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Hi there. Great app. I have some feedback and suggestions.

1# When trying to open a json file to load a map made in MFCG it doesn't show any json files, you have to change the file type within open file window from custom to All. I suggest by default it will have all or json so we dont have to do that. Also a new user might not think to choose ALL.

2# When switching from map mode to ground mode, it would be great if the center of the screen is where the ground mode will start. So if you are zoomed all the way in and switch to ground mode it will start where you are on the map more or less. Making it easier to find a place you want to explore from in map mode first.

3# When in map mode, zoomed out would be handy if you could double lmb somewhere on the map and the screen will center the map there, which would work in tandem with suggestion #2

4# On the rmb menu, would be nice to have preset dawn, morning, afternoon, night to change to. I know there is hotkeys to randomly change lighting. But being able to use presets would be useful too.

5# In map mode it would be nice if we could export as PNG (perhaps this will appear where export as .obj was when in map mode) this way we could gen a city within the app and export it without having to use MFCG)

> Question: Why is it when you press 5 and press it again and again the roof tops change size etc. I notice it is changing colors of some roofs to light or darker shade, but also sometimes lowering the size of the roof or raising it. Unless it is the trick of the eye?

Pressing 6 causes the lighting to change but all the gables or roofs disappear entirely. Keep pressing 6 and its just lighting changes, but the trees can shrink or get bigger. Roofs do not reappear.

This all might be intended. 

  1. For me it works normally. It may depend on the browser, which one are you using?
  2. This makes sense, I'll try to implement it.
  3. I would rather expect the map to zoom in when double-clicked (as in Google Maps), but I'll think about it.
  4. Adding presets to the context menu seems excessive to me. You can use the Style dialog or shortcuts (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) for choosing one of them.
  5. The whole point of replacing Toy Town with City Viewer was to decouple generation from visualizing, so no, City Viewer won't be able to generate cities. Besides, City Viewer is used not only to display cities, but also villages and neighbourhoods.
Why is it when you press 5... roof tops change size etc...?

Exported cities contain only some of the information required to build a 3d model of it (e.g. building ground plans). Other information is generated in City Viewer itself: individual roof pitches, walls colour variations etc. When you switch a preset by pressing 5 (or 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) all this information is generated anew resulting in slightly different values.

Pressing 6 causes the lighting to change but all the gables or roofs disappear entirely...

Lack of gable roofs is a part of Desert preset. Choose any other preset to get gable roofs back or enter a non-zero value for Roof pitch in the Style dialog to keep the colours and lighting and get non-flat roofs.