Note: when using the website, you can find the values of the slider in the URL, so that if you copy paste the URL you get to keep all parameters. Unfortunately this feature has not yet been ported on the Desktop app.
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I need those options; otherwise, the 500+ images I created with your program won't match up anymore, which will ruin my work as I continue along. It would be more work to go back and forth to the website and the program. It would not make sense to me, if the website were to be offline some day. Only more confusion and more work, and why would I buy the program when everything that I needed was there for free? Now I have to buy what I did. No problem, but I would expect the same options as the website, as it already has to begin with what i really loved about it, and improvements or adding features are no problem. Keeping the UI clean... I mean, at the end you save the image, not the UI text ect, but now you removed stuff for money.. While it was free? A bit weird and not fair to compare what I had for free use in the first place, what I was looking for and was happy with.
The original app was created to be a viewer, as a prototype demo for online services we do provide (Embedded viewers).
It's only when releasing this new version that we realized the use was mostly to generate and save renders, and also that it was used for professional purposes...
Many features are missing in this respect, for example the ability to save all parameters including point of view so that you could re-render all your 500 shots in one go.
Adding it will probably not help your case, but is important to not repeat the mistake for new users.
Concerning the free prototype, unfortunately it depends on on external infrastructure which is costly to maintain, and the current offer is not sustainable for us.
Your point makes sense however, and we had a couple of other requests for legacy support. The Free STL Viewer will not be shut down until we have a downloadable desktop version of it, which will be accessible for all people who bought a Pretty licence on itch.
Concerning the options you are missing, my question was oriented toward the Raytracer load and resolution. This option was here to adapt to device capabilities, the higher those numbers are, the higher is the quality of the final image. The new version is supposed to adapt to your device automatically and pick the highest possible value. Do you notice issues? Is there a reason why you would want to lower the quality?
I notice the quality is less for some reason. (would love to have those options back as it was) I'm not looking to re-render all my 500 shots in one go. I just want to continue with the tools I have given, that's for me yours. Furthermore, I'm just happy what it can do, anything new added is always a nice thing but only if it won't change the original use of it.