Blackkettle

For those of you who haven’t been following along, here’s a brief state-of-play update. I’m working on Shaxam.com, which span out of Turning The Pages, and has had me learning lots about LightWave’s SDK and file formats and the 3D parts of XAML, and is the most fun and interesting work I’ve been involved with in years. I’ll be posting here info about what I’ve learnt, a few questions for those involved, and progress updates as and when necessary.

The main output so far has been a simple plugin to convert static LightWave objects to XAML meshes, with as much detail intact as possible. Head over to shaxam.com if that interests you. On sale RealSoonNow(tm) will be a plugin to handle animation data. We’re about 95% there functionality-wise, and it’s looking better all the time.

I’m working on all this with Mark, who is fiendishly good with LightWave, and keeps pushing my code further than I was expecting, which is a good thing.

Anyway, that’s it for now. More updates as and when, you know the drill.

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