[Bf-committers] Blender Command Port (BLASH) Integration

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Once the built-in console works as expected, exporting the  
functionality to external clients is probably relatively easy, with as  
benefit that the functionality is supported and maintained inside  
Blender by default. :)

Having external texteditors syncing with Blender well, or image  
viewers, paint programs, file browsers, or even modelers... all such  
issues have been popping up more often. It has not been included as a  
design spec for 2.5, although I expect it's all possible much nicer  
than before. Someone who really knows how such 'remote control' should  
work best, and of course the Verse department, could check the current  
2.5 designs and advise on possible pitfalls or improvements?

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 10 Mar, 2009, at 15:15, Toni Alatalo wrote:

> Ton Roosendaal kirjoitti:
>>> this interesting feature of "remote control" of blender.
>>>
>>
>> For 2.5 we aim at having an integrated console, allowing type in  
>> python
>> commands directly to operate on Blender data. This should give similar
>> functionality without the hassle of installs.
>>
>
> btw that has also existed as a script (iirc by ideasman, who else :)  
> for
> long (3-5 years?), bundled in the standard installation even but not
> noticed by that many - in scripts System /Interactive Console. it's a
> bit clumsy but works, it might be possible to use IPython as the  
> backend
> there to get the great features for interactive use there (history,
> referring to prev commands, tab completion etc) - actually i propose  
> you
> consider ipython to be that integrated console
> (http://ipython.scipy.org/, pure py, haven't checked what size now).
>
> but i think people will also want to be able to use their favourite
> editors, and the power of combining document editing with interactive
> use (iirc it works like that in emacs, and e.g. Theo doesn't use a
> console but edits a document which still is simultanously the live  
> scene
> in Blender as well). so hopefully hooking such remoting to 2.5 is nice
> and the people who want such fancy envs and are ready to work a bit  
> with
> the installs etc for it can do it.
>
>> -Ton-
>>
>
> ~Toni
>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org     
>> www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The  
>> Netherlands
>>
>> On 10 Mar, 2009, at 8:40, Peter wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I am interested in using Blender as a CAD Tool as well as a
>>> visualization tool ( rather than an animation tool ).
>>> I want to generate scenes based on algorithms and I want to  
>>> experiment
>>> with different shape and picture grammars.
>>> I  found the Blender Command Port
>>> <http://formgames.org/blender/command-port/> by Dietrich Bollman  
>>> which
>>> exactly fullfils this need.
>>> I succeeded in compiling Blender with the WITH_COMMAND_PORT=true  
>>> blash
>>> option and was able to create a simple scene from a python script  
>>> that
>>> communicates with blender operating in server mode.
>>> Dietrich has also made available a blender-python-mode for emacs that
>>> allows to communicate with blender from within an emacs buffer.
>>>
>>> Although the command port works fine, the setup is rather involved. I
>>> had to pull in a multitude of different libraries (on Ubuntu 8.10 )  
>>> and
>>> the configuration of the various tools ( blender, emacs ) is not  
>>> easy.
>>> At least it wasn't for me.
>>>
>>> I would like to suggest the integration of the Command Port into the
>>> Blender main distribution in order to allow more users to benefit  
>>> from
>>> this interesting feature of "remote control" of blender.
>>> I am sure that there are a multitude of applications in fields that  
>>> are
>>> not directly related to animation like mathematics, statistics,
>>> physical
>>> simulation etc. Blender could also be useful to visualize and animate
>>> the behavior of algorithms.
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts ?
>>>
>>> Peter
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