[roel_v]

Oof I'm back already, this is quite rough.

No editor included I see, that tripped me up for a second but it's IMO better than wasting your time on including one, once I got that it was fine.

I tried to enter the smallest program I could think of:

    cube(x=10, y=10, z=10);

but I couldn't get that to show anything. I can't resize the console it seems? So I'm not sure if there's an error on there. Either way, I'm not sure how I would go about finding out why I'm not seeing anything.

3d navigation seems wonky but maybe that's because there is no object yet? Sketchup has the same, it's no big deal, but I won't know until I can get something to render.

Some quick wins:

- draw axes in different colors and put a label on them - show scale markers on axes - add a minimal sample program, or some way to select a 'template' when doing 'new' that will provide a few samples - one minimal sample with a cube and a cylinder, one slightly more developed like the table in your screenshot, one that shows off each keyword/object. Maybe split across one for 2d, one for 3d. Or more as the library of functionality grows.

More work:

- Add a 3d navigation marker/tool like Blender has, that'll show where I'm looking at, and has 'zoom to all' function

All of these would have helped in terms of 'getting started'.

Apart from that - I'd first need to be able to at least render something to be able to say something useful :)

[virtualritz]

> No editor included I see, that tripped me up for a second but it's IMO better than wasting your time on including one [...]

It's using egui for the UI so adding an editor (w. syntax highlighting for the custom language) should be very easy[1].

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui/blob/530e9f667c0969b09edb68f77...

[dschroer]

Interesting. I just tried your example and it worked on my end.

Have you tried rendering any of the examples in the repo? I know its not ideal but just to see what is going on. Please add an issue on the repo so I can try to fix the issue you are experiencing.

[roel_v]

I just tried a few, but no difference. One problem is that I can't see how far I'm zoomed in or out, and opening another file doesn't seem to reset the camera. So maybe there is something outside of the view that I can't seem, although zooming in and out doesn't seem to help.

I can open an issue but there isn't anything more than 'doesn't work' I can add. If you can describe some way for me to get information that's useful to debug, I can write that up.

[dschroer]

Having renders "auto focus" has been on my mind. Probably will be coming soon. I was focused on getting the language and runtime in better shape first.

[wlesieutre]

3D software commonly calls this "zoom extents" to automatically pan/zoom so that the model fills a useful portion of the screen.

In AutoCAD and Fusion 360 it's bound to double-click middle mouse because of how often it's used, though between users of 10 different 3D software packages you'll find 10 different but strongly held opinions on how the viewport navigation should work.