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.So now I have a real problem. I’m hoping somebody here will have the answer.
@bengood921 I found this problem intriguing so I thought I’d try it out myself.
The first problem I had is that after I hid the Cones, I didn’t have a Hidden Parts list. I fixed this by exiting Stud.io and re-opening it.
I Restored the Cones, and they didn’t show up in the Main palette, just like you said.
Because of the first problem I had, I decided to exit and reopen Stud.io. Voila! The Cones were back in the main palette.
It’s definitely a bug that the Main palette list doesn’t update when hiding parts or restoring the Hidden Parts.
I have a new problem. At some point, I remember checking a box that said something along the lines of ‘Hide unavailable parts’, referring to color. So if you set the active color to dark pink on the palette menu down on the left side, and they don’t make a 2×3 brick in dark park, then the 2×3 brick won’t show up when you select the brick palette. I only use Studio for designing stuff that I plan to build in real life, so parts that don’t actually exist don’t do me any good, and they just clutter up the palettes. I’ve recently starting hiding parts that are incredibly obscure and I’m never gonna use, especially the ones that are indistinguishable from regular parts based on their icon, and so you have to hover the part to get the written description to figure out which is which.
Therefore, I’ve always had ‘Hide unavailable parts’ turned on. I think we covered it in class, I remember doing it, and it’s always worked, until recently. Lately I’ve run into a situation where I have a particular BrickLink category palette open, say for example, brackets. The color is set to reddish-brown, and all the brackets that come in reddish brown are listed in the palette. Then I change the active color to light bluish gray. What *used* to happen is that all the brackets that come in light bluish gray would appear. What’s frequently happening now (and I’m not sure if there’s a pattern to it, or if it’s happening more often than I’ve noticed, or if it’s happening all the time) is that the set of reddish brown brackets in the palette are simply recolored to light bluish gray, without changing the list of parts. This is a problem because 1) there’s reddish brown brackets that don’t exist in light bluish gray, so those parts should disappear from the list, but don’t; and 2) there’s light bluish gray brackets that don’t exist in reddish brown, and so those parts should appear on the list, but don’t.
The second one is the big problem, because if I’m specifically looking for a part that I know exists and doesn’t show up, then I need an alternate way to find it. The workaround is pretty easy, I do a search for ‘brackets’, and the correct list shows up. But it’s another situation where it’s a small hassle repeated frequently and therefore has become a big hassle.
So finally I started looking for the ‘Hide unavailable parts’ box, thinking maybe it had somehow gotten unchecked, and I can’t find it. Over on the right, above the step view, is a thing called Color Validator. I can’t remember if that was there before or not. When I click on it, it just tells me I have zero unavailable parts, which I already knew. I vaguely recall doing an update of Studio not that long ago, I think in December, and I’m wondering if this is somehow connected to that. I am currently working on my project for Brick Convention in March, and this is the first time I’ve used Studio heavily since September when I was attempting (unsuccessfully) to get my (different) project done for BFPA22.
Anybody have any ideas on what’s going on here? I searched through the program and I couldn’t find anything. There’s no Settings dialogue box that I could find. The Preferences box is surprisingly limited (although now that I more experience with the program, I went through and changed some of the shortcut keys). I’m not sure where else to look.
Important question. If I’ve asked this before or it came up elsewhere, I don’t remember it. Do we have any idea of the recommended system requirements for Studio?
Many of you may be familiar with reading both minimum and recommended system requirements for things like games and other software, which usually covers things like processors, RAM, and graphics cards. If you go to the official Studio page on BrickLink to download it, it will tell you, rather unhelpfully, that Studio requires Windows XP or higher, if you’re on a PC.
Several weeks ago, after talking about it for years, I finally actually for real got rolling on the research and solicitation of advice for what laptop I should buy to replace my current one. Since I don’t plan to do any gaming on it, the most demanding program by far will be Studio, but I want the laptop to be able to run it, and run it well.
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner to post this question here, but I’m hoping maybe somebody’s been reading on the official Studio forums (which I still haven’t done) and happens to know the answer. I did find a Reddit on Studio and asked there and I haven’t gotten a response. I did find some other Reddit posts on the topic and there wasn’t much there, although a couple people have posted in the past that Studio doesn’t require much RAM, which I’m not sure is true, and that pretty much any laptop should be able to handle it, which definitely is not true.
I don’t want this to become a threadjack on what laptop I’m going to buy, which can be continued on the ‘What is Ben building’ thread if anybody has any suggestions, and where I could discuss additional requirements for the laptop. But system requirements for Studio are definitely appropriate here if anybody has anything to post.
