Can one make photoshop plugins with bmax?
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| Title ^ :P If yes: how? And I mean with native code, e.g. I get a buncha data from photoshop (image/layer content), and I can do whatever I want with 'em, and return my own data. |
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| No BM does not officially support DLL creation and the unofficial support for it tends to bomb out the DLL itself when the GC interfers with stuff from the "outer world" |
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| Photoshop plugins aren't DLL are they? I thought they were: 8bf or 8be or 8li etc. |
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| In that case you couldn't do them at all, if they are no CDECL DLLs. But as PS can link them in dynamically and calls them, I for some reason automatically assumed that it must be DLLs. |
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| Photoshop plugins aren't DLL are they? I thought they were: 8bf or 8be or 8li etc. IIRC, they are DLL's renamed to .8bf (Just like a windows screen saver is an .EXE renamed to .SCR, with a few extra requirement such as some command line parameters is needs to support) If you view the binary code of a photoshop plugin you'll see that they all start with 'MZ', just like any other EXE or DLL file. Now, if it were possible to create a photoshop filter through Bmax, I'd definitely be interested in finding out how. :-? |
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| By using the bmx through command line and a few extra steps that are needed to make BM compile a DLL instead of an EXE ... but the GC right now still has some stability issues depending on what you do with the stuff in the DLL etc |
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| Yep... PS plugins are DLLs renamed to 8bf, you can request a free SDK or try some commercial generator via the list. http://www.thepluginsite.com/knowhow/plugincreation.htm I remember it's possible to do this with MinGW at least in PhotoShop CS, but is troublesome and I don't have any intention to try again. |
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