[epic] v1 Creator Usability - minimum viable planner

[kfarr]

Persona: Creator (Trail Blazer)

As a professional or first-time Creator...

• I have minimum expectations of usability for cloud SaaS applications -- no broken things! (save / load reliability addressed in separate Editor epic)
• I want to the software to be clear and honest even if it has limitations (reinforce the truth such as dimensions of objects, even if their edit-ability proves challenging at this stage)
• I want to feel proud enough of my created work to share my creation with others and trust their experience will match my expectations

Improving 3dstreet core parser - clear and honest core usability

• Change structure of entities created by street component: BuildingsLeft, Segment1, 2, ... , Segment n, BuildingsRight #396
• KF - segment x location match reality segment-parent-n entities should have x position #357
• KF - scene graph: better class / ID / "display names" (ie "Segment 1: Sidewalk" instead of "segment-parent-1")
• KF - segment widths match reality segment width should match reality #374
• KF - Should NOT use scaleX / defaultModelWidthsInMeters; instead set segment box width to be width in meters
• KF - v1 rename / restructure building placement in scene graph (see Change structure of entities created by street component: BuildingsLeft, Segment1, 2, ... , Segment n, BuildingsRight #396)
• AG - fix elevation level support fix elevation level support #388
• AG - fix cyclist elevation fix the elevation level of the cyclist #383 up cyclist y position for bike-track #387
• KF - make ocean block ocean restore the ocean #379
• KF - brown box beneath lot grounds add brown box beneath building ground #362
• KF - Next pass at building / ground refactor - show Block1 and Block2 as separate - see Change structure of entities created by street component: BuildingsLeft, Segment1, 2, ... , Segment n, BuildingsRight #396

User interface behaves as expected

• AG - viewer mode icons should be hidden when in editor mode (see failed attempt here)
• AG hide viewer icons and viewer title in editor mode viewer mode icons should be hidden when in editor mode #369
• KF - always white text for scene graph entity names instead of varying text by class or id or other attribute 3DStreet/3dstreet-editor@53b04b6

Visual quality meets my minimum expectations:

• KF - shadows (cherry pick from beauty shot)
• AG - ground material roughness increase roughness of street surfaces to 0.8 #340
• KF - new skybox (cherry pick from beauty shot)
• KF - rails extend too far Rails extending past LRV or streetcar rails segment #363
• KF - below ground volume (cherry pick from beauty shot)
• KF - add shadow casting light to other presets (copy light2 entity from day preset)
• KF - new rails object / rails width updates to match IRL standard gauge and cable cars
• AG - fix car animation fix animation of inbound/outbound car #386
• AG - self driving car add self-driving car variant #392
• AG - automatic vehicle movement
• AG - color environment option add environment option "Color" #337
• AG - more outdoor dining prop more street dining props randomly placed #375
• Shadows not visible on all parts of street: make default street 60m when loading from input dialog #416
• Remove animation from default
• Hide viewer title when editor is active #421
• Upgrade to A-Frame 1.5
• Deploy checklist

Longer-term epic / future tickets
see #447

[kfarr]

closed with https://github.com/3DStreet/3dstreet/releases/tag/0.4.5