[Bf-committers] Blender-Girona report

[Jordi Rovira]

Hi,

For the last three months i've been working in an alternative game engine 
integrated in blender. I've been mainly reporting into the forums at:

http://blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6409 (see the last page for the 
last info and images)

The main idea came while designing the data asset pipeline for a game i 
working in (in my company). I thought that it would be useful that those 
diagrams could be implemented directly as diagrams: every game has different 
data requirements and a different data conversion pipeline. I started 
working on this and extended the concept to the graphic pipeline, which is 
also different for each game.
The current "thing" is not exactly a game engine, but a kind of framework to 
define game engines. you can use diagrams for the data converion process, 
for the rendering and also for the logic. After a little meditation, I don 
think this should replace the current engine in blender. As it is going to 
be harder for the users to define it. Or maybe "girona"(the codename for my 
engine) should come with a set of standard pipelines to be used...
Another good point is extensibility and modularization of this approach.
Anyway, i'll expose all this stuff in detail in the blender conference on 
october and will like to discuss about it a little. The implementation is 
very basic, and not really usable yet. Ton told me to report in this list so 
here you are. Any comments welcome!

(bandoler)
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