Storyboard

Submitted by mark on Tue, 2006-10-03 15:52.

A typical screenshot of Storyboard

Overview

Storyboard is a very simple 3D editor where you can create points and connect them with triangles.

Implemented features:

Create and move points in the 2d views.
Create triangles in the 2d views.
Delete and set color in the 3d view.
Rotate and travel inside the 3d view with the cursor keys.
Working Volume
Zoom in and out (via right mouse click in 2dview)

Features missing in this release and may be implemented in a few
years unless someone volunteers to do it. (The most important items
are at the top of the list below.):

Mouse wheel to move into abd outside the screen.
Undo/Redo
Grouping of triangle sets into fixed objects and along with this: Scale, Rotate, Cut, Copy, Paste such groups.
Reset 3d view and more parameters to ease navigation, ie. fog, wireframe, ...
Help lines, constraints and (flat) polygons.
Curves and/or edit surface normals.
Transparency for everything outside the Working Volume
Povray output
Multiple views.
...

Installation

You'll need the TOAD C++ GUI Library and
OpenGL to compile and run Storyboard.
Download and unpack
storyboard-0.5.tar.bz2 [gpg sig].
When TOAD is correctly installed on your system just type:
```
cd storyboard-0.5
make
cp storyboard /usr/local/bin
```
Start storyboard.

(When you want to use anti-aliased fonts, start the program
with the command line option "--font-engine freetype".)
There's an example file named house.sbf along with
the sources.

Usage

Icon	Description
	Use the point tool to create new points.
	Use the triangle tool to connect three points with a triangle.
	Use the move tool to modify the position of a point.
	Move the corners of the Working Volume. This area is represented via the green wireframe in all views. The triangle and move tool will only work on points within the Working Volume. With this it is easier to edit pictures with a large number of points.
color box	Click into the color box to select a new color which will be used for new rectangles. When selected under 3d-View\|Set Triangle Color, this color will also be used when setting the color of existing triangles.

The cursor keys can be used to change the position within the 3d view.

In travel mode, the page up and down keys can also be used to move the
head up and down. (There's still room for improvement here.)

Legal Stuff...

Storyboard - A Simple 3D Editor

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.