On 13-04-28 03:51 PM, Vata-Raven wrote:

Even pointing me in the right direction of another website would be nice

Your first step is to look for a software developer kit on the DAZ 3D website. You can't do anything until you know how to make plug-ins for DAZ or how it communicates with other programs.

Cheers!

Kevin.

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On 13-04-28 06:58 PM, Vata-Raven wrote:

What goes beyond getting the SDK...which I've been told more then enough times to get

I looked at a YouTube video about the Photoshop bridge. Based on what I saw you will need a plug-in for both DAZ Studio and GIMP. The two plug-ins need to be able to communicate with each other.

The GIMP plug-in needs to be able to obtain a list of textures available in the currently loaded DAZ scene, load the selected images in to GIMP, and have GIMP pass the modified image back to DAZ.

The main issue is working out the user interaction for the plug-ins. You need to work out how you will have the two programs communicate with each other to get the image list, and pass image data back and forth. You will have to learn how to use the SDK to issue commands to DAZ and get the data you need from the scent that you want to pass to GIMP.

That was as far as I looked at the bridge related videos. There was supposed to be a follow up video for more that you could do with the bridge but I didn't see that video as I couldn't find it.

Cheers!

Kevin.

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote:

There a few other videos showing off the bridge on youtube...not many.

Granted CS2 is free...

Except it isn't really :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Vata-Raven wrote:

yes it is...there is a page, with the serial numbers to use. They in fact did this on mistake, but saw how much business it brought them and kept it. People wanted the updated versions and paid up the money for it.

If they didn't want people using those codes, they would've removes the page a while ago

Your logic is as in "someone left their car open with keys inside, obviously they want me to take it, otherwise why would they leave it open with keys inside in the first place?".

Simply put, if Adobe says CS2 isn't free, then it's what it is. Likewise, if we ever say that GIMP is proprietary, the first thing to do is to 'git pull' and check the license _again_ :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 04:40 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote:

There a few other videos showing off the bridge on youtube...not many.

Granted CS2 is free...

Except it isn't really :)

CS2 is free as in zero dollars, but not free as in liberty.

You are not free to redistribute it or to make changes to it and redistribute those changes.

I don't think it's productive to argue about whether this is the case since it's easily verified, as Vata-Raven pointed out.

It might be that not too many people know that CS2 is a free download, though. Luckily lots of people know that GIMP is free, even if they don't all know what that really means. :)

Liam

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 04:40 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote:

There a few other videos showing off the bridge on youtube...not many.

Granted CS2 is free...

Except it isn't really :)

CS2 is free as in zero dollars

Neither that. You are supposed to have had bought a license before.

For your deity of choice's sake, please RTFM :)

OTOH, this is completely off-topic indeed.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 07:31 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 04:40 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote:

There a few other videos showing off the bridge on youtube...not many.

Granted CS2 is free...

Except it isn't really :)

CS2 is free as in zero dollars

Neither that. You are supposed to have had bought a license before.

You're right, sorry - they've changed it since I was last there, and also added the text about the activation server.

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On 30.04.2013 04:07, Vata-Raven wrote:

Why are you even going to come into a topic, about trying to make a plug-in...and just come along and tell someone, "no, no, CS2 really isn't free"

It's not really contributing at all

If someone is publishing incorrect information on a popular list, whether intentional or not, correcting that is an obligation, not an option.

Regards, Michael

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 19:54 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:

The GIMP plug-in needs to be able to obtain a list of textures available in the currently loaded DAZ scene, load the selected images in to GIMP, and have GIMP pass the modified image back to DAZ.

Best bet would be to contact DAZ and see if they will share docs, or the source, of their existing plugin(s) to talk to ZBrush and PS.

Whoever asks should have written a GIMP plugin for Microsoft Windows in the past and be familiar with IPC and with event-driven programming on Windows, and should get (if possible) permission to share the source with the GIMP community - a long-term relationship, not a one-night... er, not a short thing.

Liam

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