Green Hippo Introduces Hippo Effect Editor

Green Hippo's Hippotizer Effect Editor is built on the 4.9 Hippotizer Engine and designed to let users create and customize their own effects and generators. In a statement, the company says. "Want to tweak a parameter in your favorite ripple effect? Create your own CMY color mixing? Or turn your IMAG into a cartoon sketchbook? With the Effect Editor, all this, and more, is now possible."

Prior knowledge of C#, HLSL, and rendering is highly recommended. However, users are welcome to open and modify any of the 160 existing effects to explore how they work and learn through real-time feedback and logging.

The product's features include a render window to see effects in real time without needing to run a Hippotizer engine; the ability to upload custom textures; the option of writing one's own HLSL PixelShaders; real-time parameter; customizable parameter limits; multiple render pass capabilities; blur passes setup for quick use with any effects; and one tool to edit effects or generators.

Video demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpBJzY5cMjo