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To get that out of the way: @megaadam, this is your fault. You made me look at this code again and now everybody here must live with the consequences.

I need some inspiration for a very interesting object: A director that tells the actors (3D objects) and the crew (a graphics engine) what to do, yells 'Action!' and gives instructions while the scene plays.

The director must be able to set up the scene by
- setting up the set, both to specifications or with some room for variations
- choosing actors and their animations, again both exactly specified or with some degree of freedom
- choosing proper lighting
- choosing camera position(s) and animation(s)

Then the director must give instructions to the scene objects and the 3D engine to let the scene play as planned. The whole idea is to make every scene as variable as possible, so that the graphics always stay interesting.

These director objects already exist, but they are still hard coded and only scratch the surface of what is possible. Look at the animations in the background in my video *[^]. The asteroids or formations of other ships are changed by the director.

The scenes are loaded from XAML at the moment and the director objects control only some parts of the scenes. Hard coding should be reduced to a minimum and I need ways to tell the director what is required in a scene and where the director may get 'creative'. Any ideas?

* Yes, I have posted this before. Gimme clicks. Smile | :)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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