On Sunday 15 August 2004 12:56 am, you wrote: > This was an interesting plug-in, the latest one "more interesting" than the first. Thank you, the current version produces even "better" results (all sides are now drawn in correct order). > Do you intend to have a user Dialogue interface for the plug-in? Yes, now that I have got the basics somewhat right, the following parameters could be set/changed in a dialog: *) height of pyramids / random height? (boolean toggle) *) size of pyramids *) viewing distance *) direction of light vector (later: pyramids/blocks; don't hide partially visible objects) I still need to figure out useful default values for the settings (currently height = 80, size = 50, distance = 250, light vector = constantly changing to test the shading code, in the .c-file on the web it is (1,0,0), but need not be normalized). If you are interested in coding up (parts of) the dialog, just fetch the .c-file from the web and insert the code wherever you see fit, I can merge your changes later with my own latest version. The most appealing part of this task is probably the representation of the light vector - of course, 3 text-boxes each holding an integer would "suffice" (certainly for the initial version of the plug-in), but you may find an easy way to actually show and let users interactively edit the vector in pseudo-3D. Best regards, Markus.
