Re: [Openexr-devel] Combustion plugin

[Paul Schneider]

Hi, Darrel (and Brendan),

combustion has limited support for Photoshop file format plugins, but 
the OpenEXR plugin won't work in combustion.  If I remember correctly, 
combustion emulates Photoshop version 2, and the OpenEXR plugin 
requires Photoshop 5 or higher.  To make a plugin that worked with 
combustion, someone would have to strip out all of the Adobe Dialog 
Manager stuff, as well as the advanceState callback, and probably some 
other stuff.

Of course, if you did this, you'd be left with a plugin that sent 
quantized integer pixels to a floating-point program, which would be 
less than ideal.  You'd really want to create a special plugin for 
combustion.  Unfortunately, I don't think that Discreet ships an SDK 
that lets you do this.  I remember talking to some Discreet engineers 
about this possibility a few years ago, but that project didn't end up 
going forward.  Perhaps someone more familiar with combustion can 
elaborate further?

- Paul


On Jul 28, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Brendan Bolles wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2004, at 9:45 AM, darrel j butlin wrote:
>
> > Has anyone written the source code for an OpenEXR Combustion plugin, 
> > supported on PC?
>
> Does Combustion support Photoshop format plug-ins?  They claim to 
> support at least some form of Photoshop plug-in.
>
> If so, you can use the existing one, naturally.
>
>
> Brendan
>
>
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