Hello All,
A new version of Iris has been released. Along with this release, documentation has been updated, including the API documentation, Tutorials (need to complete some on the page), and a Changelog. If you have any requests for tutorials, please let me know. Use this thread to comment on any issues with this latest release.
The most important change in this update is the Shadow behavior. Now it is as follows:
If no light(s) in Rhino model, model is lit by ambient lighting and no shadows are cast.
If there are lights in the Rhino model, check each lightâs âShadow Intensityâ setting to determine whether it will cast a shadow or not. If a light has a âShadow Intensityâ of more than 0, a shadow is cast.
Hello @wim. Iâm trying with several kinds of files and am not coming up with anything specific that would point to not being able to save. A few questions:
Did you create the folder C:\Temp? Is your user on the machine the owner of the directory, or have the appropriate permissions to save there (I guess so since it worked in Rhino 5)?
There are some changes in the latest WIP that prevented me from processing the lights in the Rhino model in the same manner as in Rhino 5. I updated the code there to make it work, but I wonder if there are other object types that might be seeing some changes in the WIP that are preventing them from working? What kinds of objects are you trying to export? A file is always helpful.
I first tried saving in one of my regular directories but then tried the temp directory for the sake of the screen shot.
Iâm only trying with a simple box so far - then again, thereâs more to a file than just the objects so hereâs a file: Test-Box.3dm (96.2 KB)
Something else: when Saving As (instead of exporting selected objects) from my default template, I get a lot (an awful lot) of hits saying that hatches, details, and clipping planes are not supported. Could these just be mentioned once instead of for each and every instance in the file?
Something else: when Saving As (instead of exporting selected objects)
from my default template, I get a lot (an awful lot) of hits saying that
hatches, details, and clipping planes are not supported. Could these
just be mentioned once instead of for each and every instance in the
file?
With regards to the file, things export fine over here. Are we on the same version of Rhino WIP? Hereâs mine: Work In Progress (6.0.16292.17231, 10/18/2016)
Does it make any difference if Iris is in this directory: C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\Plug-ins ?
I can imagine you just placed the plugin in the most convinient location for you (which should be just fine) but Iâm trying to see if it has to do with where the plugin is in relation to where it wants to save to.
Something changed in the recent WIP that is affecting saving, but I canât seem to get more specific than that unfortunately.
Moved the Iris plugin - SystemInfo below.
I have tried with a few models but all of them are showing the same behavior.
I suppose you could post a file here that I could try just to make sure.
w
I think the strangest thing is that popup⌠That should not be there. This info should just come on the command line. This tells me that it is not any of the errors Iâm trying to catch in Iris, and is an error on the level of the plugins classâŚ
I am in Perspective, Shaded mode when I use the export option (also tried Save As) and in both cases the resulting file is a Rendered view. I realize that is probably what most people prefer but it would be nice to have the option to export in simple shaded mode which for me is sufficient.
It would be great to be able to add the popup notes via a browser interface. Sort of like the way you can add comments to a PDF document. Not sure if that is a realistic expectation.
At the moment, there are no alternative shading modes in the iris web app. Iâd love to add some in the future.
As for the notes, you should think of Rhino as the editor for the web scene, so we should conceive of a way to add this data in Rhino so that it gets exported. I think dots could be a way to add these notes to the model, but there could be other waysâŚ