Supported plug-in types

Coden provides support for a variety of different tools. You need to be aware of the functionality you require and preferably also the target "host" applications where you want your functionality to be available.

At present time Coden allows developers to write:

• Mesh generators - used to generate a 3D polygonal mesh based on a set of parameters
• Mesh modifiers - used to alter an existing 3D polygonal mesh structure based on a set of parameters
• Polyline generators - generates 3D curves represented by polygon lines
• Polyline modifiers - used to alter existing 3D curves represented by polygon lines
• Value functions - generic functions that output basic value types (i.e. floating point values, integers, booleans, strings) based on a set of input parameters
• Graph functions - 'command' functions used to alter a scene graph
• 2D functions/maps - used to generate procedural textures based on a set of parameters

The following table illustrates Coden support and implementations of these plug-ins for different hosts:

	3ds Max	Maya	Softimage|XSI	Houdini	Photoshop
Mesh Generator	Geometry Object	DAG Surface Node	Topology Operator	Generator SOP
Mesh Modifier	Modifier	DAG Node	Geometry Operator	SOP
Polyline Generator	Shape Object
Polyline Modifier	Shape Modifier
Scalar Function	Float Controller	DAG Node	ICE Node	VEX Node
Command	MXS Function	MEL Command	Command	Command
Texture Map	2D Texmap	2D Texture	MR Texture Shader		Image Filter
Force/Vector Field	Force Field WSM

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