feature request: transitions & texture switching

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feature request: transitions & texture switching

[potenziani]

Hi @TJRL ,
thanks for your appreciation and feedback.

Concerning your considerations:

1. this is an interesting point, so far we never considered something like this. For sure it is a nice feature, mostly from the "aesthetics" point of view. Nevertheless, it could require a not negligible code changes, and currently more structural features are characterized by a higher priority;
2. actually this features is already in our to-do list. It requires a good developing effort, primarily in re-design the Nexus pre-processing action, and secondly in modifying the rendering/streaming stage... However, since we have a lot of people interested in it, we are hoping to see it integrated into 3DHOP in the not too distant future.

Hope I have fulfilled your requests, thanks again & best

[TJRL]

Hi @potenziani,
thanks for your answer!
Regarding my first point: I studied the API better and figured it's not too hard to animate the transparency value of models in order to create smooth transitions. So that's great!
As for the second, good to hear it's in the pipeline! For now I simply switch between more copies of the same model but with each a different texture.

I really love the versatility of 3DHOP as it already is. Looking forward to further developments!