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Developer Info and Plugin SDK
to PD Particles?
If you use an OLE-enabled software IDE (integrated development environment), such as Delphi, PowerBasic, or of course Visual Basic, then you should find it very easy to establish a connection from your own software projects to PD Particles and establish a direct communication. For example, if you program for a popular 3D modeling, rendering and animation system used in game dev, then you might want to create a module that lets PD Particles directly access images from the 3D system. (or rather: a module that sends such image data from the 3D system to and reads it back from PD Particles).
Most of the SDK information about PD Pro and Project Dogwaffle is available in the Dogwaffle SDK pages. In a nutshell, PD Particles runs as an active-X Server. All you need to do in your program is to connect to the server and you're ready to exchange rgb and alpha channels, modify the image buffers etc...
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layer features)
VB code snippet:
'create an
Optipuss object
Dim Optipuss As Object
Set Optipuss = CreateObject("PD_Particles.Optipuss_Class")
Dim Optipuss As Object
Set Optipuss = CreateObject("PD_Particles.Optipuss_Class")