to Beta, or not to Beta…
…that is the question.
Seriously. I’m trying to guage how much interest there would be in a ShapeShop 003 beta version. Because there are some caveats. 003 has some near-complete-rewrites of some of the major subsystems. Sketching and modeling should still work the same as before (actually, better). But textures will be more-or-less broken. Meaning they won’t save. At all. But, since you can’t export textures anyway (yet), I kind of suspect that this won’t have a huge impact on anyone.
On the other hand, if I do release a Beta, there will probably be more than one, because I’ll also do bug fixes (if you report them, and I find the time). And new features will be released as they are finished (and/or published). And it will work on AMD machines. And Vista.
So, to make this decision, I need some feedback. In particular, I need to know what parts of ShapeShop you guys are using. Please, be specific. Do you use surfaces of revolution? Do you refine and export meshes? I need to know. I need to know how many people will actually be able to use what is currently working. Either in the comments to this post, or in the forum. So, please, give me the “411″, as the kids say….