[Bf-committers] Ocean Simulator

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The Oops system was not meant to become a 'node based' (object  
oriented) function editor. The only thing possible to add here is what  
I did for the logic editor, a GUI based way to edit data relations (the  
buttons that allow drawing connections).

In very ancient days (early nineties) an experiment was done in NeoGeo  
with a real "oops", a first version was built to create a calculator  
(really!). However, back then the method was rejected, because even a  
simple setup already easily results in an confusing and hard to  
interpret visual result.

The popularity of such 'nodal' or 'oops' editors is not because it's  
such a great GUI concept, but because it's such a nice simple thing for  
object-oriented coders to maintain. :)
A reason why it shouldn't be rejected for Blender is that people got  
used to it... it's not always bad to make coders life easier, eh!

-Ton-



On 27 Feb, 2005, at 7:58, joeedh wrote:

> >> [major snip]
>
> Well, I've tried to plugin in node shader programs (well, just  
> Crafter) into Blender before. . .my grandose experiements with direct  
> interfaces between Crafter's C++ and Blender's C.
>
> Didn't work.  If this is done, do it all in C.  This kind of  
> object-oriented (ooh!  the horror I know some of you are feeling! ;) )  
>  design is a little bit more difficult in C, but not overly so, and  
> with C++ you lose the ability to easily produce DNA-compatible  
> structures (unless you use C structs to store the core data, without  
> any member functions, although that's just annoying).
>
> Just some thoughts for if anyone is actually considering doing this.
>
> joeedh
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