Plug-ins

Modular Dreams Incorporated provides powerful and easy to use plug-in packages for SPG ColorWorks V2. To find more about these plug-ins, follow the appropriate links below.

The MD+F Plug-ins for ColorWorks V2 currently consists of three volumes:

Effects, Volume 1 ($27.99 MSRP)
MD+F Effects, Volume 1 provides eight plug-in effects: Equate Exposure, Flicker, Halo, Offcolor, Picasso, Spiral, Swirl, Waves. For a sample image showing all eight effects click here.

Effects, Volume 2 ($27.99 MSRP)
MD+F Effects, Volume 2 (Effects for 3D) provides five special effect plug-ins: Anamorph, Kolor Koi, Lens Flare, Polar/Rectangular, and Spherize. It also provides a SIRD 3D plug-in for creating random-dot 3D images, a SIRD 3D Sampler, and currently ships with three bonus Render plug-ins: Clouds, Cosmic Clouds, and Magnetic Waves 2. For a sample image showing the effects click here, for the a sample SIRD 3D image click here, and for a sample of the three bonus Renders click here, here, and here.

Animated GIF Writer (No longer available)
The Animated GIF Writer plug-ins allow you to create GIF Animations and support all the features such as the Netscape2.0 extension block, sub-images, transparency, and color optimization.
- Upgrade Upgrade #1 (agifu1.zip) - This upgrade improves the Animated GIF Writer plug-ins by adding a color reduction field and a more optimized color compression algorithm.
- Upgrade Upgrade #2 (agifu2.zip) - This upgrade provides a new plug-in which allow reading and disassembly of GIF animations as well as a plug-in to float image parts for easier transparency creation.
- Support Tools #1 (mdfgifto.zip) - This zip file supplies two tools: An executable which damages GIFs for WebExplorer viewing and a Netscape Extension 2.0 remover if a very old viewer is being used.

Renders ($47.99 MSRP)
Modular Dreams Renders package currently provides 20 plug-ins for creating background patterns. The patterns generated range from simple sand to more exotic images such as Pulsars. Most of the plug-ins supplied by this package create seamless images for creation of tiles. For a sample image showing the creation of some of there plug-ins click here. This image does not show all plug-ins and some such as Radial Stars are shown a number of times with different settings. The plug-ins currently included are: Bars, Fire, Foil, Loops, Magnetic Waves, Moire, OPC Stars , Parquet, Pulsars, Radial Stars, Rings, Rods, Sand, Sinewave, Spheres, Stars, Strands , Strings, Waves, and Weave

There are also two plug-ins on our Auxiliary Plug-ins page which could be useful in conjunction with the render plug-ins.

Packaging
Each package consists of a shrinkwrapped 12 page manual and software supplied on 3.5" diskette(s).

You can also find more technical or pricing information about these plug-ins by visiting these review pages:

  • OS/2 e-Zine! January 16th review of Effects, Volume 1

    or these retailer pages:

  • Indelible Blue OS/2 software page.
  • J3 Computer Technologies MD+F Effects, Volume 1, Animated GIF Writer, or Renders plug-in pages.


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