The RavWare OpenGL Xtra gives Director developers the ability to use the OpenGL™ API from Director.  The Xtra supports more than 250 functions that can add 3D and 2D effects to create everything from real time 3D games, texture mapped 3D text, to any shape imaginable. The Xtra can be used in scientific and medical visualization applications and add unique charting effects to create stunning photo realistic images. Screen savers created with Director can take on a completely new look and do things previously impossible in Director.  The thousands of lines of free source code in games and tools that already exist and the 10+ books on OpenGL make the API easy to use and understand.  The Xtra can use bitmap cast members as textures. Also, the Xtra provides the ability to use OpenGL to render to a memory buffer, save to a image file, or render the OpenGL output to a sprite cast member. You can also treat the OpenGL output as you would any sprite object including ink effects, and optionally Directors quad and skew features.

The Xtra allows the developer to decide at runtime which OpenGL implementation to use. They can choose to link to the hardware accelerated Microsoft™ OpenGL implementation or the Silicon Graphics™ software optimized Cosmo™ library or any OpenGL compliant library.

The Xtra will work for D6 through D9 MX applications. This version of the Xtra will be supported in the future but we have discontinued development of a Mac version of the Xtra due to the release of Shock3D. There is a lot that can be done using the Xtra that in unavailable in Shock3D. 

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Demo Download:

RavWare OpenGL Xtra's , Demo Movies (Hardware Acceleration, Memory Buffer, Cast Export) , Manual, and OpenGL Lingo Manual  (950 KB)

Price:

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