Hello
These are all the problems i have found using 3d canvas 6.6.5.8.

1)
With the group selection tool there is an increase of lag every time new object is added to the scene.
If i put a sphere into an empty workspace and set it at 20Lat*20long, the right click is 1/3 second slower then usual.
I'm not doing a selection of the points of the sphere nor i select the objects; i do the right click in the empty space around the sphere.
I choose the sphere because is simple to add more faces and points
With the sphere at 40*40 the right click takes 3 seconds.
With my freight wagon (5300polys)it takes 6 seconds.
With the sphere at 60*60(6960polys) the right clicks takes 7 seconds.
At 100*100 (19600 polys) takes 13 seconds.
With all the other tools, fill, paint, component selection the right click is instantaneous.
As always.. the old 6.5.1.0 with a 100*100 sphere takes only 0,5-1s.

1bis)
After the right click menu shows up, if i click an empty place on the workspace, it takes time to gave me the ability to select another object with the component selection tool.
All the above on my notebook with a turion dual core 1.6ghz and a nvidia 7600go(93.70).
Over the old 2400+@2ghz with an nvidia 4200 ti(78.01), the 6.6.5.8 revision takes half the above times.
With the sphere at 100*100 it takes 8 seconds.

2)
The operation adjust tool has a problem. If i put a texture on a face of a cube and i want to rotate it (for example a texture from vertical to horizontal), the result is a non complete rotation, i can't see the result of the rotation until i have finished the rotation itself and for some unknown reason the texture is applied to the other face during the rotation.

3)
The alpha channel isn't working. If i load a tga file, the texture is ok but under the translucency map there is a copy of the texture and not the alpha channel. This problem isn't present if an object is imported from older version. This bug was reported by SAR too.

3bis)
Tga file are very slow to load. One 1024*1024 tga file with alpha channel takes 8 to 10 seconds. Working with 2 or 3 tga files became a little.. difficult
Can be a side effect of the above problem.

4)
In the orthographic view (the speed of zoom now is very good) it is impossible to rotate an object on the third axis. For example: if i look a cube from the top, i can rotate it on the axis X and Z, but it's impossible on the Y axis. I remember that in 6.5.1.0 was possible, a little tricky but possible.

5)
Extrude tool now work better but there is little problem: zoom in and zoom out have a great speed and this is good but left-right and up-down movement are choppy.

5bis)
This is not a real problem instead is something strange. After loading the extrude tool and before putting a point into it to create a shape, on the old 2ghz single core the tool takes 0% of the cpu; instead on the dual core 1.6ghz it takes constantly 35-45%.

For now is all

Bye Bye
Bremen

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1) Fixed in 6.6.5.9

2) Fixed in 6.6.5.9

3) If I'm understanding you correctly, this is expected. As of 6.6 when you choose a TGA texture the translucency map area is not filled in with the translucency of the TGA texture. Translucency maps are now only used to override the translucency of the main texture. (I'll have a look at how this applies to the MSTS export-there may well be a bug there)

3b) I've made this somewhat faster in 6.6.5.9. There isn't anything more that I can do at this point. My test comparing 6.6.5 with 6.5.1 didn't show them to be dramatically different. I'm not sure why it is on your system.

4) Fixed in 6.6.5.9

5) I couldn't reproduce this. I works smoothly for me.

6.6.5.9 will be released as soon as I fix a few more items.

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Originally posted by Bremen:
3)
The alpha channel isn't working. If i load a tga file, the texture is ok but under the translucency map there is a copy of the texture and not the alpha channel. This problem isn't present if an object is imported from older version. This bug was reported by SAR too.

I noticed this some time ago and discussed about it with Richard.
I think it's better now with 665 :

With 6.5, it was possible to select a bmp texture file after selecting a tga file with transparency and the transparency part of the tga file remains in the transparency map tab. So, with 6.5, when not being careful enough, I sometimes ended up with unwanted transparency with a bmp texture file.

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So, with 6.5, when not being careful enough, I sometimes ended up with unwanted transparency with a bmp texture file.

Ok. Put in this way i agree that is better now.

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3b) I've made this somewhat faster in 6.6.5.9. There isn't anything more that I can do at this point. My test comparing 6.6.5 with 6.5.1 didn't show them to be dramatically different. I'm not sure why it is on your system.

Now to load a tga the 6.6.5.9 takes only 1 second. Now is

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5) I couldn't reproduce this. I works smoothly for me.

I have redone some tests. On the single core there are no problems. Extrude works fluid.
Seems that the problem appears only on a dual core cpu. If i set the affinity to use only 1 core, there is a drop from 35% to 25% of cpu usage under extrude tool.
Could be a glitch of my machine.

Bye bye
Bremen

I didn't see that much improvement in TGA loading. I had guessed it was about 20% or 30% faster loading. I guess it depends on the machine. But, my comparison of 6.5.1.0 to 6.6.5.9 showed them about the same on my computer.