Mailing list or forum for developers?

[lordnimon 1]

Is there a mailing list or forum just for developers of Cura?  I need help with my printer definition, and I don't think this forum is the best place for questions about the creating JSON files.

[gr5 2,167]

It's fine - I think this list is probably best place to ask about creating your own printer definition.  I'd start by looking at the other json files for other printers.

[lordnimon 1]

I've been doing that, but there's I can't find any actual documentation for the contents of the JSON files.  My printer definition works, but I want to perfect it.

[gr5 2,167]

Just quote parts of the file and ask one or two questions at a time.  e.g. "obviously this part calculates the line width but what does this thing here do circled in red?"

[nallath 1,120]

There isn't a mailing list, but we do read the forums. So if you have any questions, feel free to ask them.

[ahoeben 1,948]

54 minutes ago, nallath said:

So if you have any questions, feel free to ask them.

 

In that case... What I would really like to know is if there is any way to access the depth buffer of the SelectionPass ;-)

[nallath 1,120]

2 hours ago, ahoeben said:

 

In that case... What I would really like to know is if there is any way to access the depth buffer of the SelectionPass ;-)

I think the only way to do that would be to add an extra pass (eg; DepthPass) that returns a depth image.

[ahoeben 1,948]

With an additional pass I could (probably) use a shader to copy gl_FragCoord into gl_FragColor, and access the depth info from there. Such a shame though, because SelectionPass already has a perfectly usable depth buffer, but I can't seem to find a way to access it.

Edited March 12, 2018 by ahoeben

[ahoeben 1,948]

Yay, picking is working:

[nallath 1,120]

22 minutes ago, ahoeben said:

Yay, picking is working:

 

I can't put more likes to this post! This is super nice!

[ahoeben 1,948]

1 minute ago, nallath said:

I can't put more likes to this post! This is super nice!

 

Especially for you, here's the post again, so you can give it a second like:

 

Yay, picking is working:

[gr5 2,167]

4 hours ago, ahoeben said:

here's the post again, so you can give it a second like:

[IRobertI 520]

4 hours ago, nallath said:

I can't put more likes to this post! This is super nice!

Just make more accounts, easy. In the mean time I'll help by adding another one ("like" that is ).

[DidierKlein 729]

Awesome

[ahoeben 1,948]

Dear diary,

 

Today I won at internet 

[darkdvd 975]

9 hours ago, ahoeben said:

Dear diary,

 

Today I won at internet 

 

 

[ctbeke 133]

/on-topic

Another great way to interact with the Cura developers and contributors is via GitHub: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues. Most technical conversations are held over there.

[Brulti 177]

I've no clue what the initial question was, and what the gif shows, but have some more likes anyway.

[gr5 2,167]

5 hours ago, Brulti said:

and what the gif shows,

The ability to click on areas of the model where you don't want support. 

[Brulti 177]

Oh, that's nice. ^^