[Bf-committers] Looking into HFSM and blender

[Paul Gavazzi]

Hi Ton,

I was looking into implementing HFSM functionality in blender for my  
master's project similar to Softimage Behavior (http:// 
www.softimage.com/products/xsi/pricing_and_packaging/advanced/ 
behavior/) since I have played quite a lot with it at a former game  
cie. I am glad that you started work for a Node editor, since I can  
reuse a lot of the node editor for my HFSM editing.

I just wanted to know if someone else had already mentioned in  
performing a similar functionality for blender?

Any information that would help me integrating such a functionality  
would be greatly appreciated,

Questions I have are:

1.I need nodes to support dynamic inlet and outlet connections, but I  
saw that node types are staticly declared? How would you go about  
creating dynamic outlets? A good example would be the javascript  
patch in Quartz Composer, whre we could have an equivalent Python  
node in Blender with a dynamic number of inlet depending on the  
written script?

2.I need sub-nodes. I like the group concept, but I would have liked  
for all nodes to permit to have sub-nodes and hierarchical outlet  
forwarding. I played quite a bit with Quartz Composer and I was  
wondering why you didn't treat all nodes as groups?

Sorry if these questions are already implemented or answered, but I  
could not find much advanced info on what you are planning to do with  
the Node editor.

Anyways keep up the great job!!!

Thank you,

Paul Gavazzi