Design Goals & User Requirements

[giannis]

well, i mean a lot of coding generally but let's forget this...

still with the sdk, you'll need to pass geometry! it's not that the mat
editor is present!

but scratch that line again... you can simply load a scene and render it.
now the only thing that you need to do is to change the material
of the sphere (or some other object) via messages.
as an introductory document, you can read this:


giannis

How would you suggest sending messages? Sending directly to the .exe or is there a better way?

[giannis]

Okay well send me the lastest version so i can start to get familiar with it.

send me an email or post a link.

fillet54@gmail.com

Don't know how much it may help, but there's a good frontend for yafray that includes a shader editor. It might give you an idea of how an external app handles it. Shader editor shot:


link to the app: (bagisas)
http://www.fen-net.de/wolfram.kraus/Bagisas.html

oh yes, source code included

Hell Fillet54,

How are you doing with the Node editor? any progress?

here are some basic shader deffinition to get you started. I will make some more formal (math) information available to you.

http://www.the123d.com/tutorial/general ... s2-1.shtml