dballesg
16.April2009, 16:47
Hi,
I must say that if I sound harsh on this post, I couldn't avoid it. After lost more than three days trying to understand what are projects useful for. And trying to use them to generate a terrain for a client's project.
I attached an image of a test I was doing, I need to quite a big terrain, more than 4096 so I thought that creating a 4096, with 4 1024x1024 terrains and moving the layers side to size will do it, and later export each section and scale them up on a paint program.
It is craving on my nerves this facts:
My idea went completely wrong, GeoControl doesn't take in account the seams between layers, if they do not overlap.
Everything is recalculated EVERY single time, every time you click somewhere. Changing from on layer to another, or changing between isolines. On big projects / terrains you lose a precious time waiting to GC2 to react, and that when it doesn't hang up completely. And this is on a QUAD CORE 6600 with 8 Gb RAM, basicall GC2 has 3GB for itself due it is a 32 bit application.
I said it before and hasn't been corrected, isolines change completly and lost their shape if you change from a bigger resolution terrain to a smaller one, and back to a bigger one. Posted on JULY 2008: Almost 10 months ago.
Isolines lost of quality (http://www.cajomi.de/Forum/showthread.php?t=701)
I though I could cope with the fact that GC2 it is relatively cheap and "one man band" program. But not any more. This time I was losing my time and my clients money.
I have several plugins for LightWave that are hundreds of times more complex to programming than GC, and I get updates almost every week, and much earlier if I report a bug. And they are on the same price area of GC2.
The forums are dead, people doesn't post, and I think it is everyone has come to the conclusion that GC2 it is really badly maintained.
I can say as well that there are very good ideas on GC2, like the erosion filters, or the rivers and roads tools. But others are really, really bad implemented.
I do not care really what Johannes it's going to say about this, and I do not accept any apologies again. I am ditching GC2 for this and any future projects.
If Johannes was doing this as an open source project I would reacted on a different way, but as a commercial product really it lacks of the minimum quality I expect for something I paid.
David
I must say that if I sound harsh on this post, I couldn't avoid it. After lost more than three days trying to understand what are projects useful for. And trying to use them to generate a terrain for a client's project.
I attached an image of a test I was doing, I need to quite a big terrain, more than 4096 so I thought that creating a 4096, with 4 1024x1024 terrains and moving the layers side to size will do it, and later export each section and scale them up on a paint program.
It is craving on my nerves this facts:
My idea went completely wrong, GeoControl doesn't take in account the seams between layers, if they do not overlap.
Everything is recalculated EVERY single time, every time you click somewhere. Changing from on layer to another, or changing between isolines. On big projects / terrains you lose a precious time waiting to GC2 to react, and that when it doesn't hang up completely. And this is on a QUAD CORE 6600 with 8 Gb RAM, basicall GC2 has 3GB for itself due it is a 32 bit application.
I said it before and hasn't been corrected, isolines change completly and lost their shape if you change from a bigger resolution terrain to a smaller one, and back to a bigger one. Posted on JULY 2008: Almost 10 months ago.
Isolines lost of quality (http://www.cajomi.de/Forum/showthread.php?t=701)
I though I could cope with the fact that GC2 it is relatively cheap and "one man band" program. But not any more. This time I was losing my time and my clients money.
I have several plugins for LightWave that are hundreds of times more complex to programming than GC, and I get updates almost every week, and much earlier if I report a bug. And they are on the same price area of GC2.
The forums are dead, people doesn't post, and I think it is everyone has come to the conclusion that GC2 it is really badly maintained.
I can say as well that there are very good ideas on GC2, like the erosion filters, or the rivers and roads tools. But others are really, really bad implemented.
I do not care really what Johannes it's going to say about this, and I do not accept any apologies again. I am ditching GC2 for this and any future projects.
If Johannes was doing this as an open source project I would reacted on a different way, but as a commercial product really it lacks of the minimum quality I expect for something I paid.
David