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Wizard interferes with MCX main UI

Horst18519

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Hi Arno, not sure if it's a bug or a feature. I usually keep all my MCX windows open, so I sometimes have the ground wizard open while working on models in MCX. Since one of the latest dev releases (I think) the wizard interferes with my opened MDL or x files in MCX. I open the file and the wizard immediately collapses all polys to the ground.
I think I can disable this by unticking that "project flat polygons..." button, but I'd rather if I wouldn't have to worry about what the wizard does when I work in the main UI. It wasn't like that before, was it? :confused:
 
Hi Thorsten,

The simple answer is that it has always been like that, it is by design.

Now the long answer. The main UI and the wizard are not really separate. Both of them work on the same object that is loaded. So the wizard is like a special user interface for the loaded object.

When you select an object in the wizard, the tool is asked to load that file. Once that loading has finished the object appears in the preview and the wizard gets a signal again. At that moment it starts to do its wizard things (project polygons, etc).

When you load an object from the main UI, the wizard gets the same signal when the loading finished. So that's why as long as the wizard is open, it does what it should do.
 
Interesting, didn't realise that before. That means I'll have to keep the wizard shut in his basement while I don't need him. :D
 
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