Split Screen

Started by Thornbrier

Thornbrier Lv 1

Having had experience in other 3d development tools (AutoCAD, Unity, Maya, SketchUp, blender) one thing struck me as 'missing' in foldit. The ability to create split screens for multiple angle view. Obviously, this would not be something everyone would want to use, but for some people this would be quite helpful. The typical lay-out varies, but the most important aspects are that in at least two of the smaller side screens the object is stationary despite whatever angle you look at it from in the main view. You can usually move those two or three views as well, sometimes you can anchor one of the views to follow a specific feature of the model as it gets moved about.

As a corollary to this; being able to pull a band from a feature in one window to a feature or space in the other window would be quite helpful. I can't tell how many times I've wanted to set one window to a particular side chain, then move the main window to another point to set a band just right.

This would mean additional resources used on the computers for anyone who wishes to use the feature, but I do think it would be considerably helpful for many players.