In the true open source spirit of relase early, release often, I've just made the first code drop for Oxidizer into a Sourceforge CVS repository. I'll add a binary in the next few days. The URL is http://sourceforge.net/projects/oxidizer If there are any adventurous Mac people out there they are welcome to give it a try. If they get it to compile it should load and render flam3 xml files. Electric Sheep genomes will require a top level xml tag wrapping around the genomes first. There a big to do list so I'll give a quick overview of what works and what does not. You can edit any value of an existing genome, except if you've defined colours, Oxidizer will only allow palettes to be used/changed until I've written some more code. You can not add new genomes, or new xforms to existing flames. That also means you can not start from scratch yet too. There is no undo at the moment everything is a live change. The thumbnails on the main form do not change yet. The preview view for the genomes does work when you use the preview button. You can render stills and movies to any quicktime format, including iPod format. There no now way of setting which 'frame' to still render, the still render will be the currently selected genome. The file dialogues for the renders come after the rendering as been performed. It was easier to do that way so I could see that was going on and it will be changed. There's a distinct lack of working buttons, some of the none working buttons have been hidden, others have not. There's also no verification on the text fields, so you can input letters where numbers should be, float where integers are etc. Dave |
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