Oxygen 2 PE Assistant Tool Input needed

[raptor 6 actual 13]

Hello all,

I've been taking a C++ class and learning Visual Basic on my own. I also use BIS' Oxygen 2 PE on a daily basis to work on my wish list of addons floating around in my head.

One of the problems I find is that I'm always opening up different webpages to convert Inches to Meters and Feet to Meters. I also have to open my calculator up so that I can calculate the distance between two verts. My other issue is to find the angle of a particular line of my model, to try and create a vert that will fall somewhere on the line in a good spot (kind of like using the "Splice" tool in Modo or 3ds Max to find a middle point on a polygon).

Anyways, I decided to work on a little application that would have all of these functions at one place.

Thus far, I have three tabs working.

1) Converter:

Ability to convert Inches to Meters

Ability to convert Feet to Meters

2) Ruler

Ability to enter one vert's X, Y, or Z coordinate and then enter the second vert and obtain the distance between.

3) Angle Finder

Ability to find the angle of a line in degrees.

It's a little difficult to explain why you would need this, but I have encountered times where I've wanted to do it.

Anyhow, the reason for the thread is so that while I'm creating the tool, I'd like some feedback or input as to what other functions one might find useful on the tool.

I'm planning to include links to the BIS wiki and a search index to hyperlinks to the O2PE manual or keywords.

I'm still a noob at this, but I'd like to integrate it so that you could just click on the vert and communicate with the tool so that it'll just drop in the value to the tool and return the solution....but that's a long way down the road.

I know that O2PE has some of these functions, such as "Measuring," "Calculator," and a few other thigs, but maybe it's just me and I'm too simple minded to understand how to use them. So here I am.

I hope to hear some ideas soon.

Thanks for reading.

Edited May 6, 2013 by Raptor 6 Actual