3D Widgets and Contact with Dev Team

Question

Hi there folks, Top Of The Mornin' from a new member of the iBooks Author community based in Ireland.
My company has just uploaded an iBook to the store, and are awaiting approval for the various markets.
When we initially installed iBooks Author, we were very interested in the 3D Widget capabilities as our background is real-time 3D.  Using the tried and tested trial and error approach, we were able to work through some of the issues, right from the basics ( how to get a textured object to appear ), through to more advanced options ( animations, setting up scenes for eye-cam view rather than spin around view, balancing the pivot point for more complex spin-around views ).
The iBook we uploaded uses 3D widgets extensively ( almost on every page ).  During its creation, we had however a number of crashes with iBooks Author, and we hope to work with the iBook Author team to help get these resolved ( it's most likely that the bugs are there as 3D Widgets are fairly new and haven't been pushed to their limits so far ).
We also have a number of feature requests for 3D interaction that we have implemented in our own custom 3D interactive scenes ( eg http://www.armaghplanet.com/3d ), that we would like to engage with the team to see if some of them can be introduced to the 3D Widgets in order to help both ourselves and of course any other iBooks author who wishes to use a 3D Widget within their content.
Regarding getting in contact with the dev team, there doesn't seem to be ( or at least I haven't seen ) a way to directly contact them.  Hopefully there is a forum which the dev team visit and answer questions / chat with iBooks users about requested features etc.  If someone could help point me in the right direction for a contact, I would be very grateful.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who can offer advice on this...
Mal

Answer 1

Mal_CanDo3D wrote:
Regarding getting in contact with the dev team, there doesn't seem to be ( or at least I haven't seen ) a way to directly contact them.  Hopefully there is a forum which the dev team visit and answer questions / chat with iBooks users about requested features etc.  If someone could help point me in the right direction for a contact, I would be very grateful.
The only official avenue for contacting developers I know of is to join the Apple Developer Program and submit bug reports and feature requests. I've submitted quite a few bug reports for IBA, and have received fairly timely responses, typically asking for more information, such as memory dumps.
For anything beyond this, I suspect you will need an inside contact.
Michi.