[Bf-committers] Render Plugin Development

[Joe Eagar]

Campbell Barton wrote:
> Mathias Wein wrote:
>   
>> Okay, seems we agree ID-Props are essential, before i can't
>> access them it's almost pointless to write a plugin for the
>> new yafray code, because pretty much everything gets
>> stored as ID-Properties.
>>     
>
> I assume you mean "before you can access them"?
> You can edit ID properties from the help menu, as well as in python and 
> C. Access isnt pretty right now but if the help menu ID-Props editor is 
> too cumbersome you could write your own settings editor in python 
> without too much trouble.
>
>   
The problem with a generic ID property browser panel is that blender's 
UI code is stateless.  This rather complicates things, as you have to 
have some mechanism for storing all the state info you'd need.

Joe