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[AbnRanger]

Writing of plugins started. I hired several peoples. The first one - for 3D-Max is almost ready.

That's music to my ears.

[wailingmonkey]

it's music...but I think it's key is off just a slight bit.
(waiting for a Maya applink)

[Andrew Shpagin]

it's music...but I think it's key is off just a slight bit.
(waiting for a Maya applink)

In general we have in pipeline
Max, Maya, LW, Blender, Houdini, XSI, C4D, ZBrush, Rhino, Messiah, list may be expanded.

[Taurus]

In general we have in pipeline
Max, Maya, LW, Blender, Houdini, XSI, C4D, ZBrush, Rhino, Messiah, list may be expanded.

Modo ? Silo ?

[haikalle]

Modo would be nice but I think that there is no silo 2.0 sdk access at the moment. I really hope Silo wakes up someday. It's great program.

[Rich_Art]

In general we have in pipeline
Max, Maya, LW, Blender, Houdini, XSI, C4D, ZBrush, Rhino, Messiah, list may be expanded.

Ah cool thanks Andrew.. A C4D Pipeline sounds great.

Peace,
Rich_Art.

[Digital777]

Nice it looks like there is a new forum section dedicated to applinks -

http://www.3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showforum=60

Modo would be nice but I think that there is no silo 2.0 sdk access at the moment. I really hope Silo wakes up someday. It's great program.

Yeah same here i think it's great also. I think V1 has a SDK though, i actually still use V1 with a custom layout still as i have V2 beta installed but it is still buggy. I noticed they have a iphone app now so the company is still staying around which is good, hopefully they will get focus back to silo and also make a V2 SDK.

[wackymidget]

Can Carrara be added to the list please?

[Andrew Shpagin]

Specifications updated in 3.5.06, see first post

[Andrew Shpagin]

Updated to 1.3, see first post, it requires 3.5.16C or later.

[Styler]

Hi Andrew,

I'm updating Maya Applink to latest specification. I didn't get several things in doc1.3. Could you clarify?

Update 1.2:
Import.txt may have additional options in additional lines of the file.

// Should it be a path to the folder with ALL textures? Will 3d coat automatically understand textures extension?
[TexOutput:… texture path there…] allows to specify textures output path. It should end with “\” or “/”

// is it just a binary flags like "Do i want to export 'color' texture from App to 3dcoat?"
ExportColor=(0|1)
ExportSpecular = (0|1)
ExportNormalmap = (0|1)
ExportDispl = (0|1)
PickSourcePositions = (0|1)
ickDepthFromLayer0 = (0|1)
CoarseMesh = (0|1)

// This part is clear
DisplDepth = (8 bits, 16 bits, 32 bits)
DisplNorm = (GREYBASED, ZEROBASED, ZEROBASED_NORM, ZEROBASED_ABS)

// Do we provide here extensions for ExportColor, ExportSpecular.. and other guys which have textures specified by TexOutput path?
DisplExt = ( BMP,TGA,PNG for 8 bit displacement, TIF for 16 bit displacament, TIFF, EXR for 32 bit displacement )
ColorFileExtension = (TGA, BMP, PNG, JPG)
SpecNormExtension = (TGA, BMP, PNG, JPG)
ExportResolution = (LOW-POLY, MID-POLY)

It will be nice to have an example with descriptions

Edited by Styler, 24 November 2012 - 02:53 AM.

[Andrew Shpagin]

// Should it be a path to the folder with ALL textures? Will 3d coat automatically understand textures extension?
[TexOutput:… texture path there…] allows to specify textures output path. It should end with “\” or “/”

No difference - / or \
It is path for textures folder where textures will be saved when 3D-Coat exports objects with textures.
Textures extension will depend on other options.

// is it just a binary flags like "Do i want to export 'color' texture from App to 3dcoat?"
ExportColor=(0|1)
ExportSpecular = (0|1)
ExportNormalmap = (0|1)
ExportDispl = (0|1)
PickSourcePositions = (0|1)
ickDepthFromLayer0 = (0|1)
CoarseMesh = (0|1)

It are options from the export dialog File->Export

// Do we provide here extensions for ExportColor, ExportSpecular.. and other guys which have textures specified by TexOutput path?
DisplExt = ( BMP,TGA,PNG for 8 bit displacement, TIF for 16 bit displacament, TIFF, EXR for 32 bit displacement )
ColorFileExtension = (TGA, BMP, PNG, JPG)
SpecNormExtension = (TGA, BMP, PNG, JPG)
ExportResolution = (LOW-POLY, MID-POLY)

Open file->Export and see correspondence, that are fields from this dialog