For context only, I have 25 years of rendering experience across a multitude of rendering and modeling software. The following was created to have a landing pad for suggestions as I run into them. I will cross off items that have been fixed or that someone has educated me as to a better approach or method for use.
- User generated hotkeys
- No hotkeys should be assigned to numbers as it is far too easy to miss the rotation handles and key in a hotkey instead
- Hold shift to bind to 15 degree increments while rotating
- Fix the longstanding bug of not being able to search ones own user library(May have something to do with file locking and cloud based libraries..regardless, parsing a library item name should be simple to implement regardless of file location.)
- Add search tags as an assignable trait to user library items
- Add user configurable Library Item Types for better filtering
- Remove the Translate Tool and rename the Rotate Tool accordingly. I personally see no benefit to the Translate Tool.. Maybe someone else here does?
- Allow Hotkeys for EVERYTHING. Of the many software platforms I currently use, this is the only one that I know of that has a GUI with no configurable hotkey support and doesn't provide hotkeys for known functions that have a GUI button.
- Update folder organization to industry standards...please...outsource this if need be.
- When geometry is selected, simply show the container, don't expand the entire container. This accounts for at least 1 hour of waster time per project to scroll through a container that has 1000 items just to minimize it again.
- Automatically assign unique material names. When applying a saved material from the Library,TM generates unique materials but DOES NOT create unique material names, so that when a project file is updated through the import tab, all materials with the same assigned material name will now have the same material instead of the unique materials originally assigned.
- The stitch line when using bicupic UV mapping needs improvement.
- Do away with the gizmos distance input coordinate legs and instead give us a key modifier to press while click-dragging a symbol for dimensional input
- Add a marquee selection and deselection tool
- In conjunction with User Assigned Types, add a type-based restrictive selection and deselection tool.
- Add a blocking tool, to join items together as a single block or contained selection. Shouldnt need to do this from the browser, much faster to do this on the fly in the viewport
- Let us click on a tag to remove it, instead of needing to target the little x
- Please add a second line with word wrapping to the Library Hierarchy and Library names, instead of truncating with "..."
- Please change the UI to stop truncating the upper Menu Tools. There is absolutely zero functional benefit to truncating these tools.
- Please auto save when a timeout/idle state kicks in
- please add an option to ignore prompts of different types such as deleting library items for the current session
More to come