• toby

  almost 2 years ago

  On the plus side its comparatively cheap and it can look quite pretty. But its quite a difficult plugin to use "in anger" as even though undoubtedly a lot of work has gone into it, graphing is hard and requires a lot of features.

  Some issues with the library:
  - The documentation isn't clear enough, There could do with being more explicit examples. A lot of the graphs in the document are hand drawn, not drawn using the tool itself. This isnt great imo.
  - There are exceptions from the library in the System console and Blender ocassionally crashes with the plugin running (I can't prove its the plugin)
  - The graphing is quite slow, if you have a graph with 120 points on the x axis expect a minute or two for the graph to load and changes to filter through to the visuals.
  - Theres some basic missing features:
  - I don't think you can set a background colour to the chart
  - You can't change the scale on the x axis. So if you have 150 points in your data, the library will put 150 numbers on the x-axis. Which again makes it hard to use for even medium datasets.
  - The out the box configuration isn't great. Whilst you can fix all this, it means every graph takes 5 more mins config to actually visualise (Slow load times). As an example for line graphs:
  - the default y scale 0 to 5, not related to what the min / max is of the y data.
  - There is a default stroke 0px of the line between points. So you can't see the line between points
  - All the lines default black. So if you have multiple lines you'll need to set all the colours yourself.

  If any of the above is wrong, then again I put it down to the lack of good documentation as I probably spent over an hour trialing and erroring how the plugin worked.

  I think it just needs more active development, or if the author has moved on to other things they might want to just open source it at this point so others can help maintain it.

• adlx

  over 3 years ago

  Interesting addon. The developer helped with any issues encountered.

• R.Y

  over 4 years ago

  Very useful and interesting item.

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