[Bf-committers] Blender-Girona report

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I've got not much time for engine topics at the moment, but very  
curious to know more of your experience with coding a 'nodal' UI editor  
like this;
http://saphyre.sourceforge.net/bandoler/phy3.jpeg

One of these days I have to tackle a similar coding project, as  
demanded by the Orange team for control over compositing. :) And maybe  
materials...

(For everyone; Jordi is one of the speakers on the Blender Conference,  
so we'll get a paper from him soon as well!)

-Ton-

On 6 Sep, 2005, at 23:25, Jordi Rovira wrote:

> 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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