A paste in place function would be really handy in MMF, so if you have 5 objects and the top left one is at 234, 29 and you need them to be at the same place in every frame then you have to paste them and move them manually right now. This is alright for one object but with 5 it's very annoying.
I suggest a paste and also a paste in place function maintaining an object / a set of objects positions.
Can't this be done extremely easily with add to backdrop? Or simply have multiple instances of the object?
Yup if I understand this right, add backdrop leaves the image in place even after scrolling away from the visible screen area.
This is for edit-time rather than run-time. Pasting at the same as the origin X and Y co-ordinates would be very handy.
Yep I should have explained that, David was right it's for edit-time.
Seems like a good idea, but I disagree with the MMF3 thing. MMF2 is still a fresh piece of software and I highly disagree with creating a new one. They need to keep updating MMF2, it's still got so much more life in it.
Yeah I agree, I've just been told before that it's going to have to be for MMF3 :P.
As far as I remember we didn't tell anywhere that this option was for MMF3 only?
Anyway, I'm sorry Brandon we cannot add everything to MMF2. Some options can be added to MMF2, other can't because we must do important internal changes to do them and we cannot do that in a simple patch, or just because at some point we'll have to start developping MMF3 so that MMF can evolve and get major new features we can't add in a patch.
And we have already added tons of new options in MMF2 for 1 year and we are going to add others in the next few months, including major ones (HWA, Java). At the end you will have had 2 years or free new features including major ones, I wonder if you know lots of companies who do that.
A CAD program we use includes 12 months of support and updates in the purchase price. If you want patches or support after that, you have to pay 20% of the purchase price to get another 12 months. And if you forget to renew your support within the original 12 months, that amount increases to 40% of purchase price.
Ouch.
If you think that's bad, you should see the price of games console development kits.
And you rent them, not buy them, and need one for every programmer on the team (and a test kit for everyone else).
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