On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:24:57AM +0000, peter wrote:
For example, this shot shows a work in progress
interface for a DSSI
synth plugin. I rendered the knobs in blender with an alpha channel to
get translucent shadows. The widget uses generic gtk functions to
render each frame over the background as the knob is turned.
It looks pretty nice in action, even if it's an eye candy overdose
for some tastes.
(if you dispense with the alpha and transparency, it's naturally faster)
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/purgatory.png
This is not really as overkill as you'd think - it's kind of the defacto
way things look on Windows/Mac plugins. Shadows and all.