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Thanks for your review, Campbell. <br>
<br>
Just to inform you all: There are already a couple of colleagues,
<br>
who use this I/O in research. <br>
<blockquote>1. They use Blender for modeling their<br>
atomic structures in the 3D scene, which is then saved as an xyz<br>
file. The latter is used as an input for calculations. <br>
<br>
2. Blender is certainly used for creating exciting, high-quality
artwork,<br>
and some of them are going to be publish soon!<br>
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For instance, may be you have seen our recent cover <br>
picture
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clemens-barth.root-1.de/News/AdvMater_Suzuki.jpeg">http://clemens-barth.root-1.de/News/AdvMater_Suzuki.jpeg</a>).<br>
Very recently we published an other article and used Blender again<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ej.iop.org/images/1367-2630/14/10/103037/Full/nj441116f5_online.jpg">http://ej.iop.org/images/1367-2630/14/10/103037/Full/nj441116f5_online.jpg</a>).<br>
<br>
<b>Note:</b> Since the xyz addon still needs to be downloaded from
my own server<br>
I have automatically the statistics: The addon is downloaded 2 to
3 times a day!<br>
<br>
Blender is absolutely fantastic and beats everything that is doing
something<br>
similar in 3D. We urgently need to include this XYZ IO into trunc
because<br>
the installation is then much easier! However, we have to take
care about <br>
certain simplifications that should be included into the IO and
that have to be convenient<br>
for, in particular, researchers (experimentalists, theorists,
physics, chemistry,<br>
biology, etc.).<br>
<br>
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<pre wrap="">Being import/exporter this addon can be included in blender just to
support the format, but it does some things differently to most other
IO scripts.</pre>
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Well, this is exactly the story we once had with the PDB I/O, you
remember last year? <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
The panel is very useful for changing some prefs of loaded atom
structures. If we<br>
remove them, we loose easy functionality!<br>
<br>
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<pre wrap="">
Enabling the addon, adds a panel in the toolbar, under the "Operator" panel.
Addons currenly don't have a good place to store preferences,</pre>
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To my opinion, this should be changed in future: Finding a better
place for panels. But so far,<br>
things also work quite well ... it is a minor problem.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> but
think this isnt a good way to work around it.</pre>
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Well, all my colleagues and me really need this panel daily! We beg
you:<br>
don't remove the panel. <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
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<pre wrap="">
This panel has settings for loading frames, I think these should be in
the importer panel.</pre>
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You mean into this file dialog? Oh, no ... the reason is the
following: When<br>
a structure is loaded, only the first frame is visible. Sometimes,
xyz files may <br>
contain more than >1000 frames, which you sometimes don't want to
see. <br>
So, this is why there is a 'skip frames' option. Furthermore, there
is the option to<br>
put other frames in between two frames to smoothen the movements
(frame/key).<br>
After having chosen the 2 prefs values, you load the frames, which
may take some <br>
time.<br>
<br>
Finding out the best parameters is just done by try/error in the
scene (playing around): <br>
you try out one set of parameters and if this is not good, you
delete the keys, change the <br>
parameters and restart. This is quite convenient and easy to do.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<pre wrap="">So I'd rather have this panel removed, settings moved into import or export.
any settings that you may want to re-use can be stored as operator presets.</pre>
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As last year, we have to negotiate ... . <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span> BUT: I agree to remove these two<br>
buttons that are for the rendering of the scene. <br>
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<pre wrap="">
This script needs a code-review too, some of the things it does are a
bit unconventional for blender/python scripts.</pre>
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Yeah, it probably is. <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span>
But, as I said, it is somewhat designed for us<br>
researchers to modify the loaded structure in an easy way. <br>
<br>
<br>
Okay, I have seen your comments to the code <br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codereview.appspot.com/6815052/diff/1/io_mesh_xyz/__init__.py#newcode98">http://codereview.appspot.com/6815052/diff/1/io_mesh_xyz/__init__.py#newcode98</a>).
<br>
But before I start, I would like to hear your all opinions ...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Belndphys.<br>
<br>
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