{"id":843,"date":"2019-12-24T22:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2019-12-24T22:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:38:34","slug":"lte-feature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/lte-feature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE Feature #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third post in a series describing the changes afoot for the Long Term Evolution<\/a> of World Machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi folks! This time around, let’s jump straight to one of the most impactful new features in LTE. From the very beginning of WM, the workflow has always gone something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Create<\/strong>\/connect your devices, set the settings roughly where you want them.<\/li>
  2. Build<\/strong> the world.<\/li>
  3. Adjust<\/strong> the settings.<\/li>
  4. Goto<\/strong> step 2 until satisfied.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Well, this changes in LTE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    For many purposes, step #2 is simply gone. How?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Progressive, asynchronous previews<\/strong>. This is perhaps the longest-awaited feature for me personally. In fact, if you look in the preferences dialog, there’s been a disabled “background previews” checkbox for at least 10 years<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I’ve heard from at least a couple folks concerned that spending time improving the World Machine GUI is a waste. This is a prime example of why I believe the opposite – LTE branch unlocks powerful new workflows that couldn’t be created before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fast, Detailed, and Responsive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    There are two fundamental types of preview actions that now occur in World Machine: Interactive and Refining previews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • The interactive preview<\/strong> is what you get when you are actively<\/em> changing a slider\/control. This provides coarse feedback, but more importantly responds instantly to your changes. It is, however, too too low in resolution to give you a good look at your world.<\/li>
    • The refining previe<\/strong>w goes to work as soon as you release the mouse button for any action. It rapidly builds the current views (and then the world) in the background, progressively. Your view simply gets more refined as you wait, but you can keep working if you’d like with no hiccups, lag, or slowdowns. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      The combination gives you something great: You can instantly see your changes as you manipulate a control (which doesn’t always happen with other applications’ background render schemes), and<\/em> you also get new details rapidly, with no extra clicks or hoops to jump through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A video is worth a thousand words, so…. Watch me create a simple 2K terrain in the LTE branch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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