OCTOPUS

LONG TERM

• Working on the Object Modeling Inspector System (OMIS)
• CHANGE - Further code optimizations

SHORT TERM

1.16:

• NEW - Modifiers Preset added, containing: Edit Poly, Shell, Symmetry, Smooth, TurboSmooth, FFD Box, Normal, Chamfer
• NEW - Both Fade Out and Fade In parameters exposed to settings
• NEW - Now you can define the Right Click Spinner Delay
• NEW - Now you can define a base value for the Spinner Wheel
• NEW - Version display in the Manager
• NEW - Added the option to turn off the Track Line
• NEW - Now Octopus handle screne redraws properly, from Octopus Core
• NEW - Now the middle mouse button can repeat your last Spinner action of your button
• NEW - Now you can change the horizontal (1, 4) and the vertical (3, 6) buttons separatedly
• NEW - Now you have the control to turn on or off the built in screen redraw. If it's off, you can implement your own
• FIXED - Max crashed when tried to overwrite Read Only Octopus preset.
• FIXED - Now Octopus closes, when lost focus. This way even when a window pops up, Octopus will close
• FIXED - Now acitvating Spinner does not clears previous action when start onHolding immediately after left click action
• FIXED - Now the adaptive value is working even when you have no selected object
• CHANGE - Now every button use it's own last used values
• CHANGE - Further code optimizations
• CHANGE - Hover FadeOut-FadeIn animation removed
• CHANGE - Delay and Spinner animations has been changed a bit to have better user experience
• CHANGE - ModelingSpinnerExtended now works with Show End Result turned on
• CHANGE - Create preset has now more features. Now you can set certain parameters using Spinner of your created objects

1.15:

• NEW - Added the option to change the Fade In Length. If you zero it out, it will pop-up instantly
• NEW - Pressing any button (Except F2, F3, F4, Ctrl, Alt, Del), will close Octopus
• NEW - ModelingSpinnerExtended preset
• NEW - Selection preset
• CHANGE - Code optimizations

1.14:

• FIX - Inside Octopus Manager, when clicked on the "Edit Right Click" didn't work
• NEW - Hold and Release behavior added to Octopus. You can find it in Octopus Settings

1.13:

• NEW - Used button indicator
• NEW - RC menu on Octopus buttons
• NEW - New top menu bar
• NEW - Menu Icons
• NEW - Pie Switch around middle button, which activates or deactivates your button
• NEW - Quick hidden menu bar
• FIX - Menu Nesting fixed, now working with Dialogs as well

1.12:

• FIX - Recent templates doesn't loose their layout
• FIX - Licensing method changed
• FIX - Now deleting an Octopus deletes the .MCR as well
• NEW - Swap buttons by drag n drop
• NEW - Axis integrated into Octopus
• NEW - New Axis based variables which you can use inside your spinner code
• NEW - Toggle Action Button
• NEW - Command Editor has a toggle returning script line, which checks the current state of your toggle
• NEW - Holding down shift before start spinning, you can stack spinner actions as well
• NEW - TEMPLATE - Snap Menu added
• NEW - TEMPLATE - Axis based Cloner Template added
• NEW - F2 / F3 / F4 are now working to toggle between shaded and wireframe modes as well as filled polygon mode toggle
• CHANGE - Middle cancel button became an indicator of comitting necessary
• CHANGE - Brand new icons added and many of them changed, also they become 32x32 pixels
• CHANGE - All icons base color become red so the entire UI become unified
• CHANGE - Because shift is used for stacking on single action buttons, I moved the stylus mouse wheel substitution to TAB key, to make it unified to Spinner action stacking

1.11:

• FIX - Separator now working properly on Action Browser Header
• FIX - When escaping Octopus button changes back to text from value
• FIX - Octopus now stays in memory even if garbage collection occurs
• FIX - Menu scrollbar flickering removed when resizing
• NEW - Now button animation occurs when right clicking on a spinner
• NEW - While in spinner mode, all not used buttons go hidden and returns after action occured
• NEW - Mouse Wheel mode can be simualted by holding down the SHIFT key
• NEW - Icons can be added to the list by drag and drop
• NEW - Octopus presets can be added to the list by drag and drop
• NEW - Button to go to Octopus settings folder
• NEW - Button Layout settings added
• NEW - "Create All" button creates all presets with a simple click (RUN before using new version)
• NEW - Icon Only mode
• NEW - Small versions of buttons added
• NEW - Command Editor has new features to modify spinner behaviour on each axis
• NEW - Adaptive Screen/Object size scale ratio based spinner values added (Spinner)
• NEW - Stepping added (Spinner)
• NEW - Sensitivity added (Spinner)
• NEW - New Icons added
• NEW - CREATE Octopus menu added
• CHANGE - Octopus Manager Window now has a simplified layout
• CHANGE - Octopus preset file structure has changed (please REFRESH)
• CHANGE - Licensing has been modified, so now it's not necessary to stay on the same network to use Octopus

1.10:

• NEW - Installer automatically recognizes version
• NEW - SPINNER function added to Octopus functionality
• NEW - CTRL / ALT buttons can lock individual Axis (X and Y), keeping the other intact
• NEW - Holding down both, keeps both intact
• NEW - Octopus Manager now has a Command Editor, where it's possible to change left or right click actions
• CHANGE - you have to re-save your already created Octopus presets, to make it work with the new version
• FIX - .XML reading code has been improved, which made Octopus init much faster

1.05:

• Backward compatibility with 3ds max 2012 and up
• Action List action names fixed

1.04:

• DPI Scaling on all monitors solved

1.03:

• Now Octopus locked to the 3dsmax window
• 4k support on multiple display systems, when using different scale values on each display
• Preview mode is off by default, when creating new octopus
• Added right click cancel
• Added Escape key cancel

1.02:

• Case sensitivity bug removed from the licensing. Now case nonsensitive
• "?" button added to Manager, which leads to the tutorials

1.01:

• Now working with windows 7

1.0:

• Initial Release

AXIS

• Setting up Axis to support modifiers. - PLANNED
  • Edit Poly - PLANNED
  • Edit Mesh - PLANNED
  • Edit Spline - PLANNED
  • UVW Unwrap - PLANNED

WEBSITE

• Some users did not get their license, so I have to change my mail provider to a more reliable one - SOLVED