Roadmap

Alpha Goals:

• Fabric exposes Satin's scene graph and parameter system in a node based metaphor.

• Scene Graph Objects and Parameters:

  • Cameras
    • Perspective / Orthographic
  • Renderers
    • To views / Texture
  • Mesh
    • Geometry
    • Materials
    • Shaders
  • Textures

• Object nodes have Parameters which can be adjusted, such as

  • Parameters
    • Boolean
    • Numbers
    • Vectors
    • Quarternions
    • Colors
    • String
    • Arrays of parameters

In Fabric, like Quartz Composer, Objects and Parameters run left to right:

A simple Fabric Scene rendering a Cube:

Beta Goals

• Expand on available Nodes and expose features of Satin in a thoughtful way. There is a lot of ground to cover.
• UI Improvements
• Determine how to handle 'Structure' like nodes, and casting nodes.
• Optimize the run time and enable basic features like Undo / Redo
• Collect community feedback

1.0 Goals

• Make a public plugin API and ensure the existing nodes are implemented via dog-fooding (no private api)
• Create a Fabric framework that allows for rendering Fabric documents into a host application in a standard way.
• Allow procedural building of Fabric graphs via API
• Support rendering of Fabric content on macOS, iOS, visionOS, just like its underlying engine, Satin
• Find opportunities to expand Satin engine to support new features.