[QGIS-Developer] QEP for QGIS 3D

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Tim

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
> I think it would be good to include in the QEP a list of things it **doesn’t** do yet to manage expectations. Showing it to other people here are some FAQ things that might be good to answer:
>
> * can it replace the main canvas view when enabled?
> * can it fetch DEM tiles like globe does?
> * can it work with CityGML and similar 3D formats?
> * can you print it in composer?
> * can you put the 3D view into full screen?
> * can we control it like the new multi canvas windows (follow main windows extents etc)?
> * can we animate stuff?
> * can we use custom textures for different faces?
> * can we make triangular / pyramid roofs?
> * can we drive the extrusion parameters from data in the vector attribute table?
> * can we use a library of common symbols (tree, house etc)?
> * will it replace globe?
>
> You have probably been peppered by hundreds of other similar questions by overly enthusiastic 3D groupies so managing expectations that this is a first pass implementation would be good to manage expectations by including these in the changelogs and the docs.

Thanks for the list of questions - I will include them with answers in the QEP.

Cheers
Martin