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Create Special Motion and Object Effects
E-mail: Join3DTeam@aol.com
EXPANDING 3D ANIMATION AND RENDER CAPABILITIES
One area in which 3D products on Windows and SGI machines outshine those on the Macintosh is that of third-party plug-ins that add special animation effects. In addition to the built-in power and ease of use, the 3Djoy software also offers an SDK that features "Open Source" plug-in options. Included are tools for expanding 3D animation and render capabilities through development of motion and special effects and for attaching third party render engines. This third pary effort will result in the expansion of the software's capabilities for a long time into the future. As an example, it was the plug-in development effort of third parties that turned Autodesk's 3D Studio into a powerful, well-accepted product.
The "Open Source" option will be targeted at two areas:
1) Developing effects plug-ins.
2) Providing hooks for other render engines and OpenGL.
The combination of both efforts will enable the software capabilities to grow much more rapidly then could be accomplished by us alone and would make the acquisition of 3Djoy even more important and useful to you.
If you have programming skills, you should strongly consider developing 3D animation plug-ins so that the Macintosh can catch up to SGI and Windows-based products in one of the areas that they dominate. If you know programmers and graphic/programming instructors and educational programs, you should encourage them to take advantage of the 3Djoy software and the plug-in development tools provided.
CREATING EFFECTS PLUG-INS
The 3D Plug-in Development Kit lets programmers, schools with programming classes, and animators with programming skills develop special motion effects that can automatically be added to 3Djoy. The kit includes instructions and source code examples of various plug-ins in CodeWarrior. To get the kit send an email to <join3dteam@aol.com>. and include information about your 3D background, programming skills, and what kinds of plug-in effects you are interested in developing.
The Render/OpenGL Plug-in Development Toolkit contains the RenderMan plug-in source code and instructions for modifying it to work with other render engines and OpenGL. This could give third parties and schools an opportunity to hook other render engines and OpenGL to 3Djoy.
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