@Erwin: Yep, an old time missing feature...
Beware : long text below
OK, I made another test, getting orientation of Monaco's hairpin track sectors in excel to be able to quickly average them.
Well, in original Monaco hairpin, neither track sectors are pointing to next one, nor track sector orientation equal average value of surrounding sectors...
So all I can guess is that the orientation average method could be fine for very first track sector of each cc-line section to smooth line if you manually edited orientation of sectors in the area around this first sector.
It can't be used as a rule to fix a whole track for example.
Displaying more files content is possible, but giving hand to edit them at the same time is another thing.
So solutions I actually thought about are :
- displaying many files simultaneously with editing posibilities (not the easiest way)
- auto-generating other files from one (but this has issues as behaviours (for .col files) are not described in .dat files and track sector refinements (for .bin files) are not defined in .dat ones)
- simultaneoualy editing the same vertex files .gp4/.bin/.col (I'm thinking more and more at this one as I think I could do it now, one of the matters would be it might not be easy (for me) to create new vertices/faces)
I don't know yet which one I will be able to realize.
About sectors definition in auto-generated files, that's the matter I pointed out above, because the most usefull is to create .bin file from .dat one, but .dat do not seem to store sectors' sub-divisions count and thus auto-generated .bin files from .dat are actually a bit raw as sectors are not subdivided.
At the opposite, .bin files created from .gp4 files are well subdivided but obviously need an updated .gp4 files to fit new .dat one.
.col file are not ordered by behaviour originaly. I did it to simplify the search amongst all vertices as they are all in a big list with no other flag to find the one you need.
I could re-order them by index but them you would have a single loooong list...
Multiple select will become possible in the list but this can't be usefull for this file (maybe not much in others either). Badly multiple mouse selecting should have to wait because I really don't know how to solve it in code (that's the reason why single mouse selecting do not exists either in 3DEditor).
Well, you and others can't help me much on programming that's true, but reports as the one you did the latest days about cc-line first sector particularity were really helpfull and that's the kind of work that can help me much.
So the best you (and other testers) can do is continuing to test and try features for any particular usage and keep inform me on any result. There's still much to learn about GP4 track files data and you can really help there.
There's no problem with your essay, I think I did the same with this post
I really hope to be able to fulfil your wishes, I'm just sad track editing is starting so late; I could have done so much one or two years ago...
I will do my best anyhow to bring a new version as soon as possible at least to simplify .bin and .col editing to match .dat/.gp4 changes.