After a long time, i’m happy to release a new beta from the CoGeWebKit Quartz Composer plugin. Vade and me worked a lot on this projects, the plugin has some known issues and needs more time to work, but basically this version is enough stable and its working under Snow Leopard – so i hope you guys will have fun when using it.

If someone missed the previous release, CoGeWebKit is a Quartz Composer plugin that leverages WebKit to allow offscreen rendering of web technologies including interactive Flash and Java content. Control mouse input, browse normally and post process rendered web pages in Quartz Composer.

Download page: http://code.google.com/p/cogewebkit/

Forum topic: http://coge.lovqc.hu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=171

I recently receiving crash reports, and when  took a look to the console messages, in the most cases the users have 2 copys of the same QCPlugins and/or in the wrong place, for example:

*** QCPlugIn: There is already a QCPlugIn registered for class "v002525PlugIn"

Duplicated QCPlugins can screw up the system, present crashes, so it’s tame to make some house-keeping:

• be sure you don’t have duplicated copys of your plugins in ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Plug-ins/ and in yourusername/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Plug-ins/
• be sure Kineme Plugins installed on ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches/ or yourusername/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches/ not in Plug-ins!

The Kineme crew’s Kineme Core 0.5.1 plugin has some usefull function (PlugIn Installation Assistant, PlugIn Manager) to fix your wrong installed plugins, it’s very handy, i recommend it if you haven’t too much time to checking your system’s directory structure

CoGePSBrushes is a free and open-source Quartz Composer plugin, it present an image structure from a brush (.abr) file.

The new beta2 release has some little fixes and additions:

• fixes crash on loading unsupported formats
• add relative file path handling
• add image creating to a background thread. This means loading big files doesn’t pause your composition anymore

Project now hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/cogepsbrushes/

CoGePSDLayers is a free and open-source Quartz Composer plugin,it present an image structure from a PSD file’s layers, and a structure with the image resources – the image data “without the layer”.

Check a basic demo on Vimeo, download available on the forum.

CoGeWebKit is an open-source QC plugins which allows using web files in Quartz Composer.
It uses WebKit, and render the WebView’s content to an image. Now, you can use .swf files in Quartz Composer with it.

A demo video available on Vimeo, download available on the forum.