dlfurman opened this issue on Feb 25, 2009 · 44 posts
kobaltkween posted Sat, 28 February 2009 at 12:58 AM
my point is that they don't have a common API (scripting and add-ons comment) at the moment. and if they aren't in the same language, the programming teams couldn't share code (might not be able to even they were). a common API at this point wouldn't really matter, would it? because a common API would only mean new things might be shared. it wouldn't mean (for example) that D|S could acquire cloth dynamics from Poser and Poser could get D|S's GI or SSS. a shared API would only work if it were based on common capabilities.
i guess on the off chance that the common capabilities were actually the complete source of a capability particular to one or the other, you might be able to share existing features. but i'm not sure there's even a single capability like that. hence my statement about not being sure it's possible without re-writing one or the other.
but maybe i'm missing something.