Realsoft 3D Software Development Kit

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Readme

3. Initializing Build Environment

Windows

Linux, Mac OS X and Irix platforms:

Using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE

Trouble Shooting

4. Plugins and Applications

Writing a Plugin

Writing an Application

5. Software Design

Layered Design

User Interace Design

Platform Independent Design

Backward compatible API and ABI

Extensibility

Multi-Threading

6. Object Oriented Programming Model

Initializing Classes

Creating an object

Object Attributes

Deleting Objects

Calling Methods

Copying Objects

Saving and Loading Objects

Class Attributes

Class Methods

Extension Methods

Public Attributes

Run Time Class Identification

Lists and Nodes

7. Implementing Classes

Class Header File

Class Implementation File

Debugging

C++ vs. Realsoft-C

8. Libraries

Built-in Libraries

Plug-in libraries

9. Applications

Registering Classes

Realsoft 3D

Models

Main Window - real/widget/r3mainw.h

BatchRenW

Stand Alone Rendering Engine

Batchren

Stand Alone Rendering Engine

Showimg

RendW

10. Plugins

Implementing new Tool Buttons

Generic Deformer

Geometric Deformer Object

Tool Button

Property Gadget

Implementing Image Formats

Implementing Object Formats

Implementing Geometric Objects

Geometric Sphere Class

Wire Class

Interactors

Tool Button for the Sphere Interactor

User Interface for the Sphere Interactor

Numeric Interface for the Sphere Interactor

Available Objects

Post-particle Effects

Post-image Effects

Object Spaces

Subdivision Surfaces

11. Photo Realistic Renderer

The Photo Realistic Render Engine

Detecting Ray-Surface Intersections

Evaluate Material Properties

Inside tests

Index