<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">For my personal clarification, what exactly does 'Blender on Steam' involve?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I did a small research at the start of my gsoc to see if I could help with this and what I understood was:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- steam would act as a 'publishing' platform for blender, where you could actually just download blender. Is this correct? (this can be done already)</div><div class="gmail_extra">- the steam workshop donations, are for *steam workshop* that is basically an interface for users to share, discover and install mods for their games. meaning:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - the goal is to support tool integration aiming for game modding (building assets for games is the most common, but also levels and and behaviour may be supported). There is already the FBX work here, for tool integration.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - the games implement a part of the steam workshop api, specifying what can be modded, what they accept, etc</div><div class="gmail_extra"> - the tools (blender!) also implement a part of the API as a way of exporting. Somewhat like the sketchfab addon, but instead of uploading to their website, it get uploaded to steam via their api, saying what it is and how it can be used.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - steam workshop connects these too together making everything nice for the user</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So what are we talking about here? Making an official account? Getting blender downloadable on steam? Implementing the API to export content from blender into steam workshop?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Also, please correct me if I understood something wrong.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As to the first too options, they are more of a marketing decision, so I leave it to Ton. The implementation of the api, as interesting as it could be, is not really game engine related and therefore out of the scope of my gsoc, so I didn't look further.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">Inês Almeida</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>