The Shake SDK consists of a powerful toolset of C/C++ APIs that allows developers to customize and extend the Shake experience by creating both compiled plug-ins for the application as well as new applications based upon the Shake engine.

The SDK contains examples and tutorials on creating the following types of image related plug-ins:

• File importer, exporter, re-timing classes, that seamlessly integrate into FileIn/FileOut nodes
• Generator nodes
• Filter nodes
• Lookup table based color correction nodes that offer built-in concatenation
• Warping nodes that use Shake's warp engine
• Resizing nodes
• Full-buffer nodes
• Variable input nodes

Finally, it shows examples of the following UI plug-ins, which allow customization of the look and feel of user developed nodes:

• Simple or customized dialogs
• Custom parameter widgets
• Custom parameter windows
• On-screen-controls

Additionally, it exposes access to various other nodes and parts of the application:

• Multi-Plane related
• Access to and processing Mult-Plane 3D data
• OBJ file import and display
• Camera and point cloud importer
• Protocols for integrating GPU based fragment shaders into the Shake pipeline.
• Custom convolution kernels and curve types used within the application
• Examples of the Shake Shape Format file (SSF), which is used to import/export roto-spline data to/from the application
• Integration of external rendering queues to the render dialog

Apple offers a mailing list for the Shake SDK development community. The goal of this list is to provide a forum that allows developers to post questions and share solutions with other members of the development community. To subscribe to this list, please visit the Shake SDK Developer's Forum.

Posted: 2006-06-21