the “Unity Export” macro contains two outputs that are exposed to the Output Manager.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Viewport Navigation<\/h2>\n
A significant amount of work went into making navigation more consistent and easier in all of the various windows in WM.<\/p>\n
For the most part, you can continue using World Machine views the same way as you have before — the additional navigation methods are supplementary.<\/p>\n
3D View<\/h4>\n
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- Orbit and Free-look modes now work together as you’d expect. Previously you more or less had to use one or the other as they interpreted the camera differently.<\/li>\n
- The Middle Mouse button now tracks (pans) the terrain. When viewing from the side, this allows you to raise or lower the Z value of the orbit point, something that wasn’t possible before and was sorely needed.<\/li>\n
- The Right Mouse button\u00a0 zooms as before. However, if you zoom into the orbit point, it pushes the orbit point forward, allowing you to naturally explore the terrain this way.<\/li>\n
- Ctrl and Shift are now global modifiers that speed up \/ slow down the rate of each action.<\/li>\n
- All of these conventions are basically Maya-style navigation. ALT is not required however \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I think you’ll find its easier than ever to just navigate and not have the camera controls get in the way.<\/p>\n
Layout View<\/h4>\n
Layout View navigation has been changed to make it consistent with the 3D view. There is a long-term plan to merge these two views together and let all layout actions happen in the 3D View, so this is an important first step to make that comfortable.<\/p>\n
In particular:<\/p>\n
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- Left and right click-dragging still pans the terrain.<\/li>\n
- The Middle mouse button now also pans the terrain.<\/li>\n
- ALT + RMB now zooms the same as the 3D View<\/li>\n
- ALT + LMB rotates the view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Device Workview<\/h4>\n
You got it — the Device workview now also follows the same convention as above (except with no rotation possible).<\/p>\n
A few other details were ironed out, including the different roles for CTRL and SHIFT and adding a preference option for preferring to pan or box-select on left-drag — see the changelist for details.<\/p>\n
Slope Selector<\/h2>\n
The Slope Selector has always been a little weird. Many a person has been confused by what exactly the units represent. That’s because, in a decision dating back to the very beginning of World Machine, they were “normalized slope units” — basically a number that represented a slope between 0 and the maximum that could be expressed based on the project settings.<\/p>\n
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