[Bf-python] Questions about new API and particles in 2.46
Campbell Barton
ideasman42 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 14:49:41 CET 2008
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:17 PM, whiterabbit at dreamscapearts.com
<whiterabbit at dreamscapearts.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> I've just registered here so let me introduce myself, I'm Eric Back aka
> >WHiTeRaBBiT< the
> developer for the RibMosaic RenderMan exporter. Heres some places to
> learn more about me :)
>
> My project site is here: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ribmosaic
> You can see test renders here:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/dreamscapearts/MOSAICTestRenders
> I'm also blogging for MOSAIC here:
> http://www.blendertorenderman.blogspot.com
>
> Up till learning about this mailing list I had no idea where to look to
> find information about the
> direction and progress of the Python API in Blender. After browsing
> though this mailing list I'm
> shocked to find out that the entire API is changing and that there seems
> to be no interest in
> porting the new particles system to Python! After a little over a year
> of Very intense programming
> MOSAIC is fully functional with over 6000 lines of code. I'm saying this
> to ask two questions:
>
> 1) Is it possible to port the particles over even if it just uses the
> existing effects API? If this doesn't
> happen I will be forced to lock MOSAIC to Blender 2.45 or have no
> particles at all! I think most
> users will not even consider MOSAIC if it will not work on the
> latest version of Blender because
> of all the new features being added this year :(
>
> 2) When is the new API scheduled to be release and will it completely
> break compatibility with the
> current API? I really don't look forward to completely recoding 6000
> lines of code all at once just
> to get MOSAIC up and running again :( Is there somewhere I can go to
> get more information on this?
>
> Hopefully I sound somewhat polite, but after alot of work in a project
> (that matters to me at least) I'm
> trying not to be VERY upset!
>
> Cheers
> >WHiTeRaBBiT<
Hey WHiTeRaBBiT, can you mail the bf-python mailing list the functions
your using in the existing particles api?
Maybe a smaller subset can be added in for 2.46 that is enough to get
the strand info and export it.
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