input, graphic editors, and other improvement ideas - input, editeur graphiques et autre idées d'améliorations

[Musclorman]

Original text in French. Translated into English via Google Translate.
Hello.
I've been testing this app for a while and honestly it's complex but quite complete for voxel work.
Despite everything, there are still things that could be even better:

• A version for Android
• The server does not allow using the application via a web browser (other than through the web version of the app on the site). In some cases, being able to use the server without installing the app or needing internet would be an advantage (for Android, for example, or for using in 'multi-screen' mode on multiple devices)
• Keyboard shortcuts are mediocre and not easily editable. For those with an AZERTY keyboard, the game mode is not great since you can't use ZQSD instead of WASD
• In addition to mouse and keyboard, why not offer compatibility with a joystick, a MIDI device, or any other possible input?
• Simple graphic editors for keyboard/mouse shortcuts would also be very useful
• A real game mode that mimics Minecraft with a toolbar at the bottom of the screen, an inventory (which would be the color palette), a flying mode, and mouse capture to play like in the real game would be great.
• The ability to round off cubes or place triangles
• A 'Tileset' mode with the color palette and a 'Tilemap' mode using what you create instead of the palette would allow easy creation of 2D and 3D levels for your games or more advanced animations
• Options for VR and 3D TVs wouldn't be a priority but would still be nice
• A real options window rather than a sub-menu
• Multi-window support and the ability to turn a tab into a real window rather than an internal application window
• A view menu that would allow you to easily show or hide bars, tabs, and views, go full screen, open a view as a new external window, console windows, logs, and other things
• For each button/menu/shortcut, a way to know which Lua code or name and shortcut it corresponds to
• An animated demo file (the ones provided aren't animated, or maybe I just don't know how to run them)
• A theme editor
• Offline documentation, complete and later multilingual (and help available in the menu rather than hidden in "About").
• The application is hard to find on Google and the Git homepage is not indicated in "About." There is a "bug report," but you still need to know it exists.
  If needed, I can clarify the ideas I have in more detail.
  Being more of a Python user than a Lua user, I don’t know to what extent all this might be possible or not.
  Goodbye.

--Original text--
Texte original en francais. Traduit en anglais via google traduction.
Bonjour.
Je teste cette application depuis un moment et franchement elle est complêxe mais plutôt complète pour du voxel.
Malgré tout il y a quand même des choses qui pourraient être encore mieux:

• Une version pour Android
• Le serveur ne permet pas d'utiliser l"application via navigateur web (autrement qu'en passant par la version web de l'application sur le site. Dans certains cas pouvoir utiliser le serveur sans installer l'application ni avoir besion d'internet serait un aventage (pour android par exemple ou pour utiliser en "multi ecran" sur plusieurs appareils)
• Les racourcis claviers sont moyen et pas éditable facilement. Pour ceux qui ont un clavier AZERTY le mode jeu est pas top vu qu'on ne peu pas utiliser ZQSD a la place de WASD
• En plus de la souris et du clavier pourquoi ne pas proposer la compatibilitée avec un joystick, un périphérique MIDI ou tout autre entrée possible?
• Des editeurs graphiques simple pour les racourcis clavier/souris serait d'ailleurs très utiles
• Un vrais mode jeu qui reprendrais Minecraft avec une barre d'outils en bas de l'écran, un inventeire (qui serait la palette de couleurs), un mode vol et la capture de la souris pour faire comme dans le vrais jeu serait top.
• La possibilitée d'arondir les cubes ou de placer des triangles
• Un mode "Tileset" avec la palette de couleurs et un mode "Tilemap" avec ce qu'on crée a la place de la palette permettrait de creer des niveaux 2d et 3d facilement pour ses jeux ou des animations plus poussés
• Des options pour la VR et les télé 3d ne serait pas prioritaire mais pas mal quand même
• Une vrais fenêtre d'options plutôt qu'un sous-menu
• Du multi fenêtres et la possibilitée de transformer un onglet en vrais fenêtre et non en fenêtre interne a l'application
• Un menu vue qui permettrais d'afficher ou masquer facilement les barres, onglets et vues, mêttre en plein ecran, ouvrir une vue en tent que nouvelle fenêtre externe, console windows, logs et d'autre choses
• Sur chaques boutons/menus/racourcis un moyen de savoir a quel code lua ou a quel nom et racourcis ça correspond
• Un fichier de démo animé (ceux fournis ne le sont pas ou alors je ne sais pas comment les lancer)
• Un editeur de theme
• Une documentation hors ligne, complête et plus tard multilangue (et l'aide disponible dans le menu plutôt que caché dans "A propos"
• L'application est dificile a trouver sur google et la page d'aceuil git n'est pas indique dans "A propos". Il y a bien le "bug report" mais faut-il encore le savoir.
  Si besoin je préciserais mieux les idés que j'ai.
  Etant plutôt utilisateur de Python que de Lua je ne sais pas a quel po
  int tout ca peut être possible ou non.
  Au revoir.

[mgerhardy]

Thanks a lot for your feedback - much appreciated

I will make your statements a list and will try to answer them step by step

• Keyboard shortcuts are mediocre and not easily editable. For those with an AZERTY keyboard, the game mode is not great since you can't use ZQSD instead of WASD ff73c4a 9dbd601 changed the keybindings based on the keyboard layout
• In addition to mouse and keyboard, why not offer compatibility with a joystick, a MIDI device, or any other possible input? The simple answer is, that I don't own any of those devices
• The ability to round off cubes or place triangles do you mean marching cubes here?
• Options for VR and 3D TVs wouldn't be a priority but would still be nice Same as input devices - I don't own any of those devices
• Multi-window support and the ability to turn a tab into a real window rather than an internal application window This is already included - see Allow multi monitor in the options
• A view menu that would allow you to easily show or hide bars, tabs, and views, go full screen, open a view as a new external window, console windows, logs, and other things This is the viewmode setting and external windows are supported already
• The application is hard to find on Google and the Git homepage is not indicated in "About." There is a "bug report," but you still need to know it exists. 58a8a06
• For each button/menu/shortcut, a way to know which Lua code or name and shortcut it corresponds to you can find the last executed command in the status bar of the main window - this can get run by lua code, too - but usually the buttons are not directly connected to lua script functions
• A real options window rather than a sub-menu VOXEDIT: option submenu should be a dedicated dialog window #712
• Offline documentation, complete and later multilingual (and help available in the menu rather than hidden in "About"). Feel free to contribute a translation https://vengi-voxel.github.io/vengi/Translation/ and send updates for the existing documentation VOXEDIT: include offline help markdown #713
• Simple graphic editors for keyboard/mouse shortcuts would also be very useful see https://vengi-voxel.github.io/vengi/voxedit/Controls/ and the new feature to open the file in a text editor (9dbd601, 2dcf84d)
• A theme editor
• A version for Android
• The server does not allow using the application via a web browser (other than through the web version of the app on the site). In some cases, being able to use the server without installing the app or needing internet would be an advantage (for Android, for example, or for using in 'multi-screen' mode on multiple devices)
• A real game mode that mimics Minecraft with a toolbar at the bottom of the screen, an inventory (which would be the color palette), a flying mode, and mouse capture to play like in the real game would be great.
• A 'Tileset' mode with the color palette and a 'Tilemap' mode using what you create instead of the palette would allow easy creation of 2D and 3D levels for your games or more advanced animations
• An animated demo file (the ones provided aren't animated, or maybe I just don't know how to run them)

[mgerhardy]

Can you maybe please explain the Tileset mode a little bit more.