philnolan3d Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/10/21/the-qt-project-is-live/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Digital777 Posted October 27, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Nice, i have looked at QT before but did not use it in the end however i know it is high quality and also company's like Autodesk use it so this is great news. Maybe Andrew would be interested in making it part of the 3DC GUI. I have said before on the forum that major game company's find scripting and SDKs very important. That is a fact and yesterday i was watching a video on polycount where Epic say they chose maya and Autodesk products because they can custom code almost all of the program and the also GUI with QT - http://www.polycount.com/2011/10/24/using-autodesk-to-build-gears-of-war-3/ I have requested scripting and a real plugin SDK before already but being able to code new dialogs and plugins would be really great for 3DC and i think QT could be great for that with it's GUI designer and coding options. Now it's a true open source project this will be very useful though, thanks for the news and link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted October 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 That's just about the only reason major studios go with Maya. A guy I know was an artist on Disney's movie Bolt and he made a special point of telling our group that you can see maya in the making-of for the movie, but he wanted us to know that they only used it for the UI and all of the tools they used were proprietary, nothing out-of-the-box aside from the UI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Digital777 Posted October 28, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 I downloaded the latest SDK yesterday, but i haven't installed it yet. It was quite huge download (1.4GB) but it has the GUI designer tools etc included i think. If QT is good enough for a high end 3D company like Autodesk and game company's are going with software due to decent GUI customization then maybe QT will be of interest to Andrew, I don't know about licensing costs as i won't be selling anything but if it's reasonable then QT would possibly be a good choice for 3DC's new GUI as it seems very customizable. As well as main GUI customization, QT also has APIs for C++ and CSS/JavaScript style programming so it could allow for a decent user scripting and custom dialog system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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