Curious_Labs opened this issue on Feb 03, 2004 ยท 108 posts
daverj posted Thu, 05 February 2004 at 9:20 PM
I think it would be very smart of CL to design a sort of Room Plugin structure that would allow 3rd parties to create things like PBoost, UVMapper, The Tailor, etc... but write them in a way that they can be installed in their own "Rooms" inside Poser6. This would greatly expand Poser's power while letting CL define a structure that those utilities conform to so they can share a similar user interface and so people don't have to run all sorts of outside programs. Since they would be plugins, people could pick and choose which ones they want to add to their installation. Some of the types of cryptic python scripts people make now could actually be written at a higher level (in C or C++), with better user interfaces and still link directly into the scene being edited. Programmers could, for example, create a gravity room, a particle room, they could even write a modeler room or paint room. And CL doesn't have to write all of that. Just the core structure that lets those programmers plug utilities in.