Welcome to the CG-Baker Software Developers Toolkit!
With this toolkit you can create software, known as plug-in modules, that expand the capabilities of CG-Baker.
This toolkit is for C programmers who wish to write plug-ins for CG-Baker on Windows platform. This guide assumes you are proficient in the C programming language and its tools. The source code files in this toolkit are written for Microsoft Visual C++.
Contents of the CG-Baker plug–in toolkit
The files included with this toolkit include C language header files,
C language source files and Resource files -- these files define the structures,
constants and functions you will need to build plug-in modules.Plug–in module files
The built plug-in modules must be put under the sub-folder of CG-Baker application
which is named as plug-ins. The extension name of plug-in files is .plxUsually, one plug-in module file contains a single plug-in. You can also create files with multiple plug-in modules.
Output image format
Image which is a raw format can be extracted from template; either the whole canvas or an indicated object. What is
raw format? As the name would imply, Raw Format is just a stream of bytes describing the color information in an
image.
The color values are described in binary, hexadecimal format; Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channel; CG-Baker designates 4 channels
needed to describe an image.The image buffer is also an interleaved format. What does interleaved format mean? In other words, the RGBA values for the image will be kept together, so in the image buffer you will have: Red value for first pixel, followed by Green value for first pixel, followed by Blue value for first pixel, followed by Alpha channel value for first pixel, followed by color information for 2nd pixel and so on.
Why raw format? The intended use of Raw format is scientific image processing where users may have generated their images on a mini or mainframe and then they want to port their files over to the some platforms to open them in some particular programs.