On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:04:51 -0800 From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Howto make 3D and transparency
On Dec 5, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Alan Horkan wrote:
Another approach to Pseudo 3D would be to have an Extrude tool. like Macromedia Freehand.
Cool. Sounds good.
When you going to have that extension done?
har har, very funny.
Seriously though is it already possible to implement a tool as an extension? I thought extensions were only availble for input and output and the Effects menu, but not tools. (In Macromedia Fireworks the odd unusual shape tools like donut/torus were all extensions. Would be nice to have that kind of infrastructure eventually.)
:-)
Seriously, though, if you can write up a spec on this it might be a good task for me to use in working up the improved extensions interface including extension-specified UI.
I thought implementing one extrude tool might be easier than implementing several seprate tools to draw 3D shapes like OpenOffice.org Draw does but in the long run it probably wouldn't hurt to have a bit of both. I'll try and provide more information soon. I'm vaguely aware Adobe Illustrator has some other way of doing pseudo 3D but I haven't had time to read up on it yet.
there is an existing request for extrude line http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1339978&gro... and I'm pretty sure there was a request about 3D drawing where I also mentioned the extrude tool.
these tutorials on the extrude tool might be of interest http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16779 http://www.macromedia.com/support/freehand/learning/3_extrude/
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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