Request: "Fill With Probes"
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Journey Bunny
Reflection probes are lovely and nice when set up with tremendous precision, but getting them to work inside any building more interesting than a rectangular prism is a difficult usability problem. To see the effect the probes are having, we need them invisible, and of course it's very hard to precisely adjust the edges of invisible things. But when we turn on probe highlighting, the whole interior of buildings goes overlapping shades of yellow, making it imposible to see how the probes are affecting the lighting.
Or, basically: Setting probes up is insanely finicky, and just not a good user experience.
Suggested solution: "Fill with Probes." Some kind of Build Menu tool that very simply tries a one-time task of using one or more box-shapes, scaled and rotated, opverlapping, to fill in the area inside the selected object. This combination shape is then set as probes.
Basically, instead of the builder trying to manually rotate and stretch edges of probes onto mesh in an editing environment that has no mesh snapping, a viewer-based took that knows where the nearest edges of the mesh are located can do it for us.
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Scylla Rhiadra
This would be great, and, yes, setting up probes manually, especially in oddly shaped spaces, is a major pain -- but I can't imagine how this request could be managed. The only possible solution I see is AI, which is problematic in other ways, and which would still struggle to do this properly, because there is no way to predetermined what constitutes "interior space," or define the area you want covered with a means that is easier than actually setting up the probe itself.
It also doesn't address the key problem, which is actually that probes come in only two shapes.
I'm upvoting because, yes, sure, this would be great -- but I just can't see it happening.
Tetsuryu Vlodovic
Scylla Rhiadra I find that lack of flexibility to be a huge pain since I have so many oddly shaped rooms with little alcoves and at least one room shaped like a hexagon, and considering I tried having three overlapping probes but I just ended up having three overlapping reflections, this feature sounds like it'd just be more trouble than it's worth.
Just enable highlight transparencies, that'll at least make the probes much easier to see.