Lumenzia and UXP? plugin support

[Will Parkin]

Hi

I saw a video on Youtube about a Photoshop plugin called Lumenzia, however, when I asked about compatibility, the developer, apart from being rather dismissive, said he had no plans of supporting Affinity as there was no scripting support for things like Panels?  I think this is must be a new plugin type using some sort of Photoshop propriety scripting language, (UXP?)  

Does anybody know anything about this?  Are the plans to support these types of plugins or is Adobe trying to corner third party product support by utilising a new scripting standard that is protected in some way?

Thanks in Advance 

[John Rostron]

10 hours ago, Will Parkin said:

I think this is must be a new plugin type using some sort of Photoshop propriety scripting language, (UXP?).

 Does anybody know anything about this?  Are the plans to support these types of plugins or is Adobe trying to corner third party product support by utilising a new scripting standard that is protected in some way?

Hello @Will Parkin, and welcome to the forums.

Photoshop has offered scripting for its plugins for a long while now. The scripting language is well-documented. 

Affinity does not support any scripting language although many forum users have supported their addition. Forum contributors like to think that if they ask often enough, then Serif will listen. (This may even be true, that Serif listens.) Serif does not now comment on whether or not it is developing such extensions until they appear in its Beta software. This is a pragmatic decision based on not unrealistically raising users' expectations.

John

[Will Parkin]

Thanks John

Thanks for the welcome

You would think it would be high on the roadmap, else Adobe will just continue to use it as a way to perpetuate a market advantage in a sort of self for filling prophesy scenario, i.e. third party developers support Photoshop because of market share, people continue to buy Photoshop due to availability of third party support and dominate market share.  The software continues in an enclosed monopolistic ecosystem dubbed as the "Industry Standard".  

Will