05.12.08
A megaprim to call my own
Of course, continuing my theme of fixing things that annoy me: megaprims.
Now, megaprims don’t annoy me. Megaprims are great–they’re incredibly useful for building all manner of things. What annoys me about megaprims is that if I make something with them, I’m not listed as the creator, because megaprims always have to be made by someone else. It’s great that there are lots of collections of freely-available megaprims, but well, they’re just not mine.
To address this problem, I produced the patch that can be found in JIRA issue VWR-7192: Hack to allow creating arbitrarily-sized prims in the viewer.
My patch allows people using the 1.19.1.4 version of the viewer (the latest officially-released version) to create their own prims of arbitrary size. And release candidate users aren’t left out either, thanks to the enthusiastic assistance of Jacek Antonell, who provided a patch for the 1.20 RC5 viewer.
The details and gotchas are in the JIRA issue already, so I won’t rehash them here, but at least there’s one more thing that doesn’t annoy me any more.