CC3+: Not a bug but a suggestion
Vintyri
Newcomer
In using the new CC3+ Manual PDF and doing the exercises, one has to open quite a number of example files. Unfortunately, CC3+ opens all of these files with effects activated. If one forgets to deactivate them immediately after opening the map, things run more slowly than molasses in the Arctic. The manual also warns one that this will happen, so we aren't talking about a bug. The bug is, that I regularly forget to deactivate effects after opening the maps.
These example exercises not only would be more enjoyable to do, but CC3+ would be a considerably friendlier program to use if:
-- One could decide this setting and memorize it with the map,
OR, perhaps even better
-- If effects deactivated were the default setting.
I certainly would cuss a lot less than I have been if one of these options were implemented.
These example exercises not only would be more enjoyable to do, but CC3+ would be a considerably friendlier program to use if:
-- One could decide this setting and memorize it with the map,
OR, perhaps even better
-- If effects deactivated were the default setting.
I certainly would cuss a lot less than I have been if one of these options were implemented.
Comments
To set the effects status for the current drawing on open do View >> Display Speed Settings >> Effects Are On When Loading
To override this do Tools >> Options >> Effects on Load, Always On, Always Off, As Drawing
CC3+ is from two to four or more times as fast as CC3, and is designed to be used with effects on on a modern system.
That notwithstanding, redraws of some of the (rather simple) example files are quick as lightning with effects off and as slow as flowing molasses in the Arctic with effects on. I have numerous programs that work with various kinds of graphics, some of them 64-bit and some of them 32-bit programs, but none of them even 5% as slow on screen rebuilds as CC3+ when working with maps with effects on. If you want a CC version that's fast enough for comfortable working with effects on, it has to be a lot faster than what I see here.
Don't take this as a complaint. If the solution mentioned above works, I'm quite content with the status of things. The work I do with CC3/CC3+ does not give me any need to work with effects on.
Also, please open Examples/Maps/CC3 13th Age.fcw. Is that slow?
Another suggestion: It would be a good thing if you folks would establish a point where things could be sent in that deal with points where we think that things are not bugs but are not working very well or are could be improved.
I'm working through the manual just to get a good picture of CC3+, and I am finding things here and there, but I'm quite reluctant to muck up the forums with these things.
Sorry I edited this in: "Also, please open Examples/Maps/CC3 13th Age.fcw. Is that slow? "
It's fine to start a CC3+ feature suggestion thread under Community Support.
It might even be interesting to add that it loads - with effects on - faster than CC3 Sample 01.fcw with effects off. I suppose, but it would be even nicer to be able to just send messages rather than starting threads about small but perhaps worthwhile issues.
We've not been good to Remy in terms of helping documentation, so it's down to us that this issue is present.
In short, if you create a map with CC3+, it will be fast enough to use with effects on, and you've found what is in effect a bug.
Remy has done an outstanding job with the manual. It's excellent. Only a churl would suggest otherwise. The point never was to complain about it but rather to bring things up that will make it even better.