[Bf-committers] "Security" gets in the way

[Campbell Barton]

added -Y option to enable script execution, this means render nodes
don't need to have .B25.blend's

eg.
  ./blender.bin -b -Y myblend.blend -a

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
<zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a history of lost work and time with this so called security
> features where blender decides to turn off drivers and ignore script links
> and so on and you don't notice it until you have worked on a faulty
> rig/scene for a long time or you have rendered some heavy frames and have to
> do it all over again. In 2.5 since the inclusion of the "trusted source"
> option this has done nothing but cause problems everywhere from teaching to
> every day jobs; students load rigs that don't work and naturally they do not
> know the difference, lost time with clients that in order to review a rig
> had to turn on the load py scripts option and they didn't knew about it so
> we all loose time, etc.
>
>  Today I sent a render to the farm and when it finished the character was
> all wrong.. so I spent a long time changing the .B25.blend files on all 17
> machines (boot with X session, change preference, reboot again). After all
> this I launch the render again and when it finished the problem is still
> there. It so happens that rendering from command line ignores the .B25.blend
> file... so not good. I had to export animation as MDD point cache and import
> back as RVKs in order to workaround the missing drivers
>
> http://www.pasteall.org/12745
>
>  So my point of view here is: stop playing around with my scene *please*,
> it's hard enough to get things working for blender to decide to break some
> random part. And this is the point of view of someone with 8 years of using
> blender almost every day, imagine someone new trying to figure out this
> problems?
>
> cheers
>
> Daniel Salazar
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- Campbell