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  1. We're trying to overcome this hurdle of inability to easily share vehicle designs. The servers shutdown so we can't send blueprints to each other. What we want to do is make a software that would allow us to create mock vehicle designs, output a file and send that to someone else so that they can open it within the software on their computer.
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  3. The vehicle design stuff is a 3D grid of cubes (the exact number of cubes in height and width I don't remember off the top of my head)
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  5. Essentially what we would want the software to be is an interactive grid of 3D cubes. There would be a cursor on the grid that can move up, down, left, right on a single layer using arrow keys or whatnot, and then a button can be pressed to go up or down a layer. Then, whichever cube our cursor is on, we can click or press a button to either add or remove a 3D model to that slot. The complexity of this could be as simple as a generic cube. Additional geometric shapes such as wedges, cylinders and corners would be great but not mandatory.
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  7. Here's a very important bit though: We need to be able to label the cubes. Either by assigning a color to the cube, dropping an image file on them, or having each cube display a number that we assign to it (this number would display on all faces of the cube) (or any combination of this)
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  9. Finally, we need the ability to toggle the visibility so that either all layers are displayed or just the layer we are currently on is displayed. The purpose of all this is so I could say make a 1x1x3 cube, mark it green and tell someone "the green cubes represent a fuel tank" "this clump of red cubes represents ammo" etc.
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  11. As far as visibility, we'd probably either want it to have a full 3D view that can be rotated, or if a static view is necessary have it be directly from on top as a birds eye perspective.
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  13. NOTE: If 3D is too difficult, this could technically be done from the top down birds eye perspective using purely 2D squares, as long as the layer functionality is still present but this would be less than ideal. Another option would be have an isometric, static 3D view PLUS a top down 2D view so the 2D can be used to interact with but you still have a 3D representation of the cubes.
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  15. There are other features we have in mind, but this is the core functionality needed. Maybe this is totally simple or maybe this is a huge undertaking, I'm not a software guy so let me know how feasible this is! If the skills are there and you wanted to make something with more features and really polished I'd be willing to pay for that, thanks!!
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