Re: Next Autocubic Project: first release...

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> http://pipmak.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Library_autocubic.lua

Very cool! You continue to amaze me with what you manage to get out of 
Pipmak... (I do wonder, however, if you've already crossed the point 
beyond which it would have been less work to do this in a real 3D engine.)

Random observations:

- The "transparent walls" button causes a crash, this is fixed in r205. 
To make it work, I had to make these two additional changes:

diff -ur ac20demo-original.pipmak/1/node.lua ac20demo.pipmak/1/node.lua
--- ac20demo-original.pipmak/1/node.lua	2008-10-07 17:33:16 +0200
+++ ac20demo.pipmak/1/node.lua	2008-10-12 10:39:22 +0200
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  mapy=11
  max_alpha=0.5

-wall_trasparent=false
+--wall_trasparent=false
  --wall_trasparent=true

  show_grid=true
diff -ur ac20demo-original.pipmak/2/node.lua ac20demo.pipmak/2/node.lua
--- ac20demo-original.pipmak/2/node.lua	2008-09-30 12:11:12 +0200
+++ ac20demo.pipmak/2/node.lua	2008-10-12 10:04:21 +0200
@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@
         over_handle:closeoverlay()
         pipmak.overlaynode(over_node)
         pipmak.dissolve(1,0)
-       pipmak.gotonode(autocubic.pano_node)
+       pipmak.gotonode(autocubic.pano_node, true)
       end
  }

- The buttons panel does not stick to the top right corner when the 
window is resized, but stays at a fixed distance from the top left. Is 
this by design? If not, you can change it by replacing "absx = 0, absy = 
0" by "relx = 1, rely = 0". Is there a reason why you're making that 
panel fill the whole (initial) window instead of just the size it needs?

- The fog seems very strong. Would reducing that have any undesirable 
effects?

- Some walls of the big double-H-shaped tower are invisible from within. 
Is that a bug in the code or just an omission in the model (does the 
inside and outside of every wall need to be specified separately)?

- Along the southern border of the road area, a sidewalk edge is missing 
between road and grass (road and grass are at different heights, but 
without a step in between).


While I'm at it, some comments about your Random Forest Generator, which 
is quite impressive as well (you didn't ask for criticism there, but 
you'll get it anyway):

- Sometimes you have several trees at the same point, and because the 
depth sort isn't stable, changing the sun angle or fog level will bring 
one or the other to the foreground.

- You can see the ceiling of the sky box because the top pixel row of 
each of the side images is slightly brightened (this is in autocubic too).

Does your request to have it on the showcase page still stand?


  -Christian