[Bf-committers] .blend file format + struct browser

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Thu May 7 14:27:44 CEST 2009


It would be cool to include this in blender 2.5's doc generation script,
at the moment it does docs for RNA, RNA-Functions and Operators, but
parsing DNA_*.h files is not so hard in python.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:22 AM,  <blender at erwincoumans.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, did Jeroen use his own software to extract the SDNA?
>
> The readblend library can extract all information from any .blend file as
> well. Here is a proof of concept, that reads the .blend in memory, and
> converts the triangle meshes, textures, Bullet physics objects and current
> camera position to Irrlicht+Bullet. Next on the todo is converting logic
> bricks. Main purpose of this project is to have a BGE player under the
> ZLib/BSD/MIT license, without (L)GPL parts.
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gamekit/downloads/list
> (only a Win32 precompiled binary, an OSX universal build will follow soon)
>
>
>
> Ton Roosendaal writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sometimes people can surprise you tremendously! :)
>>
>> Out of the blue we received links from someone who fully documented the
>> .blend format, and made a browsable DNA struct overview:
>>
>> http://www.atmind.nl/blender/mystery_ot_blend.html
>> http://www.atmind.nl/blender/blender-sdna-249.html
>>
>> Kudos to Jeroen Bakker, I'll invite him to maintain this on blender.org!
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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