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Silverlight plug-in/object export support?
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Silverlight plug-in/object export support? // Feature suggestions
Post by First Citizen // Nov 20, 2007, 8:31am
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I see that there is support for rendering Flash animations provided through a plug-in. Are there plans to support Microsoft Silverlight (export of XAML objects/animation scripts) in the future?
Currently Silverlight can consume movies rendered in TrueSpace, but my question applies more to the ability to design objects in Truespace and then export the object (2D simplified render or 3D) as a XAML script that can be manipulated directly in the Silverlight application.
It could be that there is something already out there, I am just getting back to using Truespace after a too-long creative-free period. :(
Thanksinadvance,
-- Andrew |
Post by nowherebrain // Nov 21, 2007, 12:55pm
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I'm sure that would depend on user interest....I "personally" see no use for it...I'm sure someone would though. |
Post by scarroll // Nov 22, 2007, 8:12pm
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Here is a ramble:
There is a big void to fill for 3D behavior and functionality with animations in the area of development for Games, kiosks, e-Learning, etc. Adobe had a great product that it essentially dropped; formerly Macromedia Director MX. It featured a killer 3D, Flash, video, and 2D animation features in a Rapid Application Design environment geared for developing applications in standalone cross platform executables or for the web as a plug-in. Its essentially dead unfortunately. A.K.A. Shockwave it had its lighter weight sister known as Flash (which it also incapsulated). But Flash is too small to fill its shoes. Flash has been updated to do better video and scripting via ActionScript 3.0 which is very promising but nothing compared to what Director could do with Video, Animations, and javascript scripting. Very powerful.
Caligari's export feature doesn't support scripting or any application development but it would be great if ts7 did. truePlay kinda fits the bill but if it could be used as a royalty free developer distributed edition, that allowed users to package an execuatable like a compiler, it would be awsome! Director called them Projectors, and it was not unlike PowerPoint projectors on steroids. The market is giagantic, not just for kiosks, and games, but for the e-Learning and education market as well. The recording feature in ts7 is also a close but not a complete solution. This market is huge and the gap Adobe has left behind needs to be filled ASAP! Flash's lack of codecs, poor debugger (compared to Director and other IDEs) and total disregard of 3D means that people are scrambling left and right. Maybe ts7 could fill the gap? I'm looking into the developer guide now... btw, the key developer of Director MX left and started www.Unity3D.com. (http://www.unity3d.com), talk about cool! Its brought game/kiosk/e-Learning in 3D to the next level. Now only if they had an IDE. If ts7 just talked more compiling/publishing/royalty free distribution (web plugin, executable creation)... the market would expand exponentially! |
Post by Tiles // Nov 22, 2007, 9:45pm
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isn't Unity Mac only at the moment? I have read about a possible Win port though. I am waiting for that :) |
Post by scarroll // Nov 23, 2007, 10:50am
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Unity's plug-in is functional under Windows, however the development environment looks to be only Mac at this time. There are fundamental API's I've looked at that are just as beautiful and rich with effects and functionality yet maintain cross platform bliss (www.ogre3d.org (http://www.ogre3d.org)) but are a bit too low level to (all c++ and with some Python scripting support). But if I wanted to slam together a simulation or a interactive menu for a CD-ROM, the web, etc. it would take weeks... Adobe's Director would take a few hours but I would be limited to DirectX8 (yuck). A complete similar to some of the trueSpace demo's would take even longer, but at least I could distribute them... |
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