Description: If you draw a 2D shape and click "Toggle Extrusion", various surface options become available, such as Wire Frame, Matt, Plastic, Metal, etc. However, if you draw a 2D shape, right click and Convert to 3D, and then you go to the 3D effects dialog, there are no such surface options available. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Draw 2D shape 2.Click "Toggle Extrusion" 3.See the surface options that become available such as Wire Frame, Matt, Plastic, Metal, etc. 4. Draw another 2D shape 5. Right click that shape then go to Convert --> To 3D 6. Open 3D effects dialog Actual Results: No surface options (Wireframe, matt, plastic, metal) in the 3D effects dialog Expected Results: Any 3D shape should be able to have surface options (Wireframe, matt, plastic, metal) available. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.5.3.2 (x86) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9f56dff12ba03b9acd7730a5a481eea045e468f3 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Thanks you for the suggestion. We do have in the "Material" section: metal, gold, chrome, plastic, wood. Same disparity in OOo 3.3. Regina, what's your opinion on this? Is there potential for extending choices, or making choices more uniform between the two kinds of objects?
The dialog which you get when using "Toggle extrusion" is a simplified subset of what is possible in 3D-Scenes. I agree, that the "3D effects" dialog can be improved. The "Favorites" drop-down should not be in section "Material" but outside, because selecting a predefined Favorite does not only change "Material" but "Specular" too. And we could add some more Favorites or exchange existing ones with more popular ones. A "wire frame" is not a "Material" but a "Shading" mode. Possible values of the shading mode are "draft" (=wire frame), "flat", "phong" and "gourand" in ODF. But "draft" is not implemented for 3D-Scenes. Instead you can set a line style other than "none" and set the area fill to "none". The dialog from "Toggle extrusion" has no choice between "phong", "gourand" and "flat", although the rendering engine would support it. 3D-Scenes and extruded custom-shapes are total different object types. However, they use the same rendering engine. I would not set as goal to make the dialogs equal, but each of both dialogs could be improved. And we need to consider 3D charts in addition.