Greetings !
I've been playing around with Aero since last year, and after several projects done and many tribulations, I've put together a list of features that I would really love to see implemented in Aero - and I assume I wouldn't be the only one.
I thought I would share it here for your consideration, as I'm not sure where is the best place to send such comments and feedback.
Feel free to add to the list if you've thought about some features which could optimize our worflow within the software.
That said, I can't emphasize enough how necessary it is to have access to STATISTICS.
This is definitely a must-have feature if we want to develop this commercially. We have to know how many times the experience has been interacted with. Other online AR solutions do provide this service. That shouldn't be too complicated to integrate, since we already have links management options. But what do I know, I am no programmer ?!?! XD
Anyway, here are my notes.
Thanks for your time and consideration !
Essential Function requests :
- Hide / Show action applies to all elements inside a group
--> so we don't need to hide/show each element individually. The group Hide / Show option would apply to all layers inside that group (like any other group in any Adobe software).
- ability to copy / paste actions and group of actions
--> so as to not spend time doing the exact same setting over and over again for multiple elements.
- ability to parent a layer to another layer, so we can program only one and have the others follow (or group action, as stated previously).
- abilty to reset the state of an element
--> so that we don't have to add the opposite actions in order to get an element back to its original position after triggering some actions which moved it elsewhere. Like a checkbox or pop-up menu with the option : If triggered again, reset all parameters and start from initial transform and settings.
- abilty to have some kind of logical programming of actions.
--> For example, an action that would only be triggered AFTER a certain set of actions have been triggered. Like, once the user has tapped different buttons, something happens, a text appears or another element is shown, etc...
- Statistics available to show how many times the experience has been interacted with.
--> This is ESSENTIAL for commercial purposes because customers will want to know how many people were reached via the AR experience. MUST-HAVE Statistics ! We have access to Adobe links which we can manage, that would be easy to add a counter in there tracking the number times the AR experience has been played (from unique IP if possible).
Quality of Life Improvements :
- Show the Thumbnail of the Experience like the Thumbnail of the project in the main menu
-> so it's not the scene view but an uploaded image or something easier to recognize from the thumbnail when sorting through projects.
- Some color label for the layers to see them better.
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