Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI - Plug-ins only? No Generators?
Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI - Plug-ins only? No Generators?
- Subject: Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI - Plug-ins only? No Generators?
- From: Matt Rhodes <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:58:37 -0700
It looks like FxGenerators don't have access to the 3D API -- is
this correct?
That is correct. It was an oversight. I have fixed it in a future
version, but that version won't be available to the public any time
soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. As you know, bug fixes have to
be tested, and there wasn't time to test this fix for an earlier
release. I'm hoping in the future we can seed 3rd party developers
earlier to get better feedback. However, even when we've tried, the
feedback from 3rd parties has been minimal. It's hard to find bugs
in time to fix them when we don't get very much feedback (which
admittedly is at least partly our own fault for not getting seeds
to developers earlier). In other words, yeah, it sucks, and we're
working on it.
I've been a lousy 3rd party developer when it comes to beta testing
and feedback -- so I can't complain too much.
I'm sure I could have found some of these limitations before release.
With previews, they are generated automatically for generators and
always have been. We can do that with generators because they take
no input. But with filters, it's not as easy because any given
input may not be appropriate for a preview of a particular filter.
For example, a photo with no green in it, won't show a green
screen filter very well. And an image with no alpha won't show an
effect that does something based on the alpha. I think the idea
was that we want to generate a preview when possible so developers
have less work to do. But there are cases where we can't do that.
Maybe we should check to see if there's a preview movie and show
it if it exists, and generate one if it doesn't exist? If you'd
like to see that, please file an enhancement request.
The logic for Generator movies makes sense -- but our Generators
don't create anything by default -- but we'd like to show what it can
do. I'll file a request.
Thanks for the quick reply, Darrin. We really appreciate how
responsive your team is with stuff like this.
And we're *really* happy to see our stuff working so well in FCP.
m
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