[Bf-committers] supporting 6Dof devices on blender.

[Ettore Pasquini]

On 5/18/07 3:39 AM, "Jean-Luc Peurière" <jlp at nerim.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately the license agreement they request for using their SDK
> is not and cannot be make GPL compatible.
/cut/
> So who would be interest to tackle with me this, and add HID support
> on all 3 major OS we support (Windows, linux, Os X) ? once we support
> those, adding support for the other unices should be straightforward.


Hi Jean-Luc,

I work for 3Dconnexion and I am currently working on adding support to
Blender for our 6DOF devices. I am definitively interested!

Let me first say that the license of our SDK has just changed (1 hour ago).
The new license (see below) allows redistribution of the SDK. One reason for
us to change the license was to make it possible to work with Blender, so
hopefully that's fixed now. In any case, if there are any legal problems
with the license we can work things out to solve them. Just let me know. :-)

"My" current implementation uses the new SDK and it works (more or less) on
Windows. I started coding the Mac solution as well. The advantage for using
the SDK is that it makes things easier to implement. I modified the patch
available from the projects site, consisting in a few device-independent
wrapper extensions to GHOST and a dlopen'ed plugin with device-specific,
platform-specific code. All SDK calls are contained inside the plugin,
eventually allowing other plugins to be used. Just to make clear we are not
locked in with 3Dconnexion only support using this architecture.

Adding HID/DirectInput/Xinput support is not excluded by this implementation
either, it's just much longer to implement. Our objective is to have
something going quickly and it would be great if we could do that.
Eventually, once HID support is ready we could scope out the SDK plugin if
we want that.

Ettore

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