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Patricia Anaka

• September 25, 2022 05:11

I'm trying to use this app on Quest 2 and having a lot of trouble.  I want to build a model of my living room, using passthrough.  After I get started, take off the headset, and come back, I have a great deal of trouble lining up the model again.  Specifically I cannot seem to raise or lower the model.  I can only turn it or move it side to side, so it's always below or above the floor.  How do you move the whole model vertically while I am on the ground?  I can move it in God mode but that is no help when I am trying to line things up.

The other thing that is extremely difficult is placing and building walls.  Once I get one wall sort of placed, I cannot easily extend it a little farther.  Grabbing a face and pulling it does not do what I expect.  It moves the whole model in strange ways, and it's worse if other walls have become attached.  Is there no way to simply extend a face of a cube in one direction, for example?  Is there a way to turn off whatever feature that is making the entire connected model stretch and move if I am only selecting and pulling on a single vertex or edge?

 

 

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  Hilmar Gunnarsson

  • September 26, 2022 21:59

  Hi Patricia Anaka, thanks for the feedback!

  Regarding working in passthrough then we will soon release some new features that will make it much easier to align the virtual and real world and make sure they stay aligned. However, until then, you can actually raise and lower the model simply by toggling the passthrough mode off. When passthrough is turned on, you're limited to horizontal pan and rotation to make it easier to align. But again, all of this will be a lot easier pretty soon, so stay tuned!

  As for editing the geometry and seeing shapes moving that you don't expect to move, then this is something we're working on improving currently. Arkio is a parametric modeler and all shapes have some relationship to their "parent" shape, which may then affect the "child" shapes if you modify their parent. Got get around this, you can try to e.g. model shapes more from the ground (or some horizontal plane) and bash them into other vertical faces, instead of drawing from vertical faces. Like working in passthrough, have some things on the near-term roadmap that will make all of this easier.

  Thanks for your interest in Arkio and if you have the time we'd love to see what you're working on! Feel free to share your work here on the forums, on our Discord server or by sending us an email at hello@arkio.is.

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