click for larger image  (175kbytes) - model courtesy of  David Gallagher

• Graphical Controls like the one above are easy to build using Tk.  Your controls can contain images, vectors, splines, as well as all manner of buttons, sliders and menu's and all in color.  SoftWish graphical controls can be constructed and used at any time. They do not use DIAL and are not constrained by the plugin architecture.

• Behaviors are more than an easy way to build most persistent effects without writing a plugin. Use them to attach scripts to Softimage objects and to evaluate those scripts each frame. Objects can react to other objects and situations in whatever scene they are put into. Behaviors can act as super-powerful expressions with subroutines, macros, named variables, GUI widgets, call-outs to shareable libraries and more. Since Behaviors can  read or write local or networked files and devices they can be a simpler alternative to channel drivers. 

• The SoftWish Console provides a command line for Softimage. See the result of each script line as you enter it. The SoftWish Console provides an easy way to construct any immediate effect without writing a plugin.   The Console's command line is available for standalones too. This means that you can write and debug your tools using Soft interactive to see what is happening and then run them, unchanged, as a standalone.

• Platform Independence  Use SoftWish to write your tools on any ONE Softimage platform and then run them, just as they are, without any modifications, on ANY platform Softimage runs on. SoftWish is a complete solution. NO compilers are necessary.