[Bf-committers] Ketsji Plugin

[Charlie C]

I have managed to get Ketsji running external to blender, and am working
on plugging it in to the space type. Though this may not be the answer.
 From a user standpoint It's kind of a annoying to load the plugin every
time you create a new file. It could be loaded automatically when you
press (p), but how would you specify other plugins?

I added the source code to my page on sourceforge..
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=169924

It's in the blender-intern branch, and so far only tested on windows.

Charlie

Joe Eagar wrote:
> Remember there are some quirks with plugin systems.  Especially getting 
> plugins to link to host-executable-contained functions is non-obvious on 
> windows, though its not all that hard to do.  Don't do the 
> pass-structure-of-function-pointers thing, there's no need to; you can 
> probably copy the same macros and method used by the texture/sequence 
> plugin systems.
> 
> Joe
> 
> Charlie C wrote:
>> Good to hear.
>> If an api like the python api were to be written, you could do just
>> about anything from plugins. I think the current engine has a lot
>> of blender dependences, so in the long run making it conform
>> to a exported library would be best.
>>
>> My idea for this would be to create the space type that functions
>> in the same manor as the python space type, and include a programming
>> interface to interact with blender.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> Nathan Letwory wrote:
>>   
>>> On Jan 4, 2008 9:58 PM, Samuel Anjam <samuel_anjam at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>     
>>>>  I think a general game engine plugin space type would be pretty neat. One
>>>> day I thought about it with JesterKing (what was his real name again?) and
>>>> he had this idea of making a totally general space type for any kind of
>>>> plugins. That could work too but it would be a bit more large scale
>>>> project...
>>>>       
>>> That'd be I, Nathan Letwory. Yes, we talked about it, TAK2004 in
>>> #blendercoders did some kind of spacetype for this, to test his own
>>> engine (which is written in Delphi, if I'm not mistaken!).
>>>
>>>     
>>>> The advantages of a space type would probably be loading up multiple plugins
>>>> at once. That could speed up evaluating engines and testing different stuff
>>>> with different plugins. Could be efficient.
>>>>       
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> /Nathan (jesterKing)
>>>
>>>     
>>>>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:10:20 -0700
>>>>> From: snailrose at bresnan.net
>>>>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>>>>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Ketsji Plugin
>>>>>         
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>> I'm curious on how everyone wants to proceed in making the game engine
>>>>> pluggable.
>>>>> I'm in need of refactoring the blender side of the ogre plugin to
>>>>> something more permanent,
>>>>> and it would be nice to move ketsji to a plugin at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had an old test which implemented a new space type. The space type
>>>>> managed loading/unloading plugins and provided access to basic ui
>>>>>         
>>>> features.
>>>>       
>>>>> This worked good, but I'm not sure if this is the path you all would
>>>>> like to take.
>>>>>
>>>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Charlie
>>>>>         
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