Christopher, I'm getting a 'This video has been protected' warning
when I try to watch that video. But I believe you ;-)
Oops, not sure how that happened -- fixed, thanks :)
Peter, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but Christopher is
right, a generic 3D interface would end up only supplying the end
user with those features that are common between 3D applications.
LightWave, for example, does a lot of things differently than some
other 3D apps. It goes all the way down to the philosophy behind the
type of 3D data we want to interact with. And our users have pretty
high expectations of what they'd like to be able to interact with
outside of the app. If Apple were to do something like this, I'm
sure we'd support it, but I think there's a better way to get what
you're after...
This is such a huge problem really -- it's very difficult to solve
properly, and someone is invariably always left out. And with the
steep curves to thoroughly learn any 3D tool, you can expect users to
be fiercely opinionated about how "Things Should Be" ;)
What if Keynote natively supported QuickLook? Then any 3D app
developer that made a QuickLook plug-in for their app would be
instantly supported, as well as any form of data you don't have the
application for. Let's say you want to display an Excel spreadsheet,
but don't have Excel. QuickLook can do it. So embedding QuickLook
data in your Keynote document would get you more than just 3D, it
would get you anything there was a plug-in for.
This is an exceptionally good idea, for several reasons. Now: What if
we were to make a QuickLook plugin for QC, to use in Keynote, to
support anything... it's very contrived and OSS-sounding, but there
could be several other uses as well. :)
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