Suggested improvements to Viewer.exe

[Haluter]

The Viewer is an extremely useful tool, and I think it could be greatly improved with a few tiny changes:

 

a. Add a "Load custom background image" menu option (instead of having to replace Splash.jpg and restarting).

 

b. Add a "Save image" menu option (png, jpg, bmp etc).

 

Thanks! ?

Edited February 25, 2021 by haluter
Obsolete option removed.

[Raptorattacker]

Spot ON!!

[Hanu]

There are several planes that do not have all the parts visible, for example Ju-88, Pe-2, (probably because textures are from separate source) so I see the use case would be somewhat limited. But yes; it would nice, however very easy workaround is to take a screenshot with PrintScreen and paste it to photoeditor. Just like the background; it takes 2 sec's to restart the viewer, so I could easily live without those in the future too. But nice features nevertheless, cannot deny that.

 

More important IMO would be possibility to set the camera from the side/top/from axis without perspective (ie. orthographic). You could create great reference photos with it for website/where ever.

 

But even more important is to get Tanks into viewer also.

[Haluter]

Agreed on the perspective distortion Hanu, I actually removed the same point from my original post because it was pointed out to me that using the "Zoom in/out" toolbar options allows you to somewhat correct for perspective distortion in the Viewer. However, it would be much more convenient if instead of the camera moving closer/further from the plane when using the mouse wheel, the camera instead stayed at a fixed, reasonable distance from the plane so that perspective is perfect, and instead zoom in using the same method as the in-game zoom (telescopic/binocular).

[Jason_Williams]

This is all available in the dev viewer. Sorry guys. I planned a special viewer for the GUI that would replace the current viewer, but delays with other features have also delayed this.

 

Jason

[356thFS_Melonfish]

3 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

This is all available in the dev viewer. Sorry guys. I planned a special viewer for the GUI that would replace the current viewer, but delays with other features have also delayed this.

 

Jason

Now THAT, is a tease post.

 

[Haluter]

2 hours ago, Jason_Williams said:

This is all available in the dev viewer. Sorry guys. I planned a special viewer for the GUI that would replace the current viewer, but delays with other features have also delayed this.

 

Jason

Sounds very promising! Hoping you guys find some spare time to roll it out soon ?

[RaFiGer]

Yes, and please earlier than the Pacific extension

 

No offence meant but that sounds to promising