Expandable Interface

[vortex2]

Hello, I am making this post to share an idea for what I feel would add a ton of power to MMF 2.

The idea is to make an SDK for the MMF 2 editors (Frame Editor, Event Editor, Image Editor, Ect). These plugins could be integrated with extensions or be seperate, but they would allow developers much greater freedom.

Rather then being limited by what the editors are currently capable of, developers could add new abilities to the editors that could be used with extensions to enable great things.

An example of this would be the ability to define "collision primitives" in the frame editor for my Physics extension. Or being able to define visibility nodes for a gridless pathfinding extension.

Examples of expansions to the picture editor could be custom processing effects or new drawing tools.

We could expand the event editor by adding custom extension dialogs, custom condition dialogs, custom action dialogs, ect.

The possibilites would depend on the implementation but even small gains in this area would drastically increase the freedom and flexibility developers have to create.

This idea has been done before in other products to great success. If a user needs the editor to be capable of something, then they can implement it!

Just a suggestion.

[Yves]

This is already in the todo list for a long time.

BTW about the event editor, in MMF2 you can have custom parameters, i.e. your own dialog boxes for action & condition parameters.

[vortex2]

Cool . I suppose the main area that would be neat to make extensions for is the frame editor .

[Yves]

Yes, as well as the picture editor.

[DanielRehn]

I would love to see extensions for the picture editor, filters and such effects would be very cool

[LIJI]

This would be really great.
Many features are asked but can't be made by extension.
Frame Editor plug ins will help making a super powerful 3D extension, like the fake screenshot I posted not a long ago.

[Anders]

Would be interesting to fiddle around with filters and effects for the MMF2 image editor

I don't think it would be hard to implent either. Your filter extension gets a cSurface and you can alter it all you want before you return it. Maybe display modal window for settings input and a possible preview if you like

[Sphax]

I would like to see Ink effect SDK before that but it's a good feature for MMF2.